Florida News That Impacts You – June 30th, 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
mudshal Yeah, sure enough, is primut In Joel Malkin with
you and so yeah, tomorrow's go time for Alligator Alcatraz.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Alligator Alcatraz is all set to start housing illegal migrants
as early as this Tuesday, but the groups who are
filing this new lawsuit say that officials did not look
into the environmental impacts and they're trying to pause construction
while they can. Protesters lining the highway near the Florida
Everglades right by the new detention center, waving signs and

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chanting just days before the planned opening, but officials say
it's not going to impact the environment. Assistant Secretary Trisia
McLaughlin told Fox Digital the lawsuit is quote lazy, saying
the land has already been developed for a decade.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Right, it's there, it's developed, it's unused now to be
used back to.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
You, you know, there's no construction. Right, it's in tense yes,
if there were, if there was construction, it would not
be opening tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Right, there's no way. Yeah, you can't build a whole
detainment facility for five thousand people start to finish in
a week.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
No, not exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I mean, it's just yeah, it's absurd on its face. Uh.
Governor DeSantis, he signed five additional bills into law, among them,
as we are down to the final day of the
fiscal year. You know, tomorrow starts a new year and
a lot of new laws and all that. The Emergencies
Law overhauls numerous state policies during and after hurricanes aimed
at faster response times by state and local governments. The

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Entities that Boycott Israel Law expands the definition to include
prohibits by the state to contract with or issue grants
to educational institutions, nonprofits, government entities, and arts and cultural
organizations that openly boycott Israel. The Permits for Drilling, Exploration

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and Extraction of Oil and Gas Resources Law. It bans
drilling and energy exploration in the Apalachicola River cavernary Santis
has also appointed Tracy Caruso and reappointed Daniel Epstein to
the Palm Beach State College District Board of Trustees, and Crusoe,
the wife of State Rep. Mike Crusoe, also the president

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and owner of Delray Beach Executive Suites. Epstein, the vice
president of American First Legal, mostly called a human again.
Today highs oper eighties, pretty typical for the state. Rain
chances increased tomorrow. The most recent Saharan dust plum is
clearing Florida today. However, another plume heading towards the Caribbean
will likely make its way over Florida and into the

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Gulf later this week. Hurricane Center is tracking a disturbance
with a twenty percent chance of developing over or near
Florida over the next week. The system, as far as
it goes for us, I mean, at most you're talking
about like a rain event. Gas price has fell through
the weekend to a new low for the year. Are

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sixteen cents lower than a week ago. Average price four
regular on letted Stay ye two ninety four in the
Palm Beaches. The average price three twelve martin three dollars
on the nose in Indian River County, just above the
state average at two ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
This morning, all right, some national headlines. Good morning, Senate
expected to start that so called VODA rama on President
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill this morning. Senate clerks completed
the full reading of the tax and Spending Package yesterday afternoon,
which cleared the way for up to twenty hours of
debates and a Minority leader, Chuck Schumer, forcing a reading
of all nine hundred and forty pages of the legislation
after advanced by a slim margin. Saturday and Saturday night,

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two firefighters are dead now they're injured after a reported
ambush and Idaho. The firefighters were responding to a call
yesterday a quarter lane of a small brush fire that
was starting to grow when they were then shot by
an unknown person in the woods. Possible suspect found dead
near a firearm. President Trump says US tariffs will soon
go back into effect on several countries. The increases on

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them the White House deadline for countries to come to
the bargaining tables July ninth, Trump telling Fox News he's
going to send letters of the countries a don't make
a deal by then and inform them they can trade
with the US, but the tariffs are returning. Also during
that interview with Fox News, the President said he's not
worried about Americans losing jobs to AI, saying he understands
the need for the emerging technology and how it's replacing

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some American workers. The President insists the job losses will
be offset by more companies coming to the US because
his tariffs are leveling the playing field, and the cost
of your fourth or July barbecue on the rise. According
to the Wells Fargo Agrifood Institute Food and Beverages, for
a typical fourth barbecue for ten people will cost one
hundred and thirty bucks this year. That's up a little

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over two percent from a year ago. Those are your headlines.