Florida News That Impacts You – July 16th, 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.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian
Mud Show.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yeah, Bran Mudd and Jill Malcolm with you. This happened
last night.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The convicted killers stun witnesses when he used his last
words to thank his executioner. Fifty four year old Michael
Bernard Bell became the twenty six person executed in the
United States this year after he was given a lethal
injection at the Florida State Prison. Convicted of killing two
people outside of a bar in nineteen ninety three. Bell's

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last words were, thank you for not letting me spend
the rest of my life in prison. Gary Baumgarten, Fox News.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Except that might not have been the sharpest tool, but
he actually did by virtue if that's been the rest
of his life in prison. Nevertheless, I'm not sure that
where he is right now is working out any better
for him. Florida Attorney General James Authmeyer begun enforcement of
Florid this newly enacted weather modification law, which bans weather

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modification efforts and requires the airports to report suspected activity
to the state OSMIER issue noticed to all airports that
monthly reporting requirement starting in October will be monitored and enforced.
Governor DeSantis he announced the opening of the new C
forty three Reservoir in what he called one of the

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most significant Everglades restoration projects in Florida history, and he's
right about that. The new reservoir, which is located near LaBelle,
will store one hundred and seventy thousand acre feet of
local basin stormwater runoff and western discharges from Lake Okeachobee,
which will help significantly with discharge efforts improve water quality

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in the Clusahatchie Estuary, and also to the extent that
the Army Corps continues to do really dumb things like
east west discharges at all. Everything should be south that
they do. They could do more west without hurting anything.
That reservoir go up to twenty five feet of capacity.

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It'll be sunny much of the day. Not right now.
We had some real heavy rain that's come through the
area this morning, but a lot of the day will
be sunny. Chance of rain and thunderstorms throughout the day
to day, though in highs and the upper eighties, which
is typical for this date. Similar weather expected through Thursday,
Saharan dust plume is currently working across the Central Atlantic,

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with the potential to impact our weather this weekend. National
Hurricane Center tracking the disturbance that has brought a lot
of the recent rain. It is now in the golf
It's made the move from the Atlantic across the state
into the golf system, given a forty percent chance for
development as it's expected to track well westward along the
Northern Gulf throughout this week. Gas price is searched by

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thirteen cents per gallon yesterday average price four regular unletted
Ky three a eight per gallon in the Palm Beaches
three twenty two Martin three fourteen in Indian River County
three eleven per gallon.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
All right. Some national headlines dose related spending cuts moving
forward in the Senate. Vice President Vance last night broke
a tie to allow the Senate to begin debate on
the bill attempting to take back spending that has already
been approved. US has made a trade deal with Indonesia.
President Trump says that deal will give the US full
access to Indonesia, and he says the US will pay
zero tariffs, will Indonesia will pay nineteen percent. Speaker Mike

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Johnson says Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to talk about
what she has said on the Jeffrey Epstein case. His
comment coming in response to the Justice Department announcing it
would not make any more disclosures in the case. President
Trump has defended Bondy while saying she should release whatever
she thinks is credible about Epstein. Price of eggs going
down for the third month in a row. According to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, consumers are paying three seventy

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seven for eggs. It's down for March's record high cart
and costs, and sharks might be hanging around the East
Coast more frequently because the water's getting warmer. Researchers at
New York Stonybrook University even following the movements of one
hundred and fifty five tagged sharks. They've tagged those over
the past five years, and say rising ocean temps or
causing some species to linger on the East Coast a

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month longer than usual. And those are your headlines.