Florida News That Impacts You – May 6th, 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 (00:00):
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news that impacts you on the Brian Mudshal Bryan Mudd
and Joel Malkin with you and this story out of

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Everglade City yesterday, a bear suspected of mauling an eighty
nine year old man.

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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission says they were attacked
on the man's property near Everglade City. Wildlife Commission officers
scoured the remote area of Collier County for hours in
search of the bear. Shots were then heard fired, and
wildlife officers were seen pulling a dead bear from the
nearby woods. If DNA testing confirms a bear killed them,

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it would be Florida's first recorded fatal bear attack.

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South Fox's Bury Bumgarden with the report. Meanwhile, Governardy Santis
south of Everglade City in the Lower Keys yesterday and
announcing the opening of a first of its kind of
reverse osmosis seawater desalination treatment plant. It's on Stock Island
in the Lower Keys. The plant, which will convert saltwater

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into safe drinking water, will supply the lower keys with
fresh water during emergencies, so it won't be active all
the time. During emergencies, it will kick in. There was
something that was a precursor to this for emergencies that
ended up getting destroyed in Erma in twenty seventeen, this
state of the art facility. Two arrests have been made
for a sophisticated public gift card scam perpetrated throughout the

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Treasure Coast. Jeffrey Castillo and Janelle Castile were found to
have been swapping out real public skift cards for fake
ones and looked real when customers activated the cards, the
funds would be deposited into an account that was controlled
by the suspects. Monday's thunderstorms produced severe conditions and communities
throughout the area. Wellington, It's like I've gotten the worst

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of it. Recorded wind gus up to fifty two miles
an hour, golf ball sized hail, uprooted trees. Today we'll
have clear skies, highs in the mid eighties, but warmer
than usual for the state. Similar nice weather through Thursday.
Looks like rain, chance thunderstorms back in the next On Friday,
gas prices they fell another three cents per gallon. On Monday,

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the average price four regular unloaded three to five per gallon,
and the Pond Beaches your average price three twenty and
Martin below the state average at three to three and
three h nine per gallon in Indian River County. And
as I've been talking about in over the past week,
prices will continue to come down from here, So you
still don't need to be in any particular hurry. Go
get gas, all right. Some national headlines the White House

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is Harvard won't be getting any new federal research grants.

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Just the latest in the fight between the Trump administration
and the Ivy League. School Education Secretary Linda mcmahonson a
letter to Harvard's president citing serious failures and dealing with
antisemitism and racial discrimination, as well as for not allowing
viewpoints diversity.

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Ford holding off on his twenty twenty five financial outlook
thanks to new tariffs on imported vehicles and parts.

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The automaker says President Trump's tariffs could add one and
a half billion dollars in cost next year. Twenty five
percent tariffs target imports from countries like Mexico and Canada,
and an outbreak of salmonella involving backyard poultry in six states.
Seven people reportedly got sick from contact with infected ducks
or chickens. CDC health experts offering several tips for reducing

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the risk. Those are your headlines.