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Posted: 1:36 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2012

One Day Until Election Day; Who's Backing Amendment One?; Instagram Flight Scam 

By Veronica Waters

With the race between President Obama and ex-Governor Romney neck-and-neck, Tuesday's election results truly depend on getting voters to the polls. A new CNN/ORC poll has the President and the challenger tied at 49%; they're tied at 48% in a Politico/George Washington University poll; and the president leads 48% to 47% in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. Both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are doing some multi-state campaigning today, the day before Election Day. Both candidates will be making it a point to stop in the battleground state of Ohio, where the unemployment rate is below 7%.

Supporters of Amendment One pump some $2 million into passing the charter schools initiative on Tuesday's ballot. Many of the largest contributors are for-profit charter school operators from out of state, who have an eye on how much money is at stake. The state intends to spend more money per pupil on these charter schools than it currently spends on either public or current charter school students. The new charter schools would be approved by a new state commission made of appointees.

A makeshift memorial marks the spot where two Atlanta policemen were killed in a weekend helicopter crash. Officers Richard J. Halford, 48, and Shawn A. Smiley, 40, were looking for a nine-year-old runaway Saturday evening, when federal investigators say their chopper hit the top of power line pole and its support cables, plummeting to the ground and exploding. No one on the ground was injured. The boy's mother tearfully said she feels responsible for the whole thing. The little boy was later found unharmed.

She was just 14 when she flashed her breasts for the cameras on spring break in Panama City. Today, the Georgia Supreme Court hears arguments on behalf of Lindsey Boyd, who is suing after her teen image ended up on a "Girls Gone Wild" cover. The now-26-year-old Cartersville woman says her bad decision as a teen has turned into a nightmare that continues to haunt her as an adult. A key issue is whether someone underage can consent to being photographed. Boyd is suing the companies that bought the video.

Free flight for following your favorite airline on Instagram! Problem is...it's a scam. CNET is warning of fake Instagram accounts set up in the names of Delta, American, United, and JetBlue, promising free airfare for their first few thousand followers. No word what the scamsters are hoping to gain from getting all these followers--and it's bound to be a hassle for the airlines explaining that no, you didn't get a free flight just for following them on Instagram, especially when they don't have an Instagram account in the first place.

A one-year-old boy shot in his family's home in southwest Atlanta should survive, according to the child's mom. Her 2-year-old daughter was killed. The family had just moved in to the house on Polar Rock Place; someone fired through the front door. The family wonders if the bullets were meant for whomever lived there before they moved to the home.

Government leaders in New York and New Jersey must find housing for some 40,000 people whose homes could be uninhabitable for weeks or months because of Hurricane Sandy damage and cold weather. Another storm could be headed for areas devastated by Sandy. Forecasters say a coastal storm could bring strong winds, heavy rain and moderate tidal flooding Wednesday and Thursday. It could also set back efforts to get electricity restored.

In KISS news about your health: New research shows that people with diabetes and several clogged heart arteries fare better with bypass surgery instead of having stents placed to prop open their blood vessels. Doctors compared the treatments in a study of 1,900 diabetics and looked five years later to see how many had suffered a heart attack, stroke or death. Only 19 percent of the bypass group had, versus 27 percent of those given stents. Results are published by the New England Journal of Medicine.

The KISS 104 weather forecast: partly sunny, high of 66.

Veronica Waters

About Veronica Waters

Veronica Waters is the morning news anchor on KISS 104.1 and B-98.5FM. She is also an anchor and reporter for 95.

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