November 11, 2025 • 10 mins
TOP STORIES - Governor Ron DeSantis urges Floridians to prepare for an incoming cold snap as temperatures drop across the state. Newly released documents reveal what happened in the moments before the deadly Ybor City crash that killed four and injured thirteen. Plus, a Florida consumer advocate calls out FPL’s proposed rate hike as “unconscionable,” saying it will hit families and small businesses the hardest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tom Ryan Gorman with Dana McCain, Jason Barnscher, Breonnaturres, and
Chris Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up this hour, the
Senate passed to bipartisan package to reopen the federal government.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm an the latest on that for you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Before seven to twenty plus, a Florida teen who died
aboard a cruise ship has been identified. Dana has that
trending story at seven twenty five. And on this Veteran's Day,
we're talking to different organizations from around the state and
around the country helping our veterans. We're gonna have more
coming up for you in the eight o'clock hour, but
right now, of course, we want to do a big
(00:32):
thanks to all of our veterans. We know we have
many listening to the show, and we obviously really really
appreciate your service to this country. Time now for today's
top stories, brought to you by my friends over at
the Holland Retirement Wealth Advisors. You worked hard to save
for your future. They can to help you make the
most of it. Find them online at Askthhollands dot com.
(00:52):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. We have records setting cold
in Florida this morning. So the city of Tampa thirty
eight degrees that breaks the previous record of forty set
in the eighteen nineties. The city of Lakeland and Poul
County also hitting a record at thirty seven that breaks
the record of forty. Other cities like Brooksville in the
(01:12):
mid thirties, and the further north you go, the colder
it gets all part of a cold snap that has
temperatures well below normal. Governor Desatus calling for people to
be aware of the colder weather. This is not an emergency,
like he declared about cold weather at the beginning of
this year. We're obviously not looking at a hard freeze,
but this is the first one that we're having this season,
(01:34):
and it's certainly an unusually cold one for this time
of year.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You still haven't taken your jacket off. No, it's been hours.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, the problem is dawn out Well, the air keeps
turning on as if it's like a normal temperatures. Yeah,
so it's cold in the building because I guess the
machines don't know the difference.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I guess not.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But these records that have been set again, like you said,
Tampa breaking a record from eighteen ninety two, Lakeland breaking
a record by seven degrees from back in nineteen ninety six,
Brooksville breaking a record by two degrees from back in
nineteen seventy seven. And the feels like temperature in Brooksville
and Hernando County twenty six degrees wow this morning. And
(02:15):
I'm watching Miami at the airport in Miami right now.
At least according to what I have, it says forty
nine degrees and that would be really close to a record.
I'm not going to call anything officially. I'm going to
wait for Weather Channel mediaologist Jeff maher in about an
hour from now, but we'll see where things stand there.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Not sure they'll get there. But Ruskin, I think broke
a record, winter Haven broke a record. And I'm monitoring
some of the local channels and I got to tell you,
if I were to ask some of these local reporters
if they'd rather be outside reporting in the middle of
a hurricane or this morning, I think some of them
(02:55):
would say a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Because they look really cold. Now you haven't seen their face?
Is they are freezing out there? Yes? Shivering?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, Yeah, I've been those faces, and I can tell
you I'd rather be in the cold than a hurricane,
and they're trying to deal with you know, your nose
starts running, and the last thing you want when you're
on TV is to have you know, like it's not
dripping down. I mean, there are other factors, Chris, that
come into play. I suppose if it depends on where
you're from. I mean, if you're a Florida guy, then yeah,
(03:25):
that would be I mean, your nose runs when it
gets to be like the sixty one degrees. If you're
from the north. This is nothing right, no, but it
is unusual for this time of year. I when you're
talking about a twenty five degree dropping in average temperature,
that's the thing that at various parts of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So that's noticeable for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And in Florida's air, you know, with the humidity we
have down here, it's just a different feel when it
gets cold. And so they talk about the feels like temperature,
it just feels worse. Even if it's forty degrees, it
feels like it's in the thirties. And of course there's
windsholls out there too because it's so breezy. Yeah, and
you walk out your door if you haven't already. It's
going to be like a big smack in the face. Yeah, yeah,
(04:06):
bring your tissues because you know it's my start running.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's right. What else is going on, Chris.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So Prosecutors are asking a Hillsboro judge to keep a
driver jailed without bond ahead of his trial after he
was charged with killing four people and injuring more than
a dozen in Ebor City in Tampa over the weekend.
Twenty two year old Silas Samson accused of fleeing police
speeding into the entertainment district's main drag, where he drove
(04:32):
onto a sidewalk and then plowed into a crowded bar patio.
So he appeared in court on Sunday. He's going to
appear again on Thursday, where he could be staying in
jail for the foreseeable future as he's facing murder charges,
you know, in connection to him.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
By Jahamas Brown. Yeah, we have a couple of updates.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So apparently the twenty two year old he got out
of the car after the craft was stop by police
within seconds. Because in Eborg City you've got law enforcement
all over the place on the weekends trying to keep
things safe. Police say he showed signs of impairment and
later admitted he made a mistake and asked how many
(05:15):
people he killed. So it seems like he knew as
he plowed into that group of people that he likely
killed some people in that incident. Now you also have
helicopter footage showing a Florida Highway Patrol trooper chasing the
suspect well on to Seventh Avenue, even though Tampa Police
(05:37):
had initially said the chase ended before that point. Yeah,
apparently they were just talking about themselves and that the
chase had been handed off to FHP. But that really
doesn't when you're talking in those terms, you probably should
be speaking for law enforcement handling the chase in general.
You can't just say, well, we didn't do it, but
some other agency. That's not our jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I mean, the whole criticism here of police is that
maybe if they hadn't been chasing the suspect, he wouldn't
have been so panic that he would drive into a
entertainment district and then into a crowd of peace.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, this wasn't a situation.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And look, there's gonna be a lot of Monday morning
quarterbacking here, but this wasn't a situation where you had
somebody who was like a violent criminal who they were
chasing and felt like they needed to apprehend. You know,
at that moment, this was somebody who was racing, obviously
very dangerous and could have killed somebody just doing that.
But then you start chasing that person and they continued
(06:31):
to drive radically. There was that pit maneuver that was attempted,
it failed, and the trooper continued to follow the car
further than public statements had originally suggested. So there's going
to need to be a bit more information on exactly
what happened, how those decisions were made.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But that's the latest as of this Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Police chases of cost cities a lot of money over
the years because of the lawsuits that are filed after
these kinds of incidents where there's like unintended consequences of
the chase and.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't think that might not be play here. Well,
that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And one of the problems that can happen with chases
and the criticism of chases, and the reason some cities
have actually pulled back and have told their departments to
stop is because of the innocent people that can sometimes
get caught up in this, whether it's you know, the
chases on the streets that are in residential or or
you know, commercial areas as opposed to on the highway.
And then of course situations like this, which is really unusually.
(07:29):
You have a suspect actually driving into a tourism district
with a huge crowd of people, and I'm sure law
enforcement didn't expect him to turn onto Seventh Avenue and
that huge crowd of people, but unfortunately that's that's what happened.
But with helicopters and these new police drones, the argument
is you don't need to chase, so you can monitor
them from above and they'll maybe not be aware that
they're being followed and drive it a normal speed and
(07:50):
then you arrest them when they stop.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah. So uh.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
The attorney who is appointed by the Florida legislature to
represent utility customers has openly criticized the deal that Florida
Power and Light is trying to get with the Public
Service Commission about its enormous rating record. That's right, so
Walt Treerweiler wrote in filings that he called the settlement
(08:18):
just unconscionable, and he says it's not legally valid. So
what's going on is that Florida Power and Light wants
to raise its rates by seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So originally, now back in February, Florida Power and Light
they filed the petition for a rate increase. Now this
is across forty three counties, to raise rates by about
nine billion dollars over the next four years. And I
think it's important to keep in mind FPL customers already
paying over four hundred more a year than they were
paying just five years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So those pills have already gone way up.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And the reason for that is because in twenty twenty one,
FPL was awarded the largest utility increase in Florida history
at five billion dollars. They just keep asking for more
and the proposed hike in February was almost twice that.
It would have been the largest in history. They came
back and now they're only.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Looking to raise rates by seven billion dollars over four years,
but that's still almost an eleven percent rate of shareholder profit.
That would be the highest return allowed for any major
electric utility in the lower forty eight states. And this
all has to do with residential customers, subsidizing discounted electricity
rates for large companies during peak usage hours. That's that,
(09:31):
and then shareholder profits at the center of all of this.
That would affect twelve million Floridians.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well, the criticism here is the Public Service Commission Board.
They're all appointed by Governor Destatus and they will be
the ones making the decision on this, and we'll see
how they decide, but if you look at the history
of the PSE they almost always rule in favor of
the utilities. Yeah, they're scheduled to meet on November twentieth
to vote on whether to approve the deal, and you
can be sure we'll be following that very closely.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Strength been with today's top stories, Chris, thanks so much.
Thank you,
Tom Ryan Gorman with Dana McCain, Jason Barnscher, Breonnaturres, and
Chris Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up this hour, the
Senate passed to bipartisan package to reopen the federal government.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm an the latest on that for you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Before seven to twenty plus, a Florida teen who died
aboard a cruise ship has been identified. Dana has that
trending story at seven twenty five. And on this Veteran's Day,
we're talking to different organizations from around the state and
around the country helping our veterans. We're gonna have more
coming up for you in the eight o'clock hour, but
right now, of course, we want to do a big
(00:32):
thanks to all of our veterans. We know we have
many listening to the show, and we obviously really really
appreciate your service to this country. Time now for today's
top stories, brought to you by my friends over at
the Holland Retirement Wealth Advisors. You worked hard to save
for your future. They can to help you make the
most of it. Find them online at Askthhollands dot com.
(00:52):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. We have records setting cold
in Florida this morning. So the city of Tampa thirty
eight degrees that breaks the previous record of forty set
in the eighteen nineties. The city of Lakeland and Poul
County also hitting a record at thirty seven that breaks
the record of forty. Other cities like Brooksville in the
(01:12):
mid thirties, and the further north you go, the colder
it gets all part of a cold snap that has
temperatures well below normal. Governor Desatus calling for people to
be aware of the colder weather. This is not an emergency,
like he declared about cold weather at the beginning of
this year. We're obviously not looking at a hard freeze,
but this is the first one that we're having this season,
(01:34):
and it's certainly an unusually cold one for this time
of year.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You still haven't taken your jacket off. No, it's been hours.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, the problem is dawn out Well, the air keeps
turning on as if it's like a normal temperatures. Yeah,
so it's cold in the building because I guess the
machines don't know the difference.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I guess not.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But these records that have been set again, like you said,
Tampa breaking a record from eighteen ninety two, Lakeland breaking
a record by seven degrees from back in nineteen ninety six,
Brooksville breaking a record by two degrees from back in
nineteen seventy seven. And the feels like temperature in Brooksville
and Hernando County twenty six degrees wow this morning. And
(02:15):
I'm watching Miami at the airport in Miami right now.
At least according to what I have, it says forty
nine degrees and that would be really close to a record.
I'm not going to call anything officially. I'm going to
wait for Weather Channel mediaologist Jeff maher in about an
hour from now, but we'll see where things stand there.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Not sure they'll get there. But Ruskin, I think broke
a record, winter Haven broke a record. And I'm monitoring
some of the local channels and I got to tell you,
if I were to ask some of these local reporters
if they'd rather be outside reporting in the middle of
a hurricane or this morning, I think some of them
(02:55):
would say a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Because they look really cold. Now you haven't seen their face?
Is they are freezing out there? Yes? Shivering?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, Yeah, I've been those faces, and I can tell
you I'd rather be in the cold than a hurricane,
and they're trying to deal with you know, your nose
starts running, and the last thing you want when you're
on TV is to have you know, like it's not
dripping down. I mean, there are other factors, Chris, that
come into play. I suppose if it depends on where
you're from. I mean, if you're a Florida guy, then yeah,
(03:25):
that would be I mean, your nose runs when it
gets to be like the sixty one degrees. If you're
from the north. This is nothing right, no, but it
is unusual for this time of year. I when you're
talking about a twenty five degree dropping in average temperature,
that's the thing that at various parts of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So that's noticeable for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And in Florida's air, you know, with the humidity we
have down here, it's just a different feel when it
gets cold. And so they talk about the feels like temperature,
it just feels worse. Even if it's forty degrees, it
feels like it's in the thirties. And of course there's
windsholls out there too because it's so breezy. Yeah, and
you walk out your door if you haven't already. It's
going to be like a big smack in the face. Yeah, yeah,
(04:06):
bring your tissues because you know it's my start running.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's right. What else is going on, Chris.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So Prosecutors are asking a Hillsboro judge to keep a
driver jailed without bond ahead of his trial after he
was charged with killing four people and injuring more than
a dozen in Ebor City in Tampa over the weekend.
Twenty two year old Silas Samson accused of fleeing police
speeding into the entertainment district's main drag, where he drove
(04:32):
onto a sidewalk and then plowed into a crowded bar patio.
So he appeared in court on Sunday. He's going to
appear again on Thursday, where he could be staying in
jail for the foreseeable future as he's facing murder charges,
you know, in connection to him.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
By Jahamas Brown. Yeah, we have a couple of updates.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So apparently the twenty two year old he got out
of the car after the craft was stop by police
within seconds. Because in Eborg City you've got law enforcement
all over the place on the weekends trying to keep
things safe. Police say he showed signs of impairment and
later admitted he made a mistake and asked how many
(05:15):
people he killed. So it seems like he knew as
he plowed into that group of people that he likely
killed some people in that incident. Now you also have
helicopter footage showing a Florida Highway Patrol trooper chasing the
suspect well on to Seventh Avenue, even though Tampa Police
(05:37):
had initially said the chase ended before that point. Yeah,
apparently they were just talking about themselves and that the
chase had been handed off to FHP. But that really
doesn't when you're talking in those terms, you probably should
be speaking for law enforcement handling the chase in general.
You can't just say, well, we didn't do it, but
some other agency. That's not our jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I mean, the whole criticism here of police is that
maybe if they hadn't been chasing the suspect, he wouldn't
have been so panic that he would drive into a
entertainment district and then into a crowd of peace.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, this wasn't a situation.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And look, there's gonna be a lot of Monday morning
quarterbacking here, but this wasn't a situation where you had
somebody who was like a violent criminal who they were
chasing and felt like they needed to apprehend. You know,
at that moment, this was somebody who was racing, obviously
very dangerous and could have killed somebody just doing that.
But then you start chasing that person and they continued
(06:31):
to drive radically. There was that pit maneuver that was attempted,
it failed, and the trooper continued to follow the car
further than public statements had originally suggested. So there's going
to need to be a bit more information on exactly
what happened, how those decisions were made.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But that's the latest as of this Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Police chases of cost cities a lot of money over
the years because of the lawsuits that are filed after
these kinds of incidents where there's like unintended consequences of
the chase and.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't think that might not be play here. Well,
that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And one of the problems that can happen with chases
and the criticism of chases, and the reason some cities
have actually pulled back and have told their departments to
stop is because of the innocent people that can sometimes
get caught up in this, whether it's you know, the
chases on the streets that are in residential or or
you know, commercial areas as opposed to on the highway.
And then of course situations like this, which is really unusually.
(07:29):
You have a suspect actually driving into a tourism district
with a huge crowd of people, and I'm sure law
enforcement didn't expect him to turn onto Seventh Avenue and
that huge crowd of people, but unfortunately that's that's what happened.
But with helicopters and these new police drones, the argument
is you don't need to chase, so you can monitor
them from above and they'll maybe not be aware that
they're being followed and drive it a normal speed and
(07:50):
then you arrest them when they stop.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah. So uh.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
The attorney who is appointed by the Florida legislature to
represent utility customers has openly criticized the deal that Florida
Power and Light is trying to get with the Public
Service Commission about its enormous rating record. That's right, so
Walt Treerweiler wrote in filings that he called the settlement
(08:18):
just unconscionable, and he says it's not legally valid. So
what's going on is that Florida Power and Light wants
to raise its rates by seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So originally, now back in February, Florida Power and Light
they filed the petition for a rate increase. Now this
is across forty three counties, to raise rates by about
nine billion dollars over the next four years. And I
think it's important to keep in mind FPL customers already
paying over four hundred more a year than they were
paying just five years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So those pills have already gone way up.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And the reason for that is because in twenty twenty one,
FPL was awarded the largest utility increase in Florida history
at five billion dollars. They just keep asking for more
and the proposed hike in February was almost twice that.
It would have been the largest in history. They came
back and now they're only.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Looking to raise rates by seven billion dollars over four years,
but that's still almost an eleven percent rate of shareholder profit.
That would be the highest return allowed for any major
electric utility in the lower forty eight states. And this
all has to do with residential customers, subsidizing discounted electricity
rates for large companies during peak usage hours. That's that,
(09:31):
and then shareholder profits at the center of all of this.
That would affect twelve million Floridians.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well, the criticism here is the Public Service Commission Board.
They're all appointed by Governor Destatus and they will be
the ones making the decision on this, and we'll see
how they decide, but if you look at the history
of the PSE they almost always rule in favor of
the utilities. Yeah, they're scheduled to meet on November twentieth
to vote on whether to approve the deal, and you
can be sure we'll be following that very closely.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Strength been with today's top stories, Chris, thanks so much.
Thank you,
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