TOP STORIES - Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica an hits Cuba, plus a veteran Miami Beach motorcycle officer is killed in a tragic crash. A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor in 1998 is executed, and a barefoot bandit leaves a South Florida church puzzled after stealing an iPad and clogging a toilet. Also, Sarasota police say a woman threatened to “get guns” after the city refused to remove a basketball hoop at a park.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to Natalie Rodriguez in today's top stories. Good morning, Natalie,
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, just as you mentioned, Melissa is now a downgraded
Cat three monster of a storm, still one hundred and
fifteen mile per hour winds, and it's fresh off its
destructive run in with Jamaica. It did make landfall just
moments ago in Cuba. Big concern this morning is storm
surge in the Caribbean. Two to four feet of storm
(00:27):
surge expected in Turks and Caicos, five to eight feet
of storm surge for southeast Bahamas, and the southern coast
of Cuba is facing eight to twelve feet of storm searge. Yeah,
we have over seven hundred thousand people that have been
evacuated from the region, with forecasters warning of the flooding, rain,
and life threatening storm surge. Southwestern Jamaica taken a direct
(00:48):
hit yesterday from Melissa. Many areas of the island are
cut off by the flooding. The number of the deaths
is expected to rise. At least three people we're told
we're killed by the storm in Haiti over the way,
and a fourth died in the Dominican Republic. Another person
remains missing in Jamaica. No telling yet. At least three
people died ahead of the arrival of the storm, and
(01:09):
the storm did make landfall yesterday at around one o'clock
in the afternoon, a little later than it was expected
near New Hope, Jamaica, as a Cat five with maximum
sustained winds of one hundred and eighty five miles per hour.
And we are hearing from some folks from South Florida
that were there. Aventterra's Jimmy Tree Mousseau was on a
(01:31):
business trip until he had to leave the resort that
he was staying in. Then he was taken to a
convention center that was being used as a shelter and
as we unfortunately remember up in Tampa, the roof just
ripped right off and so they had to be evacuated.
Turks and Caico's residents are fleeing the island, many of
them arriving in Miami overnight shutting down.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Nothing was open.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We just decided to leave before we couldn't leave because
that was Everyone is saying that the airport will be
jam pegged and probably closed down by Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Anthers.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
They's a small island and you know it can come
through and pretty much devastate the whole place if it's
that strong and help of course being on the way
as it usually is from the Sunshine State Miami. Dave
Mayor Danielle Lavinkava actually helped pack some of the relief
supplies at Global Empowerment Mission in dur Rally yesterday. Several
others joined her. They have the supply the supplies that
(02:24):
are being flown into Jamaica the second the airport is open,
or they will be arriving by boat if necessary. We
have Project Dynamo based out of the Tampa area, a
nonprofit all veterans and first responders that team up there
like the first boots on the ground whenever there is
a catastrophe, and they're all set up to help with
(02:45):
search and rescue efforts and also taking supplies as soon
as possible. They will be leaving this morning if they
haven't already left. Yeah, We've got our friends over at
gray Bul Rescue. Theirredy there, yeah and ready to go.
Check them out at gray Bul Rescue dot org. So
a couple of note boats because this was a history
that we saw unfold unfortunately in Jamaica yesterday. One of
(03:06):
the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded the strongest storm on
Earth this year, Like you said, not onie one hundred
and eighty five mile per hour winds as it made landfall.
That tied the record for the strongest sustained winds at
landfall in Atlantic basin history. Only Hurricane Allen back in
(03:27):
nineteen eighty had stronger wins at one hundred ninety miles
per hour, but Alan, weakened before landfall, was a Category
five storm for thirty six hours. That's double the typical
Category five lifespan. It broke Jamaica's landfall record set by
Hurricane Gilbert in nineteen eighty eight. That storm had one
hundred and thirty mile per hour winds. We're talking fifty
(03:48):
five miles per hour more than Hurricane Gilbert. It's tied
for the third strongest Atlantic hurricane on record in terms
of pressure at eight hundred ninety two millibars. Race Stagic
told us, yeah, yesterday on the show, I'm seeing some readings.
This thing's dropping below nine hundred, still strengthening, And sure
enough he was right, and the pressure reading that eight
(04:10):
hundred ninety two millibars. It's tied for the strongest Atlantic
hurricane on record. To make landfall with the nineteen thirty
five Labor Day storm. So I mean this storm set
all kinds of records, unfortunately for Jamaica and Cuba. I mean,
this is still a major hurricane as it's rolling over
that island, But just the fact that it kept strengthening
(04:33):
right up until it made landfall and then it was interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
There was some radar imagery of Melissa going over Jamaica
and you could see the weakening because the eye was
so well defined. As it hit, you could see kind
of how the storm weakened a bit. But again, I
can only imagine the amount of destructure we're going to say.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'm watching a video right now from Jamaica of a
river that flooded, and it reminds me of what we
saw with the Texas floods and with Nashville, North Carolina
with those floods.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, I mean, the amount of rainfall, it was just
again like something that we've never seen before. We'll talk
to Race Agic in just a moment, get his thoughts
on Hurricane Melissa. What else we have gone on this morning? Natalie.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Law enforcement across the state and the nation mourning the
loss of a veteran Miami Beach police officer who died
somehow in a violent crash. He was a motorman with
the City of Miami Beach Police Department, officer David Cajuso.
He was thirty three years old. Leaves behind a wife
three young kids. The motorcycle rolled over multiple times on
(05:40):
the Gratney Parkway, which is a thoroughfare here in South Florida.
We heard from Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Minor about how
the community's reeling.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I know our commissioned praise for our police officers are
firefighters today. The worst of our nightmares came true. But
I think you see where you're united. We're showing support
the family, our police officers, all of law enforcement. We
hold them dear in our Heartscott blessed them all.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Couldjus is a ten year veteran of the force and
not a single negative comment has been made about him
as a person, as an officer, as a family member
the brotherhood. Florida HAAGH Patrol is investigating the cause of
the crash right now and still no no even inkling
as to how this possibly could have happened.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, still a lot of questions that need to be answered,
but a tragic story, wife, three young kids, ages two, three,
and five. That's just a tough one to hear. All right,
Let's get to Florida's fifteenth execution in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Sixty five year old Norman Grimm paid the prize the
ultimate price for a murder he committed in Santa Rosa
County in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
In May, Grim, we'll about to six am who s provided.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
His last meal consisted of fried pork shops, mashed potatoes
and gravy, Brussels sprouts, milkshake, banana cream pie, and a.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Soda, no visitors, and he did not meet the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Spiritual advisorlenge his execution. There are two more on tap
in November.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, he never showed remorse. I will tell you this,
there is no situation in which I would have Brussels
sprouts as part of my final meals. That's exactly what
I thought. The mass potato sounds good. The milkshad, yeah,
banana cream pie is my favorite. I mean, that's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But the Brussels sprud stood out to me too, Like,
why would you ruin that last meal with Brussels sprout?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I have no idea. What's interesting about this case. So
you go back to July of nineteen ninety eight, and
you have this forty year old, forty one year old woman,
Cynthia Campbell in Pensacola. She calls nine one one one
of the windows in her house had been broken. The
responding deputy sees Norman Grim outside our home. Grim says,
(07:44):
I was just you know, I heard a dog bark
and I was out here investigating it. So Grim, with
the deputy right there, invites Campbell over for coffee a
few times, kind of saying, you know, you're shaking up,
like come over for coffee, you know, calming down. The
deputy encourages her to accept the invitation, and so the
(08:05):
next morning she goes to Grim's house and that's when
he brutally attacks and kills her. Oh my god. Yeah.
So if you know, I mean, it's not the deputy
store he didn't know. But if you're the depth and
you learn of this afterwards, yeah yeah, all right, let's
get to one more quick story. Natalie.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh yeah, Well, the power of something other than Christ's
compelling this dude barefoot bandit at Community Church in Lauderdale
by the Sea. Surveillance images showing this guy who's barefoot again.
He's wearing bathing shorts. Checking out the church's food pantry
donation box and he sees the audio visual spots the
iPad from the church, stashes it all into a shopping
(08:46):
cart that he rolled into the church. He leaves, but
not before clogging a toilet with paper towels.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, no idea, why no, No, we don't know why.
I don't know if you thought this church was like,
you know, an electronics store or whatever, and you can
just walk in and grab an iPod iPad and walk
right out. But why did he clog the toilet with
paper towels? That's the big mystery. What is that all about?
All right? Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop Stories. Natalie, thanks
(09:14):
so much. You got it right. Now we have Chris
Trenkman in today's top stories. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday afternoon. Is a Category five storm,
tying for the strongest hurricane landfall on record in the
Atlantic Basin by both pressure and wind speed, which was
one hundred and eighty five miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, kept strengthening right as it was about to make landfall.
It just didn't stop. That's right.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
The storm has since made landfall in Cuba is a
Category three storm, but local officials in Jamaica noted it
was still not possible to offer official damage assessments, and
they're still trying to figure out if people were killed
as a result of the storm hitting this island nation. Now,
the storm's I hit on the shore a New Hope
(10:00):
that's about seventy five miles west of the capital of Kingston,
and at its peak, the storm's central air pressure reached
eight hundred and ninety two millibars, which is a sign
of just incredible intensity. And what makes this storm so
unusual is that normally, when landfall occurs, it doesn't happen
at the peak of the storm's power. So, for example,
(10:22):
Hurricane Wilma, which was the all time most intense storm
in the Atlantic basin, it reached a you know, category
five strength and almost two hundred mile an hour winds,
but it didn't hit Florida like that. It was significantly weaker,
but not in this case. It actually intensified in maybe
the two hours going into its making landfall, which is unusual.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, I was watching a media rellys yesterday and they
were saying, like, you know, all the ingredients in terms
of the waters right off the coast of Jamaica, the atmosphere,
it just was. It was just a setup that allowed
this storm to do what it did, because you know,
when we left the show yesterday morning, it was already
(11:04):
a Category vibe. It was already going to be the
worst storm that Jamaica had ever faced. And then and
Raised Age from the Weather Channel had said, I think
I'm seeing some things that indicate that the pressure is
actually below nine hundred. They didn't have an official reading
like that at that point, but he seemed to be indicating,
you know, this thing could strengthen some more. And then
sure enough, by the time it made landfall, it was
(11:26):
ten degrees faster with the maximum sustained wind speeds. The
pressure dropped even more. And like you were saying, you
had Hurricane Allen back in nineteen eighty that had a
peak wind speed of one hundred and ninety miles per
hour at one point, but it weakened before it hit landfall.
It didn't keep strengthening right up until it hit kind
(11:47):
of reminiscent of I can't remember the details exactly, the
wind speeds and the pressure for Hurricane Michael. But that
was one that hit the Panhandle and was really strengthening
right up until it made landfall as well.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes, that was another unusual storm where it strengthened right
up to the very last moments, and of course, you know,
terrorized the folks who had the misfortune of being in
the pan Handle for that storm. You know, when you
think about these situations, though, it's clear that where we
seem to be in a period where we talk about
category fives regularly. Yeah, you know, it used to be
that that was extremely rare to even have one get
(12:21):
to that intensity in the open water, let alone ranking
landfall and having multiple category five So you know, there
was a talk by one of the scientists at us
UP that they should just add a six, a category six.
This would probably qualify for that, wouldn't it probably?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And it was a category five for thirty six hours,
which puts it right up there the lifespan of a
category five storm with you know, hurricanes like Erma von Midge,
like those kinds of storms. I mean, it wasn't just
that it got to a category five, it was how
long it stayed like that, how it kept strengthening. I mean,
the worst storm to ever hitch Amica before this was
(12:57):
Gilbert in nineteen eighty eight that had one hundred and
thirty mile per hour winds, So you can get a
sense of the difference there. That's fifty five mile per
hour different.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
But as we know here in Florida with Milton, that
can be devastated, right, So yeah, that you know, they
were hit with one hundred and eighty five mile per
hour winds and they have their president saying we don't
have buildings that are built for that.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I mean, we just don't have a tornado basically that.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, that's what I thought. It was like an EF
four tornado like that force winds just NonStop.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
So obviously the hope now is that people were able
to get through this as they assess the damage at
sunrise and there are a lot of aid groups that
are organizing and planning to head down there, so we'll
find out more this morning just how bad it was.
But unfortunately, because of the damage that happened on the landfall,
there wasn't a lot of information coming out of the island.
(13:47):
There was no Internet and obviously not a lot of
communication at that time. So a newcomer is headed for
Tampa City Hall. Naya Young, who has never before run
for elected office, upset veteran pol petitician Thomas Scott in
Tampa's District five. How about this city council race. Now, Young,
it wasn't even close. She had sixty one percent of
(14:09):
the vote with all the precincts counties. Scott, the former
Tampa City Council member and County commission member, trailed with
just not thirty nine percent. Now, obviously turnout wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
It was that's under twelve percent, that's right, you know,
eleven or so eleven percent and.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Some change, and you know you're talking about, you know,
just a few thousand total votes cast. But obviously that's
what if. That's what it takes to win with the
available voters. She was able to do that and do
that overwhelmingly. Yeah, she beat him by about eleven hundred votes.
And now the results right now, they're unofficial. There's still
(14:45):
some stuff that has to be done. But I mean,
this is the result of that race, and it is
a surprise.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But it also goes to the point that in these
low turnout elections, anything can happen. I mean, if you're
just a little more effective in getting out of the vote,
and now that many people are going to show up,
then you can win with sixty one percent of the vote.
And I feel like this is a very localized situation
(15:11):
that's similar to Zoran Mumdani in New York. Now, I'm
not saying that that Nina Young has all the baggage
of Mumdani, but just you have this young face, kind
of an upstart, and you got that person going up
against somebody who's been around, has experience all of that,
and people wanted a fresh voice.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, the thirty three year old did a much better
job getting out the vote in the area where most
of the votes were cast, which was mail in ballots.
You know, we paid a lot of attention yesterday to
the day of election, but that was really not where
a lot of the votes were cast. Most of it
was done in mail and voting, followed by early voting,
and then trailing by a lot was the people who
showed up on election day. So she won that battle
(15:56):
and won it handley, and as a result is going
to be city council member through the end of Gwynn
Henderson's term right, which is through twenty twenty seven, because
of course Gwyn Henderson passed away while still serving.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, and she wants to focus on investment in places
like East Tampa, and we'll see how that goes. Because
let's be honest, You've got a district that involves downtown Tampa,
the Channel District, Ebor City, and there is a lot
going on in those areas. So you could easily have
your priority shift once you get it to office and
(16:30):
start getting bombarded by all of those who have interests
in those developments in those areas. Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Text messages between a woman living next door to a
park and a friend of hers revealed that there were
threats made to children at Mary Dean Park in Sarasota.
So News Channel eight obtained these messages that were sent
to some city employees, and it was about getting rid
of a basketball hoop at the park, and the city
(16:58):
took the threats seriously and decided to remove the hoop,
which caused a huge uproar among people in the community,
and it was restored after people complained. But the messages
essentially foreshadowed potential violence. Yeah, and this is why the
city decided to take action. One message said someone or
many are going to die. She can't control this. She
(17:21):
texted on October sixteenth to a friend that once you've
been terrorized for years with noise torture, it's hard to
value anyone's life.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah. She said she was going to get a gun
and a gun license, and she was going to protect
herself if any of the kids came onto her property
to get a basketball. So she was just done with
the noise. And I'm not condoning obviously what she did,
but I mean, you hear that over and over and
(17:53):
over again, for it sounds like a really long period
of time, like.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Years, getting pissed off about.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The pickleball and every day the.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Basketball court in the development that I used to live
in became a massive issue because can you turn them right?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah? Because I had a point to make.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, So the basketball court was a was a huge
issue because it kind of attracted a crowd that there
was violence, There were people getting mugged, there were people
get into fights. So they ended up taking one like
it was a full basketball court, they ended up taking
one of them down so that people couldn't actually play
a game. They could they could go and shoot hoops
or whatever. You know, A couple of kids wanted to
(18:38):
go play, but they couldn't have full.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Games there anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And they still never put it back up again because
every time they'd put it back up, it would attract
so many people from other neighborhoods and it became a disaster.
So there was drama over basketball hoop in my development.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yea. I don't know if that was part of the
situation here, if it was just the noise, but I
know when I moved into my apartment complex and Panel's Park,
I had two options. I had one that was overseeing
the tennis courts and one that wasn't. And I went
with the one that wasn't. Now, it didn't seem like
anybody plays tennis. I wasn't taking that chance. I don't
want to hear that crap all day long.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah, but you know what, I live near a basketball
hoop and I don't hear anything. And the other thing too,
is they play during the daytime, which is not really
much of an issue for me, and there are rules
about when you can play. Can't be playing at night. Yeah,
we're trying to sleep that sort of thing. Now, if
people do that, then yeah, they should be you know,
punished for breaking the rules. But uh, that that sound
(19:31):
that you were playing, that's inside a gym.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, you've got the gym echo. The basketball court is
not in her house. Well, it probably just wasn't the
noise of the basketball though. It was probably kids being round.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah, it sounds like the problem. You know, I think
that it's a losing battle. Though they're not going to
take down basketball court, so she's gonna either have to
put in some ear plugs or move, yeah, or you know,
she'll be uh sometimes Yeah, maybe it'll be a little
quieter there, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Chris Trankman went today's tapp Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
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Let's get to Natalie Rodriguez in today's top stories. Good morning, Natalie,
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, just as you mentioned, Melissa is now a downgraded
Cat three monster of a storm, still one hundred and
fifteen mile per hour winds, and it's fresh off its
destructive run in with Jamaica. It did make landfall just
moments ago in Cuba. Big concern this morning is storm
surge in the Caribbean. Two to four feet of storm
(00:27):
surge expected in Turks and Caicos, five to eight feet
of storm surge for southeast Bahamas, and the southern coast
of Cuba is facing eight to twelve feet of storm searge. Yeah,
we have over seven hundred thousand people that have been
evacuated from the region, with forecasters warning of the flooding, rain,
and life threatening storm surge. Southwestern Jamaica taken a direct
(00:48):
hit yesterday from Melissa. Many areas of the island are
cut off by the flooding. The number of the deaths
is expected to rise. At least three people we're told
we're killed by the storm in Haiti over the way,
and a fourth died in the Dominican Republic. Another person
remains missing in Jamaica. No telling yet. At least three
people died ahead of the arrival of the storm, and
(01:09):
the storm did make landfall yesterday at around one o'clock
in the afternoon, a little later than it was expected
near New Hope, Jamaica, as a Cat five with maximum
sustained winds of one hundred and eighty five miles per hour.
And we are hearing from some folks from South Florida
that were there. Aventterra's Jimmy Tree Mousseau was on a
(01:31):
business trip until he had to leave the resort that
he was staying in. Then he was taken to a
convention center that was being used as a shelter and
as we unfortunately remember up in Tampa, the roof just
ripped right off and so they had to be evacuated.
Turks and Caico's residents are fleeing the island, many of
them arriving in Miami overnight shutting down.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Nothing was open.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We just decided to leave before we couldn't leave because
that was Everyone is saying that the airport will be
jam pegged and probably closed down by Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Anthers.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
They's a small island and you know it can come
through and pretty much devastate the whole place if it's
that strong and help of course being on the way
as it usually is from the Sunshine State Miami. Dave
Mayor Danielle Lavinkava actually helped pack some of the relief
supplies at Global Empowerment Mission in dur Rally yesterday. Several
others joined her. They have the supply the supplies that
(02:24):
are being flown into Jamaica the second the airport is open,
or they will be arriving by boat if necessary. We
have Project Dynamo based out of the Tampa area, a
nonprofit all veterans and first responders that team up there
like the first boots on the ground whenever there is
a catastrophe, and they're all set up to help with
(02:45):
search and rescue efforts and also taking supplies as soon
as possible. They will be leaving this morning if they
haven't already left. Yeah, We've got our friends over at
gray Bul Rescue. Theirredy there, yeah and ready to go.
Check them out at gray Bul Rescue dot org. So
a couple of note boats because this was a history
that we saw unfold unfortunately in Jamaica yesterday. One of
(03:06):
the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded the strongest storm on
Earth this year, Like you said, not onie one hundred
and eighty five mile per hour winds as it made landfall.
That tied the record for the strongest sustained winds at
landfall in Atlantic basin history. Only Hurricane Allen back in
(03:27):
nineteen eighty had stronger wins at one hundred ninety miles
per hour, but Alan, weakened before landfall, was a Category
five storm for thirty six hours. That's double the typical
Category five lifespan. It broke Jamaica's landfall record set by
Hurricane Gilbert in nineteen eighty eight. That storm had one
hundred and thirty mile per hour winds. We're talking fifty
(03:48):
five miles per hour more than Hurricane Gilbert. It's tied
for the third strongest Atlantic hurricane on record in terms
of pressure at eight hundred ninety two millibars. Race Stagic
told us, yeah, yesterday on the show, I'm seeing some readings.
This thing's dropping below nine hundred, still strengthening, And sure
enough he was right, and the pressure reading that eight
(04:10):
hundred ninety two millibars. It's tied for the strongest Atlantic
hurricane on record. To make landfall with the nineteen thirty
five Labor Day storm. So I mean this storm set
all kinds of records, unfortunately for Jamaica and Cuba. I mean,
this is still a major hurricane as it's rolling over
that island, But just the fact that it kept strengthening
(04:33):
right up until it made landfall and then it was interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
There was some radar imagery of Melissa going over Jamaica
and you could see the weakening because the eye was
so well defined. As it hit, you could see kind
of how the storm weakened a bit. But again, I
can only imagine the amount of destructure we're going to say.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'm watching a video right now from Jamaica of a
river that flooded, and it reminds me of what we
saw with the Texas floods and with Nashville, North Carolina
with those floods.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, I mean, the amount of rainfall, it was just
again like something that we've never seen before. We'll talk
to Race Agic in just a moment, get his thoughts
on Hurricane Melissa. What else we have gone on this morning? Natalie.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Law enforcement across the state and the nation mourning the
loss of a veteran Miami Beach police officer who died
somehow in a violent crash. He was a motorman with
the City of Miami Beach Police Department, officer David Cajuso.
He was thirty three years old. Leaves behind a wife
three young kids. The motorcycle rolled over multiple times on
(05:40):
the Gratney Parkway, which is a thoroughfare here in South Florida.
We heard from Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Minor about how
the community's reeling.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I know our commissioned praise for our police officers are
firefighters today. The worst of our nightmares came true. But
I think you see where you're united. We're showing support
the family, our police officers, all of law enforcement. We
hold them dear in our Heartscott blessed them all.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Couldjus is a ten year veteran of the force and
not a single negative comment has been made about him
as a person, as an officer, as a family member
the brotherhood. Florida HAAGH Patrol is investigating the cause of
the crash right now and still no no even inkling
as to how this possibly could have happened.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, still a lot of questions that need to be answered,
but a tragic story, wife, three young kids, ages two, three,
and five. That's just a tough one to hear. All right,
Let's get to Florida's fifteenth execution in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Sixty five year old Norman Grimm paid the prize the
ultimate price for a murder he committed in Santa Rosa
County in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
In May, Grim, we'll about to six am who s provided.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
His last meal consisted of fried pork shops, mashed potatoes
and gravy, Brussels sprouts, milkshake, banana cream pie, and a.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Soda, no visitors, and he did not meet the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Spiritual advisorlenge his execution. There are two more on tap
in November.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, he never showed remorse. I will tell you this,
there is no situation in which I would have Brussels
sprouts as part of my final meals. That's exactly what
I thought. The mass potato sounds good. The milkshad, yeah,
banana cream pie is my favorite. I mean, that's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But the Brussels sprud stood out to me too, Like,
why would you ruin that last meal with Brussels sprout?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I have no idea. What's interesting about this case. So
you go back to July of nineteen ninety eight, and
you have this forty year old, forty one year old woman,
Cynthia Campbell in Pensacola. She calls nine one one one
of the windows in her house had been broken. The
responding deputy sees Norman Grim outside our home. Grim says,
(07:44):
I was just you know, I heard a dog bark
and I was out here investigating it. So Grim, with
the deputy right there, invites Campbell over for coffee a
few times, kind of saying, you know, you're shaking up,
like come over for coffee, you know, calming down. The
deputy encourages her to accept the invitation, and so the
(08:05):
next morning she goes to Grim's house and that's when
he brutally attacks and kills her. Oh my god. Yeah.
So if you know, I mean, it's not the deputy
store he didn't know. But if you're the depth and
you learn of this afterwards, yeah yeah, all right, let's
get to one more quick story. Natalie.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oh yeah, Well, the power of something other than Christ's
compelling this dude barefoot bandit at Community Church in Lauderdale
by the Sea. Surveillance images showing this guy who's barefoot again.
He's wearing bathing shorts. Checking out the church's food pantry
donation box and he sees the audio visual spots the
iPad from the church, stashes it all into a shopping
(08:46):
cart that he rolled into the church. He leaves, but
not before clogging a toilet with paper towels.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, no idea, why no, No, we don't know why.
I don't know if you thought this church was like,
you know, an electronics store or whatever, and you can
just walk in and grab an iPod iPad and walk
right out. But why did he clog the toilet with
paper towels? That's the big mystery. What is that all about?
All right? Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop Stories. Natalie, thanks
(09:14):
so much. You got it right. Now we have Chris
Trenkman in today's top stories. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday afternoon. Is a Category five storm,
tying for the strongest hurricane landfall on record in the
Atlantic Basin by both pressure and wind speed, which was
one hundred and eighty five miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, kept strengthening right as it was about to make landfall.
It just didn't stop. That's right.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
The storm has since made landfall in Cuba is a
Category three storm, but local officials in Jamaica noted it
was still not possible to offer official damage assessments, and
they're still trying to figure out if people were killed
as a result of the storm hitting this island nation. Now,
the storm's I hit on the shore a New Hope
(10:00):
that's about seventy five miles west of the capital of Kingston,
and at its peak, the storm's central air pressure reached
eight hundred and ninety two millibars, which is a sign
of just incredible intensity. And what makes this storm so
unusual is that normally, when landfall occurs, it doesn't happen
at the peak of the storm's power. So, for example,
(10:22):
Hurricane Wilma, which was the all time most intense storm
in the Atlantic basin, it reached a you know, category
five strength and almost two hundred mile an hour winds,
but it didn't hit Florida like that. It was significantly weaker,
but not in this case. It actually intensified in maybe
the two hours going into its making landfall, which is unusual.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, I was watching a media rellys yesterday and they
were saying, like, you know, all the ingredients in terms
of the waters right off the coast of Jamaica, the atmosphere,
it just was. It was just a setup that allowed
this storm to do what it did, because you know,
when we left the show yesterday morning, it was already
(11:04):
a Category vibe. It was already going to be the
worst storm that Jamaica had ever faced. And then and
Raised Age from the Weather Channel had said, I think
I'm seeing some things that indicate that the pressure is
actually below nine hundred. They didn't have an official reading
like that at that point, but he seemed to be indicating,
you know, this thing could strengthen some more. And then
sure enough, by the time it made landfall, it was
(11:26):
ten degrees faster with the maximum sustained wind speeds. The
pressure dropped even more. And like you were saying, you
had Hurricane Allen back in nineteen eighty that had a
peak wind speed of one hundred and ninety miles per
hour at one point, but it weakened before it hit landfall.
It didn't keep strengthening right up until it hit kind
(11:47):
of reminiscent of I can't remember the details exactly, the
wind speeds and the pressure for Hurricane Michael. But that
was one that hit the Panhandle and was really strengthening
right up until it made landfall as well.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes, that was another unusual storm where it strengthened right
up to the very last moments, and of course, you know,
terrorized the folks who had the misfortune of being in
the pan Handle for that storm. You know, when you
think about these situations, though, it's clear that where we
seem to be in a period where we talk about
category fives regularly. Yeah, you know, it used to be
that that was extremely rare to even have one get
(12:21):
to that intensity in the open water, let alone ranking
landfall and having multiple category five So you know, there
was a talk by one of the scientists at us
UP that they should just add a six, a category six.
This would probably qualify for that, wouldn't it probably?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And it was a category five for thirty six hours,
which puts it right up there the lifespan of a
category five storm with you know, hurricanes like Erma von Midge,
like those kinds of storms. I mean, it wasn't just
that it got to a category five, it was how
long it stayed like that, how it kept strengthening. I mean,
the worst storm to ever hitch Amica before this was
(12:57):
Gilbert in nineteen eighty eight that had one hundred and
thirty mile per hour winds, So you can get a
sense of the difference there. That's fifty five mile per
hour different.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
But as we know here in Florida with Milton, that
can be devastated, right, So yeah, that you know, they
were hit with one hundred and eighty five mile per
hour winds and they have their president saying we don't
have buildings that are built for that.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I mean, we just don't have a tornado basically that.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, that's what I thought. It was like an EF
four tornado like that force winds just NonStop.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
So obviously the hope now is that people were able
to get through this as they assess the damage at
sunrise and there are a lot of aid groups that
are organizing and planning to head down there, so we'll
find out more this morning just how bad it was.
But unfortunately, because of the damage that happened on the landfall,
there wasn't a lot of information coming out of the island.
(13:47):
There was no Internet and obviously not a lot of
communication at that time. So a newcomer is headed for
Tampa City Hall. Naya Young, who has never before run
for elected office, upset veteran pol petitician Thomas Scott in
Tampa's District five. How about this city council race. Now, Young,
it wasn't even close. She had sixty one percent of
(14:09):
the vote with all the precincts counties. Scott, the former
Tampa City Council member and County commission member, trailed with
just not thirty nine percent. Now, obviously turnout wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
It was that's under twelve percent, that's right, you know,
eleven or so eleven percent and.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Some change, and you know you're talking about, you know,
just a few thousand total votes cast. But obviously that's
what if. That's what it takes to win with the
available voters. She was able to do that and do
that overwhelmingly. Yeah, she beat him by about eleven hundred votes.
And now the results right now, they're unofficial. There's still
(14:45):
some stuff that has to be done. But I mean,
this is the result of that race, and it is
a surprise.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But it also goes to the point that in these
low turnout elections, anything can happen. I mean, if you're
just a little more effective in getting out of the vote,
and now that many people are going to show up,
then you can win with sixty one percent of the vote.
And I feel like this is a very localized situation
(15:11):
that's similar to Zoran Mumdani in New York. Now, I'm
not saying that that Nina Young has all the baggage
of Mumdani, but just you have this young face, kind
of an upstart, and you got that person going up
against somebody who's been around, has experience all of that,
and people wanted a fresh voice.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, the thirty three year old did a much better
job getting out the vote in the area where most
of the votes were cast, which was mail in ballots.
You know, we paid a lot of attention yesterday to
the day of election, but that was really not where
a lot of the votes were cast. Most of it
was done in mail and voting, followed by early voting,
and then trailing by a lot was the people who
showed up on election day. So she won that battle
(15:56):
and won it handley, and as a result is going
to be city council member through the end of Gwynn
Henderson's term right, which is through twenty twenty seven, because
of course Gwyn Henderson passed away while still serving.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, and she wants to focus on investment in places
like East Tampa, and we'll see how that goes. Because
let's be honest, You've got a district that involves downtown Tampa,
the Channel District, Ebor City, and there is a lot
going on in those areas. So you could easily have
your priority shift once you get it to office and
(16:30):
start getting bombarded by all of those who have interests
in those developments in those areas. Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Text messages between a woman living next door to a
park and a friend of hers revealed that there were
threats made to children at Mary Dean Park in Sarasota.
So News Channel eight obtained these messages that were sent
to some city employees, and it was about getting rid
of a basketball hoop at the park, and the city
(16:58):
took the threats seriously and decided to remove the hoop,
which caused a huge uproar among people in the community,
and it was restored after people complained. But the messages
essentially foreshadowed potential violence. Yeah, and this is why the
city decided to take action. One message said someone or
many are going to die. She can't control this. She
(17:21):
texted on October sixteenth to a friend that once you've
been terrorized for years with noise torture, it's hard to
value anyone's life.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah. She said she was going to get a gun
and a gun license, and she was going to protect
herself if any of the kids came onto her property
to get a basketball. So she was just done with
the noise. And I'm not condoning obviously what she did,
but I mean, you hear that over and over and
(17:53):
over again, for it sounds like a really long period
of time, like.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Years, getting pissed off about.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The pickleball and every day the.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Basketball court in the development that I used to live
in became a massive issue because can you turn them right?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah? Because I had a point to make.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, So the basketball court was a was a huge
issue because it kind of attracted a crowd that there
was violence, There were people getting mugged, there were people
get into fights. So they ended up taking one like
it was a full basketball court, they ended up taking
one of them down so that people couldn't actually play
a game. They could they could go and shoot hoops
or whatever. You know, A couple of kids wanted to
(18:38):
go play, but they couldn't have full.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Games there anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And they still never put it back up again because
every time they'd put it back up, it would attract
so many people from other neighborhoods and it became a disaster.
So there was drama over basketball hoop in my development.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yea. I don't know if that was part of the
situation here, if it was just the noise, but I
know when I moved into my apartment complex and Panel's Park,
I had two options. I had one that was overseeing
the tennis courts and one that wasn't. And I went
with the one that wasn't. Now, it didn't seem like
anybody plays tennis. I wasn't taking that chance. I don't
want to hear that crap all day long.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah, but you know what, I live near a basketball
hoop and I don't hear anything. And the other thing too,
is they play during the daytime, which is not really
much of an issue for me, and there are rules
about when you can play. Can't be playing at night. Yeah,
we're trying to sleep that sort of thing. Now, if
people do that, then yeah, they should be you know,
punished for breaking the rules. But uh, that that sound
(19:31):
that you were playing, that's inside a gym.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, you've got the gym echo. The basketball court is
not in her house. Well, it probably just wasn't the
noise of the basketball though. It was probably kids being round.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah, it sounds like the problem. You know, I think
that it's a losing battle. Though they're not going to
take down basketball court, so she's gonna either have to
put in some ear plugs or move, yeah, or you know,
she'll be uh sometimes Yeah, maybe it'll be a little
quieter there, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Chris Trankman went today's tapp Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
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