October 7, 2025 • 15 mins
TOP STORIES - A high-stakes Florida Power & Light rate hearing gets underway, locals react to a Pride-themed crosswalk on Ocean Drive being replaced with black pavement. Plus, victims’ families speak out against reopening the Epic Universe ride after a fatal accident, a St. Pete council member proposes alternate city flags for Pride and Black History Month, and Manatee County changes its curbside trash pickup schedule.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
The legal wrangling with the State Public Service Commission over
a Florida Power and Light rate hike continues. Attorney Ali
Westling with the State Office of Public Council says that
this hike would make electricity unaffordable.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Many of FPL's requests would in fact cause harm to
the welfare of FPL's customers and result in unfair, unjust, unreasonable,
and thus unaffordable rates.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
So FBNL says that they need to raise our rates
because it's needed for them to invest in the grid's reliability.
If the plan's approved, most of US customers for FB
and L will be seeing our bills going up about
four bucks more a month in January, with continued annual
increases through twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So a couple of things about this deal.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is if it goes through, one of the largest
utility hikes in US history, and that's after what Florida
Power and Light was asking for was scaled back by
about thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I mean, just wrap your head around that.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
For a second, out of money, very greedy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And if approved, there was one person who spoke yesterday
to hearing. If for a proved, fifty cents out of every
buck the customers pay would go to shareholders' pockets and
into taxes. And this idea that they can't improve the
grid and make some of these you know, investments without
(01:43):
this gigantic this, this huge rate hike, It just seems
to be a bunch of nonsense. It just the math
doesn't add.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Up a little less to your shareholders.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, and look, the problem if you're not an FP
and L customer, if you're a customer of Duke or
another utility company, the problem for you is that this
could set a precedent.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
US.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, what do you think those other two companies are
going to do? They're going to come asking for theirs.
So we'll see where this goes a lot of focus
and attention on this. Usually this stuff rubber stamped, but
I don't know if it will be this time, because
this is just such a big ask and it's coming
at at a time when people are stretched thin as
(02:35):
it is.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, everything else is already expensive Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
There's no cost of living adjustment going on anywhere across
the board, and people just cannot afford to live.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No. I don't know if I'm technically allowed to say this,
but but you know it's been on my mind this
entire conversation. The balls on them to go and try
to get this kind of a rate hike at this
level right now, just very very bold, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Bold, bold, outrageous is what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Tow truck drivers, Yes, fancasting, all right, what else is
going on, Natalie?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
The Rainbow crosswalk on Miami Beach is gone, and FDOT
painted over and removed the brakes over the weekend along
Ocean Drive in twelfth.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, up right, it's getting erased just like that. It's
very painful. I think it's a bit extreme, you know.
To me, it was beautiful, you know, I love people.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
City Commissioner Alex Fernandez was out there as passerbys and
residents were watching the crews remove and paint over that area.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
This is the.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Story of people's lives, people who have suffered decades of injustice,
of inequality, of discrimination, and then we overcame that, and
that was the story being told by these breaks.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
We can't lose that well, they did, and the city
lost its appeal to keep the crosswalk on Friday. The
governor has stated time and time again that Florida's policy
is not to use the roads for political purposes.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
With art of.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
All kinds being removed, not just the rainbow, but the
blue lives matter, all kinds. They were all removed, and
they're still in the works of being removed across the
state now. In instead, the city of Miami Beach did
put up a rainbow flag banner that's tied between palm trees,
right and that same right across the street from the
crosswalk that was removed, And each colorful brick I was
(04:25):
told has been saved, maybe to be repurposed into some
sort of art display or something in the long run.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But I'm telling so a couple of things, because we
have talked about this time and time again in recent months.
I didn't care if the mural stayed, if they went.
It doesn't matter to me. If I was in one
of those neighborhoods and you know I was watching the
mural get torn up like that, I mean, I'd probably
be a.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Little distract a little pissed off.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But we've got to get to a point where like
murals aren't what's needed to make an area inclusive, you
know what I mean, Like, Uh, you've got Saint Pete
City council member proposing alternate city flags for Pride and
Black History Month stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's exhausting already. Uh, you know, just enough with all
of it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I can't uh, I mean outside these government buildings, the
American flag, the state flag. I don't know if there's
a city flag. We don't need alternate flags, like alternate jerseys. Uh,
you know for sports teams. The murals again, I didn't
care if they stayed, if they went, they're gone.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Uh, they've got what the thing with the flag with
the trees, like tied up the tree, they got, you know,
other options and all of that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's it's just exhausting.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
The whole thing's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
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Speaker 7 (05:57):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Civil It's attorney Ben Crump
held a news conference to respond to the reopening of
a ride at Epic Universe in Orlando after a man's
death last month. Krump was joined by the family of
Kevin Rodriguez Zavala. He was the thirty two year old
who lost consciousness and died riding the Star dust Racers
(06:18):
roller coaster on September seventeenth. The ride was temporarily closed,
but it reopened over the weekend. This after the Orange
County Medical Examiner said that the victim died of multiple
blunt force trauma. So Zavala's parents spoke at the news conference.
They were frustrated at the park for reopening the ride,
and Crump said that he had not even sent his
(06:40):
inspectors in to look at how the ride was operating
before it reopened, and essentially said that Universal went back
on its word that they were going to be committed
to safety.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, this is Attorney Ben Crump talking about the family's
reaction to learning the ride was real opening.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
The family was very disappointed that they reopened this ride
while we were trying to set up the inspecsions.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
He also claims the family has been kept in the
dark about the investigation.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It's so deeply disturbing because they haven't gotten any asses.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And then the victim's sister in law read this statement
from the victim's father.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
It took a Universal employee four tries at closing the
lap bar to get the green light that Kevin's seat
restraint was secured.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I thought that detail was interesting and I hadn't heard
that before. So in order to get him properly restrained,
it took a number of different tries. I've never had
that happen to me while riding ride. And look, nobody,
I don't think knew that something like this could potentially happen.
(08:01):
But if somebody's struggling to get the ride secure like that,
I don't know if I'm staying on that ride.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Yeah, it seems like that's a bit of an issue,
But we don't know exactly why was it the positioning
of his body because of his disability that she couldn't
get it secure, Like what was the reason why it
was not secure?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
But yeah, that definitely raises some questions.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, and going back to what Crumb said about the
family being kept in the dark about the investigation, they
haven't had any answer. I don't know, I'm not sure
what answers. They think they're going to get Universal in
the state. They claimed that the ride is safe.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I know when we.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
Talked about this last week, there was something about them
wanting access to the video footage, and you know that
they've probably got video of every single inch of that ride,
cameras from all angles, and I think the family wants
they want the video, and I don't know. I think
what they had said last week was that the park
wasn't cooperating with giving them that video. But I'm sure
(09:03):
because of legal issues, they might have their reasons for.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Not wanting to give anyone that video.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
So I'm not exactly sure where that stands, but that
was one of the things they were concerned about.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I just find hard to believe that Universal they would
have the you know, the video, like you said, Dana,
of all of that, and the state inspectors would come
in and they would just reopen that ride if there
was some you know, serious question about uh, the same
I mean, Universal, if this happens again, immediately kidding me.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
And I also think that they're in a tough spot too,
because this person obviously had a disability, and they they
they make accommodations for people with disabilities. If they start
telling people with disabilities, no, you can't get off this ride,
are they then going to have to deal with that
they're discriminating against people. So I feel like, you know,
the park's probably in a tough spot not knowing what
to do. I mean, obviously it's really tragic, but I
(09:50):
also think there's warning signs there, and I know on
pretty much every ride in every park it says if
you have a spinal condition, or a heart condition or
any health issues, you should not ride this ride.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, and sometimes I don't mean to sound like cold
about it at all, because this is obviously a tragedy
for the family, But.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Sometimes stuff just happens.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, you know, like I don't know that it was
Universal's fault or that it was the you know, victims,
that it was anything they did wrong. I mean sometimes
in life, just stuff happens. I would think that the
family's probably going to get a settlement at some point.
I mean, if I'm Universal, like, you know, how much
do you want to make this thing go away?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I think in the bigger picture here, the problem for
Universal is that, you know, this epic universe was a big,
big investment. You cost seven billion dollars to build this park,
and they don't want this kind of thing hanging over
now the image of the park and people talking about
what happened on this roller coaster versus just the you know,
the big nature of the opening of this park and
(10:53):
all that it brings to the theme park community in
Orlando and and you know, the contribution to t in
the area. So this is something that they're going to
try and try and settle, I would think. But at
the same time, they're not going to just hand all
this ammunition to Ben Krump right to use in his
civil case.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Right, So that's.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Probably why they're not, you know, handing over everything that
he's demanding. And you've got a situation where it's like
the court of public opinion. He keeps holding news conferences
and then it puts Universal on the defensive because you know,
they don't want to be out there looking bad either, right.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And he's I'm assuming, you know, with some of these
press conferences, trying to get that settlement figure up a
little bit higher. That's part of what's happening here, wouldn't
surprise me, all right. Chris Drankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Nothing disrupts trash pickup more than changing the bins. So
Manatee officials have been rolling out the new ninety six
gallon bins to residents over the summer to prepare them
for the change to the trash curbside pickup. So the
reason that they're rolling out these these enormous bins is
because trash collection is moving to once a week, and
(11:59):
that means all things like trash recycling, yard race will
only be picked up once. So obviously you need to
get that bin to deal with the pile up of
garbage now. Officials say the reason for this is that
it will help the county's costs, it'll make trash day
more efficient, and that the two day a week system
(12:19):
was just difficult to tailor to all the needs one
hundred and sixty thousand residents who have accounts.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
They also said, like, it'll be nicer for your neighborhood.
You won't to have all the noise and disruption and
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Just once a week, that's right, once a week one
of the trucks coming through Instead, you'll just have garbage.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So I can't relate to this at all because when
I take the trash out, I go right outside my door.
I have a little little bit. It's like a bench.
That's what they make it look like in my apartment complex.
Iother where it's a raccoon fodder. Well, I lock mine,
but you're right, some people who leave it open they
have problems. So I leave it there and then somebody
comes and picks it up and I don't have to
deal with it. But for you guys homeowners, how often
(13:03):
does your trash get picked up?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
It's once a week? Is the same thing happened in
Polk several years ago they eliminated the twice a week
thing and you had you had to get a different bin.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's no big deal. You just you know you have
to make the adjustment. What about do you know how
often your trash is getting picked.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Up in It's twice a week, and it's this morning
and I forgot to get out. So for the trash,
it's twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, and then
Fridays is recycling, so the recycling is only once a week.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm wondering though, for like, let's say you if it
was once a week and you had this giant because
the container is a lot bigger, right this this one.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, I think I have.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
The ninety six gallon one.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Yeah, I just looked it up and the one that
I have, yeah, is ninety six gallons.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I'm pretty sure, because I was wondering for some people,
you know, like little Dana living alone, like giant trash
can once a week, like.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I feel that yet.
Speaker 10 (14:01):
Separate the trash from when I was moving into like
non food trash that could just kind of sit. Oh yeah,
until I have room in my trash bin. Yes, because
I've thrown away so much crap.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Do you recycle?
Speaker 10 (14:13):
I do, But I mean we all know what happens
when you put things in the recycling bin that it
all ends up just going to the trash anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So I never knew that until Chris really enlightened me
on that.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Yeah, I've got and I have a whole bunch of
cardboard just from the boxes that I used to move
and also all the stuff that I've came in boxes. Yet,
Oh my gosh, it's ridiculous howning boxes I have in
my garage. Yeah, and then I got to break them
down and shove them in the freaking recycling Well.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
If this bin isn't big enough for your like once
a week trash pick up, you can rent another one.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Expensive and they get they get gross inside its Yeah,
and now I saw on one of the neighborhood pages
this woman and her son are like going around with
a pressure washer and they're charging twenty bucks and they'll
clean your the side of your trash entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Brilliant. Yeah, that's brilliant.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
The trashman is disgusting because they can all spraze out.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Just leave it open in the rain and I'll say,
there you go clean itself.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Does the one fit all your stuff?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Does it ever get a little dicey there? Yeah, especially
during like the holidays? Oh yeah right, that's a mess.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
You know the solution is you just start like looking
at other people's kids.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That's a good idea, all right, Chris Trankman with today's
Stop Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
The legal wrangling with the State Public Service Commission over
a Florida Power and Light rate hike continues. Attorney Ali
Westling with the State Office of Public Council says that
this hike would make electricity unaffordable.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Many of FPL's requests would in fact cause harm to
the welfare of FPL's customers and result in unfair, unjust, unreasonable,
and thus unaffordable rates.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
So FBNL says that they need to raise our rates
because it's needed for them to invest in the grid's reliability.
If the plan's approved, most of US customers for FB
and L will be seeing our bills going up about
four bucks more a month in January, with continued annual
increases through twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So a couple of things about this deal.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is if it goes through, one of the largest
utility hikes in US history, and that's after what Florida
Power and Light was asking for was scaled back by
about thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I mean, just wrap your head around that.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
For a second, out of money, very greedy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And if approved, there was one person who spoke yesterday
to hearing. If for a proved, fifty cents out of every
buck the customers pay would go to shareholders' pockets and
into taxes. And this idea that they can't improve the
grid and make some of these you know, investments without
(01:43):
this gigantic this, this huge rate hike, It just seems
to be a bunch of nonsense. It just the math
doesn't add.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Up a little less to your shareholders.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, and look, the problem if you're not an FP
and L customer, if you're a customer of Duke or
another utility company, the problem for you is that this
could set a precedent.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
US.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, what do you think those other two companies are
going to do? They're going to come asking for theirs.
So we'll see where this goes a lot of focus
and attention on this. Usually this stuff rubber stamped, but
I don't know if it will be this time, because
this is just such a big ask and it's coming
at at a time when people are stretched thin as
(02:35):
it is.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, everything else is already expensive Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
There's no cost of living adjustment going on anywhere across
the board, and people just cannot afford to live.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No. I don't know if I'm technically allowed to say this,
but but you know it's been on my mind this
entire conversation. The balls on them to go and try
to get this kind of a rate hike at this
level right now, just very very bold, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Bold, bold, outrageous is what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Tow truck drivers, Yes, fancasting, all right, what else is
going on, Natalie?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
The Rainbow crosswalk on Miami Beach is gone, and FDOT
painted over and removed the brakes over the weekend along
Ocean Drive in twelfth.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, up right, it's getting erased just like that. It's
very painful. I think it's a bit extreme, you know.
To me, it was beautiful, you know, I love people.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
City Commissioner Alex Fernandez was out there as passerbys and
residents were watching the crews remove and paint over that area.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
This is the.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Story of people's lives, people who have suffered decades of injustice,
of inequality, of discrimination, and then we overcame that, and
that was the story being told by these breaks.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
We can't lose that well, they did, and the city
lost its appeal to keep the crosswalk on Friday. The
governor has stated time and time again that Florida's policy
is not to use the roads for political purposes.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
With art of.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
All kinds being removed, not just the rainbow, but the
blue lives matter, all kinds. They were all removed, and
they're still in the works of being removed across the
state now. In instead, the city of Miami Beach did
put up a rainbow flag banner that's tied between palm trees,
right and that same right across the street from the
crosswalk that was removed, And each colorful brick I was
(04:25):
told has been saved, maybe to be repurposed into some
sort of art display or something in the long run.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But I'm telling so a couple of things, because we
have talked about this time and time again in recent months.
I didn't care if the mural stayed, if they went.
It doesn't matter to me. If I was in one
of those neighborhoods and you know I was watching the
mural get torn up like that, I mean, I'd probably
be a.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Little distract a little pissed off.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But we've got to get to a point where like
murals aren't what's needed to make an area inclusive, you
know what I mean, Like, Uh, you've got Saint Pete
City council member proposing alternate city flags for Pride and
Black History Month stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's exhausting already. Uh, you know, just enough with all
of it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I can't uh, I mean outside these government buildings, the
American flag, the state flag. I don't know if there's
a city flag. We don't need alternate flags, like alternate jerseys. Uh,
you know for sports teams. The murals again, I didn't
care if they stayed, if they went, they're gone.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Uh, they've got what the thing with the flag with
the trees, like tied up the tree, they got, you know,
other options and all of that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's it's just exhausting.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
The whole thing's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
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Speaker 7 (05:57):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Civil It's attorney Ben Crump
held a news conference to respond to the reopening of
a ride at Epic Universe in Orlando after a man's
death last month. Krump was joined by the family of
Kevin Rodriguez Zavala. He was the thirty two year old
who lost consciousness and died riding the Star dust Racers
(06:18):
roller coaster on September seventeenth. The ride was temporarily closed,
but it reopened over the weekend. This after the Orange
County Medical Examiner said that the victim died of multiple
blunt force trauma. So Zavala's parents spoke at the news conference.
They were frustrated at the park for reopening the ride,
and Crump said that he had not even sent his
(06:40):
inspectors in to look at how the ride was operating
before it reopened, and essentially said that Universal went back
on its word that they were going to be committed
to safety.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, this is Attorney Ben Crump talking about the family's
reaction to learning the ride was real opening.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
The family was very disappointed that they reopened this ride
while we were trying to set up the inspecsions.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
He also claims the family has been kept in the
dark about the investigation.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It's so deeply disturbing because they haven't gotten any asses.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And then the victim's sister in law read this statement
from the victim's father.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
It took a Universal employee four tries at closing the
lap bar to get the green light that Kevin's seat
restraint was secured.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I thought that detail was interesting and I hadn't heard
that before. So in order to get him properly restrained,
it took a number of different tries. I've never had
that happen to me while riding ride. And look, nobody,
I don't think knew that something like this could potentially happen.
(08:01):
But if somebody's struggling to get the ride secure like that,
I don't know if I'm staying on that ride.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Yeah, it seems like that's a bit of an issue,
But we don't know exactly why was it the positioning
of his body because of his disability that she couldn't
get it secure, Like what was the reason why it
was not secure?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
But yeah, that definitely raises some questions.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, and going back to what Crumb said about the
family being kept in the dark about the investigation, they
haven't had any answer. I don't know, I'm not sure
what answers. They think they're going to get Universal in
the state. They claimed that the ride is safe.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I know when we.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
Talked about this last week, there was something about them
wanting access to the video footage, and you know that
they've probably got video of every single inch of that ride,
cameras from all angles, and I think the family wants
they want the video, and I don't know. I think
what they had said last week was that the park
wasn't cooperating with giving them that video. But I'm sure
(09:03):
because of legal issues, they might have their reasons for.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Not wanting to give anyone that video.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
So I'm not exactly sure where that stands, but that
was one of the things they were concerned about.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I just find hard to believe that Universal they would
have the you know, the video, like you said, Dana,
of all of that, and the state inspectors would come
in and they would just reopen that ride if there
was some you know, serious question about uh, the same
I mean, Universal, if this happens again, immediately kidding me.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
And I also think that they're in a tough spot too,
because this person obviously had a disability, and they they
they make accommodations for people with disabilities. If they start
telling people with disabilities, no, you can't get off this ride,
are they then going to have to deal with that
they're discriminating against people. So I feel like, you know,
the park's probably in a tough spot not knowing what
to do. I mean, obviously it's really tragic, but I
(09:50):
also think there's warning signs there, and I know on
pretty much every ride in every park it says if
you have a spinal condition, or a heart condition or
any health issues, you should not ride this ride.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, and sometimes I don't mean to sound like cold
about it at all, because this is obviously a tragedy
for the family, But.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Sometimes stuff just happens.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, you know, like I don't know that it was
Universal's fault or that it was the you know, victims,
that it was anything they did wrong. I mean sometimes
in life, just stuff happens. I would think that the
family's probably going to get a settlement at some point.
I mean, if I'm Universal, like, you know, how much
do you want to make this thing go away?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I think in the bigger picture here, the problem for
Universal is that, you know, this epic universe was a big,
big investment. You cost seven billion dollars to build this park,
and they don't want this kind of thing hanging over
now the image of the park and people talking about
what happened on this roller coaster versus just the you know,
the big nature of the opening of this park and
(10:53):
all that it brings to the theme park community in
Orlando and and you know, the contribution to t in
the area. So this is something that they're going to
try and try and settle, I would think. But at
the same time, they're not going to just hand all
this ammunition to Ben Krump right to use in his
civil case.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Right, So that's.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Probably why they're not, you know, handing over everything that
he's demanding. And you've got a situation where it's like
the court of public opinion. He keeps holding news conferences
and then it puts Universal on the defensive because you know,
they don't want to be out there looking bad either, right.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And he's I'm assuming, you know, with some of these
press conferences, trying to get that settlement figure up a
little bit higher. That's part of what's happening here, wouldn't
surprise me, all right. Chris Drankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Nothing disrupts trash pickup more than changing the bins. So
Manatee officials have been rolling out the new ninety six
gallon bins to residents over the summer to prepare them
for the change to the trash curbside pickup. So the
reason that they're rolling out these these enormous bins is
because trash collection is moving to once a week, and
(11:59):
that means all things like trash recycling, yard race will
only be picked up once. So obviously you need to
get that bin to deal with the pile up of
garbage now. Officials say the reason for this is that
it will help the county's costs, it'll make trash day
more efficient, and that the two day a week system
(12:19):
was just difficult to tailor to all the needs one
hundred and sixty thousand residents who have accounts.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
They also said, like, it'll be nicer for your neighborhood.
You won't to have all the noise and disruption and
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Just once a week, that's right, once a week one
of the trucks coming through Instead, you'll just have garbage.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So I can't relate to this at all because when
I take the trash out, I go right outside my door.
I have a little little bit. It's like a bench.
That's what they make it look like in my apartment complex.
Iother where it's a raccoon fodder. Well, I lock mine,
but you're right, some people who leave it open they
have problems. So I leave it there and then somebody
comes and picks it up and I don't have to
deal with it. But for you guys homeowners, how often
(13:03):
does your trash get picked up?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
It's once a week? Is the same thing happened in
Polk several years ago they eliminated the twice a week
thing and you had you had to get a different bin.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's no big deal. You just you know you have
to make the adjustment. What about do you know how
often your trash is getting picked.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Up in It's twice a week, and it's this morning
and I forgot to get out. So for the trash,
it's twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, and then
Fridays is recycling, so the recycling is only once a week.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm wondering though, for like, let's say you if it
was once a week and you had this giant because
the container is a lot bigger, right this this one.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, I think I have.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
The ninety six gallon one.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Yeah, I just looked it up and the one that
I have, yeah, is ninety six gallons.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I'm pretty sure, because I was wondering for some people,
you know, like little Dana living alone, like giant trash
can once a week, like.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I feel that yet.
Speaker 10 (14:01):
Separate the trash from when I was moving into like
non food trash that could just kind of sit. Oh yeah,
until I have room in my trash bin. Yes, because
I've thrown away so much crap.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Do you recycle?
Speaker 10 (14:13):
I do, But I mean we all know what happens
when you put things in the recycling bin that it
all ends up just going to the trash anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So I never knew that until Chris really enlightened me
on that.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Yeah, I've got and I have a whole bunch of
cardboard just from the boxes that I used to move
and also all the stuff that I've came in boxes. Yet,
Oh my gosh, it's ridiculous howning boxes I have in
my garage. Yeah, and then I got to break them
down and shove them in the freaking recycling Well.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
If this bin isn't big enough for your like once
a week trash pick up, you can rent another one.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Expensive and they get they get gross inside its Yeah,
and now I saw on one of the neighborhood pages
this woman and her son are like going around with
a pressure washer and they're charging twenty bucks and they'll
clean your the side of your trash entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Brilliant. Yeah, that's brilliant.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
The trashman is disgusting because they can all spraze out.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Just leave it open in the rain and I'll say,
there you go clean itself.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Does the one fit all your stuff?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Does it ever get a little dicey there? Yeah, especially
during like the holidays? Oh yeah right, that's a mess.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
You know the solution is you just start like looking
at other people's kids.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That's a good idea, all right, Chris Trankman with today's
Stop Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
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