Florida News That Impacts You – July 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 (00:03):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian
Mudshall and.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Brian Mudd and Joel Malcolm with you in Orlando yesterday
delivering remarks at the annual Sheriff's Association Summer Conference. You
had Governor de Santas talking about Florida's leadership in the
illegal immigration crackdown.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
We're apprehending faster than DHS can can hold and process.
And so the results in Florida and the efforts in
Florida have been so far above and beyond any other
state in the country. And if really we're pointed to
as the model for what DHS wants to see.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now in kind of an interesting wrinkle, obviously, they're along
with the governor, the state's attorney general. This was the
Sheriff's Association Summer Conference after all. So just so happened
that ef Meyer, aside from attending the conference, also made
his presence felt to local officials Orange County Core, the
county where Orlando is. He serviced them with a letter

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yesterday accusing them of violating state immigration law. In a
letter Ofthmeyer said the county is not adhering to state
law that requires local governments to allow ICE to transport
those lacking legal status to detention centers. Letter came after
the county recently rejected in addendum request by ICE under
the two eighty seven g program Ofthmyer, demanding corrective action

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be taken by county officials or face potential legal action
and or removal from office. Martin County School Board It's
agreed to a new contract for school resource officers for
nearly fifteen million dollars every three years, ending a multi
monthly negotiation and admid concerns about readiness for the upcoming
school year. Under Florida law, at least one school resource

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officer must be president every school, with one resource officer
per one thousand students. For larger schools, Saint Luci's School
District tests proposed combining three schools into a new K
through eighth facility. Plant would combine Lonwood Elementary School, Saint
Lucill Memory and Dan McCarty Middle School in one location.
Proposed site would be the current Dan McCarty site. If approved,

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BRODJAC costs be approximately seventy million dollars with an ETA
of twenty twenty eight. It'll be sunny hot again today.
His and the low nineties, warmer than usual for the state.
Morrisa hearn dust on its way track it across the Caribbean.
Doesn't look like the batch in the Caribbean. It's thinner,
is going to be that big of an impact for us.
But there is a denser plume that is making its

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way through the Central Atlantic right now. We'll see what
that does. In the meantime. All this dust out there
keeping things clear in the tropics. National Hurricanes Center seven
day tropical aatic not a on there. Still gas prices
dropped another three cents per gallon yesterday. Average price four
regular on Leaded State y three oh three and the
Palm Beach is average price three point eighteen. Martin Blood

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State average at three oho two and just above it
an Indian River county at three to five.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
All right, some national headlines. A massive eight point eight
magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia, triggering tsunami waves
across the Pacific. Hawaii has seen waves pushing boats ashore,
but no damage. Warnings remained for Hawaii, Alaska, and the
West Coast, where the National Weather Services it has detected
tsunami waves off the coast of Mendocino County, California. President
Trump will talk about his making health technology great Again

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planned today. He's expected to roll out a doge back
plan to encourage more seamless sharing of healthcare data between
states and the federal government. President is back in DC
returned to the White House last night joined by his grandchildren,
including a five day trip to Scotland. The Senate confirming
the president's pick four director for the CDC yesterday, lawmakers
voted fifty one to forty seven along party lines to

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confirm Susan Manares as the agency's new director. She previously
worked as deputy director of the Advanced Research Project's Agency
for Health. It's a government agency that funds health research.
New York City's mayor says he believes the NFL was
the target of a gunman who shot killed four people,
including a police officer, at a Manhattan office building Monday.
Shane Tomorra, twenty seven year old with a history of

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mental illness, showed up at a Midtown high rise housing
NFL headquarters with a rifle. Mayor Eric Adams believes that
Tomorrow was heading for the league office but took the
wrong elevator. Those are your headlines,