Florida News That Impacts You – September 12th, 2024

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

Episode Transcript

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There are two sides to stories and one side to facts.
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Florida News an impact you Brian Mud and Joel Malkol
with you. Governor de Santis provided an update to the
recently called review of tens of thousands of signatures collected
as part of the states requirement for Amendment four on Wednesday.
The governor said, we now know that there are signatures

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that have been accepted by some of the supervisors that
don't match the voter file, so they're investigating this. De
Santis indicated many of the signatures were of deceased Floridians.
PA Beach County is among the counties these signatures were
collected from as part of the States review, So there
is there's more to the story, it would appear. New

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report from the Guttmacher Institute shows that Florida's new law
limiting abortions at six weeks with exceptions led to a
thirty percent reduction in abortions after the law took effect.
Monthly four abortions have averaged fifty four hundred since the
law was implemented in May, down from an average of
approximately eight thousand monthly. Previously, overall abortion rates have declined

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by seven percent year to date nationally, with Florida accounting
for about a third of that decline. A year after
the worst coral bleaching event in recorded history for Florida's reefs,
the Coral Restoration Foundation has said the reefs are still
in an alert level, but that they are recovering. Last
year coral bleaching, which is the mass die off of

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the reefs, resulted from record recorded temperatures in florest waters
during the summer. This year, despite similar concerns, water tempts
were not elevated to the same destructive levels. The only
monitored bleaching occurred in the Keys, and that happened at
what we're described to be normal levels. The reefs are

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critical for fostering and supporting marine life. Be another warm
and rainy day to day, showers possible throughout the day.
Highs in the upper eighties tips about three degrees warmer
usual for the state. Hurricane Center tracking five systems right now,
Tropical Storm Francine making its way into Mississippi after having
made landfall. It's a hurricane in Louisiana Wednesday night. The
two westernmost disturbances in the Atlantic have both been downgraded,

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with each now only having a ten percent chance of development.
A third disturbance is setting up off the coast of
the Carolinas with a thirty percent chance of development. Tropical
Depression seven has formed in the Eastern Atlantic. It is
expected to develop into a tropical storm, though it's unlikely
to impact populated areas. Gas prices struck to penny per

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gallon yesterday. Average price four regular unleaded in Foda is
currently three seventeen per gallon and Upon Beach's average price
three thirty six martin three to nineteen and in Indian
River County at three point eighteen this morning.