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Posted: 10:04 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25, 2009

Andrew Young Plays Doctor; VP Joe Biden Surveys Georgia Flood Damage 

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By Veronica Waters

  • Saturday, September 26 is Tom Joyner's next Take A Loved One to the Doctor Day.  Former Atlanta Mayor/Congressman/Ambassador Andrew Young tells KISS we can go one better, and be the doctors for our own families. 

    "My wife reminds me all the time that I don't get enough sleep, that I'm not eating right," Young says.  "I remind her that she doesn't drink enough water.  My first wife died of colon cancer.  She never smoked, she never drank, she exercised all the time, but because she was a teacher, she didn't drink water because she didn't like to leave the kids to go to the bathroom.  And it cost her her life."

    Young is a survivor of prostate cancer--and says the only folks he knows who don't survive it are folks who ignore it.

    "I always also say to black men if you're athletic and aggressive, like greasy food and pretty women, you're a candidate for prostate cancer, because it means you've got a high level of testosterone.  But that's not a death sentence."

    Young also tells KISS he's good at playing doctor too, adding, "When they say to the women, 'You ought to do a buddy check for breast cancer?' I am my wife's best buddy!"


  • President Obama has declared Carroll, Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas and Paulding Counties eligible for federal disaster assistance.  Vice President Joe Biden is touring Georgia's flood damage by helicopter this morning, then talking with victims at the Cobb County Civic Center.

     
  • While the Vice President is visiting Georgia, Governor Sonny Perdue is out of the country during the flood recovery.  He's been pushing to deepen the shipping channel at the port of Savannah, so he's now in Panama--where he toured the progress of the construction for widening the Panama Canal.

  • A new flash flood watch goes into effect this afternoon through tomorrow.  The National Weather Service says heavy rain, up to three inches, is expected this weekend, and the watch covers the southern suburbs of Atlanta to the north Georgia mountains.  Since the ground is still soaked from last weekend's rain and flooding, creeks and streams are prone to quickly rise again with any new water runoff.

  • A Jonesboro day care worker is charged with cruelty to children.  Ashley Beck is also charged with making false statements to police about how the two-year-old boy's elbow was dislocated at the Learn and Play Academy.  Monique McGee says Beck snatched her son out of his sleep by the arm.  Beck allegedly tried to pin blame for the injury on the boy's father.

  • Paramedics in St. Petersburg, Florida badly injure the man they were rushing out to help.  Firefighters got a call about a man bleeding about a block away from the fire station; when they jumped in their vehicle, they didn't see that the man was lying just a few feet outside the garage doors--and they ran him over without even seeing him.  He's now in critical condition.

  • Don't forget--tickets for Michael Jackson's "This Is It"  movie go on sale Sunday.

  • A Cincinnati amusement park is removing a Halloween display that included Michael Jackson and other dead celebrities depicted as skeletons.  The Michael one was dressed in pajama pants, a long black wig and carrying a blanket-covered figure; there was also a NFL star Steve McNair version--holding a helmet with a hole in the top while another skeleton in a red negligee lay across its lap.

  • The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: a 30% chance of isolated showers late today; humid, and a partly cloudy high of 85, low of 70 tonight.
 
 
 

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