TOP STORIES - Marking one year since Hurricane Milton, questions are swirling about the Rays’ future in St. Petersburg after 2028. Hillsborough County pushes back on Florida’s DOGE spending allegations, and a Florida couple faces charges after allegedly abandoning a juvenile on I-75 with guns and cash. Plus, deputies in Polk County make a bizarre discovery, and President Trump is set to headline the America Business Forum in Miami next month.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before we get to today's top stories. One year anniversary
of Hurricane Milton. I can't believe it's it's been a
year already. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I remember we were
in Miami, broadcasting live there because we had to evacuate
the studios here. And the most memorable moment I think
was when we saw the roof get blown off the trap.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I remember looking over at the TV screen in
the studio and seeing it, and then it took me
a second to be oh, my.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Gosh, yeah, that's the trap. We reacted to it like
in real time, and you just knew that was going
to be the image from Hurricane Milton that made international news.
And you still got people recovering a year later. I
think that is the biggest issue from the one two
punch of Hurricane Helen and Hurricane Milton, the permit process,
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because that's still going on. You've got residents and businesses
still trying to get what they need to rebuild a
year later.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I think the thing I recall is that we came
within a few miles of having the storm go right
over Tampa Bay. Yeah, catastrophic, and that would have been
absolutely devastating because so much of the city would have
been underwater. And while the winds may have been the
big impact on the trop and some of those other areas,
they avoided what could have been catastrophic flooding.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And so that's, you know, if there's anything good. It
ended up going over CS t Key and did significant damage,
but obviously if it was a few miles to the
north right, it would have been even worse. So obviously
Milton is one of those memorable storms that that you
know is going to go down in history. But it
wasn't the big one. No, thank goodness for that. And
then and just look at all the damage it didn't.
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It wasn't the big one.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I remember after Helene and then Milton. You see in
trees all up and down the Tampa Bay area just
from the roots, giant trees. And you had the problem
leading into Milton with people having those debris piles out
in front of their homes from Helene, and then you're worried,
well here comes Milton. Just you know, was it like
ten days later or something. It was a pretty crazy time. Luckily,
(02:08):
we have not had any issues knock on wood so
far this hurricane season, but several.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Ways to go they're all missing us.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Isn't crazy? Yeah, we're curving out into the Atlantic. Let's
hope that seven weeks to go. Let's keep holding our breath. Yep,
all right, what do we have going on for today's
top stories? Chris Well?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It appears the Tampa Bay Ray's owner, Patrick Zalupski, is
seeking a raised stadium that sounds very similar to what
Stuart Sternberg wanted and then abandoned earlier this year. So
they want it ready for play by twenty twenty nine,
according to the Tampa Bay Times, and they want a
mixed use development where people can live, work and play,
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not just not just a building to play ball, and
they made that clear during their news conference, but it's
not clear how committed they are to Saint Petersburg, where
the plan was laid out earlier or earlier in the
year year. So what's happened is there was a news
conference obviously scheduled, and some of the city council members
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didn't even know all the details about it, and a
couple of them claimed they only heard about the announcement
from a news reporter calling to ask them if they
were going to.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Go, Yeah, some party the Saint Pete and Penell's County
officials didn't sound like there was a real effort to
make sure they felt included. Yes, news conference.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, so the Times called Zalupski's lobbyist, and apparently they
made phone calls claiming to have invited these folks, but
when they were asked about it, some of them said
they didn't even know about it. One, you know, Member
Corey Gibbons said he found out from a reporter. Richie
Floyd said he got a phone call after he heard
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from the reporter. So it's like great, It's not great
timing if the news people know about an important meeting with.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Public officials before the public officials. And I think that
tells you that Saint pe and Penel's County not going
to be their first option. Wasn't schu Sternberg's first option.
He wanted a ballpark on the Tampa side of the Bay.
There focused on one hundred acres for the redevelopment in
the ballpark. It would fit the drop site it's about
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ninety five acres, But they seem really focused in on
a location that's a little bit more central to the
population in the broader Tampa Bay area, and that would
put it on the Hillsboro side. I think Ebore Harbor's out.
That's only forty acres. I don't think it's big enough
that area for them to do what they want, and
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so that narrows it down to the Hillsboro College site.
Florida State Fairgrounds both have their pros and cons. There's
been some talk about Rocky Points, and if you redevelop
the golf course, I think that would honestly be the
most convenient site for the largest amount of people right
there off of the courting Campbell. But they're doing redevelopment
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already there with luxury buildings and stuff like that, so
I don't know that that would necessarily work. The problem
with Hillsborough County is you're not going to have the
taxpayer base. You're not going to have that pool of
money like you would in Penelli's County. That's the complication.
And they said it's going to be a public private
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partnership to get this done, so that there's no perfect scenario.
Penelas You've got the taxpayer dollars and you've got a location,
but it's not an ideal location Hillsboro. You've got probably
better locations to do what they want, but you don't
necessarily have the taxpayer money that you need. So they're
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kind of they're in the same spot as Stu Sternberg.
Will see if they can find a way to push
this thing over the finish line. Yeah, I mean, that's
the big question.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And they also said it was premature to say that
they would extend the time in the trap. Yeah, you know,
they're obviously going to go back there once it's repaired,
but would they have to stay longer or if they
can't get some deal worked out for a new facility.
And you know, Mayor camp Welch, he seemed to be
rather cool to the idea of, you know, sort of
restarting this whole process without some real guarantees because of
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what happened with the previous owners. I mean, you can
imagine how frustrating it was to go through all that
and then to have the team pull out like that.
So Florida's chief financial officer, Blaze Angolia previously listed examples
of wasteful spending in a news release last week. Now,
this was in response to his news conference in Hillsborough
County where he said essentially that hundreds of millions of
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dollars in property tax money was being wasted and he
didn't have specifics, and so he was questioned about that.
And this is part of his Doze effort to get
local government leaders to reduce or eliminate the property tax
on homes for residents. So he put out some examples,
and now after they've been reviewed, it turns out number
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of the expenditures that they cited are not funded by
the property tax.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
This is so reminiscent of what we saw with Doge
in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
These they just ripped through everything.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
They think they know what they're talking.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
About as big promises. Yeah, these big announcements, and then
you start to dig into the details and it's not
what it what it appears to be.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, I mean one of the things they cited was
the automobile allowance that is paid for certain employees who
drive their own cars. It turns out that that is
something that is a stipend that's given out for county business.
That's not part of the It's a it's like a
perk that you get if you are using your own vehicle,
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right right, not like you're paying for that with taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They get reimbursed for using their own their own car,
and the county said, if we have to provide vehicles
for everybody, you know, or come up with another way
that could end up being more expensive, which isn't Yeah
you're dog. Yeah. And then there was some other thing
that had to do with the human resources to part
and this leadership development course.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, Franklin Covey, which is a well known business training company,
and it sounded like they were trying to tie it
to some sort of DEI initiative.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Right, And there's like one thing in the portal among
like seventeen hundred resources that's not mandatory that you can
take that kind of has to do with that, and
it's like, are you kidding me? That's what you got.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And you're talking hundreds of millions now, so you know,
this is sort of the They've.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Got to show receipts at some point.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, it just seems like a lot of these news
conferences and look, Blaze and Goulia has been going all
over the state doing the same thing. It's running it's
not like hills Yeah, but I mean it's not like
Hillsborough was the only one. No no, And he's running
into the same criticism every criticisms everywhere else. So Florida
man and woman facing charges after allegedly leaving a team
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along I seventy five was with a bunch of guns
and cash in a bag that they had frantically pick
packed up and set off as they were going for
Guam or Idaho. So a Northport police officer was sent
to the scene or Sumpter Boulevard to investigate a nine
one one call about a suspicious man walking on the shoulder,
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and the officer asked what he was doing, and the
sixteen year old said he had been in a vehicle
with Bradley Guerrero Santos and Rosanella Borja and they were
on their way to either Guam or Idaho.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now that's my big question. Yeah, what are those options?
Guamer That's a big difference. Yeah, Like you're talking about
like not too.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Far from Japan, yeah, or you're talking about the northwest
of the country.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But so, according to affidavits, the driver pulled the vehicle over,
kicked him out of the suv with the bags of
guns and cash, and the sixteen year old told police
that Santos is very religious, called him the chosen one.
It often tests his mental fortitude by giving him difficult tests.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wow, like this one that sounds like a real nut.
But I still I can't get over like New York
or New Jersey, you know, like Japan or South Korea,
Italy or France, not Guam or Idaho.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, it sounds like they were running from something that
packed up really quickly. They must have been in trouble.
Maybe they were scrambling trying to figure out maybe they
know people in Idaho or Gwama may as a matter
of who they could go stay with.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Or they're just like, where can we go that we
won't be recognized that you know, Idaho or Guam? Dumping
the team? Yeah, the guns in cash, I don't know.
Usually you take the guns of the cash with you.
I don't get all right. Chris Frankman with today's stop Stories. Chris,
thanks so much. Today's stop story is brought to you
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(10:54):
seven twenty four tests. Now, good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Well there is Apro County, twenty nine year old who's
now accused of starting a deadly fire Melbourne's Jonathan Rinderneck.
He's due back in federal court today. He was arrested
Tuesday for allegedly starting the Palisades fire in California New
Year's Day that killed twelve people. Attorney Bill Eisley announced
that he may have been planning on setting the fire
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months in advance.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
The allegations in the affidavit are supported by digital evidence,
including the defendant's chatchpt prompt of a dystopian painting showing
in part a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, very disturbing details coming out of this investigation. So far,
no exact word on a motive, but he did tell
us that the former resident of Pacific Palisades ignited the
fire after dropping off Uber passengers in the area.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Walked up a nearby trail, took iPhone videos at a
nearby hilltop, and listened to a rap song whose music
video including objects being lit on fire.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Very disturbing.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You wonder what rating and tip that gave him for
that right, pushed him over the edge. Yeah, this is
somebody who's really disturbed and seemed to be fascinated with obsessisfire. Yeah,
burning things, what's the word for that. Yeah, yes, that's right.
He allegedly burned a Bible. Weeks before the blaze. He
(12:22):
kept listening to this French rap song. I guess he's
from France originally, and the video of that song depicted
these these apocalyptic fires and then he goes and does this.
And what's also interesting about the story is how much
chat GPT is playing into the evidence that prosecutors have
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something that we had talked about tied to another story
recently about how law enforcement had found evidence through the
person's use of chat GPT for child porn. I think
it was Yeah, I think you're right. I didn't realize that,
you know everything I'm pumping into chat EPT. Be careful
for you.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What are you talking about with it?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Let me tell you what I asked chat ept everything
like constantly, Like all my life decisions go through chat EP.
I'm it's I'm always asking for its opinion on different
things that I'm looking to do by like what happens.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But the thing is, I've told you this. It it
like it feeds what you want to hear. I like
that too, what you want to hear. Yes, that's part
of the bias.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, we're not supposed to use chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's the problem, right, But this this guy obviously in
huge trouble. You have twelve people who are killed, like
six thousand homes destroyed with this fire, one of the
most destructive in LA's history. And uh, good for law
enforcement finally catching the guy who who did it.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Hopefully it'll bring some closure to those that ever impacted. Well,
we've got an update. Suspension without pay. That's the punishment
for a Martin County teacher who called Charlie Kirk a
racist and a neo Nazi on social media following his assassination.
The school board has voted even after hearing from those
supporting Matthew Theobald, including one of his students at Spectrum Academy.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
I think I can speak for everyone who has mister
Theobald that we want him back, We want our teacher. Yeah,
as far as his comments are concerned, I don't agree
that's what he said, but it really just doesn't change anything.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
A lot of people were emphasizing the importance of free
speech and civil discourse, but the First Amendment does not
protect Americans from the consequences of certain speech except for
arrest and the next step for Theobald is possibly a
termination hearing, but no word when or if that's going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They were just talking yesterday about Hillsborough County and I
think there were like seventeen teachers school employees who they
were involved in posts that were questionable.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It sounds like we don't know exactly what any of
those posts are said.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah, but directly or directly whether there were reposted or.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Actually posted by them. Right, Nobody in Hillsborough County was fired.
It sounds like they were called at the principal's office.
They were going a little talking to commanded. Yeah, but
that was the extent of it. Here in Martin County
of a teacher suspended without pay. And there was one
person who spoke up who said, and I'm quoting, well,
he may have shared opinions that many or some in
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our community opposed. He did so on a private social
media page with the expectation of discussing his views with people.
He knows all US citizens should be able to discuss
different concerns and views, even if I'm comfortable or unpleasant,
to encourage free speech, civil discussion, and exchange of ideas.
Here's the thing, though it didn't stay private. I got
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out and.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, and if you want to have a private conversation,
that's private. Pickup yeah, yeah, pick up the phone, go
out to dinner, you know, but don't put it on Facebook.
People just need to know what you put out there
on Facebook. Other people are going to see it. Actually,
nothing is private right now if you think about it.
iPhones are recording your conversation.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This is very true.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah, and if you take a screenshot of a text
or something that was posted, that still can be used
against you.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And it doesn't matter. You just have to really.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Companies are telling their employees nowadays, and they have for
the last decade or so, be careful what you put
because everything that goes out there is public.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah. It's like when I have important conversations that I
need to have, I go into full mafia mode. And yeah,
like like how they used to try to evade the
Feds using different tactics, that's what That's what I do
to try to keep my conversation. You can't pack, Yeah,
it's scared. Yeah, yeah, try to keep my code words. Yeah,
I have the radio blasting really loud and you know,
some background noise things like that. All right, let's get
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to one more quick story Natalie Well.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
President Trump's coming to Miami next month headlining the America
Business Forum. It's the first time that the event, launched
in twenty sixteen held in Udaway, is held here in
the US, and it's happening right across the street from
where his planned presidential library is to be in downtown Miami.
The guest speaker list so far for November fifth and
(17:07):
six at the CASA Center is also set to include
Messy billionaire Ken Griffin, Will Smith, and the CEOs of
Formula one and JP Morgan Chase, among others.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, the list is interesting. You've got President Trump, and
I'm sure he'll stop by the what's right now a
parking lot that will be his presidential library, and we'll
talk about, you know how that pavement is going to
be marble and there's gonna be gold and all that
kind of stuff. But then then you've got JP Morgan Chase,
CEO Jamie Diamond, You've got Messy Rafael Nadal, and then
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and then Will Smith. I mean, I know he likes
South Florida, so you know that Will.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
This is an interesting mix.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
It is so random, and you got to hope that
President Trump doesn't say anything about his wife otherwise. See
you know Will Smith, you could you could freak out
on him there. That could be a very interesting business
for him. Those names. And you can get a great
deal on tickets on their website. I was looking if
you want unparalleled comfort, visibility and connections, like the real experience,
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nineteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh that's not bad actually, so as we just I thought.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's funny. On their website it says that's a deal.
It's an early bird special down from forty two hundred dollars.
And I feel like that's what we were talking about.
Were we having that to specially about Amazon?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, yeah, about how Amazon marks has third party retailers
that mark the price is a ridiculous like a mop right,
like four hundred bucks, and they put it on sale
for ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
They should have put it two hundred and fifty to
ten thousand dollars for the two day event.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
It's like Ultra Music festival.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, exactly. They should have put for the platinum ticket,
you know, thirty thousand dollars and you can get it
for nineteen hundred dollars now. It's a show.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It is going to be live from right.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's an amazing deal.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Are we going live from the say A Center of
that day?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We should, Yeah, and we'll see if we can get
Will Smith on. Oh and President Trump too. Natalie Rodriguez
with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks so much. He got it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So Paul County Shriff Grady Judd talking about a case
he's never seen before, and he's seen a lot over
there in Polk County. So they get a call that
a man identified as fifty one year old Walter Freimeier
was naked inside a restroom at a public park. So
they show up. It turns out he had his clothes
back on when they got there, and so they arrested
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him and for he was trespassing, you know, in an
area where you're not supposed to be naked, and he
had allegedly meth on him. So they take him to
the jail and he says it's a standard procedure to
put everybody through a body scanner so that when they're
bringing in people into the facility they're not carrying things
like knives, guns, drugs, other things. And they found something
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unusual in and the guy.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Here's Paul County Sheriff Grady Judd telling the story. Is
only he can.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
He brought a thermist into the jail. That's right. He
put it up the exit ramp. You know what I mean,
a thermos. We had to take him to the hospital.
They had to find the specialist. It was quite the ordeal,
but he's thermalist in the county jail.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
He put it up the exit ramp. Yeah, that would
be going the wrong way on the exit.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, man, wow, I mean, you know they
even thought of that is not you.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Know, really great for you know, if you're having your
morning coffee right right, yeah, just imagine as you're sipping
your morning coffee, imagine that you put it up the
exit ramps. Yeah. Quite an image. And apparently he had
it in there for twenty four hours.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And of course it happened in Paul County and h
and when it does, then you get Grady Judd and
you get these you know, he put it up the
exit ram. Well, we were glad to give descriptions in depth, right.
Chris Trenkman with Today's Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
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Before we get to today's top stories. One year anniversary
of Hurricane Milton. I can't believe it's it's been a
year already. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I remember we were
in Miami, broadcasting live there because we had to evacuate
the studios here. And the most memorable moment I think
was when we saw the roof get blown off the trap.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I remember looking over at the TV screen in
the studio and seeing it, and then it took me
a second to be oh, my.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Gosh, yeah, that's the trap. We reacted to it like
in real time, and you just knew that was going
to be the image from Hurricane Milton that made international news.
And you still got people recovering a year later. I
think that is the biggest issue from the one two
punch of Hurricane Helen and Hurricane Milton, the permit process,
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because that's still going on. You've got residents and businesses
still trying to get what they need to rebuild a
year later.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I think the thing I recall is that we came
within a few miles of having the storm go right
over Tampa Bay. Yeah, catastrophic, and that would have been
absolutely devastating because so much of the city would have
been underwater. And while the winds may have been the
big impact on the trop and some of those other areas,
they avoided what could have been catastrophic flooding.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And so that's, you know, if there's anything good. It
ended up going over CS t Key and did significant damage,
but obviously if it was a few miles to the
north right, it would have been even worse. So obviously
Milton is one of those memorable storms that that you
know is going to go down in history. But it
wasn't the big one. No, thank goodness for that. And
then and just look at all the damage it didn't.
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It wasn't the big one.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I remember after Helene and then Milton. You see in
trees all up and down the Tampa Bay area just
from the roots, giant trees. And you had the problem
leading into Milton with people having those debris piles out
in front of their homes from Helene, and then you're worried,
well here comes Milton. Just you know, was it like
ten days later or something. It was a pretty crazy time. Luckily,
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we have not had any issues knock on wood so
far this hurricane season, but several.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Ways to go they're all missing us.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Isn't crazy? Yeah, we're curving out into the Atlantic. Let's
hope that seven weeks to go. Let's keep holding our breath. Yep,
all right, what do we have going on for today's
top stories? Chris Well?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It appears the Tampa Bay Ray's owner, Patrick Zalupski, is
seeking a raised stadium that sounds very similar to what
Stuart Sternberg wanted and then abandoned earlier this year. So
they want it ready for play by twenty twenty nine,
according to the Tampa Bay Times, and they want a
mixed use development where people can live, work and play,
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not just not just a building to play ball, and
they made that clear during their news conference, but it's
not clear how committed they are to Saint Petersburg, where
the plan was laid out earlier or earlier in the
year year. So what's happened is there was a news
conference obviously scheduled, and some of the city council members
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didn't even know all the details about it, and a
couple of them claimed they only heard about the announcement
from a news reporter calling to ask them if they
were going to.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Go, Yeah, some party the Saint Pete and Penell's County
officials didn't sound like there was a real effort to
make sure they felt included. Yes, news conference.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, so the Times called Zalupski's lobbyist, and apparently they
made phone calls claiming to have invited these folks, but
when they were asked about it, some of them said
they didn't even know about it. One, you know, Member
Corey Gibbons said he found out from a reporter. Richie
Floyd said he got a phone call after he heard
(03:47):
from the reporter. So it's like great, It's not great
timing if the news people know about an important meeting with.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Public officials before the public officials. And I think that
tells you that Saint pe and Penel's County not going
to be their first option. Wasn't schu Sternberg's first option.
He wanted a ballpark on the Tampa side of the Bay.
There focused on one hundred acres for the redevelopment in
the ballpark. It would fit the drop site it's about
(04:16):
ninety five acres, But they seem really focused in on
a location that's a little bit more central to the
population in the broader Tampa Bay area, and that would
put it on the Hillsboro side. I think Ebore Harbor's out.
That's only forty acres. I don't think it's big enough
that area for them to do what they want, and
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so that narrows it down to the Hillsboro College site.
Florida State Fairgrounds both have their pros and cons. There's
been some talk about Rocky Points, and if you redevelop
the golf course, I think that would honestly be the
most convenient site for the largest amount of people right
there off of the courting Campbell. But they're doing redevelopment
(05:00):
already there with luxury buildings and stuff like that, so
I don't know that that would necessarily work. The problem
with Hillsborough County is you're not going to have the
taxpayer base. You're not going to have that pool of
money like you would in Penelli's County. That's the complication.
And they said it's going to be a public private
(05:21):
partnership to get this done, so that there's no perfect scenario.
Penelas You've got the taxpayer dollars and you've got a location,
but it's not an ideal location Hillsboro. You've got probably
better locations to do what they want, but you don't
necessarily have the taxpayer money that you need. So they're
(05:42):
kind of they're in the same spot as Stu Sternberg.
Will see if they can find a way to push
this thing over the finish line. Yeah, I mean, that's
the big question.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And they also said it was premature to say that
they would extend the time in the trap. Yeah, you know,
they're obviously going to go back there once it's repaired,
but would they have to stay longer or if they
can't get some deal worked out for a new facility.
And you know, Mayor camp Welch, he seemed to be
rather cool to the idea of, you know, sort of
restarting this whole process without some real guarantees because of
(06:14):
what happened with the previous owners. I mean, you can
imagine how frustrating it was to go through all that
and then to have the team pull out like that.
So Florida's chief financial officer, Blaze Angolia previously listed examples
of wasteful spending in a news release last week. Now,
this was in response to his news conference in Hillsborough
County where he said essentially that hundreds of millions of
(06:36):
dollars in property tax money was being wasted and he
didn't have specifics, and so he was questioned about that.
And this is part of his Doze effort to get
local government leaders to reduce or eliminate the property tax
on homes for residents. So he put out some examples,
and now after they've been reviewed, it turns out number
(06:58):
of the expenditures that they cited are not funded by
the property tax.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
This is so reminiscent of what we saw with Doge
in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
These they just ripped through everything.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
They think they know what they're talking.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
About as big promises. Yeah, these big announcements, and then
you start to dig into the details and it's not
what it what it appears to be.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, I mean one of the things they cited was
the automobile allowance that is paid for certain employees who
drive their own cars. It turns out that that is
something that is a stipend that's given out for county business.
That's not part of the It's a it's like a
perk that you get if you are using your own vehicle,
(07:39):
right right, not like you're paying for that with taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They get reimbursed for using their own their own car,
and the county said, if we have to provide vehicles
for everybody, you know, or come up with another way
that could end up being more expensive, which isn't Yeah
you're dog. Yeah. And then there was some other thing
that had to do with the human resources to part
and this leadership development course.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, Franklin Covey, which is a well known business training company,
and it sounded like they were trying to tie it
to some sort of DEI initiative.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Right, And there's like one thing in the portal among
like seventeen hundred resources that's not mandatory that you can
take that kind of has to do with that, and
it's like, are you kidding me? That's what you got.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And you're talking hundreds of millions now, so you know,
this is sort of the They've.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Got to show receipts at some point.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, it just seems like a lot of these news
conferences and look, Blaze and Goulia has been going all
over the state doing the same thing. It's running it's
not like hills Yeah, but I mean it's not like
Hillsborough was the only one. No no, And he's running
into the same criticism every criticisms everywhere else. So Florida
man and woman facing charges after allegedly leaving a team
(08:54):
along I seventy five was with a bunch of guns
and cash in a bag that they had frantically pick
packed up and set off as they were going for
Guam or Idaho. So a Northport police officer was sent
to the scene or Sumpter Boulevard to investigate a nine
one one call about a suspicious man walking on the shoulder,
(09:14):
and the officer asked what he was doing, and the
sixteen year old said he had been in a vehicle
with Bradley Guerrero Santos and Rosanella Borja and they were
on their way to either Guam or Idaho.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now that's my big question. Yeah, what are those options?
Guamer That's a big difference. Yeah, Like you're talking about
like not too.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Far from Japan, yeah, or you're talking about the northwest
of the country.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But so, according to affidavits, the driver pulled the vehicle over,
kicked him out of the suv with the bags of
guns and cash, and the sixteen year old told police
that Santos is very religious, called him the chosen one.
It often tests his mental fortitude by giving him difficult tests.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wow, like this one that sounds like a real nut.
But I still I can't get over like New York
or New Jersey, you know, like Japan or South Korea,
Italy or France, not Guam or Idaho.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, it sounds like they were running from something that
packed up really quickly. They must have been in trouble.
Maybe they were scrambling trying to figure out maybe they
know people in Idaho or Gwama may as a matter
of who they could go stay with.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Or they're just like, where can we go that we
won't be recognized that you know, Idaho or Guam? Dumping
the team? Yeah, the guns in cash, I don't know.
Usually you take the guns of the cash with you.
I don't get all right. Chris Frankman with today's stop Stories. Chris,
thanks so much. Today's stop story is brought to you
by my friends over it on cooshore for a simple, accurate,
non invasive test that texts all cancers called eight seven
(10:54):
seven twenty four tests. Now, good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Well there is Apro County, twenty nine year old who's
now accused of starting a deadly fire Melbourne's Jonathan Rinderneck.
He's due back in federal court today. He was arrested
Tuesday for allegedly starting the Palisades fire in California New
Year's Day that killed twelve people. Attorney Bill Eisley announced
that he may have been planning on setting the fire
(11:21):
months in advance.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
The allegations in the affidavit are supported by digital evidence,
including the defendant's chatchpt prompt of a dystopian painting showing
in part a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, very disturbing details coming out of this investigation. So far,
no exact word on a motive, but he did tell
us that the former resident of Pacific Palisades ignited the
fire after dropping off Uber passengers in the area.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Walked up a nearby trail, took iPhone videos at a
nearby hilltop, and listened to a rap song whose music
video including objects being lit on fire.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Very disturbing.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You wonder what rating and tip that gave him for
that right, pushed him over the edge. Yeah, this is
somebody who's really disturbed and seemed to be fascinated with obsessisfire. Yeah,
burning things, what's the word for that. Yeah, yes, that's right.
He allegedly burned a Bible. Weeks before the blaze. He
(12:22):
kept listening to this French rap song. I guess he's
from France originally, and the video of that song depicted
these these apocalyptic fires and then he goes and does this.
And what's also interesting about the story is how much
chat GPT is playing into the evidence that prosecutors have
(12:42):
something that we had talked about tied to another story
recently about how law enforcement had found evidence through the
person's use of chat GPT for child porn. I think
it was Yeah, I think you're right. I didn't realize that,
you know everything I'm pumping into chat EPT. Be careful
for you.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What are you talking about with it?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Let me tell you what I asked chat ept everything
like constantly, Like all my life decisions go through chat EP.
I'm it's I'm always asking for its opinion on different
things that I'm looking to do by like what happens.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But the thing is, I've told you this. It it
like it feeds what you want to hear. I like
that too, what you want to hear. Yes, that's part
of the bias.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, we're not supposed to use chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's the problem, right, But this this guy obviously in
huge trouble. You have twelve people who are killed, like
six thousand homes destroyed with this fire, one of the
most destructive in LA's history. And uh, good for law
enforcement finally catching the guy who who did it.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Hopefully it'll bring some closure to those that ever impacted. Well,
we've got an update. Suspension without pay. That's the punishment
for a Martin County teacher who called Charlie Kirk a
racist and a neo Nazi on social media following his assassination.
The school board has voted even after hearing from those
supporting Matthew Theobald, including one of his students at Spectrum Academy.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
I think I can speak for everyone who has mister
Theobald that we want him back, We want our teacher. Yeah,
as far as his comments are concerned, I don't agree
that's what he said, but it really just doesn't change anything.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
A lot of people were emphasizing the importance of free
speech and civil discourse, but the First Amendment does not
protect Americans from the consequences of certain speech except for
arrest and the next step for Theobald is possibly a
termination hearing, but no word when or if that's going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They were just talking yesterday about Hillsborough County and I
think there were like seventeen teachers school employees who they
were involved in posts that were questionable.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It sounds like we don't know exactly what any of
those posts are said.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah, but directly or directly whether there were reposted or.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Actually posted by them. Right, Nobody in Hillsborough County was fired.
It sounds like they were called at the principal's office.
They were going a little talking to commanded. Yeah, but
that was the extent of it. Here in Martin County
of a teacher suspended without pay. And there was one
person who spoke up who said, and I'm quoting, well,
he may have shared opinions that many or some in
(15:25):
our community opposed. He did so on a private social
media page with the expectation of discussing his views with people.
He knows all US citizens should be able to discuss
different concerns and views, even if I'm comfortable or unpleasant,
to encourage free speech, civil discussion, and exchange of ideas.
Here's the thing, though it didn't stay private. I got
(15:45):
out and.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, and if you want to have a private conversation,
that's private. Pickup yeah, yeah, pick up the phone, go
out to dinner, you know, but don't put it on Facebook.
People just need to know what you put out there
on Facebook. Other people are going to see it. Actually,
nothing is private right now if you think about it.
iPhones are recording your conversation.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
This is very true.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah, and if you take a screenshot of a text
or something that was posted, that still can be used
against you.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And it doesn't matter. You just have to really.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Companies are telling their employees nowadays, and they have for
the last decade or so, be careful what you put
because everything that goes out there is public.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah. It's like when I have important conversations that I
need to have, I go into full mafia mode. And yeah,
like like how they used to try to evade the
Feds using different tactics, that's what That's what I do
to try to keep my conversation. You can't pack, Yeah,
it's scared. Yeah, yeah, try to keep my code words. Yeah,
I have the radio blasting really loud and you know,
some background noise things like that. All right, let's get
(16:46):
to one more quick story Natalie Well.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
President Trump's coming to Miami next month headlining the America
Business Forum. It's the first time that the event, launched
in twenty sixteen held in Udaway, is held here in
the US, and it's happening right across the street from
where his planned presidential library is to be in downtown Miami.
The guest speaker list so far for November fifth and
(17:07):
six at the CASA Center is also set to include
Messy billionaire Ken Griffin, Will Smith, and the CEOs of
Formula one and JP Morgan Chase, among others.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, the list is interesting. You've got President Trump, and
I'm sure he'll stop by the what's right now a
parking lot that will be his presidential library, and we'll
talk about, you know how that pavement is going to
be marble and there's gonna be gold and all that
kind of stuff. But then then you've got JP Morgan Chase,
CEO Jamie Diamond, You've got Messy Rafael Nadal, and then
(17:38):
and then Will Smith. I mean, I know he likes
South Florida, so you know that Will.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
This is an interesting mix.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
It is so random, and you got to hope that
President Trump doesn't say anything about his wife otherwise. See
you know Will Smith, you could you could freak out
on him there. That could be a very interesting business
for him. Those names. And you can get a great
deal on tickets on their website. I was looking if
you want unparalleled comfort, visibility and connections, like the real experience,
(18:14):
nineteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh that's not bad actually, so as we just I thought.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It's funny. On their website it says that's a deal.
It's an early bird special down from forty two hundred dollars.
And I feel like that's what we were talking about.
Were we having that to specially about Amazon?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, yeah, about how Amazon marks has third party retailers
that mark the price is a ridiculous like a mop right,
like four hundred bucks, and they put it on sale
for ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
They should have put it two hundred and fifty to
ten thousand dollars for the two day event.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
It's like Ultra Music festival.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, exactly. They should have put for the platinum ticket,
you know, thirty thousand dollars and you can get it
for nineteen hundred dollars now. It's a show.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It is going to be live from right.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's an amazing deal.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Are we going live from the say A Center of
that day?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We should, Yeah, and we'll see if we can get
Will Smith on. Oh and President Trump too. Natalie Rodriguez
with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks so much. He got it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So Paul County Shriff Grady Judd talking about a case
he's never seen before, and he's seen a lot over
there in Polk County. So they get a call that
a man identified as fifty one year old Walter Freimeier
was naked inside a restroom at a public park. So
they show up. It turns out he had his clothes
back on when they got there, and so they arrested
(19:34):
him and for he was trespassing, you know, in an
area where you're not supposed to be naked, and he
had allegedly meth on him. So they take him to
the jail and he says it's a standard procedure to
put everybody through a body scanner so that when they're
bringing in people into the facility they're not carrying things
like knives, guns, drugs, other things. And they found something
(19:58):
unusual in and the guy.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Here's Paul County Sheriff Grady Judd telling the story. Is
only he can.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
He brought a thermist into the jail. That's right. He
put it up the exit ramp. You know what I mean,
a thermos. We had to take him to the hospital.
They had to find the specialist. It was quite the ordeal,
but he's thermalist in the county jail.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
He put it up the exit ramp. Yeah, that would
be going the wrong way on the exit.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, man, wow, I mean, you know they
even thought of that is not you.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Know, really great for you know, if you're having your
morning coffee right right, yeah, just imagine as you're sipping
your morning coffee, imagine that you put it up the
exit ramps. Yeah. Quite an image. And apparently he had
it in there for twenty four hours.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And of course it happened in Paul County and h
and when it does, then you get Grady Judd and
you get these you know, he put it up the
exit ram. Well, we were glad to give descriptions in depth, right.
Chris Trenkman with Today's Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
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