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November 14, 2025 11 mins
TOP STORIES - Flight disruptions continue at Tampa International Airport despite the end of the government shutdown, and we break down the key reasons for the ongoing delays. We also look at why Tampa Bay electric bills were so high in 2025, examining the factors that drove up energy costs for local residents. Plus, a Pinellas County sex offender who faked his death and evaded police for 16 years has been arrested, and Pasco County leaders approve backyard chickens under new guidelines.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Start with today's top stories and Chris Trenkman, Good morning, Chris.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
So the government shutdown is over, but there are still
problems for travelers, and they felt it at Tampa International Airport.
There were eighty cancelations or delays, and the airlines are
still operating under mandates that could lead to more trouble.
Passengers expressing concerns that this disruption could extend into the

(00:25):
holiday travel which starts to begin next week and obviously Thanksgiving,
the week after the busiest travel week of the year. Now,
optimistically they will get more of the air traffic controllers
in place by then, but it's turning out that just
because the shutdown end of this week, things aren't just
magically returning to normal. And we've seen these problems in
other situations where they've had to do slowdowns either because

(00:48):
of storms or other events. It doesn't happen overnight, and
because this was a nationwide slowdown of significant proportions, it's
continuing to be a problem. So if your travel out
of Tampa International or any of the other major Florida airports,
you're going to have to continue to look for potential
delays or cancelations. Yeah, the FA, they froze that nationwide

(01:10):
flight reduction number at six percent, and it doesn't sound
like it's going to go up to It was supposed
to go up to ten percent today and sounds like
that's going to be the case, but they're also not
lowering it just yet either. Delta CEO said that normal
operations could return within days, likely by this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
But I also think it depends on the airport. Like
Tampa could be up and running, no staffing issues, all
of that, but if your flight's headed to Newark and
they have a bunch of problems, then you're going to
have a problem overall. They said the FA that only
two facilities were short staffed yesterday. That was down from

(01:50):
eighty one last weekend. So you can see again things
are improving, but you know, we're so interconnected. Anything thrown
off at a different airport could impact what's happening here
in Tampa.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Think the bottom line is it's just going to take
some time and travelers need to be patient. So residents
around Tampa Bay and throughout Florida have been stunned by
their electrical bills this year, particularly during the hottest months,
and this is affecting all housing types, income levels, and neighborhoods.
The Tampa Bay Times did an investigation of this, and

(02:23):
they say the answer lies in a combination of imposed
hurricane recovery charges, record heat and then just the hikes
to base rates that have been approved by the Public
Service Commission. So they had a couple of examples. Crystal
Shiver has a newer home in Land of Lakes. She
replaced her air conditioner and roof this year, which was

(02:43):
supposed to improve efficiency. Got a bill for five and
twenty nine dollars swash July from Duke Energy, but that
was a lot less than the bill sent to Rain
Dejesu's a hip hop musician. He got an eight hundred
and forty five dollars bill in October for his Tampa
Time house.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's where he lives with.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
His wife and three kids. Yeah, it seems a shirt, Yeah,
and that's what he said. He told the Times he
thought that the whole thing is some kind of a joke.
And then the lady who got the new roof was like,
this has got to be a scam. I mean, how
can I be paying this much when I got the
latest and greatest technology?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right my air conditioner and roof.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, I just went back through my my Tico bills
just to see and I was going to complain about
how my bill went from one hundred and forty six
dollars in August of twenty twenty four to one hundred
and eighty eight dollars. This pasthpog is really my gosh.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's about right, yeah, it said in their report in
the Tampa Bay Times. Storm surch charges alone added twenty
a month for Tico customers, yeah, and thirty two a
month for Duke customers. And then if you have one
of those homes it's not efficient older home, you're getting
hit even harder. I know my summer bill, one of
them got it was like right there at two hundred
dollars and I'm in a you know, two bedroom apartment,

(03:53):
and that was the highest I had ever paid. Now
it's come back down and hopefully this month. I stuck
it out during that cold stretch, I didn't turn the
heat at all, no heat.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
But then you also went without air conditioning. To what
bill was that?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, that was still it was still really high. So uh,
you know, I'm seeing it. I think everybody's seeing what
was your highest bill oh, almost four hundreds, is that
right now?

Speaker 5 (04:12):
How big is your house?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
You live in a really big house. No, no part
of it. So I got an electric car charges? Yeah,
but yeah, that would the bill would have been closer
to three hundred. I think like two seventy five last year, Okay,
And so yeah, it's gone up into the three hundreds
now because of the we're talking about in the peak
heat time. Yeah, I think this month will be a
lot lower than that. But you know, the thing is,

(04:35):
the thing that's frustrating I think for people is that
the power companies don't do anything to protect the consumers.
So whenever there's a storm, they just pass all the
costs directly onto the consumers. They don't have a fund
for this, they don't have any insurance, they don't have
anything to protect themselves.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
All their extra money goes to their profit and to
their shareholders, into their CEO and all that.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Why would they do that when they can just raise
the rates christ Yeah, yeah, Well I'm.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Real nervous to see because my because my new house
is twice the size of the rental house I was
living in, So I'm a little nervous.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
About what my electric bill is going to start to
be And I think a lot depends too on how
much you run. I mean, you know, I run my
place a little colder because I just I like that.
I'm more comfortable that way. So, you know, I don't
know if the guy who got the eight hundred dollars
bill was he running his ac at like sixty five degree.
I don't know, Probably not, Yeah, most I don't think.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
It takes that.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
I keep mine at like seventy eight, and I'm fine
with that.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, you know, multi stories actually make it a lot worse.
So if you have a town home, you've got you know,
a couple floors, Yeah, that makes it less efficient, so
you're going to pay more. But eight hundred dollars really, yeah,
I mean it's not sustainable. Now I'm not gonna be
able to keep the power on. So A sex offender
who was convicted in Panellas County was arrested in Indiana
for staging his own death and evading law enforcement.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
For sixteen years. A crazy story.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
The US Marshall's Office in Florida found seventy six year
old Gary Howard. He was convicted of twenty two counts
the possession of child porn back in twenty ten, but
he was never seen by law enforcement again right before
he was supposed to be taken into custody, and they
were able to discover that he was standing on a

(06:08):
porch in western Kentucky. Officials say that it was an
attempt to hide his identity. What he did was he
got an Enterprise rental and they discovered it at a
lake in Kentucky. He was nowhere to be found, but
it was supposed to look like he had committed suicide. Yeah,
he just left the car there by the lake, and
right with him missing, I guess they just assumed he

(06:29):
went in the lake and dround himself.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I mean, they don't have alligators up there. How did
he disappear?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, but they were suspicious, they were, and then relatives
helped him stay hidden. They were suspicious, but it took
a while to eventually capture him.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I mean part of the problem is, Look, their
jurisdiction is Florida. If they didn't show up for you know,
I think in the case of this guy, it's not
like he was charged with murder, so they didn't have
him under lock and key, and he was able to
just disappear before a justice was served, and in this case,
they found him standing on the porch and when they
caught him, he goes, man, I thought I was going

(07:02):
to be dead before you guys found me.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Oh well, he thought he was never going to get
cat that's right, But he did. And now he's facing
a ton of new charges. He's got a register his sex.
But so he's finally getting what he should have gotten
a long time agost Yes.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
And I think he'll face charges for a looting police.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
So the Pasco County Border Commissioners didn't chicken out on
this one.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Nice well done, that's right, well done.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
They passed an ordinance that allows residents in the county
to keep up to four backyard hens under a newly
adopted law. So if you have this desire to, you know,
have your own chickens, sort of create like a small
farmlike environment where you get eggs gay, that's right, fresh eggs.

(07:47):
You can now do that under certain conditions. So you
have to have a clean coop and they can only
be hens and they can't be roosters, yes, because roosters
make a ton of.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Noise, right, and you got to pay attention to that.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
There was an episode in Seinfeld where Cramer he thought
he had a hen for the for the eggs, and
it was a rooster.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh nice. Yeah, and it was waking everybody up at York. Yeah,
so you got to watch out for for that.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
But hopefully if people do decide to keep chickens in
their backyards, they don't get into a big argument over
how many eggs they lay.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
We did that story yesterday to see that with them all. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well yeah, and according to egg owners, they're like, you
can't expect like the eggs to show up on a
set schedule.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, okay, I'm having Sunday morning breakfast.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
They might not come through.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
The other thing too, is that you know, when there
was this big egg shortage and the egg prices were
so expensive, people thought they wanted to get hens. But
it's so expensive to take care of them that it
doesn't even make sense, like between the coop, the feed,
keeping everything clean, if you got to take them to
the vet.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Like what, it's not easy.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
And they make a ton.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
They make a huge mess everywhere, They destroy your grass.
And the other thing that people don't realize is they
attract pread that's true, so you're gonna have raccoons in
your yard, you're gonna have stray dogs. And they also
attract certain types of birds like hawks and owls that
will come and try and take your chickens in the night. So,

(09:14):
you know, I had a neighbor that had this thing
going on. This is a guy who lived a few
doors down. He had like one of those backyards that
was full of plants. It looked like a jungle, right,
And he had chickens and I could hear them really
on the other side of the fence. Yeah, And he
would be out there chasing the owls away because they
were all sitting around in the trees waiting to dive

(09:35):
down and grab them. And so it can create a
new kind of nuisance in the neighborhood when you add
those kinds of animals. And that's why some people say
they are better off left in rural farm like areas.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
I took care of someone's chickens once for like a
week a friend of mine when I lived in Maryland.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
He went on.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Vacation with his family and I agreed to take care
of them, to go feed the chickens, and it was terrible.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
So I was scared of them, are like coming at me?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh yeah, they want to be fat.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
And it's dirty, like it's disgusting, it smells, there's just
all kinds of bugs around.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
It was an awful experience. I was like, never again.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Did you have the fresh eggs? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (10:12):
I didn't even want to touch the eggs.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Like I went in there, I did what I promised
I would do, and I made sure they had food
and I was out of there.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
It was terrible.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
I was reminded me of like, remember Paris Hilton and
Nicole Richie did that show The Simple Life where they
would go on a farm.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
That's what I felt like. I was like, yeah, it
was gross.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
I mean you could use the chickens too, to keep
in shape. Rocky did that chasing the chickens around. So
that's an option in addition to the eggs and everything else.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
So I don't know what you do, so like when
the eggs are laid, do you like have to rush
them into the fridge?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
No?

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Actually know.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
What I learned from this guy who had the farm
is that when they're not like mass produced eggs, they
can actually be at room temperature because they do something
to the eggs that from a like when you get
them from a chicken farm. They do something to them
and then they have to be refrigerated. But regular fresh
eggs could just.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Be like you could.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
He would he had just like a thing of eggs
just sitting on the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Calendar, Salm meller or something.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, they don't need to be refrigerated when they're fresh.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
We spent a lot of time on that story from
the two people in Pascoe County that may actually take
advantage of it. Chris Trenkman with today's top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
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