November 21, 2025 • 14 mins
TOP STORIES - Florida approves the largest FPL rate hike in state history, raising concerns for households already coping with high utility costs. Authorities charge a driver with murder in the shooting of a Tampa DJ, despite a claim of self-defense, as investigators lay out new details. Plus, Tampa prepares for the arrival of Waymo’s self-driving taxis as autonomous vehicle testing expands across the region.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Danna McKay, Jason Baron Heer, Breonna Torrez,
and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we'll get to this weekend's forecast for you with Weather
Channel mediaorologists race stage check before eight fifteen, then run
after that. My President Trump called for the arrest of
some Democratic lawmakers. Plus the battleover out of control hoa's
across the state has reached the state capitol. We're going
(00:22):
to talk to an investigative reporter about some HOA horror
stories and what one South Florida lawmaker is looking to
do about it at eight thirty five. Quick programming note.
I will be out next week. Dana and Reed Shepherd
will be handling things. They've got a lot of great
guests lined up for you, and they'll cover all the
latest news of the day each morning. So make sure
(00:44):
you stay with us all next week, including on Thanksgiving
and Black Friday. But I will talk to you a
week from Monday. Yes, I don't know why. I always
get confused with like the day that I'm returning. It
always throws me. So yeah, all right, the math All right, Now,
let's bring in Natalie Rodriguez for today's Top Stories.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Natalie, thanks so much, you got it back to you.
Then it's my last day. I'm ready to get the
hell out of here. Yeah, you're invaded. My last hour,
I'm invaded. I'm checked out.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Florida Power LFE bills are going up for the next
four years.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No shock here. If anybody thought it was not going
to go that way, Yeah, no.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
State Public Service Commissioner Gary Clark says that they've approved
the FBL rate hike, amounting to two dollars and fifty
cents more a month on bills starting next year.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
The company has agreed to reduce its original request by
some six hundred million dollars in the first year alone.
I think that equates to about thirty percent overall less
impact than was originally requested in October.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
God, thank god, some freaking nerve.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The first request was the biggest one ever in history.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Nearly a billion bucks. Come come on.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But the way they do it is just like tail stores.
If you haven't noticed, they'll jack up the prices on
items and stores and then they'll offer you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh, fifty percent off in twenty five percent off.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So we think that we're getting a really good deal,
but they've already inflated the original price to begin with.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And this is exactly what FPNL is doing.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, this, this whole thing is outrageous. And let me
break a couple of things down. Basically, FPL customer is
going to be paying billions more over the next couple
of years. Don't give me that two dollars and fifty
cents a month more nonsense.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It adds up, and it's on top of.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Back in twenty twenty one, five years ago, they were
awarded the largest utility increase in Florida history before this one.
So you've got FBL customers already paying over four hundred
more a year than they were paying five years ago.
Now you have this increase coming on top of that.
And there are two main issues with this deal. It
(02:57):
shifts increased costs to residents while big companies get a
break and that allowed profit margin that they're going to receive.
They get a return on equity of ten point ninety
five percent, way above the national average of nine point
six percent. So basically, shareholders, big businesses, they win big
(03:18):
in this deal. Your average Floridian loses and gets screwed.
That's exactly what's happening. And it's all coming at a
time when utility bills keep going up and up and up,
and more and more people are having a hard time
paying them. We have an affordability crisis in this state,
and state regulators just rubber stamp whatever increase the utilities want,
(03:40):
rubber stamp. It's freaking outrageous, and I don't hear anybody
outreach about it aside from like us here on this show,
Like where are the lawmakers in this state? This is
DeSantis's people here on this board. It is a point ease,
and this is what they're doing at a time when
people can barely hang on as it is in Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's it's so outrageous, it really is.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
This is one of those examples of you know, your
average person just getting screwed, getting trampled right over because
you don't have the influence that these big businesses do,
or these big shareholders do at a company like FP
and L.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's what's going on here.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, Well, I'm Natalie Rodriguez and I endorsed R for Congress.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
No, it's crazy, how like they made this big thing
about like cleaning up the crosswalks and getting rid of
these crosswalks like that was a big thing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But this they knew nothing about. No, no, you won't
hear a word about it.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Danna McKay, Jason Barringer, and Reed
Shephard from our newsroom. Coming up to this hour, state
regulators approved the largest rate hike in Florida Power and
Light's history. We're going to take a look at what
it means for you. Before five twenty plus, should Seventh
Avenue in Ebor City be closed to traffic following that
deadly crash a few weekends ago. Former Tampa Police Chief
(05:01):
Brian Dugan, He's gonna check in at five point thirty
five with some insight into that, so make sure you're
here then. And a quick programming note. I'll be out
all next week. Dana and Reed will be filling in
with a national holiday special, which I know you guys
have been working very hard and you've got a lot
of great guest line.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Up for We've been working on that thing since Labor Day. Yeah,
it's a lot, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're gonna talk to Brett Baer.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
We talked to Leland Viddert about his new books, so
we have some good stuff going.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
On, some big name guess and you'll be very thankful.
I'm sure when when the week is over, Yeah, you bet,
that's what we're gonna celebrate. Thanks Kivin.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's right, all right, right now, let's get to today's
top stories with Read Shepard.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Good morning, Good morning, Ryan, good morning Data. And we
begin with a major update in the case of the
shooting of DJ Shy Guy Joel Moreno Coobo, age thirty one,
was arrested last night in connection with the November fourteenth
incident in Ebor City. He has been charged with second
degree murder, and this comes despite the fact that Cobo's
(06:03):
initial claims were that he was acting in self defense.
Police with a very thorough investigation in this case found
that Sikes did not threaten Cobo in any way, shape
or form. He did not have a gun on him,
So there we have the second degree murder charge. Cobo
(06:26):
was driving through Ebors sitting in a BMW. He came
to a stop sign East Fifth Avenue in North twenty
second Street. The police report says he was blocked from
going forward by a woman in an SUV. Sikes was
in a jeep Cherokee directly behind the suv. Cobo flashed
his lights to get the driver of the suv to move.
(06:48):
Sikes also moved forward, turning west on the east fifth as.
Something happened between Cobo and Sikes at that point.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, we don't really know what.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
There was a verbal exchange, Sikes stops, gets out, and
then gunshots are fired.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And that's about what we know right now. But again,
Sykes was not armed. There were no threats toward Cobo,
so therefore we have the second degree murder charge. I
know there was a lot of pushback, a lot of
people wanted his name to be released. We said at
the time that that wouldn't happen until charges were filed.
The charges have now been filed, so and I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Going to talk to former Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan
about that real quick as well. Just you know what
goes into releasing that kind of information. How does that
work during the course of an investigation. But again, there's
still a lot we don't know. It sounds like this
was just a situation where like a driver wasn't moving,
(07:47):
somebody flashes their lights, they start going I don't know
why there ended up being a verbal dispute after again,
you had Sikes moving. I don't know what happened between
him and this probo.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Sounds like Cobo was just really impatient wanted them to move.
Maybe Sykes was like hey, something like that. I mean,
I have no idea, but that's what it sounds to happen.
And then he gets shot.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, and then it just escalated really really fast, like
he stops, he gets out of his car, and then
that's probably why Cobo said that he was defending himself.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
He's probably saying that.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Not the guy got it out of his car.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, panic, right, But witnesses, they said there was some
evidence in witness accounts that said, you know, that self
defense claim, it wasn't supported by what the investigators had collected.
So I'm sure we'll learn more about all of this.
But now there has been an arrest in the case.
Just a real tragedy.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
All right, Well, we've got an assistant football coach in
Bradenton that apparently did not learn his lesson when he
was arrested a few days ago for sex charges involving
a sixteen year old.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, we've got We've got two stories here that it
feels like we do every day.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Sex charges and guns on campuses.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, this one here, Lagarious Spikes, age forty two. He
was released on bond from the monitor from the Manatee
County Jail the other.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Day, and what does he do.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
He immediately solicits a fifteen year old for sex and
so detectives arrested him once again. Didn't learn his lesson?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Yeah, Grady Judd might say, so, why so he got
out for the first charge, right, he goes right back
to doing the exact same thing, soliciting a minor. Why
did he even get out in the first place.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, I mean I guess he was released on bond.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, and the arrests happened again just hours after he
was released. It involved him doing the same thing with
a sixteen year old student that he had done with
a fifteen year old student. The new victim reported sexually
explicit comments from him started in August. So this was
in a situation where like he got out and then
(09:59):
just found a new victim and started connecting with that victim.
This was something that was ongoing. There was just a
new victim that they learned about and that came forward.
He just happened to be arrested like right after he
was released, and I guess this new victim said that
he spoke with her privately in his office described what.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And yeah, so there, clearly I would probably keep this this.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Guy behind bars moving forward, because you would think that
that would happen.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
He'll probably be a good idea. Yeah, all right, well
you just said a moment ago. We have a story
also about kids bringing gun on guns on campus. This
one has a bit of a twist. This is out
in Plant City where two high school students were rested
on Wednesday after one of them brought a loaded firearm
onto the Plant City High School campus. So what happens
(10:51):
is that the one seventeen year old has the gun
in his car and another seventeen year old breaks into
the car and steals the weapon out of the glove
Combe part obviously knew the weapon was there, obviously, and
so as a result, deputies during their investigation, they uncover
(11:12):
all this and both of them are arrested.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Everybody gets rest everybody gets arrested.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So we had grenades on Wednesday, but no arrest, no arrests,
but grenades brought onto a campus in Sarasota inactive inactive.
Then we had a gun on a campus yesterday, and
then this gun incident today. So yeah, I mean, just
one thing after another.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So I'm not really sure I want to take advantage
of this. You're going to have to convince me. But
there's an outfit called waime O wa Ymo, and they
are planning to bring a fleet of self driving taxis
onto the streets of Tampa at some point soon. They're
(11:59):
all ready in place in Atlanta, Austin, La Phoenix, and
the San Francisco Bay area.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
There was a story I saw the other day where
one of the Weymo vehicles self driving, it hit a
neighborhood cat that was like really really popular. It's like,
you know, one of those animals that's kind of known
by everybody in the neighborhood and the Waymo vehicle like
ran it over.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, the company says, is it dead?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Is the cat dead? Yeah? The way most story that
I remembered.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, the company says its vehicles are safer than vehicles
operated by humans, but cat things things have happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Poor kitty cat.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
H No word yet on when Tampa residents visitors will
be able to hop into a weaymo and and uh,
you know, go out to Raymond James Stadium or someplace.
But supposedly it's I just I'm sorry, I'm I'm old
I'm old school. You want a driver, no, I want it.
I will not a human driver. I want a human driver,
(13:09):
which is usually going to be me. I just don't
trust driverless cars. Yeah, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Dana, what you're getting one?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
No, absolutely not No, no, not at this point.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
No.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I feel like the technology is still fairly new. Maybe
in a couple of years, once they're everywhere and they
have kind of like a proven record, and if they
can prove that they are in fact safer than having
a human driver, then sure.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't want to put human drivers out of work.
This is what this is going to do long term.
But also getting in the vehicle, not having to talk
to anybody kind of be able myself.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Well, and for women to take an Uber stuff like that,
you know, like that's scary.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I saw something the other day that there's this new
feature I think that Uber has where you can request
a female driver if you're a woman.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, which I thought was really interesting. Right, safety purposes
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, read Shepherd with today's top stories read Thanks
so much,
I'm Ryan Gorman with Danna McKay, Jason Baron Heer, Breonna Torrez,
and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we'll get to this weekend's forecast for you with Weather
Channel mediaorologists race stage check before eight fifteen, then run
after that. My President Trump called for the arrest of
some Democratic lawmakers. Plus the battleover out of control hoa's
across the state has reached the state capitol. We're going
(00:22):
to talk to an investigative reporter about some HOA horror
stories and what one South Florida lawmaker is looking to
do about it at eight thirty five. Quick programming note.
I will be out next week. Dana and Reed Shepherd
will be handling things. They've got a lot of great
guests lined up for you, and they'll cover all the
latest news of the day each morning. So make sure
(00:44):
you stay with us all next week, including on Thanksgiving
and Black Friday. But I will talk to you a
week from Monday. Yes, I don't know why. I always
get confused with like the day that I'm returning. It
always throws me. So yeah, all right, the math All right, Now,
let's bring in Natalie Rodriguez for today's Top Stories.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Natalie, thanks so much, you got it back to you.
Then it's my last day. I'm ready to get the
hell out of here. Yeah, you're invaded. My last hour,
I'm invaded. I'm checked out.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Florida Power LFE bills are going up for the next
four years.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No shock here. If anybody thought it was not going
to go that way, Yeah, no.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
State Public Service Commissioner Gary Clark says that they've approved
the FBL rate hike, amounting to two dollars and fifty
cents more a month on bills starting next year.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
The company has agreed to reduce its original request by
some six hundred million dollars in the first year alone.
I think that equates to about thirty percent overall less
impact than was originally requested in October.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
God, thank god, some freaking nerve.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The first request was the biggest one ever in history.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Nearly a billion bucks. Come come on.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But the way they do it is just like tail stores.
If you haven't noticed, they'll jack up the prices on
items and stores and then they'll offer you.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh, fifty percent off in twenty five percent off.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So we think that we're getting a really good deal,
but they've already inflated the original price to begin with.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And this is exactly what FPNL is doing.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, this, this whole thing is outrageous. And let me
break a couple of things down. Basically, FPL customer is
going to be paying billions more over the next couple
of years. Don't give me that two dollars and fifty
cents a month more nonsense.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It adds up, and it's on top of.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Back in twenty twenty one, five years ago, they were
awarded the largest utility increase in Florida history before this one.
So you've got FBL customers already paying over four hundred
more a year than they were paying five years ago.
Now you have this increase coming on top of that.
And there are two main issues with this deal. It
(02:57):
shifts increased costs to residents while big companies get a
break and that allowed profit margin that they're going to receive.
They get a return on equity of ten point ninety
five percent, way above the national average of nine point
six percent. So basically, shareholders, big businesses, they win big
(03:18):
in this deal. Your average Floridian loses and gets screwed.
That's exactly what's happening. And it's all coming at a
time when utility bills keep going up and up and up,
and more and more people are having a hard time
paying them. We have an affordability crisis in this state,
and state regulators just rubber stamp whatever increase the utilities want,
(03:40):
rubber stamp. It's freaking outrageous, and I don't hear anybody
outreach about it aside from like us here on this show,
Like where are the lawmakers in this state? This is
DeSantis's people here on this board. It is a point ease,
and this is what they're doing at a time when
people can barely hang on as it is in Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's it's so outrageous, it really is.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
This is one of those examples of you know, your
average person just getting screwed, getting trampled right over because
you don't have the influence that these big businesses do,
or these big shareholders do at a company like FP
and L.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's what's going on here.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, Well, I'm Natalie Rodriguez and I endorsed R for Congress.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
No, it's crazy, how like they made this big thing
about like cleaning up the crosswalks and getting rid of
these crosswalks like that was a big thing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
But this they knew nothing about. No, no, you won't
hear a word about it.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Danna McKay, Jason Barringer, and Reed
Shephard from our newsroom. Coming up to this hour, state
regulators approved the largest rate hike in Florida Power and
Light's history. We're going to take a look at what
it means for you. Before five twenty plus, should Seventh
Avenue in Ebor City be closed to traffic following that
deadly crash a few weekends ago. Former Tampa Police Chief
(05:01):
Brian Dugan, He's gonna check in at five point thirty
five with some insight into that, so make sure you're
here then. And a quick programming note. I'll be out
all next week. Dana and Reed will be filling in
with a national holiday special, which I know you guys
have been working very hard and you've got a lot
of great guest line.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Up for We've been working on that thing since Labor Day. Yeah,
it's a lot, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're gonna talk to Brett Baer.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
We talked to Leland Viddert about his new books, so
we have some good stuff going.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
On, some big name guess and you'll be very thankful.
I'm sure when when the week is over, Yeah, you bet,
that's what we're gonna celebrate. Thanks Kivin.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's right, all right, right now, let's get to today's
top stories with Read Shepard.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Good morning, Good morning, Ryan, good morning Data. And we
begin with a major update in the case of the
shooting of DJ Shy Guy Joel Moreno Coobo, age thirty one,
was arrested last night in connection with the November fourteenth
incident in Ebor City. He has been charged with second
degree murder, and this comes despite the fact that Cobo's
(06:03):
initial claims were that he was acting in self defense.
Police with a very thorough investigation in this case found
that Sikes did not threaten Cobo in any way, shape
or form. He did not have a gun on him,
So there we have the second degree murder charge. Cobo
(06:26):
was driving through Ebors sitting in a BMW. He came
to a stop sign East Fifth Avenue in North twenty
second Street. The police report says he was blocked from
going forward by a woman in an SUV. Sikes was
in a jeep Cherokee directly behind the suv. Cobo flashed
his lights to get the driver of the suv to move.
(06:48):
Sikes also moved forward, turning west on the east fifth as.
Something happened between Cobo and Sikes at that point.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, we don't really know what.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
There was a verbal exchange, Sikes stops, gets out, and
then gunshots are fired.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And that's about what we know right now. But again,
Sykes was not armed. There were no threats toward Cobo,
so therefore we have the second degree murder charge. I
know there was a lot of pushback, a lot of
people wanted his name to be released. We said at
the time that that wouldn't happen until charges were filed.
The charges have now been filed, so and I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Going to talk to former Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan
about that real quick as well. Just you know what
goes into releasing that kind of information. How does that
work during the course of an investigation. But again, there's
still a lot we don't know. It sounds like this
was just a situation where like a driver wasn't moving,
(07:47):
somebody flashes their lights, they start going I don't know
why there ended up being a verbal dispute after again,
you had Sikes moving. I don't know what happened between
him and this probo.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Sounds like Cobo was just really impatient wanted them to move.
Maybe Sykes was like hey, something like that. I mean,
I have no idea, but that's what it sounds to happen.
And then he gets shot.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, and then it just escalated really really fast, like
he stops, he gets out of his car, and then
that's probably why Cobo said that he was defending himself.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
He's probably saying that.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Not the guy got it out of his car.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, panic, right, But witnesses, they said there was some
evidence in witness accounts that said, you know, that self
defense claim, it wasn't supported by what the investigators had collected.
So I'm sure we'll learn more about all of this.
But now there has been an arrest in the case.
Just a real tragedy.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
All right, Well, we've got an assistant football coach in
Bradenton that apparently did not learn his lesson when he
was arrested a few days ago for sex charges involving
a sixteen year old.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, we've got We've got two stories here that it
feels like we do every day.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Sex charges and guns on campuses.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, this one here, Lagarious Spikes, age forty two. He
was released on bond from the monitor from the Manatee
County Jail the other.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Day, and what does he do.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
He immediately solicits a fifteen year old for sex and
so detectives arrested him once again. Didn't learn his lesson?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Yeah, Grady Judd might say, so, why so he got
out for the first charge, right, he goes right back
to doing the exact same thing, soliciting a minor. Why
did he even get out in the first place.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, I mean I guess he was released on bond.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, and the arrests happened again just hours after he
was released. It involved him doing the same thing with
a sixteen year old student that he had done with
a fifteen year old student. The new victim reported sexually
explicit comments from him started in August. So this was
in a situation where like he got out and then
(09:59):
just found a new victim and started connecting with that victim.
This was something that was ongoing. There was just a
new victim that they learned about and that came forward.
He just happened to be arrested like right after he
was released, and I guess this new victim said that
he spoke with her privately in his office described what.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
He wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And yeah, so there, clearly I would probably keep this this.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Guy behind bars moving forward, because you would think that
that would happen.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
He'll probably be a good idea. Yeah, all right, well
you just said a moment ago. We have a story
also about kids bringing gun on guns on campus. This
one has a bit of a twist. This is out
in Plant City where two high school students were rested
on Wednesday after one of them brought a loaded firearm
onto the Plant City High School campus. So what happens
(10:51):
is that the one seventeen year old has the gun
in his car and another seventeen year old breaks into
the car and steals the weapon out of the glove
Combe part obviously knew the weapon was there, obviously, and
so as a result, deputies during their investigation, they uncover
(11:12):
all this and both of them are arrested.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Everybody gets rest everybody gets arrested.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So we had grenades on Wednesday, but no arrest, no arrests,
but grenades brought onto a campus in Sarasota inactive inactive.
Then we had a gun on a campus yesterday, and
then this gun incident today. So yeah, I mean, just
one thing after another.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So I'm not really sure I want to take advantage
of this. You're going to have to convince me. But
there's an outfit called waime O wa Ymo, and they
are planning to bring a fleet of self driving taxis
onto the streets of Tampa at some point soon. They're
(11:59):
all ready in place in Atlanta, Austin, La Phoenix, and
the San Francisco Bay area.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
There was a story I saw the other day where
one of the Weymo vehicles self driving, it hit a
neighborhood cat that was like really really popular. It's like,
you know, one of those animals that's kind of known
by everybody in the neighborhood and the Waymo vehicle like
ran it over.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, the company says, is it dead?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Is the cat dead? Yeah? The way most story that
I remembered.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, the company says its vehicles are safer than vehicles
operated by humans, but cat things things have happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Poor kitty cat.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
H No word yet on when Tampa residents visitors will
be able to hop into a weaymo and and uh,
you know, go out to Raymond James Stadium or someplace.
But supposedly it's I just I'm sorry, I'm I'm old
I'm old school. You want a driver, no, I want it.
I will not a human driver. I want a human driver,
(13:09):
which is usually going to be me. I just don't
trust driverless cars. Yeah, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Dana, what you're getting one?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
No, absolutely not No, no, not at this point.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
No.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I feel like the technology is still fairly new. Maybe
in a couple of years, once they're everywhere and they
have kind of like a proven record, and if they
can prove that they are in fact safer than having
a human driver, then sure.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't want to put human drivers out of work.
This is what this is going to do long term.
But also getting in the vehicle, not having to talk
to anybody kind of be able myself.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Well, and for women to take an Uber stuff like that,
you know, like that's scary.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I saw something the other day that there's this new
feature I think that Uber has where you can request
a female driver if you're a woman.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, which I thought was really interesting. Right, safety purposes
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, read Shepherd with today's top stories read Thanks
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