Florida News That Impacts You – October 31st, 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, Yeah, Bran.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Money and Joel Malkin with you as we take a
look at news from around the state that impacts you
and uh Well. State Farms become the latest auto insurer
in the state to reduce raids. The company has filed
for a ten point two percent average rate reduction for
policy renewals going forward. The move comes after the state's

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largest auto insured, Progressive, filed for six and a half
percent rate reduction and announced nine hundred and fifty million
in refunds to be issued too Floridians going forward. South
Ocean Boulevard closed to traffic between South County Road and
Southern Boulevard until further notice and anticipation of Present Trump's
arrival to mar A Lago following his Asian trip over
the past week, sunny skies in cool weather that will

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flirt with record low highs today, like for example, taken
like West Palm, the record a low high is seventy
two and it looks like right now calling for seventy
three in West Palm. So, for example, you're going to
see a lot of things that could going to be
right around there. Many communities are in the fifties to start,
heis in the low seventies, significantly coore than usual for

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this date. Then Plumbus, the hearing dust is tracking it
for the Leeward Islands extending into the Central Atlantic. That
is acting as a headwind for tropical development. Related to
the Hurricane Center tracking Hurricane Melissa, which is currently moving
northeast with top sustained wins at ninety miles an hour
as it moved past Bermuda.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's now north of Bermuda. No additional landfalls expected with
the hurricane. Gas prices rose another four cents per gallon yesterday.
Average price four regular on leaded state wide two ninety six.
The Pond Beaches your average price three thirteen, Martin three
Tooho two. It is two ninety five in Saint Lucie
and in Indian River County two ninety seven per gallon.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
All right, good morning to national headlines. Death toll. Brian
was talking about Hurricane Melissa. Well, that death toll climbing
to at least fifty across the Caribbean, majority of the
debts coming from floods in Haiti, death toll is expected
to rise a search and rescue efforts continuing places like
Jamaica and Cuba. Day thirty one of the federal government
shut down. Senate adjourney yesterday won't meet again until after
the weekend. The foodstamps benefit, known as SNAP is had

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to expire for roughly forty two million people tomorrow. After
President Trump announced this week the US would resume testing
nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it, The Kremlin
spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said Moscow is ready to file suit.
He insisted that recent tests of nuclear power drones and
nuclear capable missiles did not involve any detonations and could

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not be viewed as nuclear testing. Prince Andrew now just
Andrew Mount Batton, Windsor Buckingham Palace. Making the announcement yesterday's
stripping him of his titles and palace also set a
formal notice that has been served for Andrew to leave
his home at the Royal Lodge close to Windsor Castle.
Changes come as the Royal faces growing pressure over his
ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Eastern Standard time

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will return Sunday when we fall back. Clock set back
one hour at two am, meaning we gain an hour
more light in the morning. Efforts to fast track Florida's
Senator Rick Scott's bill seeking to lock the clock stalled
in Congress. As Brian is well aware, those are your
headlines and mostly frustrating