November 13, 2025 • 18 mins
TOP STORIES - A breakdown of the House vote to reopen the federal government, plus new charges for the man accused of crashing into a Ybor City bar and killing four people. We also look at AAA’s decision to roll back Florida auto insurance rates. An update on a Lakeland cold-case murder involving a 14-year-old victim, the attorney general seeks the death penalty in a Hernando child sex battery case, and progress on Tropicana Field repairs with the Rays funding several upgrades.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The federal government began reopening last night after President Trump
signed into law spending package that narrowly passed the House.
It was bipartisan, ending the longest shutdown in the nation's history.
Some programs like food stamps also known as SNAP, could
be restored this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Trump used the bill to attack Democrats for what he
called extortion, blaming them for the harm inflicted on air
travel and the loss of paychecks for federal workers. But
polling shows most Americans are still blaming Republicans for the shutdown.
Democrats using the reopening to blame Republicans for the high
health insurance premiums people are facing because of their elimination
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by Republicans, and that was not included in the reopening bill.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There was no question this had to wrap up this week.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's why I said last week I thought it would UH,
because if this UH extended into next week, then by
the time you unwind it all, you're going to have
problems with Thanksgiving travel and that was going to be
just a situation that would have been big loss for everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It also seemed like they wanted to get to the record,
right said that too.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I thought Democrats wanted to set the record. They did.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Uh, and then you really saw things start to come
together late last week. Last weekend, the election kind of
slowed things down for a second. He didn't know exactly
if Democrats were going to want to hold out after
their big victories uh last Tuesday. But uh, then things
ramped up over the weekend, and now we have the
federal government reopened.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I would not want to be that that park ranger
has to be the first one to go clean the
bathrooms that haven't been cleaned.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Since they started the shutdown. Yeah, that's a rough gig.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I thought you were going to say, like open the gates,
people trample them going to get into the park.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, we did that story I think a week or
two ago, where yeah, nobody's been in those bathrooms during
the shutdown.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
That's random little thing that you would never even think about.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Why, I just use you know, nature, they're out there
in the park. Well, I'm sure there's been some of
that too, that's been going on. In terms of the
air travel disruption. Actually, we've got some good news this morning.
Department of Transportation said they have seen a big decline
in the number of air traffic controllers calling out because
you know, air traffic controllers saw the light at the
end of the tunnel, and what they're doing is freezing
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that flight reduction number at its current level of six percent.
It was supposed to increase to eight percent today and
then ten percent tomorrow. It's not going to happen because
it seems like they've got the situation a bit more
under control. There were about nine hundred flights canceled nationwide yesterday.
That's down from twelve hundred Tuesday and twenty four hundred Monday.
So the flight reductions held now at six percent, and
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I would expect that to gradually go down. Hopefully they
can really ramp things up over the weekend and then
we'll be back to normal by the Thanksgiving travel holiday,
which is going to be pretty chaotic as it always is.
And good news, like you mentioned, Chris, the snap benefits
they should be going out today. You've got you know,
over three million Floridians depending on those so it's a
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big deal for them.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And back pay also is a big deal for those
federal wripers who aren't getting paid.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
For the last month.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
One of my friends worked for I guess we now
call it the Department of War, and she got a
text last night that she posted and it says the
President has approved a continuing resolution. Employees should resume normal operations.
Contact or supervisor for additional guidance, and then it says
reply to acknowledge you have received this message.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And she got that at nine o'clock last night.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Whoever's see all those replies, they're going to be getting flooded.
And I will note not to be Debbie Downer here,
but this continuing resolution goes until the end of January,
so we'll be right back where we started.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Fun of the new year. Yeah, can't wait. We'll see
next negotiation goes. Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
A man accused of fleeing police and crashing into a
bar patio along Ebor City's main drag in Tampa early
Saturday as a court hearing today and he's facing some
new charges. The Florida Highway Patrol charge twenty two year
old Silas Samson with three felony counts of fleeing to
elude at high speeds with serious bodily injury, also three
felonies of reckless driving with bodily injury. He had been
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previously charged with felony accounts of vehicular homicide and aggrav
at aggravated fleeing with bodily injury. So a judge will
determine whether he can be held without bond ahead of
his trial.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In his hearing this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, and there was another development tied to all this
that I took notice of two brothers who lived through
the Parkland school shooting. They were among those injured in
that deadly crash. You had, Connor and Brandon Dietrich. They
were apparently sitting outside Bradley's on Seventh Avenue with their
best friend when the car played out into the patio.
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Their father, Bob Dietrich, talked to ten Tampa Bay said
that Brandon was briefly pinned against a glass wall, but
then managed to free himself and eventually found Connor and
their friend.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Finds Connor laying in a puddle of blood. He finds
what he didn't realize was Riley at first, but he
saw somebody with a severe lass race on her forehead.
I didn't realize that's Riley, And you know, he just
kind of jumped into action.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And this is how he described Connor's injuries.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
He's got several skull fractures on the left side of
his head. He's got a broken shoulder of copical and
scalpular or broken elacerated spleen. We're still weight on results
from some MRIs to determine the level of injury that
might have happened to it a brain.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We just don't know. I don't know if I want
to have my son back.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Can you imagine that you have two sons who live
through the Parkland School shooting, only to be in the
wrong place at the wrong time when somebody comes speeding
down Seventh Avenue and yboards sitting and smashes right into
the causes that kind of damage. And you know, we've
talked a lot about the four victims, and we've mentioned
how many people were injured. But you know, when you
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hear stories like that, you realize, like some of those injuries,
they're not scrapes.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
That's yeah, that's a serious injury that he's going to
take a long time to recover from and maybe never
fully recover.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I mean it's just to think of the trauma that
that family has gone through and now they have to
deal with this. And if you remember in the Ebor
City mass shooting that happened last year, there was a
Parkland student that was there during that event. So, you know,
it's just unfortunate that we keep seeing these kinds of
things happen here with Florida. But you know, we wish
that family the very past a little after, you know,
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all the trauma they've suffered. Triple A has announced another
round of rate cuts for Florida policy holders. The company
said it was a more stable market that's paving the
way for savings heading into next year. So since the
start of twenty twenty five, the Auto club has reduced
insurance premiums by about fifteen percent and their home insurance
plans by five percent, so that's roughly seventy million dollars
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a year savings. The company is creditingly lower rates because
of statewide legal reforms that have stabilized claims costs, and
Triple A says it's going to seek approval for a
fourth rate drop that could.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That could take effect early next year.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
That was I think the fact that we didn't have
any storms this year that obviously has helped a bit.
I feel like I've heard more anecdotal evidence that car
insurance premiums are coming down as opposed to home insurance.
I feel like the auto insurance rates, I know, I
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saw a decrease coming into this year, and I feel
like I've heard that from quite a few I have
not heard anybody say, aside from I think Jimmy Patronis
recently said that his property insurance rates were going down nice,
very nice, or hand right by five dollars. Yeah, but
I do feel like there's a bit of a difference
between the two that I've seen. But you know, it
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might be time to if these companies are going to
start dropping rates, might be time to start shopping around.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, Triple A said that the drop was just five percent,
and they're not anywhere near one of the biggest insurers, right,
So you're not talking about a lot of policies in
comparison to say Citizens or some of the other bigger insurers.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But it is going down now.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
The reason that say Progressive and some of the others
lowered rates was not because of the marketplace, it was
because they had to.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, the probably making too much money, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The profits were so high that they were in violation
of state law and had to return that money to customers,
which meant they were overcharging Floridians all that time.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and with Progressive it better not be like with
YouTube TV, because I better and not have to go
click a button to get my rebate like with YouTube
where I got to go claim the twenty dollars credit
and go on to I just send it to me,
make it easy. Good luck with that, Send it to me,
all right. Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks
so much, Thank you. If we start with today's top
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stories and Chris Trankman, Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Lake Lynn Police have made an arrest in the twenty
eighteen murder of a fourteen year old boy. So in
July third of that year, police officers were called to
a suspicious incident on West Crawford Street around four to
twenty in the morning. The fourteen year old's half brother,
Rex Honors the Third, reported that he could not locate
his younger brother, Rex Honors the fourth.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Who was also known as Stuffy.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
They checked the home and they later found Stuffy dead
in the backyard and autopsy performed that he had been
killed by a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Now,
all the long detectives suspected that Rex Honors the Third
had something to do with the murder, but they couldn't
gather enough evidence or probable cause to move forward with
the case. However, advances in digital phone analysis helped them
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solve this one. A detective came out of retirement to
work this cold case, and thanks to new software, they
found that there was some information on the phone that
led them to discover that he had been arrested in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And they went up.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
There and talked to him and got a full confession
about what happened. Yeah, Rex Honors the Third, I ended
up admitting that he had a fight. They got into
an argument. He thought that he was going to be
harmed by the teenager and used a gun and shot
him and then essentially panicked and put the body out
in the yard and some tall grass, hoping no one
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would find it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He shared details during that confession that had never been
publicly released. That's how they knew he was telling the truth. They,
like you said, suspected him to begin with. It was
odd because he called nine to one one to report.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
The brother missing it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The brother was in the backyard, I mean, come on,
and he says self defense, but the evidence showed that
the shot was fired at a very close range, more
kind of execution style than anything else.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, and so did he kill him in the house
and then brought him outside of the backyard is a
really good job cleaning it all up. It's just as
odd to me that they couldn't find enough evidence, you know,
just given the situation at the time.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They did it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
He did it, He dragged the body outside, he cleaned
up the scene, he disposed of the guns, all of that.
And it was one of those situations where they seem
to have known it was him. They just didn't have
what they needed to really put them away. And now
they do.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, and so in this case, you have a sad story.
You have a you know, two brothers essentially get the
same yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, the other one was known
as Stuffy, but yeah, I mean technically get the same name.
But it was an unfortunate situation. But I think what's
interesting here, though, is that they were able to use technology.
(11:39):
You can go through the phones of people and find
clues that in the past would have just been too
difficult to figure out. I guess what they can do
is they can get these phones when they're unlocked, hook
them up to the software, and search for specific pieces
of information, which, as you can imagine, it's hard enough
for the owner of the phone to find, like, yes things,
let alone is true, Let alone clues to a cold case.
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And so that's what they were able to do to
solve this one.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And credit to that investigator for reopening the file and
leading to this arrest.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, I'm sure it was one of those things where
there was just a frustration that they never closed this
one exactly, and I think they saw an opportunity with
new technology, and then the fact that he had been
arrested for another crime gave him a second chance. Attorney
General James Upmeier says he's pursuing the death penalty for
Nathan Holmberg in Hernando County. He announced that a grand
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jury has come back with an indictment on twenty five counts,
and it includes seven counts of capital sexual battery on
a child under twelve. Holmberg is accused of engaging in
sex abuse with a three year old and not only
did he do the physical acts allegedly, but he filmed them.
And there are five or six other victims that the
investigation shows also still exist and they would like to
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find now. A good Samaritan reported Holmburg after they discovered
evidence on his phone that showed him engaging in these
sex acts with a young child. So he is seeking
the ultimate punishment in this case. And what's unusual is
the death penalty is usually reserved for people who.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Kill other people, right, right, And so a couple things here.
This is that case that also has that part of
it tied to the Jacksonville area back in twenty twelve,
where he allegedly did pretty much the same thing, never
had to register as a sex offender. I think there's
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still some serious questions about what the hell happened up
there in North Florida back then. And after that he
worked as a babysitter, a volunteer coach, a church counselor.
So that's why there are questions about how many more
victims are out there. So what Florida did back in
twenty twenty three, the state expanded its death penalty law
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to include child's rape. And essentially what the Attorney General
is going to do this is going to use this case
to go to the Supreme Court to revisit the Supreme
Court's ruling from two thousand and eight that barred executions
for child rape when the victim wasn't killed. So, you know,
when this law was passed in twenty twenty three here,
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it was always going to be set up to eventually
challenge that Supreme Court precedent. And we'll see if the
Attorney General wins that case. I mean, that's a two
thousand and eight decision. You know, sometimes we see president overturned,
usually it's much further back than something like That's not
impossible that he won't win it, but I think he's
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got an uphill climb. And Florida is also operating with
that lower bar for death penalty convictions. That's something else
that the Supreme Court had ruled against in the past
that's going to come up.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And those that one you're talking about had a unanimous ruler, yeah,
saying you got to have an unanimous jury. So it'll
be interesting to see if either of those laws hold up.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
At the highest court.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But in the meantime they're gonna plow forward and look politically.
Elthmeyer obviously he wants to get elected as Attorney General
and he wants to show he's tough on crime. And
there's probably very little things more popular than punishing people
who injure or harm or even kill kids.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of hard to make the
case that this person shouldn't be put to death based
on what he did. But you know, we have laws
in this country, and so this is going to end
up in the Supreme Court. It'll be interesting to see
what the outcome is. I would say probably an uphill
climb for the Attorney General to get those presidents overturned.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
So twenty out of twenty four roof panels have been
installed the Tropicana Field. Visible progress for the iconic Saint
Petersburg landmark.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Almost done and it's yes, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So you know, we were talking about how they needed
to get this thing done in time for the opening
day for the Ray season next year in April, but
they're talking about this whole thing being finished by February
at a schedule that's right. And so the rest of
the panels are slated to go up by next week,
and the inside construction work is underway. According to the
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City Development Administration, they hope to have that done by
the end of February, so that's well ahead of the deadline.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
One of the questions was the corporate offices for the
Tampa Bay Rays, which were located inside the TRUP. The
team is going to pick up the bill for that
so that taxpayers aren't going to have to cover that. Obviously,
they want to have probably a certain level of uh,
you know, detailing and all that, and you know, luxury
features that the city wouldn't be obligated to pay for as.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
As nice as they want. As long as they're footing
the bill, they're also going.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
To be handling.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
They're going to be paying for some improvements to the
Stingray Tank area.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's excellent news.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, which is, I don't know, one of the most
popular features at the trap. Improve it somehow, So we'll
see what that that looks like. But you've got so
much that needs to be done. You've got you know,
the lighting, you've got the sound. All that has to
be replaced. On the inside. Apparently there are locker room
repairs that need to be made because rainstorms over the
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summer led to extra water damage, so not associated with
the hurricane damage, but because the roof was open open,
you know, during the summer you had those storms and
it caused even more damage. And then once it's all done,
the whole thing's gonna have to undergo an air quality
test to make sure there's no mold and.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Think, yeah, there's probably yeah, there's probably gonna be a
lot of mold in there.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You think they can get rid of those catwalks so
that like the you know pop ups don't like hit
the raptors and go into the stands.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's a fun feature of the truck.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And then you had one of the owners, the CEO,
Ken Babbie, he did a meet and greet with fans
at Ferg's and he said the ballpark's gonna look better
than ever once it's all done. And Ferg's owner noted,
you know, thirty percent drop in there customer attendance because
the Rays weren't playing last season.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That was not a surprise, No, no, that it's it's
those business. If you're a sports bar, they have the
team playing there. So it's good news to hear that
it's going to be up and up and running on.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Time, all right. Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris,
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The federal government began reopening last night after President Trump
signed into law spending package that narrowly passed the House.
It was bipartisan, ending the longest shutdown in the nation's history.
Some programs like food stamps also known as SNAP, could
be restored this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Trump used the bill to attack Democrats for what he
called extortion, blaming them for the harm inflicted on air
travel and the loss of paychecks for federal workers. But
polling shows most Americans are still blaming Republicans for the shutdown.
Democrats using the reopening to blame Republicans for the high
health insurance premiums people are facing because of their elimination
(00:54):
by Republicans, and that was not included in the reopening bill.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There was no question this had to wrap up this week.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's why I said last week I thought it would UH,
because if this UH extended into next week, then by
the time you unwind it all, you're going to have
problems with Thanksgiving travel and that was going to be
just a situation that would have been big loss for everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It also seemed like they wanted to get to the record,
right said that too.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I thought Democrats wanted to set the record. They did.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Uh, and then you really saw things start to come
together late last week. Last weekend, the election kind of
slowed things down for a second. He didn't know exactly
if Democrats were going to want to hold out after
their big victories uh last Tuesday. But uh, then things
ramped up over the weekend, and now we have the
federal government reopened.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I would not want to be that that park ranger
has to be the first one to go clean the
bathrooms that haven't been cleaned.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Since they started the shutdown. Yeah, that's a rough gig.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I thought you were going to say, like open the gates,
people trample them going to get into the park.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, we did that story I think a week or
two ago, where yeah, nobody's been in those bathrooms during
the shutdown.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
That's random little thing that you would never even think about.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Why, I just use you know, nature, they're out there
in the park. Well, I'm sure there's been some of
that too, that's been going on. In terms of the
air travel disruption. Actually, we've got some good news this morning.
Department of Transportation said they have seen a big decline
in the number of air traffic controllers calling out because
you know, air traffic controllers saw the light at the
end of the tunnel, and what they're doing is freezing
(02:34):
that flight reduction number at its current level of six percent.
It was supposed to increase to eight percent today and
then ten percent tomorrow. It's not going to happen because
it seems like they've got the situation a bit more
under control. There were about nine hundred flights canceled nationwide yesterday.
That's down from twelve hundred Tuesday and twenty four hundred Monday.
So the flight reductions held now at six percent, and
(02:57):
I would expect that to gradually go down. Hopefully they
can really ramp things up over the weekend and then
we'll be back to normal by the Thanksgiving travel holiday,
which is going to be pretty chaotic as it always is.
And good news, like you mentioned, Chris, the snap benefits
they should be going out today. You've got you know,
over three million Floridians depending on those so it's a
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big deal for them.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And back pay also is a big deal for those
federal wripers who aren't getting paid.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
For the last month.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
One of my friends worked for I guess we now
call it the Department of War, and she got a
text last night that she posted and it says the
President has approved a continuing resolution. Employees should resume normal operations.
Contact or supervisor for additional guidance, and then it says
reply to acknowledge you have received this message.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And she got that at nine o'clock last night.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Whoever's see all those replies, they're going to be getting flooded.
And I will note not to be Debbie Downer here,
but this continuing resolution goes until the end of January,
so we'll be right back where we started.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Fun of the new year. Yeah, can't wait. We'll see
next negotiation goes. Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
A man accused of fleeing police and crashing into a
bar patio along Ebor City's main drag in Tampa early
Saturday as a court hearing today and he's facing some
new charges. The Florida Highway Patrol charge twenty two year
old Silas Samson with three felony counts of fleeing to
elude at high speeds with serious bodily injury, also three
felonies of reckless driving with bodily injury. He had been
(04:26):
previously charged with felony accounts of vehicular homicide and aggrav
at aggravated fleeing with bodily injury. So a judge will
determine whether he can be held without bond ahead of
his trial.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In his hearing this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, and there was another development tied to all this
that I took notice of two brothers who lived through
the Parkland school shooting. They were among those injured in
that deadly crash. You had, Connor and Brandon Dietrich. They
were apparently sitting outside Bradley's on Seventh Avenue with their
best friend when the car played out into the patio.
(05:01):
Their father, Bob Dietrich, talked to ten Tampa Bay said
that Brandon was briefly pinned against a glass wall, but
then managed to free himself and eventually found Connor and
their friend.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Finds Connor laying in a puddle of blood. He finds
what he didn't realize was Riley at first, but he
saw somebody with a severe lass race on her forehead.
I didn't realize that's Riley, And you know, he just
kind of jumped into action.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And this is how he described Connor's injuries.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
He's got several skull fractures on the left side of
his head. He's got a broken shoulder of copical and
scalpular or broken elacerated spleen. We're still weight on results
from some MRIs to determine the level of injury that
might have happened to it a brain.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We just don't know. I don't know if I want
to have my son back.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Can you imagine that you have two sons who live
through the Parkland School shooting, only to be in the
wrong place at the wrong time when somebody comes speeding
down Seventh Avenue and yboards sitting and smashes right into
the causes that kind of damage. And you know, we've
talked a lot about the four victims, and we've mentioned
how many people were injured. But you know, when you
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hear stories like that, you realize, like some of those injuries,
they're not scrapes.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
That's yeah, that's a serious injury that he's going to
take a long time to recover from and maybe never
fully recover.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I mean it's just to think of the trauma that
that family has gone through and now they have to
deal with this. And if you remember in the Ebor
City mass shooting that happened last year, there was a
Parkland student that was there during that event. So, you know,
it's just unfortunate that we keep seeing these kinds of
things happen here with Florida. But you know, we wish
that family the very past a little after, you know,
(06:37):
all the trauma they've suffered. Triple A has announced another
round of rate cuts for Florida policy holders. The company
said it was a more stable market that's paving the
way for savings heading into next year. So since the
start of twenty twenty five, the Auto club has reduced
insurance premiums by about fifteen percent and their home insurance
plans by five percent, so that's roughly seventy million dollars
(07:01):
a year savings. The company is creditingly lower rates because
of statewide legal reforms that have stabilized claims costs, and
Triple A says it's going to seek approval for a
fourth rate drop that could.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That could take effect early next year.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
That was I think the fact that we didn't have
any storms this year that obviously has helped a bit.
I feel like I've heard more anecdotal evidence that car
insurance premiums are coming down as opposed to home insurance.
I feel like the auto insurance rates, I know, I
(07:34):
saw a decrease coming into this year, and I feel
like I've heard that from quite a few I have
not heard anybody say, aside from I think Jimmy Patronis
recently said that his property insurance rates were going down nice,
very nice, or hand right by five dollars. Yeah, but
I do feel like there's a bit of a difference
between the two that I've seen. But you know, it
(07:55):
might be time to if these companies are going to
start dropping rates, might be time to start shopping around.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, Triple A said that the drop was just five percent,
and they're not anywhere near one of the biggest insurers, right,
So you're not talking about a lot of policies in
comparison to say Citizens or some of the other bigger insurers.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But it is going down now.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
The reason that say Progressive and some of the others
lowered rates was not because of the marketplace, it was
because they had to.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, the probably making too much money, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The profits were so high that they were in violation
of state law and had to return that money to customers,
which meant they were overcharging Floridians all that time.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, and with Progressive it better not be like with
YouTube TV, because I better and not have to go
click a button to get my rebate like with YouTube
where I got to go claim the twenty dollars credit
and go on to I just send it to me,
make it easy. Good luck with that, Send it to me,
all right. Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks
so much, Thank you. If we start with today's top
(08:52):
stories and Chris Trankman, Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Lake Lynn Police have made an arrest in the twenty
eighteen murder of a fourteen year old boy. So in
July third of that year, police officers were called to
a suspicious incident on West Crawford Street around four to
twenty in the morning. The fourteen year old's half brother,
Rex Honors the Third, reported that he could not locate
his younger brother, Rex Honors the fourth.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Who was also known as Stuffy.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
They checked the home and they later found Stuffy dead
in the backyard and autopsy performed that he had been
killed by a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Now,
all the long detectives suspected that Rex Honors the Third
had something to do with the murder, but they couldn't
gather enough evidence or probable cause to move forward with
the case. However, advances in digital phone analysis helped them
(09:45):
solve this one. A detective came out of retirement to
work this cold case, and thanks to new software, they
found that there was some information on the phone that
led them to discover that he had been arrested in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And they went up.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
There and talked to him and got a full confession
about what happened. Yeah, Rex Honors the Third, I ended
up admitting that he had a fight. They got into
an argument. He thought that he was going to be
harmed by the teenager and used a gun and shot
him and then essentially panicked and put the body out
in the yard and some tall grass, hoping no one
(10:20):
would find it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He shared details during that confession that had never been
publicly released. That's how they knew he was telling the truth. They,
like you said, suspected him to begin with. It was
odd because he called nine to one one to report.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
The brother missing it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The brother was in the backyard, I mean, come on,
and he says self defense, but the evidence showed that
the shot was fired at a very close range, more
kind of execution style than anything else.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, and so did he kill him in the house
and then brought him outside of the backyard is a
really good job cleaning it all up. It's just as
odd to me that they couldn't find enough evidence, you know,
just given the situation at the time.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They did it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
He did it, He dragged the body outside, he cleaned
up the scene, he disposed of the guns, all of that.
And it was one of those situations where they seem
to have known it was him. They just didn't have
what they needed to really put them away. And now
they do.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, and so in this case, you have a sad story.
You have a you know, two brothers essentially get the
same yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, the other one was known
as Stuffy, but yeah, I mean technically get the same name.
But it was an unfortunate situation. But I think what's
interesting here, though, is that they were able to use technology.
(11:39):
You can go through the phones of people and find
clues that in the past would have just been too
difficult to figure out. I guess what they can do
is they can get these phones when they're unlocked, hook
them up to the software, and search for specific pieces
of information, which, as you can imagine, it's hard enough
for the owner of the phone to find, like, yes things,
let alone is true, Let alone clues to a cold case.
(12:02):
And so that's what they were able to do to
solve this one.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And credit to that investigator for reopening the file and
leading to this arrest.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, I'm sure it was one of those things where
there was just a frustration that they never closed this
one exactly, and I think they saw an opportunity with
new technology, and then the fact that he had been
arrested for another crime gave him a second chance. Attorney
General James Upmeier says he's pursuing the death penalty for
Nathan Holmberg in Hernando County. He announced that a grand
(12:31):
jury has come back with an indictment on twenty five counts,
and it includes seven counts of capital sexual battery on
a child under twelve. Holmberg is accused of engaging in
sex abuse with a three year old and not only
did he do the physical acts allegedly, but he filmed them.
And there are five or six other victims that the
investigation shows also still exist and they would like to
(12:55):
find now. A good Samaritan reported Holmburg after they discovered
evidence on his phone that showed him engaging in these
sex acts with a young child. So he is seeking
the ultimate punishment in this case. And what's unusual is
the death penalty is usually reserved for people who.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Kill other people, right, right, And so a couple things here.
This is that case that also has that part of
it tied to the Jacksonville area back in twenty twelve,
where he allegedly did pretty much the same thing, never
had to register as a sex offender. I think there's
(13:33):
still some serious questions about what the hell happened up
there in North Florida back then. And after that he
worked as a babysitter, a volunteer coach, a church counselor.
So that's why there are questions about how many more
victims are out there. So what Florida did back in
twenty twenty three, the state expanded its death penalty law
(13:57):
to include child's rape. And essentially what the Attorney General
is going to do this is going to use this case
to go to the Supreme Court to revisit the Supreme
Court's ruling from two thousand and eight that barred executions
for child rape when the victim wasn't killed. So, you know,
when this law was passed in twenty twenty three here,
(14:18):
it was always going to be set up to eventually
challenge that Supreme Court precedent. And we'll see if the
Attorney General wins that case. I mean, that's a two
thousand and eight decision. You know, sometimes we see president overturned,
usually it's much further back than something like That's not
impossible that he won't win it, but I think he's
(14:40):
got an uphill climb. And Florida is also operating with
that lower bar for death penalty convictions. That's something else
that the Supreme Court had ruled against in the past
that's going to come up.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And those that one you're talking about had a unanimous ruler, yeah,
saying you got to have an unanimous jury. So it'll
be interesting to see if either of those laws hold up.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
At the highest court.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But in the meantime they're gonna plow forward and look politically.
Elthmeyer obviously he wants to get elected as Attorney General
and he wants to show he's tough on crime. And
there's probably very little things more popular than punishing people
who injure or harm or even kill kids.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of hard to make the
case that this person shouldn't be put to death based
on what he did. But you know, we have laws
in this country, and so this is going to end
up in the Supreme Court. It'll be interesting to see
what the outcome is. I would say probably an uphill
climb for the Attorney General to get those presidents overturned.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
So twenty out of twenty four roof panels have been
installed the Tropicana Field. Visible progress for the iconic Saint
Petersburg landmark.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Almost done and it's yes, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So you know, we were talking about how they needed
to get this thing done in time for the opening
day for the Ray season next year in April, but
they're talking about this whole thing being finished by February
at a schedule that's right. And so the rest of
the panels are slated to go up by next week,
and the inside construction work is underway. According to the
(16:13):
City Development Administration, they hope to have that done by
the end of February, so that's well ahead of the deadline.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
One of the questions was the corporate offices for the
Tampa Bay Rays, which were located inside the TRUP. The
team is going to pick up the bill for that
so that taxpayers aren't going to have to cover that. Obviously,
they want to have probably a certain level of uh,
you know, detailing and all that, and you know, luxury
features that the city wouldn't be obligated to pay for as.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
As nice as they want. As long as they're footing
the bill, they're also going.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
To be handling.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
They're going to be paying for some improvements to the
Stingray Tank area.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's excellent news.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, which is, I don't know, one of the most
popular features at the trap. Improve it somehow, So we'll
see what that that looks like. But you've got so
much that needs to be done. You've got you know,
the lighting, you've got the sound. All that has to
be replaced. On the inside. Apparently there are locker room
repairs that need to be made because rainstorms over the
(17:14):
summer led to extra water damage, so not associated with
the hurricane damage, but because the roof was open open,
you know, during the summer you had those storms and
it caused even more damage. And then once it's all done,
the whole thing's gonna have to undergo an air quality
test to make sure there's no mold and.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Think, yeah, there's probably yeah, there's probably gonna be a
lot of mold in there.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You think they can get rid of those catwalks so
that like the you know pop ups don't like hit
the raptors and go into the stands.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's a fun feature of the truck.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And then you had one of the owners, the CEO,
Ken Babbie, he did a meet and greet with fans
at Ferg's and he said the ballpark's gonna look better
than ever once it's all done. And Ferg's owner noted,
you know, thirty percent drop in there customer attendance because
the Rays weren't playing last season.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That was not a surprise, No, no, that it's it's
those business. If you're a sports bar, they have the
team playing there. So it's good news to hear that
it's going to be up and up and running on.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Time, all right. Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris,
thanks so much. Thank you. The Ryan Gorman Show on
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Speaker 1 (18:23):
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