Florida News That Impacts You – August 6th, 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 Mutchill, Yeah,
Brian Bout and Joel Malkin though with you as we
take a look at news from around the state. This
is something that has made even national news. You have
raw milk consumed by six kids and made them quite
sick E Coli infections.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
This in North Florida. Farm public health officials say twenty
one people in total are suffering from the bacterial infection,
seven of them sent to the hospital. They also stated
the sanitation measures at this farmer highly questionable. Raw milk
has been growing in popularity, but the Food and Drug
Administration and the Centers for Disease Control continue to warn
people about its dangers, describing it as one of the

(00:45):
quote riskiest foods because it's not pasteurized.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Box's John Sassier there, and I've also seen a bunch
of misinformation out there as this has been reported over
the past day and being reported that it's legal in Florida.
It is illegal in the state of Florida to sell
unpasteurized milk unless it's for an animal. So the way
this can go down theoretically legally is if somebody buys

(01:10):
it under the premise that it's for animals and then
they themselves consume it. I don't know that we haven't
heard the circumstances under which these six kids got sick.
But you know, if there are operators that are just
serving it to people, that would be breaking the law.
Florida's Republican National Committeeman Joe Gruders he's going to be
the next chair of the Republican Party nationally. The election,

(01:33):
set to take place August twenty second. Replaced Michael Wattley,
who is running for Senate in North Carolina. Tuesday, the
filing deadline for candidates. Gruders, backed by President Trump, did
not draw any competition for the post. Miami Dade next
on the Florida Dose Team's list of local governments to
be audited. The States has for US currently conducting audits

(01:54):
in Alacho and Broward County sent a letter to Miami
Dade Mayor Danielle Levinkov expressing concern about the counties hundred
and two million dollar budget deficit despite significant increases in revenue.
The county has until August thirteenth to comply with the
initial requests for information. Today, day five, the scheduled eight
day closure Northlake Boulevard B Line Highway for CSX railroad
crossing and repairs. Delays of an hour and more possible,

(02:16):
with detours of twenty one and thirty four miles serving
as the only options for navigating around the closure. The
better news to a otherwise difficult situation. Through the first
couple of weekdays, seems as though it's gone as smooth
as could be hoped for. Sunning hot, humid again today,
highs low nineties, still warmer than usual for the state,

(02:36):
and chance of acting in thunderstorms been not as great
as yesterday. We have more Saheran dust that is making
its way, most of it staying off of Florida and
moving south of US into the Gulf, but pretty dense
plume tracking through the Caribbean right now to the south,
and another tracked across a central Atlantic. Now where there
is in dust, you do have tropical activity dexter just

(02:58):
like in no particular drop coos storm dexter just you know, wheak,
tropical storm just kind of like do Joel's got smalling
over here, just like meandering and get it.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Like a little cartoon image in my head.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Okay, so yeah, I mean just tracking away from the
US towards the northern mid Atlantic, Disturbance that is moving
towards the mid Atlantic with a fifty percent chance of
development later in the week, disturbance off the southeast US
coastline forty percent chance of development. None of these things
are concerns for US in particular, but the one in particular,
the southeast US coastline, could be employeed for some folks

(03:37):
to the north. Gas prices rose by another five cents
per gallon yesterday. Average price four regular on leaded to
in Florida three thirteen per gallon. In the Palm Beaches,
average price three twenty eight, Martin three nineteen Saint Lucie
and Indian River County this morning checking in a three
sixteen per gallon