Florida News That Impacts You – September 26th, 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):
From West Palm Beach to Tallahassee. This is Florida's News
that impacts You on the Brian Mud Show Brian Mudd
and Jil Malkin with You and a lawsuit that could
have significant implications out of Universal Orlando Fox's christin Goodwin Sandy.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Streets alleges the Stardust Raceurs roller coaster at Universal's Epic
Universe theme park failed to properly restrain her head, causing
her to shake violently, leaving her with permanent injuries. The
negligence lawsuit goes on to alleged park officials failed to
adequately warn her of the unsafe and unreasonably dangerous condition
of the ride, claiming it made a pre existing condition worse,

(00:44):
leaving her with medical expenses and unable to work. The
forty nine year old is seeking fifty thousand dollars in damages.
The suit comes a week after a thirty two year
old man died shortly after going on the same ride.
The roller coaster, which began operating earlier this year at
the park owned by Universe Orlando Resort, reaches speeds up
to sixty two miles.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Per hour, So that's one watch. Meanwhile, Governor of De
Santis announced that Success Academy, a's p performing charter school
network nationally, will open its first area location in Miami
as part of Florida's Schools of Hope initiative, which seeks
to provide educational options for low income families with underperforming schools.
The move came a day after the Florida Board of

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Education approved a charter school expansion plan under the state
State's Hope program, enabling charter schools to have a presence
within traditional public schools. And arbiter found that the Broward
County Sheriff's office was right to suspend a later fire deputy,
Edward Easan, who failed to perform his duties during the
twenty eighteen attack at Marjorie Stone and Douglas High School.

(01:47):
Easan hung back failing to enter the school during the
active shooter threat. Showers and thunderstorms possible today with highs
in the upper eighties, a little warmer than usual for
the state. We do have a thin plume of Saharan
does that is tracking through the Caribbean that is hugely
important for us and others right now, with a more
significant plume that is just behind it approaching the Leeward

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Islands and extending across the Central Atlantic, acting as a
headwind for tropical development. So about that might be going
to hold on. There's all kinds of stuff happening out there.
I'll explain in a moment. National Hurricane Center is tracking
the three systems. So you have post tropical cycle and
Gabrielle that is heading through the Azores right now. Top
wins is sixty five miles an hour. Tropical Storm Umberto

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is northeast of the lead Word Island. Still it's expected
to gain more forward speed today, develop into a hurricane
at some point today, eventually into major hurricane as it
approaches the Eastern Atlantic and appears unlikely to threaten populated
areas now, which is good news. Now, the disturbance exiting
Hispaniola this morning has a ninety percent chance of developing
as it passes over the Caribbean and is the system

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to watch for the Carolinas. It'll likely bring increased rain
and storm surge to forest coastline as it moves over
the weekend and into early next week. So let me
just put some texture to this real quick. I mentioned
you have this Saharan dust right now, thin layer that
is left that is over the Caribbean, and then you
have another plume that is behind it. It's pretty solid

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still that's coming up on the Leeward Islands. So first
of all, the reason you'll have more stuff just spinting
out in the Atlantic is because the dust is there.
But the other piece of it is so on Umberto.
You've seen it out there in opportunity rich waters, very
warm water. Ordinarily you would see a system like that
blow up. The reason it hasn't yet is entirely due

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to the Saharan dust. And so what's happening is later
today it's going to clear where the dust is, and
that's where the thing's going to start to explode and
become a hurricane than a major in that same vein
where this system is coming out, that is leaving Espinola
that water. If it were just about the water super

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ripe for a massive hurricane to form right there. The
reason it will not be that is because there is
still enough sahar In dust to rain in its development,
and it could develop as soon as today at some
point into a depression. The reason it's not going to
become this big, massive thing that even if it passed
to the east of US could then be a big
issue for US. Is in part due to that dust

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now that is increasing increasingly looking like a potential event
for the Carolinas. And you know, obviously we'll probably get
some weather out of it as it passes east of
US late in the weekend and into early next week.
Gas prices they felt by another three cents per gallon yesterday,
twenty cents lower than a week ago. The average price
four regular unleaded two ninety nine now and the Palm

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Beach is three twelve per gallon Martin two ninety six
two ninety nine in Saint Lucie, Indian River County right
there at three oh one per gallon,