Florida News That Impacts You – August 15th, 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 views that impacts you on the Brian
Mudd Show. Yeah, so uh coming soon, We've got the
deportation Depot. Now you got I like this because it's
the simplicity of it all. If you need stuff, you know,

(00:29):
for around your office, what do you you go to
the office depot. It's also Florida Base by the way. Yeah,
it's spoken based office depot. You need to do some
stuff around the house, go to home depot. You need
need to deport a few people. He's use you know,
take a trip over to the deportation Depot. Fox's Evan Brown.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Citing a successful launch of the so called Alligator Alcatraz
migrant holding and removal facilities situated west of Miami in
the Florida Everglades, Governor Ron De Santis and announces the
building of a second facility outside Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
We are calling this the Deportation Depot. It is going
to be named. It is going to be located here
at Baker Correctional Institute.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
A large part of the correctional facility had been going unused.
It is also just miles from Lake City, which has
an airport with a long enough runway to host larger
aircraft for repatriation flights. Now on this note, the initial
capacity will be thirteen hundred, plans to expand to two thousand.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
The ETAs two to three weeks. I am warmed to
the Dame Joel. You are not You're still you're wanting
more marketing material. Eric, it's just not scary like alligator alcatraz.
I think they just couldn't they couldn't find a link
to the area where it is, and so they just deportation.

(01:52):
The concept makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
You're funny. I just it's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I like deportation depot better than than elligator lchetracts uh
four for the reason you have nothing else that I mentioned.
So just yeah, we know what these things didn't mean.
And do office depot. You know you're getting home depot
and you're getting deportation depot. You know you're getting it.
Drop a few warm and fluffies. In fact, you know
what you could do, actually, you could do a public

(02:20):
service to ice here. You make it drop by the
home depot. You pick up a few of the warm
and fluffies and you take them over to the deportation depot.
That's yeah, Florida CFO, Blaze and Golia provided an update
on these states newly launched doze efforts of local government,
saying auditors have found quote pretty egregious examples of waste

(02:40):
fraud and abuse. Now here's the key. I think a
lot of people are expecting, kind of like the musk
Lad doze effort in DC. You're going to hear like
some of these incredible examples of waste fraud, abuse, what
have you. And Golia is said, it's not going to
be like that. These are going to be very professionally
put together audit report words that are going to be

(03:01):
presented from each of these local governments approximately sixty days
from the conclusion. So there's not going to be like
this drip drip drip of potentially sensational stuff and the
back and forth in the media about it.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Of course, they'll be in Palm Beach County Monday and Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
You've got it. It'll be sunny, hotigen today hines in
the low nineties, which is slightly warmer than usual for
the state. You do have a dense layer of Saharan
dust passing through the Caribbean Sea right now. Another plume
just behind tropical storm erin So the dust on the
front end of Aaron that had been keeping it in
check up until now has now moved in a different direction,

(03:38):
and so that is why you're seeing Aaron take on
additional strength and relate to the National Hurricane Center, tracking
two systems you have to Disturbance in the southwestern Gulf
approaching Southern Texas has a fifty percent chance now developing
into a tropical cyclone. It's going to go into Southern Texas,
whether it's a depression or just the system. Aaron is

(04:00):
expected to develop into the first hurricane of this season
later this morning and is expected to develop into a
major hurricane this weekend. The improved news from this time yesterday,
all leading models now show the system turning north on
the approach to the Caribbean towards Bermuda. Still worth keeping
an eye on until it does make that turn, but

(04:21):
with all models now pointing in the same direction, that's
quite encouraging. Gas price is flat yesterday at the average
price four regular unleaded State White three thirteen in the
Palm Beaches, average price three twenty seven, Martin three nineteen
three point fifteen in Saint Lucie right there at the
state average at three thirteen in Indian River County. All right.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Some quick headlines on the national front. Washington, DC's Police
chief sessser Department will work more closely with federal immigration authorities.
Chief Pamela Smith issuing an executive order yesterday allowing officers
to share info about people not in custody, like those
pulled over for traffic violations. Just hours away from President
Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska today.

(05:02):
Over the past few days, Trump and the White House
have lowered expectations about an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine after
the summit. Federal judge halting efforts from the White House
to defund schools with DEI programs. Judge yesterday ruled the
Trump administration cannot cut federal funding colleges and other schools
that have diversity programs, as a threatened to do earlier
this year. Those are some headlines.