Florida News That Impacts You – August 14th, 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 (00:05):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian
Muntial and Brian munt and Joe Malkin with you and
as we take a look at news going on from
around our state.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Governor Desant has announced that over eighty seven hundred law
enforcement professionals throughout the state now been awarded with recruitment
bonuses since twenty twenty two's State Recruitment Bonus Payment program,
which awards five thousand dollars bonuses after taxes to newly
employed officers within the state. The Florida Fish in Wildlife

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Conservation Commission has mentioned my takeaways, unanimously approved a bear
hunt for December. One hundred and eighty seven permits will
be handed out on a lottery system, allowing one bear
to be taken within four regions across the state. First
authorized bear hunt in Florida since twenty fifteen. The Paubach
County Sheriff's Office has requested an operating budget of one
point one billion dollars for the next year that it's

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a name increase of about eleven percent year over year.
Jerffrick bradshawt outed a seventeen percent reduction in crime and
said the increase will be used to protect the community.
Now it is an endable. The request comes amid Florida.
The Florida DOS team auditing Palm Beach County next Monday
and Tuesday. It'll be sunny in hot again today, highs

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low nineties, warmer than usual for the state. We do
have a dense layer of Saharan dust passing through the
Leeward Islands and Caribbean Sea right now in root towards
the Gulf of America. You have Tropical Storm Aerin right
behind that, and right behind Aaron is yet another dense plume,
so literally Aaron package between the two, which, by the way,
as you're taking a look out there, going why with

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all that runway in the Atlantic and warm waters, hasn't
it become stronger quicker? This is why, this is why
gusaharan dust on the front end and on the back
end of it. It's only going to be when the
dense plume in front of it ends up moving in
a different direction, which is towards the golf, allowing Aaron
to gain that additional strength as it moves towards the North.

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Related National Hurricane Center tracking two systems disturbance to the
south southwestern Gulf unlikely to develop, and yeah, Tropical Storm
Aaron is expected to develop into the season's first hurricane
by tomorrow morning. As the tracks across the southern Atlantic.
Developing into a major hurricane this weekend, models do generally
show the system likely turning north on the approach to

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the Caribbean towards Bermuda. Is still worth keeping an eye
on until it makes that turn. Gas prices rose another
four cents per gallon yesterday. Average price for regular on
leaded state ye three thirteen in the Palm Beaches, three
twenty seven, three seventeen in Martin County this morning in
three point fifteen in Saint Lucie and Indian River County.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
All right, we'll get a look at some national headlines
for you. President Trump, pleased with his crime crack down
in Washington, d C. Says DC will soon be crime
free with the National Guard, troops and federal officers on
the streets.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
President's crime free is he is he released National Guard
on Congress too, well, how about the deep stay.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Speaking of Congress, he says he's planning to ask Congress
for an extension of the federalization of the local police
force in the nation's capital. European leaders want Trump to
avoid unilateral action on a Ukraine peace deal when he
meets with the Russian president Putin in Alaska tomorrow. Several
including the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland, NATO
and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski, held a virtual meeting with

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Trump yesterday to discuss the upcoming summit. A federal appeals
court says the Trump administration can and foreign aid payments.
Three judge panel ruled two to one against the lower
court's order to have the Trump administration restore foreign assistance
payments previously approved by Congress. Ruling could open a pathway
for the Trump administration to cut billions of dollars in
foreign assistance funds. The FDA could revoke the authorization of

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Pfizer's COVID vaccine for children under five, Siser confirming and
notes in a statement that the deliberations are not related
to the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, and follows
a Health and Human Services announcement sharing that the CDC
would no longer recommend the vaccines for healthy children or
pregnant women or hearing. The Democrats are reportedly preparing to

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return to Texas. It will happen when the special session
that included redrawing congressional maps ends. Governor Greg Abbott says
the session will end tomorrow, but he also vows to
immediately call another one. And a monthly survey from the
Census Bureau shows that the US's illegal immigrant population has
dropped by two million people in the first six months
of the year. If it's accurate, it would be the

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largest drop in three decades.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Brian