October 21, 2025 • 22 mins
TOP STORIES - Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin dies while in California police custody, and a Pasco County mother admits she “snapped,” killing her 6-year-old autistic son. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits Bradenton to praise Florida’s ICE partnerships, while Florida’s Attorney General issues a subpoena to Roblox over child protection policies. Plus, a Bucs vs. Lions recap and debate in Longboat Key over renaming Gulf of Mexico Drive.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First, we start with today's stop Stories and Chris Trenkman,
Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
So if you go back to two thousand and three,
the Buccaneers had won the Super Bowl and everybody was
talking about them going undefeated that season and being the
best team in the NFL. And it seems like whenever
that kind of talk starts, something goes wrong, and that's
exactly what happened to that team. They ended up struggling
and not having anywhere close to the best season of
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the team's history. And we were talking about the Bucks
being one of the best teams in the NFL. I
think it's safe to say they are a good team,
maybe early to say that they're an elite team based
on their performance last night, the Lions sunk the Buccaneers
twenty four to nine on Monday Night Football. Jamiir Gibbs
had a seventy eight yard touchdown run. He had two
hundred and twenty total yards with a pair of scorers.
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The Bucks could not do anything stop him, so Detroit
moves up to five and two. Meanwhile, Baker Mayfield he
had two hundred and thirty yards, a TD and an
interception for Tampa and they now up to five and
two and their two game winning streak snapped. Yeah, so
watching that game, the Bucks were totally outplayed most of
the game. They couldn't take advantage of the lions banged
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up secondary, which was surprising. Baker Mayfield, he was off
all night.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean he was missing throw after throw after throw.
A lot of them were too high. There were also
too many mistackles on the defense. I don't know what
was going on there. They just weren't able to clean
it up. A minute halftime, it was fourteen to three,
the Bucks were still in it. They were getting the
ball back to start the second half, but I mean
it felt like it was twenty eight nothing. You know,
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that's what it should have been. I mean, the Lions
were just outplaying them. They get that big touchdown on
the first drive of the second half after going for
it on fourth down, but then the Lions responded right
away and the Bucks were just never able to close
that gap. Now, this was going to be a tough game.
You know, they're playing Monday night football game in Detroit. Detroit.
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Probably going into this game, you'd say right up there
with the Bucks as perhaps the best team in the NFC.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Probably should have even a better record than they have. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, so you know, this was always gonna be a
very difficult game. But I was just a little surprised
with how how flat and the Bucks were, especially on offense.
They just weren't able to take advantage of the Lions
secondary and the replacements they had there. And it felt
like the Bucks were losing at the line of scrimmage
all night. You had Detroit's defensive front, they were getting
in Baker Mayfield's face, and obviously Detroit's offensive line was
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dominating the Bucks with those kinds of running yards.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was just crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
To make things worse, it looks like they've lost Evans
for the entire season now. There were some questions as
to whether he could even play in this game. He
did show up at a practice late last week and
then sat out the rest of the practices and then
was in the game. Yeah, and just got crushed by
Detroit's defense. And it looks like the injury is gonna
keep him out at the very least for a lot
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of games, possibly for the whole year.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It was a deep throw from Mayfield to Evans, Evans
got his hands on it looked like he might be
able to haul it in. But what happens He banged
his head on the on the turf and it looked
like he knocked them out.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And then we learned that he I.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Think he broke his Yeah, he broke his collarbone.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, So he's got an injury there that's going to
keep The concussion would only keep him out maybe for
a week or so, depending on how he recovered from it,
but that injury going to keep him out for most
of the season.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right because he got what he needs six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, it might be back for the playoffs, but right
now they're going to be without him and god wins
still out and yeah, guys are gonna have to step up.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
And what we saw was, you know, a very good team,
ye show the weaknesses that the Bucks have. And you know,
if you were concerned about all those close wins, you know,
the Bucks are going to have to show that they're
a tough You can't win close games all season long, no,
unless you're the seventy two Dolphins so X. NFL All
Pro running back and buccaneer Doug Martin died on Saturday,
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and we're learning more about the circumstances of his death now,
he was detained by Oakland, California police for breaking into
a residence. According to the TV station KRON four, the
department responded to this break and call and apparently during
that incident he had some kind of medical emergency and
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was struggling as police were taking control of the residence
after the breaking. So they took him to the hospital
and he was pronounced dead there thirty six years old.
It's a really weird story. I guess he was like
wandering in the dark through backyards. He was banging on
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the doors of his neighbors houses. You had police they
were getting a call about somebody breaking into a home.
At the same time they were getting a call from
his family. They were trying to get medical assistance for him.
They said that he had fled his home that night.
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He was feeling overwhelmed and disoriented. I guess he had
a history of mental health issues that were impacting his life,
and so once law enforcement encountered him, there was like
a brief struggle and this medical episode took place and
he ended up dead. So there's a lot that.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We still don't know, including what exactly the medical episode was.
But It sounds like he was in a bad place
quite some time and then this.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Happened and led to the end of his life.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, a sad story. He played his best years, of course,
with the Buccaneers. Six out of his seven seasons were
played with the Bucks, and had some phenomenal games and
was an outstanding rookie. He played his last year with
the Oakland Raiders and he's from Oakland camp for right.
But yeah, there's still more that we need to learn
about what happened here. You know, anytime somebody that young
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passes away, a lot of questions. But clearly something was
not going well now for Doug Martin in his final day.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And this is pure speculation on my part, but I
wonder if there is any kind of autopsy done and
they look at potentially.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You know, CTE like injuries.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, just you know when you hear he's been battling
mental health challenges for a long time and all that
kind of stuff. And he played, you know, football as
a running back. I banged around a.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Lot, and that's a position where you get hit a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if that's the case, but
I wonder if that's something to look into.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So a teacher from Pasco County accused of killing her son,
and according to deputies, she snapped before strangling the six
year old to death. This is from an affidavit from
the Sheriff's office. Forty year old Justine Morose called nine
one one just before ten am on Sunday, told the
dispatcher she killed her son and was trying to kill herself.
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So they found Rose with cuts on her arms and
there was a lot of blood and then the boy
was on the floor in responsive transported to the hospital
where he was pronounced dead. Now, the woman told police
that her son had been diagnosed with autism at a
young age, that he was nonverbal and at the time
was watching TV when he started banging his head on
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the floor and hitting himself. When she tried to restrain him,
he started hitting and biting her and apparently struck her
in the face, and she just got upset, snapped, yeah,
and then was strangling him.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And then after she did that, And she was Pascoe
County School's employee.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So after she did.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That, I got a classroom teacher, yes, no, nobody worked there.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
She went into another room, got the razor blades, tried
to kill herself called nine one one, and she sent
a text message to her family members saying that she
was sorry. But this is in the first time, I guess,
like a couple of days prior, while the boy was
with his father, she had purchased a couple of racer
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blades and tried to kill herself then, so obviously going
through some things. But you know, this comes just a
few weeks after that other woman that we talked about
brought her kids to the pool, remember, to try to
kill herself and them, and it was her family that
luckily they saw it all play out on social media
and people intervened and prevented that tragedy from happening. And
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she had said that she was, you know, overwhelmed, and
that was her excuse for doing that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So two of these kinds of stories within the Spanish county.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Weasy like, as a mom, you can't even think about
how somebody would do that.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah, insane.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So Longboat Key had a town hall workshop that could
have decided whether to rename the Gulf of Mexico to
the Gulf of America, and after heated debate and reviewing
the options, looks like they're sticking with the same name
it's had since nineteen fifty seven, which is Gulf of
Mexico Drive. Now, some of the plaints about the idea
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of changing this road where that businesses would have to
put great expense into changing their signage, their business materials,
all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
People would have to change their their address and a yeah,
that's annoying.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
A lot of people thought that that just didn't make
any sense. But at the same time, there was a
state law that was passed the House built five point
forty nine and it says that you have to follow
the rules from the Department of Transportation, and they name
it the Gulf of America, right, which is what the
new golf is called.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yes, the old golf.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Whatever that you can't you got to you got to
follow that that directive. So we'll see if this becomes
some kind of problem with the State of Florida.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But Transportation they removed all the Gulf of Mexico Drive signage.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah on the road.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So because it's actually a state roads, State Road seven
eighty nine. But nobody knows that it's called Gulf of
Mexico Drive. It has been since it was built.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I guess maybe lawmakers didn't see this coming. When they
passed that law, you just created a whole issue because
now you've got people who are going to live on
you know, Golf of Mexico Drive, that's what it's known as.
But there's gonna be no signage saying that anymore, because
everything has to be Golf of America or nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I mean, this is just the well.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I can understand if they're changing, you know, the maps
and stuff like that to make it Golf of America.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
On the map, but the road could still be named
Gulf of.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Mexico even if it doesn't exist any Yeah, it just
doesn't stupid. Yeah, they worry about and spend time on.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I just know.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But you know, capitulation to Donald Trump, I mean, you
got to make sure that if he says Golf of
America half of America. Right, We'll see if that becomes
a problem, But for now, the businesses are sticking with
the original.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Name, all right. Chris Trankman with today's Top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
We start with today's top stories and Natalie Rodriguez, Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
An online gaming company is accused of enabling child predators.
Florida Attorney General James Othmeyer is issuing criminal subpoenas to Roadblocks.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Companies like Roadblocks have become breeding grounds for predators to
get to and have access to our kids.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
And he's alleging that the site fails to verify users' ages,
it allows explicit content to slip through, and it allows
predators to use in game currency to exploit minors, and
he says, we are going to stop at nothing in
the fight to protect Florida's children.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I guess last year, Roadblocks had more than eighty five
million daily active users and forty percent of them were
under the age of thirteen.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Oh yeah, my son uses plays Roadblocks and all of
his friends play Robal Roadblocks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And what exactly It's just different games that you can
play with these online game platform.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, it's an online gaming platform, and there's just all
different kinds of stuff that you can do with it.
And then sometimes you know, other people can create just
create games and stuff like that, and then there's a
chat that goes with it, and I think that's where
you know, predators can then have access to kids. But
my son is not allowed to be friends with anybody
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on Facebook, I mean on Roadblocks who we don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, all right, So you're restricted to just you know,
people he.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Knows in but I don't. I don't have any particular
setting on there.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
He just knows that he's not allowed to talk to
anybody that that we don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And you're trusting him, I do.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I do trust him, Yeah, not reaching.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Out for connecting with anybody else.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
If there was something going, he would tell me, yeah, yeah,
sure about that. I am Yeah, I trust him. He's
a good kid.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The Attorney General linked more than a thousand child predator
arrests this year to investigations that lead right back to roadblocks.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
This is a big problem. You add a couple of
examples to.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A thirty one year old member of the Air Force
was charged in New York coercing in nine year old
girl to send explicit messages. Contacted her on TikTok. So
it started there, then moved the conversation to roll blocks
and he posts as a thirteen year old boy he had.
A ten year old girl in California was found safe
after being loured on roadblocks by a twenty seven year
old man, and then here in Florida, seventeen year old
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was arrested for targeting four to five kids per day
on roadblocks, directing them to exploit younger siblings and produce
child sexual abuse material. So you know, essentially the pervs
know where the kids are, they're on roadblocks, and they're
targeting them there.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's what's the problem.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Is that they don't come across, you know and cyber
world as adults your predators. They're coming across as hey,
i'm a friend.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's not like the creepy dude in the White Man
rolling down the neighborhood block, you know. Yeah, yeah, with
candy and puppies and all that. No, these people are
posing as kids and doing it that way. It's crazy.
So good for the Attorney General going after roadblocks. And
he's not the only one. There are a couple others
around the country that have been doing the same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, and it's not new.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It's something that's been going on ever since the creation
of online gaming. It happened with PlayStations. You could do
like group plays and target other so called kids that
were playing the same games as you and then challenge them,
and that's how the communication started. So roadblocks is just
the newest one on the block, but it's not a
new trend.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
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Speaker 3 (14:44):
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome was in Bradenton on Monday
talking about ICE operations. She used that appearance to explain
some of the things they've been doing over the last
several months with regards to rounding up illegal immigrants nation
and why. According to her numbers, ICE has arrested four
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hundred eighty thousand illegal immigrants along with seizing illegal guns
and drugs, and Nome claims that seventy percent of those
arrested have criminal charges against them or have been convicted
of criminal charges. She says they're focusing on the worst
of the worst, and she pointed out in Sarasota, for example,
a convicted murderer who was an illegal immigrant from Cuba
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was arrested and he had a prior removal order in
two thousand and eight and is now off the streets.
Had been convicted of kidnapping and carjacking, and Gnoam also
answered a question about whether she was involved in a
scandal reported by The New York Times using newly purchased
Coastguard jets for her private use. She denied that, saying
the planes were bought by Congress and are part of
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defending the coastal areas.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There's no question that some of those who have been
detained and deported or in the process of being being
deported are the worst of the worst. I mean some
of the stories that you hear, and a lot of them,
what's really interesting is that they had been deported before
and they come back in. Yeah, and they've come back
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in sometimes multiple times. But also, as the administration keeps saying,
you know, our focus is on the worst of the worst,
you also keep seeing the stories of people who aren't
part of that group being detained and deported. And so
that's where the messaging issue comes into play. Like, I
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think it's time to just be honest. Anybody who's here
illegally subject to deportation, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
When they're going to home, depot and round in.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Peace a lot, right, right exactly. That that's where the
issue has propped up. Now getting to the jet story.
So the Department of Homeland Security, they purchased one hundred
and seventy million dollars worth of new Gulf Stream jets,
two of them for the the Coast Guard.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
The Coast Guard's original.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Request was fifty million dollars for the jets, so they
went a little over budget there.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And then one of the issues, this is why Christy
Nome's under a bit of fire, is that, yeah, they're
going to be used for the Coast Guard, except one
of them for now is going to be used for
her official travel.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Uh huh, right, she's doing important.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Work, right, But you know who else is doing important work?
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You know where he was spotted flying with his wife,
Cheryl Hines in economy class on a commercial flight.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Oh wow, really so not every member of the common people.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
And John Dekker told me that rfk Junior was on
his flight.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
The other day, so we'll have to ask him about that.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So see, you can be a cabinet official and fly
economy class and save the taxpayers some money.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So apparently not Christine Homes. Not Christy Nomes.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
You know, it's interesting thought the stream private.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yet for one thing, you know, Trump gets a lot
of credit for using social media, and so does his administration.
But in this case, it's almost like a reverse effect
in that a lot of people are now cell phone
videoing all of the ICE reations and that's.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Where a lot of these criticisms are coming from.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
The right.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
ICE has been treating people, and who they're rounding up
is all out there on social media, and you can
see what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and I think, you know, a lot can be true.
At the same time they're out there, they're rounding up
and arresting and detaining and supporting people who shouldn't be
here in this country, who have done bad things here
and you know, back home. And then also you have
some people who have just lived their whole lives. Yes
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they're here illegally, but they've you been here for decades.
They've created a life, they're contributing to their community, and
that's causing consternation within those communities. And then you also
have during some of these raids, you have US citizens
getting caught up in it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Now, there's a couple issues there.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
ICE doesn't know everybody who's a US citizen and who's
not during these raids. But there's also been some pushback
in terms of how those citizens have been treated while
they were in ICE custody. So there's a lot who
are the ice agents too? And then you have that
as well.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So another county is questioning the complaints from the state
Chief Financial Officer, so Blazon Golia presented the results of
his office's fiscal oversight audit of Manatee County, claiming that
the general fund there is overspending by one hundred and
twelve million dollars, and the spokesman for the county said
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that they don't really understand exactly where they were getting
those numbers now. Golia claims that they're hiring all kinds
of people, librarians, administrators, clerks, expanding government at a rate
that's unprecedented in that area, and that it's wasteful and
excessive spending. A Bill Logan with the Manatee County government
provided a statement saying that the county has been fully
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cooper that they have looked at the spending and as
far as they can tell, they've done everything within the
bounds of their budgeting.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I'm just imagining a library Amanitee County with like twenty librarians.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You know, they're just really staffed up.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, right, librarians to go through the bus make sure
they're not.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Violating any rules.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Right, And that's a big part of that one hundred
and twelve million dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And so, uh, this continues a pattern that we've seen
from the CFO where instead of conducting these doge audits
and then getting with the counties and making sure everyone's
on the same page.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
People and saying what's this.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, you've got the CFO just going out in front
of the cameras throwing around these figures, not communicating with
the local governments or the local governments. They don't know
what the hell is going on. They're confused. If if
you really wanted to do dosee audits of local governments
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across the state, this isn't how you would do it.
This is how you would do it if you want
political wins and you're trying to push a property tax
agenda for the next legislative session. So again, this is
one of those situations let's just be real about what
we're doing and not try to pretend like this is
some real effort to find out what's going on within
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local governments, because you would have that happening, honestly if
you were doing it right behind closed doors, in close
coordination with those governments to clean things right.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, even just be ripping through everything and then making
a statement.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And it leaves all of us not knowing what the
hell is going on. It's projectionable different stories.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
It's like projection based on oh well, population growth equals
this many dollars being spent and that sort of thing,
as opposed to it going line by line exactly. Oh well,
this is wasteful spending. It's sort of a general complaint
from the CEO.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'm all in favor of a serious look at local
governments and state government to see if there's waste to
be cut that could save taxpayers dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm not in favor of this performance. I'm not hearing
a lot about the state government's doing though.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
A South Florida city named one of the least safe
cities in America according to a recent report. Wallet Hub
compared more than one hundred and eighty US cities across
three key dimensions, home and community safety, natural disaster disaster risk,
and then financial safety. And the least The sixth least
safe city in America is in South Florida, Fort Lauderdale,
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coming in at one hundred and seventy seven in the country.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much,
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's a Ryan Gorman Show five to nine, every weekday
morning on news RADIOWFLA
First, we start with today's stop Stories and Chris Trenkman,
Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
So if you go back to two thousand and three,
the Buccaneers had won the Super Bowl and everybody was
talking about them going undefeated that season and being the
best team in the NFL. And it seems like whenever
that kind of talk starts, something goes wrong, and that's
exactly what happened to that team. They ended up struggling
and not having anywhere close to the best season of
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the team's history. And we were talking about the Bucks
being one of the best teams in the NFL. I
think it's safe to say they are a good team,
maybe early to say that they're an elite team based
on their performance last night, the Lions sunk the Buccaneers
twenty four to nine on Monday Night Football. Jamiir Gibbs
had a seventy eight yard touchdown run. He had two
hundred and twenty total yards with a pair of scorers.
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The Bucks could not do anything stop him, so Detroit
moves up to five and two. Meanwhile, Baker Mayfield he
had two hundred and thirty yards, a TD and an
interception for Tampa and they now up to five and
two and their two game winning streak snapped. Yeah, so
watching that game, the Bucks were totally outplayed most of
the game. They couldn't take advantage of the lions banged
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up secondary, which was surprising. Baker Mayfield, he was off
all night.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean he was missing throw after throw after throw.
A lot of them were too high. There were also
too many mistackles on the defense. I don't know what
was going on there. They just weren't able to clean
it up. A minute halftime, it was fourteen to three,
the Bucks were still in it. They were getting the
ball back to start the second half, but I mean
it felt like it was twenty eight nothing. You know,
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that's what it should have been. I mean, the Lions
were just outplaying them. They get that big touchdown on
the first drive of the second half after going for
it on fourth down, but then the Lions responded right
away and the Bucks were just never able to close
that gap. Now, this was going to be a tough game.
You know, they're playing Monday night football game in Detroit. Detroit.
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Probably going into this game, you'd say right up there
with the Bucks as perhaps the best team in the NFC.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Probably should have even a better record than they have. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, so you know, this was always gonna be a
very difficult game. But I was just a little surprised
with how how flat and the Bucks were, especially on offense.
They just weren't able to take advantage of the Lions
secondary and the replacements they had there. And it felt
like the Bucks were losing at the line of scrimmage
all night. You had Detroit's defensive front, they were getting
in Baker Mayfield's face, and obviously Detroit's offensive line was
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dominating the Bucks with those kinds of running yards.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was just crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
To make things worse, it looks like they've lost Evans
for the entire season now. There were some questions as
to whether he could even play in this game. He
did show up at a practice late last week and
then sat out the rest of the practices and then
was in the game. Yeah, and just got crushed by
Detroit's defense. And it looks like the injury is gonna
keep him out at the very least for a lot
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of games, possibly for the whole year.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It was a deep throw from Mayfield to Evans, Evans
got his hands on it looked like he might be
able to haul it in. But what happens He banged
his head on the on the turf and it looked
like he knocked them out.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And then we learned that he I.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Think he broke his Yeah, he broke his collarbone.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, So he's got an injury there that's going to
keep The concussion would only keep him out maybe for
a week or so, depending on how he recovered from it,
but that injury going to keep him out for most
of the season.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right because he got what he needs six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, it might be back for the playoffs, but right
now they're going to be without him and god wins
still out and yeah, guys are gonna have to step up.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
And what we saw was, you know, a very good team,
ye show the weaknesses that the Bucks have. And you know,
if you were concerned about all those close wins, you know,
the Bucks are going to have to show that they're
a tough You can't win close games all season long, no,
unless you're the seventy two Dolphins so X. NFL All
Pro running back and buccaneer Doug Martin died on Saturday,
(04:03):
and we're learning more about the circumstances of his death now,
he was detained by Oakland, California police for breaking into
a residence. According to the TV station KRON four, the
department responded to this break and call and apparently during
that incident he had some kind of medical emergency and
(04:25):
was struggling as police were taking control of the residence
after the breaking. So they took him to the hospital
and he was pronounced dead there thirty six years old.
It's a really weird story. I guess he was like
wandering in the dark through backyards. He was banging on
(04:45):
the doors of his neighbors houses. You had police they
were getting a call about somebody breaking into a home.
At the same time they were getting a call from
his family. They were trying to get medical assistance for him.
They said that he had fled his home that night.
(05:06):
He was feeling overwhelmed and disoriented. I guess he had
a history of mental health issues that were impacting his life,
and so once law enforcement encountered him, there was like
a brief struggle and this medical episode took place and
he ended up dead. So there's a lot that.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We still don't know, including what exactly the medical episode was.
But It sounds like he was in a bad place
quite some time and then this.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Happened and led to the end of his life.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, a sad story. He played his best years, of course,
with the Buccaneers. Six out of his seven seasons were
played with the Bucks, and had some phenomenal games and
was an outstanding rookie. He played his last year with
the Oakland Raiders and he's from Oakland camp for right.
But yeah, there's still more that we need to learn
about what happened here. You know, anytime somebody that young
(05:58):
passes away, a lot of questions. But clearly something was
not going well now for Doug Martin in his final day.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And this is pure speculation on my part, but I
wonder if there is any kind of autopsy done and
they look at potentially.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You know, CTE like injuries.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, just you know when you hear he's been battling
mental health challenges for a long time and all that
kind of stuff. And he played, you know, football as
a running back. I banged around a.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Lot, and that's a position where you get hit a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if that's the case, but
I wonder if that's something to look into.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So a teacher from Pasco County accused of killing her son,
and according to deputies, she snapped before strangling the six
year old to death. This is from an affidavit from
the Sheriff's office. Forty year old Justine Morose called nine
one one just before ten am on Sunday, told the
dispatcher she killed her son and was trying to kill herself.
(07:00):
So they found Rose with cuts on her arms and
there was a lot of blood and then the boy
was on the floor in responsive transported to the hospital
where he was pronounced dead. Now, the woman told police
that her son had been diagnosed with autism at a
young age, that he was nonverbal and at the time
was watching TV when he started banging his head on
(07:21):
the floor and hitting himself. When she tried to restrain him,
he started hitting and biting her and apparently struck her
in the face, and she just got upset, snapped, yeah,
and then was strangling him.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And then after she did that, And she was Pascoe
County School's employee.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So after she did.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That, I got a classroom teacher, yes, no, nobody worked there.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
She went into another room, got the razor blades, tried
to kill herself called nine one one, and she sent
a text message to her family members saying that she
was sorry. But this is in the first time, I guess,
like a couple of days prior, while the boy was
with his father, she had purchased a couple of racer
(08:05):
blades and tried to kill herself then, so obviously going
through some things. But you know, this comes just a
few weeks after that other woman that we talked about
brought her kids to the pool, remember, to try to
kill herself and them, and it was her family that
luckily they saw it all play out on social media
and people intervened and prevented that tragedy from happening. And
(08:26):
she had said that she was, you know, overwhelmed, and
that was her excuse for doing that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So two of these kinds of stories within the Spanish county.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Weasy like, as a mom, you can't even think about
how somebody would do that.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah, insane.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So Longboat Key had a town hall workshop that could
have decided whether to rename the Gulf of Mexico to
the Gulf of America, and after heated debate and reviewing
the options, looks like they're sticking with the same name
it's had since nineteen fifty seven, which is Gulf of
Mexico Drive. Now, some of the plaints about the idea
(09:01):
of changing this road where that businesses would have to
put great expense into changing their signage, their business materials,
all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
People would have to change their their address and a yeah,
that's annoying.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
A lot of people thought that that just didn't make
any sense. But at the same time, there was a
state law that was passed the House built five point
forty nine and it says that you have to follow
the rules from the Department of Transportation, and they name
it the Gulf of America, right, which is what the
new golf is called.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yes, the old golf.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Whatever that you can't you got to you got to
follow that that directive. So we'll see if this becomes
some kind of problem with the State of Florida.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But Transportation they removed all the Gulf of Mexico Drive signage.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah on the road.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So because it's actually a state roads, State Road seven
eighty nine. But nobody knows that it's called Gulf of
Mexico Drive. It has been since it was built.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I guess maybe lawmakers didn't see this coming. When they
passed that law, you just created a whole issue because
now you've got people who are going to live on
you know, Golf of Mexico Drive, that's what it's known as.
But there's gonna be no signage saying that anymore, because
everything has to be Golf of America or nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I mean, this is just the well.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I can understand if they're changing, you know, the maps
and stuff like that to make it Golf of America.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
On the map, but the road could still be named
Gulf of.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Mexico even if it doesn't exist any Yeah, it just
doesn't stupid. Yeah, they worry about and spend time on.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I just know.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But you know, capitulation to Donald Trump, I mean, you
got to make sure that if he says Golf of
America half of America. Right, We'll see if that becomes
a problem, But for now, the businesses are sticking with
the original.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Name, all right. Chris Trankman with today's Top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
We start with today's top stories and Natalie Rodriguez, Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
An online gaming company is accused of enabling child predators.
Florida Attorney General James Othmeyer is issuing criminal subpoenas to Roadblocks.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Companies like Roadblocks have become breeding grounds for predators to
get to and have access to our kids.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
And he's alleging that the site fails to verify users' ages,
it allows explicit content to slip through, and it allows
predators to use in game currency to exploit minors, and
he says, we are going to stop at nothing in
the fight to protect Florida's children.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I guess last year, Roadblocks had more than eighty five
million daily active users and forty percent of them were
under the age of thirteen.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Oh yeah, my son uses plays Roadblocks and all of
his friends play Robal Roadblocks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And what exactly It's just different games that you can
play with these online game platform.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, it's an online gaming platform, and there's just all
different kinds of stuff that you can do with it.
And then sometimes you know, other people can create just
create games and stuff like that, and then there's a
chat that goes with it, and I think that's where
you know, predators can then have access to kids. But
my son is not allowed to be friends with anybody
(12:17):
on Facebook, I mean on Roadblocks who we don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, all right, So you're restricted to just you know,
people he.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Knows in but I don't. I don't have any particular
setting on there.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
He just knows that he's not allowed to talk to
anybody that that we don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And you're trusting him, I do.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I do trust him, Yeah, not reaching.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Out for connecting with anybody else.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
If there was something going, he would tell me, yeah, yeah,
sure about that. I am Yeah, I trust him. He's
a good kid.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The Attorney General linked more than a thousand child predator
arrests this year to investigations that lead right back to roadblocks.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
This is a big problem. You add a couple of
examples to.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A thirty one year old member of the Air Force
was charged in New York coercing in nine year old
girl to send explicit messages. Contacted her on TikTok. So
it started there, then moved the conversation to roll blocks
and he posts as a thirteen year old boy he had.
A ten year old girl in California was found safe
after being loured on roadblocks by a twenty seven year
old man, and then here in Florida, seventeen year old
(13:17):
was arrested for targeting four to five kids per day
on roadblocks, directing them to exploit younger siblings and produce
child sexual abuse material. So you know, essentially the pervs
know where the kids are, they're on roadblocks, and they're
targeting them there.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's what's the problem.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Is that they don't come across, you know and cyber
world as adults your predators. They're coming across as hey,
i'm a friend.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It's not like the creepy dude in the White Man
rolling down the neighborhood block, you know. Yeah, yeah, with
candy and puppies and all that. No, these people are
posing as kids and doing it that way. It's crazy.
So good for the Attorney General going after roadblocks. And
he's not the only one. There are a couple others
around the country that have been doing the same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, and it's not new.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It's something that's been going on ever since the creation
of online gaming. It happened with PlayStations. You could do
like group plays and target other so called kids that
were playing the same games as you and then challenge them,
and that's how the communication started. So roadblocks is just
the newest one on the block, but it's not a
new trend.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
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Speaker 3 (14:44):
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome was in Bradenton on Monday
talking about ICE operations. She used that appearance to explain
some of the things they've been doing over the last
several months with regards to rounding up illegal immigrants nation
and why. According to her numbers, ICE has arrested four
(15:04):
hundred eighty thousand illegal immigrants along with seizing illegal guns
and drugs, and Nome claims that seventy percent of those
arrested have criminal charges against them or have been convicted
of criminal charges. She says they're focusing on the worst
of the worst, and she pointed out in Sarasota, for example,
a convicted murderer who was an illegal immigrant from Cuba
(15:27):
was arrested and he had a prior removal order in
two thousand and eight and is now off the streets.
Had been convicted of kidnapping and carjacking, and Gnoam also
answered a question about whether she was involved in a
scandal reported by The New York Times using newly purchased
Coastguard jets for her private use. She denied that, saying
the planes were bought by Congress and are part of
(15:48):
defending the coastal areas.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
There's no question that some of those who have been
detained and deported or in the process of being being
deported are the worst of the worst. I mean some
of the stories that you hear, and a lot of them,
what's really interesting is that they had been deported before
and they come back in. Yeah, and they've come back
(16:12):
in sometimes multiple times. But also, as the administration keeps saying,
you know, our focus is on the worst of the worst,
you also keep seeing the stories of people who aren't
part of that group being detained and deported. And so
that's where the messaging issue comes into play. Like, I
(16:32):
think it's time to just be honest. Anybody who's here
illegally subject to deportation, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
When they're going to home, depot and round in.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Peace a lot, right, right exactly. That that's where the
issue has propped up. Now getting to the jet story.
So the Department of Homeland Security, they purchased one hundred
and seventy million dollars worth of new Gulf Stream jets,
two of them for the the Coast Guard.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
The Coast Guard's original.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Request was fifty million dollars for the jets, so they
went a little over budget there.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And then one of the issues, this is why Christy
Nome's under a bit of fire, is that, yeah, they're
going to be used for the Coast Guard, except one
of them for now is going to be used for
her official travel.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Uh huh, right, she's doing important.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Work, right, But you know who else is doing important work?
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You know where he was spotted flying with his wife,
Cheryl Hines in economy class on a commercial flight.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Oh wow, really so not every member of the common people.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
And John Dekker told me that rfk Junior was on
his flight.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
The other day, so we'll have to ask him about that.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So see, you can be a cabinet official and fly
economy class and save the taxpayers some money.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So apparently not Christine Homes. Not Christy Nomes.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
You know, it's interesting thought the stream private.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yet for one thing, you know, Trump gets a lot
of credit for using social media, and so does his administration.
But in this case, it's almost like a reverse effect
in that a lot of people are now cell phone
videoing all of the ICE reations and that's.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Where a lot of these criticisms are coming from.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
The right.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
ICE has been treating people, and who they're rounding up
is all out there on social media, and you can
see what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and I think, you know, a lot can be true.
At the same time they're out there, they're rounding up
and arresting and detaining and supporting people who shouldn't be
here in this country, who have done bad things here
and you know, back home. And then also you have
some people who have just lived their whole lives. Yes
(18:40):
they're here illegally, but they've you been here for decades.
They've created a life, they're contributing to their community, and
that's causing consternation within those communities. And then you also
have during some of these raids, you have US citizens
getting caught up in it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Now, there's a couple issues there.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
ICE doesn't know everybody who's a US citizen and who's
not during these raids. But there's also been some pushback
in terms of how those citizens have been treated while
they were in ICE custody. So there's a lot who
are the ice agents too? And then you have that
as well.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So another county is questioning the complaints from the state
Chief Financial Officer, so Blazon Golia presented the results of
his office's fiscal oversight audit of Manatee County, claiming that
the general fund there is overspending by one hundred and
twelve million dollars, and the spokesman for the county said
(19:35):
that they don't really understand exactly where they were getting
those numbers now. Golia claims that they're hiring all kinds
of people, librarians, administrators, clerks, expanding government at a rate
that's unprecedented in that area, and that it's wasteful and
excessive spending. A Bill Logan with the Manatee County government
provided a statement saying that the county has been fully
(19:59):
cooper that they have looked at the spending and as
far as they can tell, they've done everything within the
bounds of their budgeting.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I'm just imagining a library Amanitee County with like twenty librarians.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You know, they're just really staffed up.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, right, librarians to go through the bus make sure
they're not.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Violating any rules.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Right, And that's a big part of that one hundred
and twelve million dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And so, uh, this continues a pattern that we've seen
from the CFO where instead of conducting these doge audits
and then getting with the counties and making sure everyone's
on the same page.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
People and saying what's this.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, you've got the CFO just going out in front
of the cameras throwing around these figures, not communicating with
the local governments or the local governments. They don't know
what the hell is going on. They're confused. If if
you really wanted to do dosee audits of local governments
(21:03):
across the state, this isn't how you would do it.
This is how you would do it if you want
political wins and you're trying to push a property tax
agenda for the next legislative session. So again, this is
one of those situations let's just be real about what
we're doing and not try to pretend like this is
some real effort to find out what's going on within
(21:26):
local governments, because you would have that happening, honestly if
you were doing it right behind closed doors, in close
coordination with those governments to clean things right.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, even just be ripping through everything and then making
a statement.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And it leaves all of us not knowing what the
hell is going on. It's projectionable different stories.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
It's like projection based on oh well, population growth equals
this many dollars being spent and that sort of thing,
as opposed to it going line by line exactly. Oh well,
this is wasteful spending. It's sort of a general complaint
from the CEO.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'm all in favor of a serious look at local
governments and state government to see if there's waste to
be cut that could save taxpayers dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm not in favor of this performance. I'm not hearing
a lot about the state government's doing though.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
A South Florida city named one of the least safe
cities in America according to a recent report. Wallet Hub
compared more than one hundred and eighty US cities across
three key dimensions, home and community safety, natural disaster disaster risk,
and then financial safety. And the least The sixth least
safe city in America is in South Florida, Fort Lauderdale,
(22:31):
coming in at one hundred and seventy seven in the country.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much,
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
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