Florida News That Impacts You – May 27th, 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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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian
Mud Show.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, Brian Mud and Joel malkoln with you. Another crazy
Florida related kind of story, this one out of Polk County.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
An employee at the racetrack in Lakeland called nine one
one about forty two year old Timothy Schultz, who they
say was acting bizarre. Deputy's then got to call around
eight am about a man in a lake behind the
Christina Hammock neighborhood. Folk County deputy say the suspect swam
in an alligator infested lake behind the pul De Sac.
He was even bitten by one of the reptiles and

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he still kept going. Deputies arrived just when they say
Schultz was using a break to try and break into
a trunk. Then they say he attacked them with garden shears.
Deputies tried to taze him and to de escalate the situation.
A full County Sheriff Greedy john says Schultz climbed into
one of their patrol vehicles and tried to grab their
rifle or shotgun. He was shot multiple times and did
not survive. Deputies believe Schultz was likely on meth at

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the time of the incident.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's special, your brain on drugs, Any questions, all right, So, Florida,
we were the top travel destination for Memorial Day weekend
in the country, setting records yet again in the process.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Approximately a million people traveled via air nearly two and
a half million traveling by car. Total tourism for the
weekend appears over as in three to four percent over
last year's record levels. You're a Beaches Veterans Hall reopened
in time for a Memorial Day gathering on Monday. The
building suffered significant damage during a tornado spawned by Hurricane
Milton last year. Approximately sixty thousand donations were made by

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the community to complete the necessary repairs and renovations. A
ribbon cutting ceremony is set for June seventh for the
official reopening of the facility. Stewart has an new police
chief who started his law enforcement career in Stewart, most
recently serving as the support Service. Captain Lamore Salonovic took
over the rains on Saturday following a retirement of the

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previous police chief. There'll be warm and muggy today, chance
of showers throughout the day. Highs in the upper eighties,
Warmer than usual for this date. We're expecting similar weather
throughout the week. National Hurricane Center's tropical alec it is
clear for the next seven days, which at this point
means looks like we are set to roll yet again
into hurricane season without any preseason activity. Gas price is

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lower over Memorial Day weekend. The average price four regular
on leted State ye three to four per gallon and
the Palm Beaches average price three twenty one martin three
oh six and below the state average in Indian River
County this morning at three to three per gallon.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
All right, good morning, let's got to look at some
national headlines. US backed ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel
is on the table, according to US Special Envoys Steve Wikoff,
who says the deal would see the lease of half
of living hostages and half of those who died in
exchange for ceasefire that would lead to talks to and
the war in Gaza. President Trump says we owe a
debt to those who gave their lives serving in the military.

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Visited Arlington National Cemetery yesterday marking Memorial Day, and as
we heard earlier with Brian, he took part in the
reflaying ceremony at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier before
delivering remarks. The President wants to take money from Harvard
and give it to trade schools. In a post on
truth Social Trump said quote, I am considering taking three
million dollars a grant money away from a very anti

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Semitic Harvard giving it to trade schools all across our land.
FBI refocusing on a number of unsolved cases. Those include
the cocaine found at the White House during the Biden administration,
leaking of the Supreme Court Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade,
and the pipe bombs found before the January sixth, twenty
twenty one capital riot. At least twenty seven people are

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injured after a van plowed into a crowd in Liverpool, England.
Were told of those people, want adult and one child
have serious injuries. The crowd was gathered to celebrate Liverpool's
Premier League soccer title Please Say. A fifty three year
old British Man from the Liverpool area has been arrested.
Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Simms says the incident is not
being investigated as an act of terror. Three more escaped

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New Orleans inmates. They're now back in custody. Eight of
the ten inmates have now been recaptured since they broke
out of the jail May sixteenth. Several people have been
arrested for helping the escapees, and SpaceX expects to launch
its ninth starship test today. The company issued a warning
about possible loud noises may be heard in the area
of the South Texas launch site. Those are your headlines.