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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Brian muntial Ma, Brian Mound and Joe Malcolm with you
and Florida's grad rate rose to a non pandemic record
eighty nine point seven percent during the twenty twenty three
to twenty four school year.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
According to the Florida Department of Education. The grad rate
represented an increase of one point seven percent over the
prior year. Notably, there are also gains across all demographics.
Looks like, as we are getting reports from around the country,
Florida will shake out with one of the top grad
rates in the country. The ASLU of Florida is suing
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Governor d Santis in an effort to speed up the
special election process of two recently vacated positions within the
state legislature. Former Republicans State rep. Joel Rudman and former
State Senator Randy Fine are running for Congress and special
elections to replace Matt Gates and Mike Waltz. However, Governor
d Santis has yet to call for special elections in
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those districts, leading to the likelihood of vacancies in both
seats for this year's state legislative session. Which gets underway
in March. Florida's Attorney General, Ashley Moody, is the leading
candidate to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate, according to
a report by Politico. Is it true, I don't know,
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but it's compelling If it is. Rubio has been nominated
to be President elect Trump's Secretary of State, move that,
once confirmed, will prompt Governor d. Sants to appoint avery replacement.
The Politico report, citing unnamed sources, is suggesting Moody would
be the pick, a move that, if true, may indicate
Governor D. Sants will attempt another presidential run in twenty
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twenty eight. An ice rink is coming to Palm Beach Gardens.
On Thursday, city Council approved a proposed forty million dollar
ice rink complex, backed by NHL Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky,
among others, place the skate park on Plan Drive. The
project includes two ice rinks, a restaurant, retail store, and
additional training facilities. The goals that have the complex completed
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by the summer of twenty twenty six. Another coals start
to the day, which is probably aware of, though not
quite as cold as yesterday, We're starting the day, with
attempts in the high forties, in the low fifties throughout
the area, with highs in the upper sixties long parts
of the Treasure Coast till those seventies throughout the Palm Beaches.
The warming trend will continue through the weekend. Gas prices
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they rose again yesterday three cents per gallon. The average
price four regular unleaded stay wide now three fourteen. In
the Palm Beaches, the average price three twenty seven this
morning in Martin three twenty and in Indian River County
three fifteen.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
All right. National headlines. Number dead from the catastrophic Palisades
and Eating fires in southern California now in the double
digit sell A County Corner says ten people are confirmed dead,
and this comes after multiple bodies were found in the
rubble of the Palisades fire yesterday. Los Angeles County Share
Department putting an overnight curfew into effect in the Palisades
and Eaten fire evacuation zones after the arrest of at
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least twenty suspected looters in the National Guard is being deployed.
Supreme Court says President like Trump's sentencing will proceed as
scheduled this morning. The High Court yesterday rejected Trump's request
to block it, but did say he could still appeal
the sentence once it's handed down. Justice Amy Coney Barrett
and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court's three liberal
justices in the five to four ruling. A spokesperson for
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former First Lady Michelle Obama says she sends her thoughts
and prayers to the Carter family. Multiple reports say a
scheduling conflict is what kept her in Hawaii yesterday instead
of traveling to d c for former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.
All five living presidents, including Obama, in attendance. Carter's body
now back in his home state of Georgia, and President
Biden delivered a eulogy during yesterday's service. The owners of
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TikTok say the platform is not for sale, but that
doesn't mean there aren't buyers at the ready. A group
that includes billionaire entrepreneur and former LA Dodgers owner Frank
mc court and Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary Mister Wonderful,
made a formal offer yesterday to buy the social media
platform from its China based parent company Byte Edance. Supreme
Court set to hear arguments today over upholding a law
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that would ban TikTok in the US in just over
a week if it is not sold. And the TSA
out with its list of the top ten items confiscated
at airport security checkpoints in twenty twenty four. Topping the
list a gun hidden in a baby stroller at Hobby
Airport in Houston. Other items that didn't make it through
security include drugs hidden in a toothpaste tube, methamphetamine in
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crutches in snakes hidden inside of pants. Does not indicate
whether or not the pants were on somebody, but I'm
hoping that they were not.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But oh and here I thought that was you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I guess son.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
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