Florida News That Impacts You – October 28th, 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 (00:04):
Just as Florida's news that impacts you. On the Brian
Mud Show, Yeah, Brian Muddy and Joel Malkin with you
and Governor de Santis highlighting something yesterday that's pretty instructive.
You know, we've had the stories the visuals that have
been kind of sensational of the narco boats, the drug
running vessels largely backed by Venezuela, that the Trump administration

(00:25):
has been taking out in international waters. Where is it
that most of those narco boats would have ended up?
Where did they traditionally go to our state and off
in South Florida? And so not only is it helpful
for ending a lot of the drug trafficking that's taken place,
but especially in South Florida and throughout our state where

(00:45):
that is kind of the the ground zero for it
making its way here. The Governor talking to Jesse Waters
about this last night.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You have seen narcotics flood this country from a variety
of those countries down there, presidents doing something about it.
You also have a regime in Venezuela that's been incredibly
hostile to the United States and has been a strong
ally of the communist dictatorship in Cuba, and I think
the way you deal with those folks is through strength.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Meanwhile, the governor also announcing yesterday state partnership with Turning
Point USA, with the winner of the Ronald Reagan President
Debate at the Florida Civics and Debate State Championship to
be awarded fifty thousand dollars and received the first annual
Charlie Kirk Award State Championships held April fifth next year
at the New College of Florida and bat Old. Stewart

(01:33):
City Manager Mike Mortel is out following the three to
two vote of the City Commission yesterday, indi Mortel's twenty
plus years with the city and various capacities. Bartel was
accused of having used his influence to get out of
the traffic ticket as allowed to have mismanaged the previously
proposed Brightline project that would have brought a new station
to the city but later fell through. Ortel denies the

(01:55):
allegations brought against him. National Weather Service has confirmed viau
be trecy to record rainfall on Sunday three point eight
three inches during a twenty four hour period, prompting localized flooding.
Courser many areas of localized flooding. BOC in particular hit
especially hard core tempts and clear skies. Highs in the
low eighties typical for this state should be beautiful today

(02:18):
ben plumas ahar and dust tracking over the Central Atlantic
acting as a headwind for tropical development. One of the
reasons why you're not seeing anything but the big thing
that's out there on the Hurricane Center's map. So about
this Hurricane Melissa, category five hurricane top sustained winds one
hundred and seventy five miles an hour is imminently going

(02:40):
to be making landfall in Jamaica. Hurricane as it makes
landfall this morning is expected to very slowly cross the island,
not expected to exit it until tonight, then expected to
pick up speed in a move towards the northeast. Additional
landfalls in the eastern Cuba, the southern Bahamas, and the
potentially Bermuda. Expected gas prices felled two cents per gallon yesterday,

(03:05):
equally the multi year lows reached a week ago. The
average price four regular unletted stay y two eighty nine
and the bomb beach is three oh eight Martin two
ninety six, two ninety two. In Saint Lucie and right
there at the state average at two eighty nine in
Indian River County,