Florida News That Impacts You – September 24th, 2024

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

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Securing America. A recent Senate Intelligence Committee hearing focused on
election security and potential threats from online operatives working for Russia, China,
and Iran who continue to try an influence opinion and
spread disinformation. Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Our adversaries realize this is effective and cheap.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Added, they basically make it up, they push it out there,
and they help people believe it.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
The committee heard from reps for online giants Meta Alphabet
and Microsoft Microsoft's Vice Sharon President Brad Smith.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
This has also become an election of Iran versus Trump
and Russia versus Harris. And it is an election where Russia, Iran,
and China are united with the common interest in discrediting democracy.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Kevin Euretsky, Fox News.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Facts details freedom by the exercise. It's up to them Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
This is the Brian Mudd Show, Florida News and the
Facts You Briand and Joel mallikin with you so. As
mentioned in my takeaways, Florida's first ballots for November's presidential
election cycle have been sent.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
To voters overseas. Voters under federal law, eligible overseas voters
are to receive ballots forty five days in advance of
an election, make sure they have a chance to vote,
get them back and everything, regardless of where they are.
On Saturday was that deadline, and as of the yesterday
two hundred and eight Flordians had returned those vote by

(01:38):
mail ballots to their respective elections offices. Governor de Santis
announced eighteen million dollars in grants has been awarded to
five transportation products prioritized by the Florida Department of Transportation
across the state. Then includes rail and port projects in
Lake City, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Plant City, and Tampa Bay. Supporters
of a previously planned bright line station Stuart, which city

(02:00):
officials abruptly brought to an end recently, will hold a
rally for this afternoon at the Stuart Riverwalk Stage. The
Save our Stuart Station rally comes in advance of the
Stuart City Commission meeting, which is scheduled for six point thirty.
Nearly eleven foot long alligator spotted on the beach as
Singer Island Saturday morning was successfully captured and removed from

(02:20):
the beach by Florida Fish and wildlife gator first spotted
in the Lost Street Country Club on Friday by Saturday
morning and made its toy to the beach. Be hot today,
mostly sunny showers possible later in the day with hines
in the upper eighties tempts about fida degrees warmer than
usual for this day. Coastal flood advisory remains in effect
during high tide today as we're into the final day

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of the current King tide schedule. By the way, throughout
most of the area, you're talking about high tide between
one two one thirty this afternoon. The National Hurricane Center
tracking two systems. Disturbance in the Caribbean Sea likely to
develop and threaten Florida's Gulf Coast as a tropical storm
or hurricane over the next week. Second disturbance developing off

(03:02):
the coast of Africa also likely to become something as
it makes its way towards the mid Atlantic. Gas prices
are flat with a week ago, although there is a
good news in Indian River County this morning. So the
average price for regular unleaded in Florida's three thirteen per
gallon and upon beach is the average price three twenty
nine martin three sixteen, but in Indian River County the

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lowest price since January at three to six per gallon all.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Right, some national headlines. Man accused of attempting to shoot
former President Trump on his West Palm Beach golf course
has a detention hearing in federal court scheduled for today.
Ryan Ruth was caught not long after Secret Service agents
allegedly saw him sticking a rifle out of the bushes
a Trump International prosecutors expected to argue that Ruth should
be held in custody while awaiting trial. House Speaker Mike

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Johnson says his chamber is planning to vote this week
on a stopgap funding bill to keep some federal programs
funded through December twentieth. Government set to begin partial shutdown
at the beginning of next month. No actions taken. White
House spokesman John Kirby urging restraint by both Israel and
HESBLA as tensions escalated in the Middle East. Appearing on
ABC's This Week, the National Security Communications Advisor said it's

(04:11):
not the best interest to either side to carry out
military attacks at this time, and that the US is
working to de escalate the situation. Former President Trump says
it's too late to hold another debates. Making at a
rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, Saturday, Trump said there shouldn't
be another presidential debate because voting has already started in
some states. Trump brought up the fact he's already done
two debates. Vice President Kamala Harris has only done one.

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Earlier in the day, Harris accepted an invitation for another
debate on October twenty third, moderated by CNN. Fox News
had previously offered up a debate, something Harris did not accept,
and divers working at a point Pleasant, New Jersey found
the wreckage of a French ocean liner that was lost
one hundred and sixty eight years ago off the coast
of Massachusetts. Writing on its Facebook page, Atlantic Wreck Salvage

(04:53):
said its divers found the Ley Lionaise in about two
hundred feet of water. The ship sank after colliding with
the American sailing ship Adriatic November two, eighteen fifty six.
And those are your headlines