Florida News That Impacts You – September 6th, 2024

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Facts, facts, details, freedom by the exercise. It's up to them.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Florida.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the Brian Mudd.

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Show as we take a look at news from around
the state that impacts you. Brian Mudd and Joel Malkin
with you. The state of Florida has ordered a review
of signatures gathered as part of the qualification process for
Amendment for the Abortion Amendment. On Thursday, the Florida Department
of State requested Hillsboro, Orange, Osciola, and Palm Beach County's

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election supervisors gather approximately thirty six thousand signatures for review
for possible fraud. Over eight hundred and ninety one thousand
signatures are required for citizen led ballid measures to move
forward in Florida. The backers of Amendment for produced approximately
a million signatures that were theoretically value validated earlier this year.

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The signature deadline for this year's amendments was February first,
pretty unprecedented. In fact, it is on President then to
get this far in the process and then have something
like this come up. Got a lot of people that
are skeptical, and as much as I am not in
favor of Amendment four, I am skeptical to what goes on.

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At this point, Florida's retailers are the top performing in
the country, according to a new report by Colliers. According
to the analysis, Florida's sustained economic outperformance has led to
the lowest retail vacancy rate in the country, with only
three point two percent of Florida's retail spaces vacant. This
is the lowest since two thousand and seven, just prior

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to the impact of the Great Recession. Following these states
housing boom, South Asian Boulevard between South County Road and
Southern Boulevard closed once again until further Noticetown upon Beach
announced the closure would once again take effect starting today
as the Secret Service has boosted security measures around mar
Lago following the assassination attempt to former President Donald Trump.

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It'll be hot on human again today. Heis in the
upper eighth about four degrees warmer than usual for the state.
National Hurricane Center. Tracking four disturbances, all with a low
chance of development. You got a disturbance to the Caribbean
seed tracking towards the Yucatan still just a twenty percent
chance of development there now, second disturbance to the Gulf
of Mexico near the Texas coastline just a ten percent

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chance of developing. Third disturbance that developed northwest of Bermuda
has a thirty percent chance of development. Fourth disturbance off
the coast of Africa down to eight ten percent chance
of development. And the one that was actually kind of
like the closest to us, that thing died out yesterday.
So we are continuing to experience a historically low amount

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of tropical development during the peak weeks of hurricane season.
Gas prices they dropped another two cents per gallon yesterday.
The average price four regular on leaded in Florida now
down to three to twenty one per gallon, and the
Balm Beach is the average price three forty one martin
three to twenty three, likewise three twenty three in the
Indian River County.

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It's National Headline's father of the suspect in Wednesday's Georgia
school shootings says he bought the gun as a gift
for his son. Colin Gray arrested on multiple charges yesterday,
including second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, after his fourteen
year old son allegedly shot and killed four people injuring
nine others at Appalachi High School. Grat told investigators he
bought the AR fifteen style rifle as a present for

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his son. In December same year, the boy was investigated
but not charged for making school shooting threats online. Jadie
Vance calling for tighter school security. The Republican vice presidential
candidates speaking in Arizona yesterday, advocating for increased security after
saying school shootings are a fact of life. Of course,
the media is attacking him for that. Van said schools
must be prepared for shooting scenarios, telling the crowd, it

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is the reality we live in. Hunter Biden pleading guilty
in his federal tax trial in an LA courtroom. After
day of surprises and legal wrangling. The President's son pled
guilty to all counts just as a jury was about
to be selected, and he's accused of failing to pay
more than a million dollars in federal taxes from twenty
sixteen to twenty nineteen. He sentenced December sixteenth, facing six

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seventeen years in prison over a million dollars in fines.
Yeah Former President Trump says his economic plan would bring
down inflation. The Republican presidential nominee providing more details about
his plan for the economy during a speech at the
Economic Club of New York Yesterday. Also went after VP
Kamala Harris's proposal to ban price gouging on groceries, and

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in North Carolina, judge rejecting a request from Robert F.
Kennedy Junior to remove him from the state's ballot. Rfk's
legal team has a day to file an appeal twenty
four hours. As a result, the judge ordered election officials
not to send out ballots before noon today. This comes
as Kennedy Junior suspended his campaign for the White House
last month and endorsed former President Trump. Those are your headlines.