Florida News That Impacts You – March 17th, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.    

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
From West Palm Beach to Tallahassee. This is Florida's news
that impacts you on the Brian Mudshow. Sure enough is
Brian Muddy and Joel Malkin with you. Florida's rate of
flu spread remained moderate over the past week. According to
the CDC's weekly data, the rate of flu and flu
like activity has declined in sixty seven of florida sixty

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seven counties. That includes Florida's entire East coast are as
V cases, They've been more stubborn. It's a mixed bag.
It's rising in and in about half the state, falling
into about half the state. Ours. V cases, most recently locally,
have decreased in Martin County, but have remained consistent in
the Palm Beaches in Indian River County. After beating Tennessee

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for the SEC Championship, Florida number one seed in the
West and will play Norfolk State and their opening round
matchup of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. The University of
Florida the only school from the state to make the
men's tournament this year and the women's tournament. Florida State
entered as a sixth seed in the University of South
Florida as a twelve seed. The Palm Beach International Boat

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Show added a fifth day this year as a record
number of super yachts are making their way towards West
Pond Beach for the annual event. The show runs from
March nineteen through the twenty third, features two hundred super
yachts this year. And by the way, Ashley and I,
we're out and and joining our wine and watching just
a myriad of them pass by, some phenomenal yachts. For

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sure they were making their way. We've already had our
high temperature for the day as storms have rolled through
this morning, still rolling through in many places. Passing storms
will bring cooler air behind them, tempts and the sixties
later this morning, fifties by tonight, which is considerably cooler
than usual for the state, and we will have another
cool day on Tuesday. Gas prices rose slightly over the weekend.

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They are two cents per gallon higher than a week ago.
The average price stay Ye three ten per gallon right now,
and which is the average price three twenty six martin
three thirteen and in Indian River County, sitting just above
the state average at three eleven bergalln let's get to
look at some national headlines. President Trump special Envoy in
the Middle East, as Russia and Ukraine are close to
a deal to end the war between the two countries,

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Steve Woodcoff telling CNN State of the Union. Significant progress
has been made during recent peace talks and the two
sides are closing in on an agreement. A pair of
astronaut stranded on the International Space Station gearing up to
finally return to Earth, Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore, about
to wrap up in unexpected nine month stay aboard the
ISS to to issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft SpaceX

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capsule that will be their ride home docked at the
ISS over the weekend and that is set to begin
their journey this week. Well, the field for the NCAA
Men's basketball tournament is set. Auburn took the number one
overall seed, Duke Houston and as Brian mentioned, Florida the
other three. March madness begins this week and when it
comes to potential for the economy to lose billions of dollars.

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That's according to a recent survey by sports betting and
media brand Action Network predicting March madness could cause the
economy to see roughly twenty billion in loss productivity. That
loss productivity can come in a number of forms, from
simply being distracted while on the clock to the forty
percent of survey respondents who admit to calling in sick
to watch a game.