Florida News That Impacts You – October 13th, 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 (00:03):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian mudtial.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, sure enough, Brian Mud with you. Joel on vacation.
He's back in the mix with us next week. As
we take a look at news from around the state.
Continue to follow the breaking news as well out of Israel,
with the presidents set to address the Israeli Parliament anytime
now amid historic success the hostages released by AMAS, and

(00:32):
as we take a look at news from around the States,
the Wellington publics it's become a thing, not just locally,
across the country. Fox's Angelo Bavaro reports.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
At this particular public supermarket in Wellington, Florida, shoppers can
sip a craft beer mimosa and push carts with cup holders.
The store is home to public spores, a full bar
serving beer, wine, coffee, and smoothies. There's also a wide
variety of food options, including a burrito counter and a
popcorn station. The location is going viral and has earned

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the nickname of club Licks among customers who claim that
it lives up to the Florida based supermarket chained slogan,
where shopping is a pleasure and the fund may keep
flowing with the director of Communications for Public's Supermarkets, telling
Fox News it's a concept that shoppers could be seeing
more of in the future.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Meanwhile, sun Sental analysis of Florida home insurance crisis shows
an increase of one and a half percent across all
policies underwritten in twenty twenty five for the first eight
months of the year. That is the lowest increase in
about a decade. Prices have declined year over year, with
seventeen of the eighty four reporting companies underwriting policies within
the state, with three insurers American Security, Clear Blue and

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Trusted Resource underwriters posting double digit declines and premiums year
over year. The average home owners policy within the state
most recently three thy, seven hundred and forty seven dollars.
Florida State University's College of Lot's been named the number
one best value law school in the country by pre
Law magazine. The publication sites exceptional combination of academic quality, affordability,

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and career outcomes. It is going to be a beautiful
day to day, sunny, pleasant throughout the day, highs low
eighties typical for this date. A plume of Saharan dust
tracking over the leeward islands at Espaniola, extending from the
Caribbean Sea through the Central Atlantic.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
There's another plume.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Moving off the coast of Africa acting as a headwind
for tropical development. And on that note, hurricanes that attracting
one disturbance in the Southern Atlantic, the system expected to
attract towards the Central Atlantic and eighty percent chance of development.
It is not of concern. I mentioned of Friday, the
you might see tropical storm Jerry, which you know, the
Hurricane Center kept saying, Hey, it's going to be a hurricanes,

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It's going to be a hurricane. I mentioned on Friday,
this thing could get swallowed up by Saharan dust. It
did on Saturday. You saw Jerry just disappear. It's a
tropical storm. The Saharan dust got to it. Hear and
dust continues to be the story of this hurricane season
and seemingly still underappreciated by many of the hurricane forecasters meteorologists,

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which I find to be fascinating. Gas prices they fell
through the weekend. We are now touching new lows for
the year. Many places prices that are eleven cents lower
than a week ago. The average price four a regular
unleaded state wide is two ninety one per gallon right now,
and the Pond Beach is the average price three oh
seven and Martin three bucks a gallon, and right there

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at the state average two ninety one per gallon in
Saint Lucie and Indian River County.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Securing America Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently announced the
formation of a first of its kind department wide Barracks
task Force.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Charged with developing a department wide barracks investment plan within
the next thirty days.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Hech Seth says the catalyst for the task force actually
came a while ago.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Two years ago, the Government Accountability Officers released a report
said quote poor living conditions undermine quality of life and readiness.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
The Secretary says substandard housing is unacceptable.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Every warfighter of our joint Force deserves housing that is clean, comfortable,
and safe.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
And adds that better housing will lead to better performance.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Barracks are where warriors go to rest and recover, a
place that go to mentally and physically prepare for winning
the next fight.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Hech Seth says it's part of his job to make
sure troops have the very best Kevin Resky, The Fox
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