December 2, 2025 • 15 mins
TOP STORIES - How to avoid charity scams on Giving Tuesday, Florida officers crack down on fake handicap placards, Polk County family returns home after being stranded at sea for 20 hours, police officer shot while responding to disturbance in Port St. Lucie, Miami-Dad College limits access to second library vote, another child drowns amid record drowning deaths in Florida, and Megan Thee Stallion wins partial victory in lawsuit against Milagro Cooper.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now for today's top stories, brought to you by
my friends over at the Holland Group Retirement and wealth advisors.
You worked hard to save for your future, they can
help you make the most of it. Find them online
at Askdehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So after an intense weekend of shopping Black Friday and
Cyber Monday deals, today is a chance to give back
to the community. The Tuesday after Thanksgiving globally recognized as
Giving Tuesday. It's a chance to support charities and local
groups by donating money, time, or goods. And it's one
of the biggest fundraising days of the year for nonprofits.
(00:36):
And because of cuts to government grants, delays and snap
benefits and other financial challenges, there's higher demand this year
for people to give. So the warnings are out about
trying to avoid scammers because apparently they take advantage of
people who have a good heart.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
They do. It's amazing how and when.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
These scammers decide to try to screw people out of
doing something nice or after some kind of natural disaster.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I mean, it's just outrageous.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's one thing, if you
were going to buy something and you get scammed. This
is donating your money to help people, and then you
could still lose your money in that instance. And so
the Better Business Bureau is out with some advice on
what to do to protect yourself and they say that
a trustworthy charity will publish its mission, programs and finances
on the website. You can do searches to see if
(01:29):
there's any scam related incident associated with the name of
this so called charity. And thanks to chad GPT and
other search AI bots, there are ways to find these
things much more easily than just doing generic internet searches
in the past. And the other thing you can do
is go and make sure that you use things like
(01:51):
credit cards or other established online payment plans so that
you're protected rather than transferring money that you could never
get back in case it as a scam. Yeah, you
have to watch out, especially you know, AI can be
helpful in catching scams. In fact, my dad got some
letter in the mail and apparently we have a relative
(02:12):
who left us millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wow, oh wow, yeah, yeah, who knew party it Ryan right, right?
And so I took that letter and I put it
into chat EPT and I said, is this a scam
or legit? And it ran through all the different ways
that it was a scam.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I got a letter the other day about my mortgage
being sold, and I thought it was a scam. So
I took a picture of it and I ran it
through chatch EPT and it said, no, you still pay
your mortgage to the same company, but it has been sold.
This is a legitimate letter. It's just the back end
and the loan has been sold.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But I didn't know, right right, Yeah, so a I
can help. But also we've seen AI make it easier
for scammers to dupe people.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, because they can create a scam website. They can
just you can tell it, generate a charity website and
it'll do.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
The whole thing for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, so you got to watch out for that today
on Giving Tuesday. Now it's my contention and I want
to get your thoughts on this, Chris. I think they
have the day wrong, not not the Tuesday part of it,
but doing it after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, after
a weekend of shopping. It should be before all of that.
(03:20):
I feel like it should be the Tuesday before Thanks.
Why because you still have money left.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yes, that's exactly why you got all the Black Friday deals,
all this stuff for your family and your kids and
your friends. You bought all the gifts Cyber Monday, you
buy all the gifts. You got nothing left on giving Tuesdays.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I feel like the Tuesday before Thanksgiving you're more likely
to give a few extra bucks as opposed to the
Tuesday after you do all that shopping.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And you're all tapped out.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, you're like, oh my god, I'd love to give more,
but I just spent all this money.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I just bought gifts for everyone in my family.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well maybe they're playing on the guilt of all the spending,
you get. That could be, man, I really should have
given this charity. Yeah, and you know they get you
that way. I'm not sure it's a good point. Maybe
they could try both, you know, do it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Beforehand and then apparently they're already what is Kindness Day
coming up on Friday?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I know, another one?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah right right? Really difficult for you, all this niceness
and giving. God, I know it does terrible.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What else is going on? Griss?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So we know that when you're driving through a pack
parking lot during these busy shopping weekends. They are all
these handicapped spaces that are just sitting there empty, and
you're thinking, you know what, maybe I can just like
park here and nobody will care. Or maybe I can
make myself one of those placards and just you know,
put it in my windshell. Yeah, and then nobody will know. Well,
(04:47):
a sting operation in Mount Dora, of all places, this
is a clink town in Lake County, Florida, decided to
crack down on the handicapped placard scammers. Good for them,
and out of eighty stops, thirty of them were phony placards.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Wow, that's a big percentagelse.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And that's a mountdra Can you imagine in Miami.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Or Tampa exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So, I think the point here is that there are
a lot of people parking in those handicap spaces that
aren't handicapped.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Now I see it just in my complex. I'm telling look,
it is possible that this one woman in particular, who
I'm thinking about, it's possible that she has some condition
that allowed her to get a legit handicap parking permit.
But huh no, she seems to be able to get
out of the car just fine, she's walking around and
(05:43):
you know, you could have.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Some type of a lung condition, a hard conditions spenser
from walking far distances.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
People spots over.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
She can't do it, really like, there are a lot
of people who take advantage of this, and you know,
for those who are truly handicapped need to be you know,
near the entrance of a store, where near you know,
the building where they live.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It's it's bs. Yeah, I think you know.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
What's uh, what always deters me is when you pull
into one of those spaces and I'm thinking I'll just
run in and you know, come back out. It's that
two hundred and fifty dollars fine that they put on
the sign. I'm like, you know what, maybe I'll just
walk it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, it's that or like in Seinfeld where you had
an incident where they decided to park in the handicap
spots and you know it led to the car being
destroyed and a mob going after the crew. So you
want to watch out for that unintended contest.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
That's wrong and you should leave that spot for a
handicapped person. It's the twifty Yeah, you away from those spots.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's right, that's right, it's it's not the moral dilemma
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So four generations of a Polk County family returned to
church on Sunday, a week after being rescued from their
capsized boat in the golf. Pastor Dennis Woods, his son
in law, Chris Harding Senior, grandson Chris Harding Junior, and
ninety year old Clarence Woods Wow were stranded for about
twenty hours after the boat capsized during a fishing trip.
(07:15):
So three of the four returned to the Apostolic Church
of Jesus Christ in Auburndale. That's where Pastor Woods leads
the congregation, and it was an emotional homecoming. They have music, prayers,
tears of relief. This was a story that obviously was
in our newscast. These guys had been out there. They
had a problem with their boat not too long after
going out into the golf about twenty one miles off
(07:36):
of Clearwater's coast, their vessel overturned and they did contact
the coastguard, but a search was needed because they didn't
have all of the tracking devices that would have made
the rescue happen sooner. But the good news is that
they were able to notify people for help and they
were rescued at sea. But really an amazing story of survival,
(07:58):
especially when you consider that had a ninety year old person.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
On board the boat who was there in the water
with everyone else. Yeah, twenty hours out in the water.
I don't think I could survive, I know, twenty hours
on the water with my family, Yeah, no way I'd
survive that.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Especially in the water hanging onto a boat. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I feel like There'd be a point during those twenty
hours where I'd just say, you know what, I'm going
in the water and whatever happens, yeah happens, I'm going under.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I mean, it just shows you how dangerous it can
be out there in the Gulf. You know, even people
who are immoderately experienced with boats can be in danger.
And these capsized vessels do happen from time to time,
so it's important to make sure you have the necessary
equipment to contact the coast party if something goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
All right, Chris Trankman with today's top Stories. Chris, thanks
so much, Thank you. Right now, let's get to today's
stop Stories with Natalie Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Good morning, Natalie, good morning.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Well on the eve of an Indian River County deputy's funeral.
Another officer has been shot in the line of duty.
Apports Saint Lucy police sergeant shot in the face last
night after responding to a call.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
It's the notification that you just dread every day, but
it's always in the back of your mind as a
police chief, as a leader in law enforcement. It's it's
something that you're always very aware of, afraid of, concern for,
and then it happens.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
So what we know so far from Police Chief leonimchek Is,
Sergeant Eric Lavaster underwent surgery is in ICU right now.
The suspect was killed and this apparently stemmed from some
sort of domestic call but then turned into a mental
health confrontation with the suspect.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, you talked to members of law enforcement and those
domestic disturbance calls, yeah, yeah, yeah, they can escalate quickly.
But boy, we've had a really rough stretch for law
enforcement here in this state. You had the officer who
responded to what was supposed to be just a minor
traffic accident. One of the people involved, a veteran who
(10:04):
had some mental health issues, got hold of his gun
shot and killed him. Then we had the situation that
you mentioned in Indian River County. In fact, if you
see flags flying at half staff today, that's why. It's
to honor the deputy who was shot and killed on
November twenty first, serving an eviction notice with two other deputies.
(10:26):
And now we have this one. Hopefully this Port Saint
Lucie officer will be okay. But yeah, it's been a
violent stretch for law enforcement. Just a reminder, you know,
they're putting their lives on the line for us every
single day, and that's why if you see a member
of law enforcement today, thank them for their service to
the community.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Meanwhile, we've got a second vote on tap this morning
to possibly green light Miami Dade Colleges give away of
land next to downtown Miami's Freedom Tower for the Donald J.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Trump Presidential Library.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
But we're still hearing from historian and activist doctor Marvin
who expects them to ask a judge to drop his
lawsuit over the secretiveness of the first vote.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
That then leaves it in the hands of the judge
to determine whether or not what they've done now with
this retake is sufficient and whether or not they really
allowed public input that was listening.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
To and he thinks the whole meeting today is just
kind of a setup. He says, the fact that they
set it up for eight o'clock this morning on the
Hialia campus proves that they don't even want people to
actually show up.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, they're trying to cover their ass. I don't understand
why they don't just hold a normal public hearing. Just
go through the normal process. Yeah, people are going to
give their input, They're going to be pissed off because
it's Donald Trump's Presidential Library. But you go through the
normal process and you do it that way, as opposed
to trying to sneak this thing through like they did
before or then kind of mess around with a sort
(11:47):
of public hearing, but you know, not a regular kind
of hearing. I just I don't get it. So we'll
see where all of this goes. I think ultimately the
Presidential Library gets built there, it gets done. But this
is just a lot of it seems like drama for
no reason. All right, what else is going on? Natalie Well?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Tragically a reminder again that you have to have like
seventeen eyes on a child one has drowned in Broward
County pember Pines fire Rescue announcing that the one year
old did pass away. The child was found unresponsive over
the weekend at home. They were taken to the hospital,
where they were pronounced dead. No other details have been released,
but in a matter of seconds, tragedy can strike when
(12:27):
it involves water and a child.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You don't in the report for this story, I saw
a statistic that it was jaw dropping to me. Florida's
recorded one hundred and twelve child drowning so far in
twenty twenty five. That's the highest total since two thousand
and seven, six more than this time last year.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
That is a lot of child drowning.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It is yet, well, there's so much risk because there's
so many pools in Florida. There's open bodies of water,
and I think sometimes like I don't know exactly what
happened in this case here, but when you have a
pool and you have a bunch of adults, everybody assumes
that other people are.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Watching the kids.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I've seen that happen over and over again, and I'm
I'm the helicopter mom, so I'm always kind of watching.
But I've noticed how other people, like nobody's paying attention.
And then you know, pool safety when people think that
a sliding door is locked and it's not actually locked,
and a kid opens the sliding door and they fall
in the pool.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I mean it takes one inch of water for a
child to drown. Yeah, sometimes, so we don't think about
that one inch of water.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, it's not necessarily deep end. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Well, and they and one of my friends, her daughter
teaches swim lessons for babies and what they do, and
they want a lot of parents to do this.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
There's free classes and stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Is they just kind of drop the baby in the
water so that they learn, like someone's right there to
help them, so that they learn.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, you know, I was going to say that that
reminds me of my childhood.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Drop in the deep end and figure it out, not
do that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
My kids learned how to swim when they were a
little bit older than that. But but yeah, that's how
you can teach babies to be able to save themselves.
Starting at like six months old, you can drop a
baby in a pool and eventually, after doing it a
few times, the baby will figure out how to get itself.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Don't try this at home.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
A professional, but they teach it at the community pool
and I've seen them do it before, and it's very
jarring for the parents. I can only yeah, then if
your kid falls in a pool, they're going to know
how to get themselves up.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Because clearly we've got to do more here in this state.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Because that's that's a big number, especially scared again, the
highest total since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
All right, let's one more quick story. Netlik.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Absolutely she sought millions but only got thousands. Wrapper Megan
the Stallion. She won her civil defamation lawsuit in Miami
federal court. The jury only awarded her though fifteen nine
thousand dollars in damages. Megan Pete is her real name.
She's a South Florida rapper. She says she's okay with it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm not esthetic, of course, you want things to go
your way, But like I said, I respect the jury
and what they decided, and I don't think I'm made.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Up for at all.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Of the stems from the that she sued a blogger,
the defendant Milago Graham's Cooper for, among other things, sharing
a deep fake pornographic video that appeared to feature Megan
the Stallion in it and then just trashed her name online.
So apparently this is like one of the first cases, Yeah,
that I've heard of that involved this type of lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, AI generated sexual deep fake talent like that.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I know she only got fifty nine thousand damages, but
I think she'll be just fine. She'll make plenty more
throughout the rest of her career. So again, if you
aren't familiar with Megan the Stallion, and it's not the
it's the Megan the E Stallion.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
The two eas.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, two e's.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And there was a suspicious package found outside the courthouse.
I don't have any connection to do with with her
being there, no, Okay. Natalie Rodriguez with today's app stories. Natalie,
thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You got it. It's a Ryan Gorman Show five to
nine every weekday morning on news Radio two u FLA.
Time now for today's top stories, brought to you by
my friends over at the Holland Group Retirement and wealth advisors.
You worked hard to save for your future, they can
help you make the most of it. Find them online
at Askdehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So after an intense weekend of shopping Black Friday and
Cyber Monday deals, today is a chance to give back
to the community. The Tuesday after Thanksgiving globally recognized as
Giving Tuesday. It's a chance to support charities and local
groups by donating money, time, or goods. And it's one
of the biggest fundraising days of the year for nonprofits.
(00:36):
And because of cuts to government grants, delays and snap
benefits and other financial challenges, there's higher demand this year
for people to give. So the warnings are out about
trying to avoid scammers because apparently they take advantage of
people who have a good heart.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
They do. It's amazing how and when.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
These scammers decide to try to screw people out of
doing something nice or after some kind of natural disaster.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I mean, it's just outrageous.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's one thing, if you
were going to buy something and you get scammed. This
is donating your money to help people, and then you
could still lose your money in that instance. And so
the Better Business Bureau is out with some advice on
what to do to protect yourself and they say that
a trustworthy charity will publish its mission, programs and finances
on the website. You can do searches to see if
(01:29):
there's any scam related incident associated with the name of
this so called charity. And thanks to chad GPT and
other search AI bots, there are ways to find these
things much more easily than just doing generic internet searches
in the past. And the other thing you can do
is go and make sure that you use things like
(01:51):
credit cards or other established online payment plans so that
you're protected rather than transferring money that you could never
get back in case it as a scam. Yeah, you
have to watch out, especially you know, AI can be
helpful in catching scams. In fact, my dad got some
letter in the mail and apparently we have a relative
(02:12):
who left us millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wow, oh wow, yeah, yeah, who knew party it Ryan right, right?
And so I took that letter and I put it
into chat EPT and I said, is this a scam
or legit? And it ran through all the different ways
that it was a scam.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I got a letter the other day about my mortgage
being sold, and I thought it was a scam. So
I took a picture of it and I ran it
through chatch EPT and it said, no, you still pay
your mortgage to the same company, but it has been sold.
This is a legitimate letter. It's just the back end
and the loan has been sold.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But I didn't know, right right, Yeah, so a I
can help. But also we've seen AI make it easier
for scammers to dupe people.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, because they can create a scam website. They can
just you can tell it, generate a charity website and
it'll do.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
The whole thing for Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, so you got to watch out for that today
on Giving Tuesday. Now it's my contention and I want
to get your thoughts on this, Chris. I think they
have the day wrong, not not the Tuesday part of it,
but doing it after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, after
a weekend of shopping. It should be before all of that.
(03:20):
I feel like it should be the Tuesday before Thanks.
Why because you still have money left.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yes, that's exactly why you got all the Black Friday deals,
all this stuff for your family and your kids and
your friends. You bought all the gifts Cyber Monday, you
buy all the gifts. You got nothing left on giving Tuesdays.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I feel like the Tuesday before Thanksgiving you're more likely
to give a few extra bucks as opposed to the
Tuesday after you do all that shopping.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And you're all tapped out.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, you're like, oh my god, I'd love to give more,
but I just spent all this money.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I just bought gifts for everyone in my family.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well maybe they're playing on the guilt of all the spending,
you get. That could be, man, I really should have
given this charity. Yeah, and you know they get you
that way. I'm not sure it's a good point. Maybe
they could try both, you know, do it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Beforehand and then apparently they're already what is Kindness Day
coming up on Friday?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I know, another one?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah right right? Really difficult for you, all this niceness
and giving. God, I know it does terrible.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What else is going on? Griss?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So we know that when you're driving through a pack
parking lot during these busy shopping weekends. They are all
these handicapped spaces that are just sitting there empty, and
you're thinking, you know what, maybe I can just like
park here and nobody will care. Or maybe I can
make myself one of those placards and just you know,
put it in my windshell. Yeah, and then nobody will know. Well,
(04:47):
a sting operation in Mount Dora, of all places, this
is a clink town in Lake County, Florida, decided to
crack down on the handicapped placard scammers. Good for them,
and out of eighty stops, thirty of them were phony placards.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Wow, that's a big percentagelse.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And that's a mountdra Can you imagine in Miami.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Or Tampa exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So, I think the point here is that there are
a lot of people parking in those handicap spaces that
aren't handicapped.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Now I see it just in my complex. I'm telling look,
it is possible that this one woman in particular, who
I'm thinking about, it's possible that she has some condition
that allowed her to get a legit handicap parking permit.
But huh no, she seems to be able to get
out of the car just fine, she's walking around and
(05:43):
you know, you could have.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Some type of a lung condition, a hard conditions spenser
from walking far distances.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
People spots over.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
She can't do it, really like, there are a lot
of people who take advantage of this, and you know,
for those who are truly handicapped need to be you know,
near the entrance of a store, where near you know,
the building where they live.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It's it's bs. Yeah, I think you know.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
What's uh, what always deters me is when you pull
into one of those spaces and I'm thinking I'll just
run in and you know, come back out. It's that
two hundred and fifty dollars fine that they put on
the sign. I'm like, you know what, maybe I'll just
walk it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, it's that or like in Seinfeld where you had
an incident where they decided to park in the handicap
spots and you know it led to the car being
destroyed and a mob going after the crew. So you
want to watch out for that unintended contest.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
That's wrong and you should leave that spot for a
handicapped person. It's the twifty Yeah, you away from those spots.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's right, that's right, it's it's not the moral dilemma
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So four generations of a Polk County family returned to
church on Sunday, a week after being rescued from their
capsized boat in the golf. Pastor Dennis Woods, his son
in law, Chris Harding Senior, grandson Chris Harding Junior, and
ninety year old Clarence Woods Wow were stranded for about
twenty hours after the boat capsized during a fishing trip.
(07:15):
So three of the four returned to the Apostolic Church
of Jesus Christ in Auburndale. That's where Pastor Woods leads
the congregation, and it was an emotional homecoming. They have music, prayers,
tears of relief. This was a story that obviously was
in our newscast. These guys had been out there. They
had a problem with their boat not too long after
going out into the golf about twenty one miles off
(07:36):
of Clearwater's coast, their vessel overturned and they did contact
the coastguard, but a search was needed because they didn't
have all of the tracking devices that would have made
the rescue happen sooner. But the good news is that
they were able to notify people for help and they
were rescued at sea. But really an amazing story of survival,
(07:58):
especially when you consider that had a ninety year old person.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
On board the boat who was there in the water
with everyone else. Yeah, twenty hours out in the water.
I don't think I could survive, I know, twenty hours
on the water with my family, Yeah, no way I'd
survive that.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Especially in the water hanging onto a boat. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I feel like There'd be a point during those twenty
hours where I'd just say, you know what, I'm going
in the water and whatever happens, yeah happens, I'm going under.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I mean, it just shows you how dangerous it can
be out there in the Gulf. You know, even people
who are immoderately experienced with boats can be in danger.
And these capsized vessels do happen from time to time,
so it's important to make sure you have the necessary
equipment to contact the coast party if something goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
All right, Chris Trankman with today's top Stories. Chris, thanks
so much, Thank you. Right now, let's get to today's
stop Stories with Natalie Rodriguez.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Good morning, Natalie, good morning.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Well on the eve of an Indian River County deputy's funeral.
Another officer has been shot in the line of duty.
Apports Saint Lucy police sergeant shot in the face last
night after responding to a call.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
It's the notification that you just dread every day, but
it's always in the back of your mind as a
police chief, as a leader in law enforcement. It's it's
something that you're always very aware of, afraid of, concern for,
and then it happens.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
So what we know so far from Police Chief leonimchek Is,
Sergeant Eric Lavaster underwent surgery is in ICU right now.
The suspect was killed and this apparently stemmed from some
sort of domestic call but then turned into a mental
health confrontation with the suspect.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, you talked to members of law enforcement and those
domestic disturbance calls, yeah, yeah, yeah, they can escalate quickly.
But boy, we've had a really rough stretch for law
enforcement here in this state. You had the officer who
responded to what was supposed to be just a minor
traffic accident. One of the people involved, a veteran who
(10:04):
had some mental health issues, got hold of his gun
shot and killed him. Then we had the situation that
you mentioned in Indian River County. In fact, if you
see flags flying at half staff today, that's why. It's
to honor the deputy who was shot and killed on
November twenty first, serving an eviction notice with two other deputies.
(10:26):
And now we have this one. Hopefully this Port Saint
Lucie officer will be okay. But yeah, it's been a
violent stretch for law enforcement. Just a reminder, you know,
they're putting their lives on the line for us every
single day, and that's why if you see a member
of law enforcement today, thank them for their service to
the community.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Meanwhile, we've got a second vote on tap this morning
to possibly green light Miami Dade Colleges give away of
land next to downtown Miami's Freedom Tower for the Donald J.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Trump Presidential Library.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
But we're still hearing from historian and activist doctor Marvin
who expects them to ask a judge to drop his
lawsuit over the secretiveness of the first vote.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
That then leaves it in the hands of the judge
to determine whether or not what they've done now with
this retake is sufficient and whether or not they really
allowed public input that was listening.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
To and he thinks the whole meeting today is just
kind of a setup. He says, the fact that they
set it up for eight o'clock this morning on the
Hialia campus proves that they don't even want people to
actually show up.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, they're trying to cover their ass. I don't understand
why they don't just hold a normal public hearing. Just
go through the normal process. Yeah, people are going to
give their input, They're going to be pissed off because
it's Donald Trump's Presidential Library. But you go through the
normal process and you do it that way, as opposed
to trying to sneak this thing through like they did
before or then kind of mess around with a sort
(11:47):
of public hearing, but you know, not a regular kind
of hearing. I just I don't get it. So we'll
see where all of this goes. I think ultimately the
Presidential Library gets built there, it gets done. But this
is just a lot of it seems like drama for
no reason. All right, what else is going on? Natalie Well?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Tragically a reminder again that you have to have like
seventeen eyes on a child one has drowned in Broward
County pember Pines fire Rescue announcing that the one year
old did pass away. The child was found unresponsive over
the weekend at home. They were taken to the hospital,
where they were pronounced dead. No other details have been released,
but in a matter of seconds, tragedy can strike when
(12:27):
it involves water and a child.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You don't in the report for this story, I saw
a statistic that it was jaw dropping to me. Florida's
recorded one hundred and twelve child drowning so far in
twenty twenty five. That's the highest total since two thousand
and seven, six more than this time last year.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
That is a lot of child drowning.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It is yet, well, there's so much risk because there's
so many pools in Florida. There's open bodies of water,
and I think sometimes like I don't know exactly what
happened in this case here, but when you have a
pool and you have a bunch of adults, everybody assumes
that other people are.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Watching the kids.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I've seen that happen over and over again, and I'm
I'm the helicopter mom, so I'm always kind of watching.
But I've noticed how other people, like nobody's paying attention.
And then you know, pool safety when people think that
a sliding door is locked and it's not actually locked,
and a kid opens the sliding door and they fall
in the pool.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
I mean it takes one inch of water for a
child to drown. Yeah, sometimes, so we don't think about
that one inch of water.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, it's not necessarily deep end. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Well, and they and one of my friends, her daughter
teaches swim lessons for babies and what they do, and
they want a lot of parents to do this.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
There's free classes and stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Is they just kind of drop the baby in the
water so that they learn, like someone's right there to
help them, so that they learn.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, you know, I was going to say that that
reminds me of my childhood.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Drop in the deep end and figure it out, not
do that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
My kids learned how to swim when they were a
little bit older than that. But but yeah, that's how
you can teach babies to be able to save themselves.
Starting at like six months old, you can drop a
baby in a pool and eventually, after doing it a
few times, the baby will figure out how to get itself.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Don't try this at home.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
A professional, but they teach it at the community pool
and I've seen them do it before, and it's very
jarring for the parents. I can only yeah, then if
your kid falls in a pool, they're going to know
how to get themselves up.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Because clearly we've got to do more here in this state.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Because that's that's a big number, especially scared again, the
highest total since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
All right, let's one more quick story. Netlik.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Absolutely she sought millions but only got thousands. Wrapper Megan
the Stallion. She won her civil defamation lawsuit in Miami
federal court. The jury only awarded her though fifteen nine
thousand dollars in damages. Megan Pete is her real name.
She's a South Florida rapper. She says she's okay with it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm not esthetic, of course, you want things to go
your way, But like I said, I respect the jury
and what they decided, and I don't think I'm made.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Up for at all.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Of the stems from the that she sued a blogger,
the defendant Milago Graham's Cooper for, among other things, sharing
a deep fake pornographic video that appeared to feature Megan
the Stallion in it and then just trashed her name online.
So apparently this is like one of the first cases, Yeah,
that I've heard of that involved this type of lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, AI generated sexual deep fake talent like that.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I know she only got fifty nine thousand damages, but
I think she'll be just fine. She'll make plenty more
throughout the rest of her career. So again, if you
aren't familiar with Megan the Stallion, and it's not the
it's the Megan the E Stallion.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
The two eas.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, two e's.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And there was a suspicious package found outside the courthouse.
I don't have any connection to do with with her
being there, no, Okay. Natalie Rodriguez with today's app stories. Natalie,
thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You got it. It's a Ryan Gorman Show five to
nine every weekday morning on news Radio two u FLA.
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