TOP STORIES - The latest on Hurricane Melissa’s path and impact, Governor Ron DeSantis criticizes proposed property tax amendments, and a Florida driver tried to blame his mom for a “super speeder” arrest. Plus, a Hernando County man faces sex crime charges involving multiple children, the Senate once again stalls on daylight saving time reform, and a woman sues SeaWorld Orlando after a duck struck her during a roller coaster ride.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now. Good morning, Karen, Well.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
So I'm just looking at the NaSTA Hurricane Center. They
have updated Melissa for their eight am update and she's
still a Category two with maximum sustained wins of one
hundred and five miles per hour and she's moving about
twenty one miles per hour to the north northeast and
heading toward Bermuda. She's already passed over at the Bahamas,
(00:34):
but she really made it a horrific healthscape in Jamaica,
Cuba and Haiti.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
In fact, you know, it's a record storm for Jamaica.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Melissa is the strongest storm to hit the island since
record keeping began one hundred and seventy four years ago.
And I guess they can't all be like Hurricane Karen
earlier this year, which was an absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I know, I know we caught that was going to
be the angry one, the big one, and.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Nope, it was not.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I didn't have Melissa when we go through before the
start of hurricane season. Each year, we go through the
names that we try to pick which storms, based on
their names, are gonna be the worst ones. I did
not have Melissa being one of the strongest storms of
all time.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, and I have a daughter Katrina.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh yeah, now that's a retired name. I think Melissa's
gonna be retired too. And if you look at the
Saint Elizabeth area in particular in Jamaica, I mean again,
just looks like a bulldozer went right through these towns
and neighborhoods and destroyed everything. And I'm sure like if
(01:38):
a hurricane the size and strength of Melissa were to
hit here in Florida, you would probably have more structures
able to hold than what we're seeing in Jamaica. But
you know, when you get to one hundred and eighty
five mile per hour winds in the storm surge and
(01:59):
the amount of rain because the storm is moving so slow,
it really doesn't matter where a storm like that hits,
You're just going to see massive amounts of destruction. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I mean even some of the big solid buildings had
patios ripped off and windows broken, furniture blown around.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah, how secure the building is that wind hits it
the right way and it's done.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And the debts all right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now, it's hovering around a little over thirty people across
the Caribbean. We don't really have numbers yet from Jamaica,
and unfortunately, I think it's going to be pretty bad,
just again because of the size and scale of this storm,
especially a storm search. I mean, when you have neighborhoods
in Haiti being wiped out, you have at least twenty
(02:42):
five debts and a whole lot more missing there, you
can only imagine what we're probably going to see in Jamaica.
And again we're going to go live to Jamaica for
an update and talk about ways you can help, coming
up at eight thirty five this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What else is happening, Karen So.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Governor DeSantis is really not happy with the State House
and they're plan to put at least like five options
of property tax reform amendments on the ballot for voters
to you know, try to figure out which one they like.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And is what he had to say about it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
If that were to be done, that is a way
you kill any type of getting property tax reform.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So he wants to see one bold, beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Basically, yeah, no, you're right, he with clear language.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, he called the property tax package the House put
forward milk toast, which that's that's ad.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Isn't that an insult that Trump called somebody a while
and so, because I know we've talked about that before,
I can't remember who he called milk toast.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, but he did.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It was definitely what I called Chris when we went
through the hurricane list of names. I don't remember if
it was this year or the year before, and there
was a there was a Chris on it, and I
said to our Chris Trenkman, Chris kind of like a
milk toast, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
He said it about Kayleie mckennainey back in twenty twenty three.
He was upset with her when she quoted some poll
numbers that were unfavorable to him.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Her milk toast. Yeah, I had no idea. I don't
remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So the House proposed eight options, and DeSantis is right,
he can't have that many choices on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You're gonna have to httle it down.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Maybe the House was planning on doing that during the
upcoming session. I don't know, but now you have this
battle between the House Speaker and the governor yet again.
And I think the Governor's right there should only be one.
They got to decide on one. It's got to be
clearly written. The Governor hasn't released his own proposal yet,
though that's expected soon. But it's like, but you know,
before you start criticizing what the House is doing, maybe
(04:38):
you know, release your own proposal. Then you had State
Senator Mac Bernard from West Palm Beach. He rolled out
even more proposals, like how many we have it? I
think we have like twelve At this point.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The governor says he's developing a single broader a memory.
He is going to focus squarely on homesteaded Florida residents.
He believes that they should eventually pay no property tax
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Right, and we'll see how far he goes with that
and what it does to impact school funding and police
and fire funding and all of that. But going back
to that UNF poll that we talked about yesterday, you
had housing costs the number one concern among voters. Then
you had insurance and then property taxes, and they asked
about eliminating property taxes for homeowners and forty nine percent
(05:20):
supported it, forty three percent opposed it. You need sixty
percent for an amendment to pass, so there would be
some work that would need to be done to get
to that point.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, let's get to one more quick story.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Karen, So, I don't know if you knew this, but
as of July first, we have a super speeder law.
It makes it a felony to go over one hundred
miles per hour. So we have a case of a kid,
a nineteen year old driver, and he was arrested for
going over a one hundred on a bridge about one
oh six. One oh six, yeah, buckle six, so Lee
County Sheriff, they clocked him. Santiago car say Como Lundano
(05:57):
was going one hundred and six in the Edson Bridge,
Fort Meyers, and he asked him, you know, get out
of the car, and he said, hey, my mom told
me to rush this passnger.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All told, he blamed his mom.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now he's got a felony arrest.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, he's got a felony arrests. And he went viral
for blaming his mom.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm his mom not happy, Keep it his mom happy.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Some of the excuses from these super speeders have been
very interesting. There was one in Orange County going over
one hundred miles per hour, late to a birthday party.
A woman going one hundred and thirteen. She was rushing
to pick up her dog. And a Popka man there.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
One he was late for the barber.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, there was the one person who was late for
the barbers.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I kind of understand. One person said, look, my spinometer
was broken. I had no idea it was going one
hundred and nineteen miles per hour on the road. Yeah.
But this one, that's a new one. My mom told
me to hurry up. Karen Curtis with today's Top Stories. Karen,
thanks so much. Thank you for today's top stories, brought
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(06:58):
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The Hernando County sheriff calls him a true monster. Detectives
are investigating a man who they say preyed on numerous
children and then recorded.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It on his phone.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Sheriff Al Ninhai says thirty six year old Nathan Holmberg
was arrested after a good samaritan reported the suspect to
his office. The sheriff says the witness discovered evidence on
Holmberg's cell phone that he engaged in sex acts with
a very young child. So detectives discovered Holmberg had a
suspended driver's license, they were able to track him down
(07:41):
and when they asked him whether he had any child
pornography downloaded on his phone, he said no, I make
my own mmm.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So a search of the phone led to the discovery
of seven victims in the case. The youngest was reported
to be three years old, the oldest age ten. There
could be more victims too, they think in all kinds
of different areas of the state, Pasco Panellis, the Jacksonville area,
more than six hundred and fifty photos and videos. And
(08:12):
this is what's really troubling. I think about the story.
He previously pleaded guilty to child abuse in twenty twelve
in Jacksonville, and the arrest Staffid David reads almost verbatim
to what Hernando County detective saw on the cell phone
video of homework sexually abusing a child. He pled guilty
(08:36):
to child abuse, got five years probation and wasn't designated
a sexual predator, So he flew under the radar and
worked as a babysitter, volunteer coach, a church counselor. How
does that happen? How can one sheriff's office see this
(08:58):
guy as a true monster and another law enforcement agency
and prosecution team give him five years probation and not
ensure he is designated as a sexual predator. You know,
the only thing I can think of is maybe they
just didn't think they had enough to take him to
trial on those charges. Maybe, but again they're the arrest
(09:19):
affidavit according to all these reports, is that you know,
that case is almost identical to the one in Hernando County.
So nothing happens in twenty twelve. Who knows how many
more victims there have been since then, obviously, you know
it's been at least a few. And nobody had a
heads up that this could be a possibility because he
(09:42):
never had to register as.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
A sexual predator. Yeah that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, pretty big failure there, and just a horrific story.
So one of Florida's US senators and his ongoing quest
to keep Florida extra dark in the morning has come
up short again in the US Senate. So this is
the brainchild of Senator Rick Scott and actually Marco Rubio,
the other Senator, is also a supporter of this, getting
(10:07):
rid of the changing of the clocks that we do
twice a year and making daylight saving time permanent, yeah,
instead of the annual switch to daylight standard time, which
is coming up light out later.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
So the idea being that people like an extra hour
of sunlight. The only problem with that is if you
do that, you take away an hour of sunlight from
the morning. You don't just get to add an extra
hour of sun and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, we have to tug it out to do that
just yet.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, now, And that's the problem that this bill runs
into every year. You know, it seems like there's support
in places like Florida and some other states, and then
you get the other states that are like, wait a minute,
we're gonna be in the dark all morning long, and
then the kids are going to be standing at the
bus stops and they're going to be in danger because
of cars driving at night while they're waiting.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For the bus.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Now, this is not the first time this bill has
been used. I mean, there was a time in World
War Two that they put in year round daylight saving
time to reduce energy use. And then in nineteen seventy
four they did it again, but you know what, it
was so unpopular they actually repealed it later that year
because mainly of all the parents complaining about it being
(11:16):
dark all morning. Right, So it was Arkansas Senator Tom
Cotton who objected and stopped this bill from passing by
unanimous consent, And he said that last time when it
did pass by unanimous consent, that was back in twenty
twenty two, it ended up going nowhere in the House,
but he said he didn't realize what was going on
and he wasn't going to make that mistake again. Well,
(11:36):
you remember that they kind of that flew under the
radar and got passed really quickly, and they thought they
pulled a fast right, it didn't survive the house, But
this time there were definitely senators aware of it, and
once again it failed because there just isn't enough nationwide
support for this effort. Now, President Trump actually backs this
bill and Senator Scott's idea, but his home is in Florida.
(12:00):
I don't think he's passionate enough to really, you know,
get behind it and push it through. I have completely
changed my take on this. I used to be in
favor of it staying light out later. Yeah, I like that.
I don't know that that would be making daylight saving
time permanent. That's right now, because I actually I try
to get to bed a little earlier, So I'm trying
(12:20):
to lay down at like eight thirty and then I
get up.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
At two, but the sun's still right now.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I like it where it's dark out earlier because it's
easier for me to kind of lay down and feel
like I'm going to bed. So now I guess I'm
in favor of it. Would be standard time, that's right,
standard time all year round. Is that would that keep
it dark out earlier? Well, I think then you would
have a situation where it gets darker too early, right,
and it would be getting lighter too early on the
(12:47):
other side. Okay, yeah, but I mean I'm up at
two am, so you know, I think that for my
personal needs, it's annoying to change the clocks, but that's
the balance. Yeah, you adjusted at certain times that the year,
so you don't have an extreme of too much daylight
and right and then you know, too much darkness in
the morning. I am looking forward to falling back this
weekend though. Yeah, this is the good one. I do
(13:10):
like that. There's two changes. There's one good one and
one really bad one. And for the most part, it's
basically just my microwave and my stove at this point
that I have to adjust everything else.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Uh, it's all in your phone automatic.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Is automatic?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yeah, I have to adjust, yeah, and it'll it'll be
wrong for months.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, that's like the hardest one to adjust.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
The time I have to do it, I got to
figure out how to you know, it's like an annoying
man to do it at a red light, and it'll
be like, you can't do this while you're driving.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And they're honking at you.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The microwave and the stove are frustrating to me because
I want them to be exactly the same, So I
try to time it out to where I change them
both at the same time, and sometimes, you know, you're
a little off. Yeah, I know, it's frustrating. Yeah, I
mean having that one minute difference, that's brutal. It's somebody
with OCD, you bother right to go. So a woman
is suing SeaWorld Orlando after a duck allegedly entered a
(14:08):
roller coaster's path and struck her in the face, knocking
her unconscious, leaving her injuries. So the lawsuit was filed
in Orange County. This apparently happened on March twenty fourth,
while the rider was on the Mako roller coaster. She
is seeking fifty thousand dollars in damages for what she
(14:29):
says is negligence on the part of SeaWorld that led
to the flying duck striking her. According to the complaint,
so she's accusing SeaWorld of not keeping the ride area
safe from wildlife hazards. And she said, first of all,
she said the park failed to warn riders about the
risk of birds flying into the coaster's path. And she
(14:51):
said the coaster runs over water where ducks are known together.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So there's that issue too. Well.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I know, for in fact, that the theme parks do
try to get rid of wildlife near the rides. Yeah,
for this sort of thing, right, And we know the
airport does it too, because you can't have jets taking
off and having birds flying into the jet engines.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yep, So it is I.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Think something that you could argue they needed to do
a better job with. But obviously you can't control what
a duck might do and where it comes from. And
are they going to be able to successfully argue that
the duck was part of Sea World's control. I mean,
if it's just flying in the air, what he's supposed
to do?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Right? This reminds me.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't know if you remember this, Chris, back in
nineteen ninety nine, Fabio, remember he was on that roller
coaster and he emerges with the bloody face, and originally
everybody thought that it was a goose that hit him
directly during the roller coaster. It actually was the goose
(15:53):
that hit the camera that was on the ride that
shattered and that's what caused the blood on his face.
But everybody just remembers the incident as Fabio being hit
by a goose on a roller coaster, and you've got this,
you know, gorgeous human being all bloodied.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Up at the end of a roller coaster ride. I
mean the laconic image. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Well, in this case, you know, the law firm is
Morgan and Morgan. This is the latest in what's been
you know, a rough year for theme parks because obviously
you have the situation going on, yeah, with the with
the roller coaster where somebody died at Universal. Now you
have this incident over at Sea World. Ye, and it
brings another sort of negative story right to one of
(16:34):
the Orlando theme park lesusy have the two suicides in
the past month in Disney World. Yeah, that's been a
rough year. Headline still the theme parks. Sorry, Chris Trankman
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now. Good morning, Karen, Well.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
So I'm just looking at the NaSTA Hurricane Center. They
have updated Melissa for their eight am update and she's
still a Category two with maximum sustained wins of one
hundred and five miles per hour and she's moving about
twenty one miles per hour to the north northeast and
heading toward Bermuda. She's already passed over at the Bahamas,
(00:34):
but she really made it a horrific healthscape in Jamaica,
Cuba and Haiti.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
In fact, you know, it's a record storm for Jamaica.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Melissa is the strongest storm to hit the island since
record keeping began one hundred and seventy four years ago.
And I guess they can't all be like Hurricane Karen
earlier this year, which was an absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I know, I know we caught that was going to
be the angry one, the big one, and.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Nope, it was not.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I didn't have Melissa when we go through before the
start of hurricane season. Each year, we go through the
names that we try to pick which storms, based on
their names, are gonna be the worst ones. I did
not have Melissa being one of the strongest storms of
all time.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, and I have a daughter Katrina.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh yeah, now that's a retired name. I think Melissa's
gonna be retired too. And if you look at the
Saint Elizabeth area in particular in Jamaica, I mean again,
just looks like a bulldozer went right through these towns
and neighborhoods and destroyed everything. And I'm sure like if
(01:38):
a hurricane the size and strength of Melissa were to
hit here in Florida, you would probably have more structures
able to hold than what we're seeing in Jamaica. But
you know, when you get to one hundred and eighty
five mile per hour winds in the storm surge and
(01:59):
the amount of rain because the storm is moving so slow,
it really doesn't matter where a storm like that hits,
You're just going to see massive amounts of destruction. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I mean even some of the big solid buildings had
patios ripped off and windows broken, furniture blown around.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah, how secure the building is that wind hits it
the right way and it's done.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And the debts all right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now, it's hovering around a little over thirty people across
the Caribbean. We don't really have numbers yet from Jamaica,
and unfortunately, I think it's going to be pretty bad,
just again because of the size and scale of this storm,
especially a storm search. I mean, when you have neighborhoods
in Haiti being wiped out, you have at least twenty
(02:42):
five debts and a whole lot more missing there, you
can only imagine what we're probably going to see in Jamaica.
And again we're going to go live to Jamaica for
an update and talk about ways you can help, coming
up at eight thirty five this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What else is happening, Karen So.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Governor DeSantis is really not happy with the State House
and they're plan to put at least like five options
of property tax reform amendments on the ballot for voters
to you know, try to figure out which one they like.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And is what he had to say about it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
If that were to be done, that is a way
you kill any type of getting property tax reform.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So he wants to see one bold, beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Basically, yeah, no, you're right, he with clear language.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, he called the property tax package the House put
forward milk toast, which that's that's ad.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Isn't that an insult that Trump called somebody a while
and so, because I know we've talked about that before,
I can't remember who he called milk toast.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, but he did.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It was definitely what I called Chris when we went
through the hurricane list of names. I don't remember if
it was this year or the year before, and there
was a there was a Chris on it, and I
said to our Chris Trenkman, Chris kind of like a
milk toast, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
He said it about Kayleie mckennainey back in twenty twenty three.
He was upset with her when she quoted some poll
numbers that were unfavorable to him.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Her milk toast. Yeah, I had no idea. I don't
remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So the House proposed eight options, and DeSantis is right,
he can't have that many choices on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You're gonna have to httle it down.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Maybe the House was planning on doing that during the
upcoming session. I don't know, but now you have this
battle between the House Speaker and the governor yet again.
And I think the Governor's right there should only be one.
They got to decide on one. It's got to be
clearly written. The Governor hasn't released his own proposal yet,
though that's expected soon. But it's like, but you know,
before you start criticizing what the House is doing, maybe
(04:38):
you know, release your own proposal. Then you had State
Senator Mac Bernard from West Palm Beach. He rolled out
even more proposals, like how many we have it? I
think we have like twelve At this point.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The governor says he's developing a single broader a memory.
He is going to focus squarely on homesteaded Florida residents.
He believes that they should eventually pay no property tax
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Right, and we'll see how far he goes with that
and what it does to impact school funding and police
and fire funding and all of that. But going back
to that UNF poll that we talked about yesterday, you
had housing costs the number one concern among voters. Then
you had insurance and then property taxes, and they asked
about eliminating property taxes for homeowners and forty nine percent
(05:20):
supported it, forty three percent opposed it. You need sixty
percent for an amendment to pass, so there would be
some work that would need to be done to get
to that point.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, let's get to one more quick story.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Karen, So, I don't know if you knew this, but
as of July first, we have a super speeder law.
It makes it a felony to go over one hundred
miles per hour. So we have a case of a kid,
a nineteen year old driver, and he was arrested for
going over a one hundred on a bridge about one
oh six. One oh six, yeah, buckle six, so Lee
County Sheriff, they clocked him. Santiago car say Como Lundano
(05:57):
was going one hundred and six in the Edson Bridge,
Fort Meyers, and he asked him, you know, get out
of the car, and he said, hey, my mom told
me to rush this passnger.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All told, he blamed his mom.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now he's got a felony arrest.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, he's got a felony arrests. And he went viral
for blaming his mom.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm his mom not happy, Keep it his mom happy.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Some of the excuses from these super speeders have been
very interesting. There was one in Orange County going over
one hundred miles per hour, late to a birthday party.
A woman going one hundred and thirteen. She was rushing
to pick up her dog. And a Popka man there.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
One he was late for the barber.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, there was the one person who was late for
the barbers.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I kind of understand. One person said, look, my spinometer
was broken. I had no idea it was going one
hundred and nineteen miles per hour on the road. Yeah.
But this one, that's a new one. My mom told
me to hurry up. Karen Curtis with today's Top Stories. Karen,
thanks so much. Thank you for today's top stories, brought
to you by my friends over at the Holland Group,
(06:58):
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The Hernando County sheriff calls him a true monster. Detectives
are investigating a man who they say preyed on numerous
children and then recorded.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It on his phone.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Sheriff Al Ninhai says thirty six year old Nathan Holmberg
was arrested after a good samaritan reported the suspect to
his office. The sheriff says the witness discovered evidence on
Holmberg's cell phone that he engaged in sex acts with
a very young child. So detectives discovered Holmberg had a
suspended driver's license, they were able to track him down
(07:41):
and when they asked him whether he had any child
pornography downloaded on his phone, he said no, I make
my own mmm.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So a search of the phone led to the discovery
of seven victims in the case. The youngest was reported
to be three years old, the oldest age ten. There
could be more victims too, they think in all kinds
of different areas of the state, Pasco Panellis, the Jacksonville area,
more than six hundred and fifty photos and videos. And
(08:12):
this is what's really troubling. I think about the story.
He previously pleaded guilty to child abuse in twenty twelve
in Jacksonville, and the arrest Staffid David reads almost verbatim
to what Hernando County detective saw on the cell phone
video of homework sexually abusing a child. He pled guilty
(08:36):
to child abuse, got five years probation and wasn't designated
a sexual predator, So he flew under the radar and
worked as a babysitter, volunteer coach, a church counselor. How
does that happen? How can one sheriff's office see this
(08:58):
guy as a true monster and another law enforcement agency
and prosecution team give him five years probation and not
ensure he is designated as a sexual predator. You know,
the only thing I can think of is maybe they
just didn't think they had enough to take him to
trial on those charges. Maybe, but again they're the arrest
(09:19):
affidavit according to all these reports, is that you know,
that case is almost identical to the one in Hernando County.
So nothing happens in twenty twelve. Who knows how many
more victims there have been since then, obviously, you know
it's been at least a few. And nobody had a
heads up that this could be a possibility because he
(09:42):
never had to register as.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
A sexual predator. Yeah that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, pretty big failure there, and just a horrific story.
So one of Florida's US senators and his ongoing quest
to keep Florida extra dark in the morning has come
up short again in the US Senate. So this is
the brainchild of Senator Rick Scott and actually Marco Rubio,
the other Senator, is also a supporter of this, getting
(10:07):
rid of the changing of the clocks that we do
twice a year and making daylight saving time permanent, yeah,
instead of the annual switch to daylight standard time, which
is coming up light out later.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
So the idea being that people like an extra hour
of sunlight. The only problem with that is if you
do that, you take away an hour of sunlight from
the morning. You don't just get to add an extra
hour of sun and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, we have to tug it out to do that
just yet.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, now, And that's the problem that this bill runs
into every year. You know, it seems like there's support
in places like Florida and some other states, and then
you get the other states that are like, wait a minute,
we're gonna be in the dark all morning long, and
then the kids are going to be standing at the
bus stops and they're going to be in danger because
of cars driving at night while they're waiting.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For the bus.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Now, this is not the first time this bill has
been used. I mean, there was a time in World
War Two that they put in year round daylight saving
time to reduce energy use. And then in nineteen seventy
four they did it again, but you know what, it
was so unpopular they actually repealed it later that year
because mainly of all the parents complaining about it being
(11:16):
dark all morning. Right, So it was Arkansas Senator Tom
Cotton who objected and stopped this bill from passing by
unanimous consent, And he said that last time when it
did pass by unanimous consent, that was back in twenty
twenty two, it ended up going nowhere in the House,
but he said he didn't realize what was going on
and he wasn't going to make that mistake again. Well,
(11:36):
you remember that they kind of that flew under the
radar and got passed really quickly, and they thought they
pulled a fast right, it didn't survive the house, But
this time there were definitely senators aware of it, and
once again it failed because there just isn't enough nationwide
support for this effort. Now, President Trump actually backs this
bill and Senator Scott's idea, but his home is in Florida.
(12:00):
I don't think he's passionate enough to really, you know,
get behind it and push it through. I have completely
changed my take on this. I used to be in
favor of it staying light out later. Yeah, I like that.
I don't know that that would be making daylight saving
time permanent. That's right now, because I actually I try
to get to bed a little earlier, So I'm trying
(12:20):
to lay down at like eight thirty and then I
get up.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
At two, but the sun's still right now.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I like it where it's dark out earlier because it's
easier for me to kind of lay down and feel
like I'm going to bed. So now I guess I'm
in favor of it. Would be standard time, that's right,
standard time all year round. Is that would that keep
it dark out earlier? Well, I think then you would
have a situation where it gets darker too early, right,
and it would be getting lighter too early on the
(12:47):
other side. Okay, yeah, but I mean I'm up at
two am, so you know, I think that for my
personal needs, it's annoying to change the clocks, but that's
the balance. Yeah, you adjusted at certain times that the year,
so you don't have an extreme of too much daylight
and right and then you know, too much darkness in
the morning. I am looking forward to falling back this
weekend though. Yeah, this is the good one. I do
(13:10):
like that. There's two changes. There's one good one and
one really bad one. And for the most part, it's
basically just my microwave and my stove at this point
that I have to adjust everything else.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Uh, it's all in your phone automatic.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Is automatic?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yeah, I have to adjust, yeah, and it'll it'll be
wrong for months.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, that's like the hardest one to adjust.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Isn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
The time I have to do it, I got to
figure out how to you know, it's like an annoying
man to do it at a red light, and it'll
be like, you can't do this while you're driving.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And they're honking at you.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The microwave and the stove are frustrating to me because
I want them to be exactly the same, So I
try to time it out to where I change them
both at the same time, and sometimes, you know, you're
a little off. Yeah, I know, it's frustrating. Yeah, I
mean having that one minute difference, that's brutal. It's somebody
with OCD, you bother right to go. So a woman
is suing SeaWorld Orlando after a duck allegedly entered a
(14:08):
roller coaster's path and struck her in the face, knocking
her unconscious, leaving her injuries. So the lawsuit was filed
in Orange County. This apparently happened on March twenty fourth,
while the rider was on the Mako roller coaster. She
is seeking fifty thousand dollars in damages for what she
(14:29):
says is negligence on the part of SeaWorld that led
to the flying duck striking her. According to the complaint,
so she's accusing SeaWorld of not keeping the ride area
safe from wildlife hazards. And she said, first of all,
she said the park failed to warn riders about the
risk of birds flying into the coaster's path. And she
(14:51):
said the coaster runs over water where ducks are known together.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So there's that issue too. Well.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I know, for in fact, that the theme parks do
try to get rid of wildlife near the rides. Yeah,
for this sort of thing, right, And we know the
airport does it too, because you can't have jets taking
off and having birds flying into the jet engines.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yep, So it is I.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Think something that you could argue they needed to do
a better job with. But obviously you can't control what
a duck might do and where it comes from. And
are they going to be able to successfully argue that
the duck was part of Sea World's control. I mean,
if it's just flying in the air, what he's supposed
to do?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Right? This reminds me.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't know if you remember this, Chris, back in
nineteen ninety nine, Fabio, remember he was on that roller
coaster and he emerges with the bloody face, and originally
everybody thought that it was a goose that hit him
directly during the roller coaster. It actually was the goose
(15:53):
that hit the camera that was on the ride that
shattered and that's what caused the blood on his face.
But everybody just remembers the incident as Fabio being hit
by a goose on a roller coaster, and you've got this,
you know, gorgeous human being all bloodied.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Up at the end of a roller coaster ride. I
mean the laconic image. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Well, in this case, you know, the law firm is
Morgan and Morgan. This is the latest in what's been
you know, a rough year for theme parks because obviously
you have the situation going on, yeah, with the with
the roller coaster where somebody died at Universal. Now you
have this incident over at Sea World. Ye, and it
brings another sort of negative story right to one of
(16:34):
the Orlando theme park lesusy have the two suicides in
the past month in Disney World. Yeah, that's been a
rough year. Headline still the theme parks. Sorry, Chris Trankman
with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so mind you The.
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