Florida News That Impacts You – July 7th, 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 (00:04):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian
Mud Show. Yeah, Brian Mudd and Joel Malligan with you,
and just the horrific news out of Central Texas.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Search and rescue crews are battling rising waters as they
continue searching for victims of last week's devastating flash flooding
in Central Texas. With more rainfalling, the Sheriff's Apartment is
warning the already swollen Guadalupe River could rise another one
to two feet. The flooding is blamed for at least
eighty two deaths across multiple counties, and that number is

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only expected to climb.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, and you might wonder why in Florida news starting
with that, what? Governor d Santis has dispatched the Florida
Emergency Management teams to assist with the deadly floodwaters. As
of this morning, as you heard there, the death toll
stands at eighty two, dozens still unaccounted for. I mean,
it's kind of wild, you found. I mean, some of
the great stories that are out there, incredible rescue stories,

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kids clinging to trees thirty feet in the air, and
just unreal. De Santa has also announced that following the
state's successful opening of the country's largest ied atension and
deportation facility, known as Alligator Alcatraz, and also a second
facility that is currently under construction near Jacksonville, that a
third is being discussed in the Panhandle, quitting De Santis

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on Sunday. We've been talking about it, but we haven't
confirmed anything. If we were to do another, it would
probably be in the Panhandle because that would cover everybody.
I think he's talking about geography within the state. It'll
be mostly cloudy human again today hines and the upper
eighties typical for the state. Rain chances increase again by midweek.
Significance Aharin dst plum moving under South Florida into the

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Gulf right now with another less ends plume that is
currently working across the Central Atlantic and all that does
being under US and east of US. That's good news.
And the Tropics Hurricane Center's seven day tropical outlook is
clear following the dis patient of Tropical Storm Chantell over
North Carolina last night. Gas price has dropped a bit
of the weekend, though they remained higher than a week ago.

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The average price four regular unleaded is three oh seven
stay wide in the Palm Beach's average price three twenty four.
Martin right there at three oh seven the state average
this morning, and just below that in Indian River County
at three six.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
All right, good morning, national headlines. Will President Trump talking tariffs,
who says he signed letters to twelve countries going out
today with take it or leave it tariff offers. Treasury
Secretary Scott piss And says tariffs that were paused for
negotiating will take effect August first for those countries, and
the Trump's letters say if you don't move things along
August first, you will boomerang back to a higher tariff level.

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The President says. Elon Musk's announcement you heard this that
he was starting a third party is ridiculous. Yesterday he
said it was It's always been a two party system.
The tech billionaire announced the America Party Saturday. Israeli negotiators
and cutter for talks with a Moss about a ceasefire.
The office of Prime Minister benjaminin Ya, who says a
team was sent Saturday to negotiate a truce proposal with Hamas,

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though they found changes in the proposal requested by Hamas
were unacceptable to Israel. Meanwhile, Natanyahu's set to visit the
White House today to meet with President Shrump, who has
continued to press Israeli leader. The Israeli leader about a
ceasefire agreement, and shark sightings in New York have public
officials on alert there. The shark sightings led to a
temporary beach closure on the fourth of July. Those sightings

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happened along the shores of Rockaway Beach. Those are your headlines.