Florida News That Impacts You – September 12th, 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 Mudsill.
And indeed, as we take a look at what went
down on day one at the trial of Ryan Ruth,
went like this box is Jessica Rosenthal.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Prosecutor said Ryan Ruth had lists of all the items
he'd need to stake out President Trump's West Palm Beach
golf course, including diapers. The Secret Service agent who shot
at Ruth when he realized the barrel of an ak
was pointing at him from the bushes onto the golf course,
testified about the encounter, but so did the man without
whom prosecutors might not have this case. Tommy McGee, recounted

(00:41):
seeing Ruth run out of the bushes looking frantic and disheveled. McGee,
who heard shots fired by Secret Service, followed Ruth and
got his license plate number, which later helped police track
him down. Ruth, who's representing himself, had awkward, short interactions
on cross examination and had his opening statements cut short
for being irrelevant to the case.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
So you have a thing with the diapers, Joel, I'm
just thinking, I just see, let's see, uh, rifle, check bullets.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Check snacks, check water, check diapers.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, it was prepared, you know, I mean, was he
was out there? How long? Twelve hours of below twelve
hours straight. Yeah, So man was prepared. I mean, there's that.
So Governor DeSantis independent of the lunatic ruth situation. UH

(01:37):
DeSantis participating in the groundbreaking of the newest phase of
the Everglades restoration project yesterday. The Blue Shanty Flowway project
now underway in Miami Dade, which, once completed, well allow
more water to flow from the EAA Reservoir south into
the Everglades. It's natural flow, mitigating the use of the
destructive eastern discharges from Lake Okechobee. They had a blake project,

(01:58):
the first undertaken under a new agreement signed in July
allowing for the state to take the lead in Neverglades
restoration from the federal government. Delray Beach is voted to
end its contestation to state and federal law pertaining to
the former illegal pri themed intersection. This the development here
during an emergency meeting on Thursday, city reverse course at

(02:20):
the urgent of Mayor Tom Carney, quoting the mayor, nobody
thinks we can win. Nobody, this is reckless. It's a
reckless disregard by the way of taxpayer money and the
Florida Department of Transportation. Of course, they removed the crosswalk,
restoring legal traffic markings earlier this week. Mix of clouds, rain,
thunderstorms again throughout the day to day Hew's mid eighties.

(02:42):
It'll be a little bit cooler. That is pretty typical
for the state. Starting to feel a fallout there. Saharin
dusk currently stretches from the Caribbean through the mid Atlantic,
acting as a headwind for tropical development related Hurrigaine Center
tracking disturbance off the coast of Africa now given a
forty percent chance of developing over the next seven days,
as it has to kind of wait out the dust

(03:02):
there and see what will be at that point. Gas
prices fell another two cents per gallon yesterday. I mentioned
the last Friday, don't be in a hurry gaye gas
because they'll be heading down throughout the next week. Well,
here we are. All throughout the week price has been
heading lower. They are fifteen cents lower than a week ago.
Average price four regular unleaded state wide under three bucks
this morning at two ninety nine, and the Pond Beaches

(03:23):
average price three sixteen, Martin three oh six. It is
three h two per gallon in Saint Lucie and Indian
River County this morning