Florida News That Impacts You – October 3rd, 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
Mudd Show and Bran Muddy in Joel Malkin with You Florida.
We have now received a total of six hundred and
eight million dollars from the federal government for assisting the
Department of Homeland Securities, detention and deportation efforts. The state's
largest related expense was for the creation and maintenance of

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Alligator Alcatraz, to the cost of two hundred and eighteen million.
All related expenses to the State of Florida have been
fully reimbursed. West Pawmbach's award winning Green Market back starting tomorrow,
the thirty first season of the market at the West
Palm Beach Waterfront Commons will be opened from eight thirty
in the morning until one thirty in the afternoon. That'll
be the case every Saturday through May this upcoming year,

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the longest season yet. This year's theme is from the
ground Up. The West Palm Beach Green Market ranked first
nationally in USA Today's Readers' Choice Awards for three consecutive years,
followed by a second place finish last year. Windy with
showers and thunderstorms throughout the day to day and through
the weekend with highs in the low eighties, a little
cooler than usual for this date. Then, plumas Aharon dust

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extends from the Bahamas through the Caribbean Sea with a
separate plume that is thicker in the Central Atlantic that
is acting as a head wind for tropical development. Related
Hurricane Center tracking two systems disturbance over the Southern Atlantic
off the coast of Africa, thirty percent chance of developing
over the next seven days. And the reason that is
being held back yet again, you do have that plum

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of Saharan dust I mentioned that is sitting in front
of where this system is. While a disturbance may form
off the southeast Florida coastline moving over our state this weekend,
it's being given just a ten percent chance of developing.
But all the wind in the rain yesterday related that
will be the case today and straight through the weekend
as well. Gas prices dropped two cents per gallon yesterday.

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The average price for regular unleaded state wide three oh
nine and the Palm Beaches three twenty five, Martin three
point fifteen, three twelve in Saint Lucie, and three eleven
in Indian River County.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
All right, good morning, some national headlines. While the partial
shutdown of the federal government does enter day three, lawmakers
on both sides of the aisle continue to blame each
other for the impasse, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune
calling the shutdown Brian stupid. The judge who was set
to hear Oregon's challenge to President Trump sending troops to
Portland is recusing himself. US District Judge Michael Simon, agreeing

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to step aside after Justice Department lawyers asked him to
avoid the appearance of partiality. His wife is a Democrat
congresswoman who has spoken out against the troop activation. Apple
removing ice tracking devices from its app store. The tech
company last night said it was removing ice block and
other apps that are used to report sightings of ICE agents.

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An immigration judge is rejecting an asylum request from the
Maryland man kill mar Abrego Garcia. Had been a while
since we've heard that name. Of course, he was deported
to El Salvador earlier this year, and what the Trump
administration initially said was a mistake. He has then brought
back to face human smuggling charges, and of course still
at risk of deportation, authorities naming the suspect, and a

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deadly attack in a British synagogue Anyam Kapor counter terrorism
police say Jihad al Shami was a British citizen of
Syrian descent. The thirty five year old Ramdas car into
people outside the synagogue in Manchester and stabbed others. Two
people died, three were injured. Then the attacker was shot
dead by police. And Tesla sales have hit a new record,
the electric car company selling more than four hundred and

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ninety seven thousand vehicles in the third quarter, beating its
previous record. One likely reason the sales boost was buyers
rushing to buy Tesla's before seventy five hundred dollars federal
tax credit