BEST OF - We have the latest on Hurricane Melissa's impact on Jamaica. A new UNF poll shows Republicans lead Florida’s gubernatorial race, plus how voters feel about the Epstein files and President Trump. Also, an angry Davenport mom boards a school bus to confront a student accused of bullying her kids, the latest on the government shutdown and Trump’s Asia trip, and new details on how U.S. officials tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now for today's top stories, brought to you by
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You worked hard to save for your future. They can
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at Asknahollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Hurricane
Melissa made landfall in Cuba this morning as an extremely
dangerous Category three hurricane with one hundred and twenty mile
(00:20):
per hour winds, following the devastation in Jamaica's the strongest
Atlantic hurricane to hit land in history. Now in Cuba,
severe flooding has hit the area. There's a tremendous storm surge.
But you can imagine what the people in Cuba were
thinking after they saw what was going on in Jamaica.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuating Cuba yesterday and
(00:43):
let's hope that that ended up saving lives. Yeah, it
went pretty close to Guantanamo Bay, Yes, it absolutely did.
And you know what, it's far from finished. I mean,
this storm is still powerful. It remains a category three.
Winds have diminished a little bit of one hundred and
fifteen miles per hour, but now it's targeting the Bahamas
and could cause a lot of damage there and continue
(01:04):
on to Bermuda before heading up into the Northern Atlantic
and hopefully into nowhere Land. But in the meantime, it's
going to go down in history as one of the
most powerful storms. And we're only just getting word of
what's going on in Jamaica. We'll find out more after dawn.
And as a rescue crew started getting into these remote areas,
(01:25):
so many roads were washed out there that rescue crews
really had no ability to even get to where people
were stranded or trapped at this point. And they don't
have a lot of numbers as far as the damage
or the number of people who may have been hurt
or killed as a result of the storm. Yeah, you've
got so many different factors. You've got one hundred and
eighty five mile per hour winds. The storm kept strengthening
(01:46):
as it was approaching Jamaica. And those of us who
have been through hurricanes before, you know this sound. But
just imagine the wind speeds at one hundred eighty five
miles per hour, that whistling, you know, yeah, non stop
(02:06):
every hurricane that I've covered. When you talk to people
who were going through it, they say, it's just that sound.
Sometimes it sounds like a freight train is coming and
it never lets up, and that's what's so unnerving, especially
if your roof blows off.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen videos of that happening.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, people who survived Hurricane Andrew, which was probably the
most powerful storm to strike South Florida in many, many years.
People's rooftops were just blown off by one hundred and
sixty plus mile per hour winds and they were stuck
in there listening to that wind and being soaked by
the rain. I mean, it was just a terrifying experience
for people. And the United States has never seen one
(02:49):
hundred and eighty five mile per hour landfall. I looked
up that type of wind speed and there was a
small island that Hurricane Irma passed over. You remember Hurricane
Irma in twenty seventeen. It basically formed into a category
five and went across the whole Atlantic as a five.
And it was huge too, so it impacted a much
(03:10):
larger area than Hurricane Melissa did. But it went over
this tiny little island, Okay, And you could actually see
the island in the eye of the storm at one point.
And when I looked at the damage. It literally flipped cars. Yeah,
like the winds were strong enough to like torn cars, Yes,
like a tornado exactly. The damage didn't look like what
you would expect from a hurricane. It was much more
(03:31):
like a tornado. And so obviously the hope is that
the people at Jamaica were able to find us somewhere
safe in that kind of environment. But I mean, you've
got infrastructure there that, while some parts have been upgraded recently,
you figure a lot of it's going to be just
wiped out. Plus you've got the potential for those landslides
with all the rain at the higher elevations, and then
(03:53):
you've got the storm. Search can only imagine what that
was like in parts of Jamaica with the storm that powerful.
And now you're going to see a lot of destruction there.
Major hurricane Category three rolling over that island. So as
soon as we start to really get some there's just
not a lot coming out of Jamaica. Right now, it's quiet,
but I have a feeling we're going to see some
pretty disturbing images soon. Absolutely. A new poll from the
(04:16):
Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida
shows that Republican candidates such as Casey DeSantis and Byron
Donald's are leading their Democratic counterparts in Florida's upcoming gubernatorial race.
The poll indicates that both the Santas and Donalds hold
significant leads over Democrats David Jolly and Jerry Demings in
(04:38):
head to head matchups. DeSantis leads Jolly by thirteen percentage points,
Demings by eleven. Donald's leads by eleven points over Jolly
and leads Demings by twelve. Now we're obviously still a
year out from the midterm election, and there are a
lot of undecided voters. According to Michael Binder, the unf
(04:59):
poll who handles this survey, Yeah, this wasn't all that
surprising the fact that they pulled Casey Desantas. I don't
think she's getting into race.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Why are they even worried about her?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And then Paul Renner just kind of left out. Yeah,
and he is running, Yeah, he is running. But that
sounds about right to me. Where you would see things
here in Florida. It's just a different landscape now for
Republicans and Democrats. What I thought was interesting about this survey,
and again, you got to take all these polls with
the grain of salt. But housing costs number one concern
(05:33):
among voters, followed by insurance, and then property taxes. Keep
saying affordability, that's the key issue. And then on the
question of eliminating property taxes for homeowners, forty nine percent
support that, forty three percent oppose it, so not nearly
the sixty percent threshold that you would need in order
(05:54):
to pass a constitutional amendment if it gets put on
the ballot. And then I thought this was interesting. The
way the US is handling immigration detentionis deportations fifty four
percent approved, forty four percent disapproved. But there was a
big split, so in North Florida and the rural areas,
you had a much higher approval of how immigration enforcement
(06:16):
is going compared to South Florida and some of the
urban areas. And then the one thing that it sounds
like just about everybody can agree on these days, everybody
wants the Epstein related files released eighty three percent, so
that crossed party lines. They all want the Epstein files. Yes, well,
the future governor won't be able to do anything about that. Yeah,
(06:38):
but yeah, that is obviously something that had really been
promised to to people and they're just not getting any
satisfaction based on what's been released so far. So Davenport
mother was arrested after authority said that she got on
to a school bus and began yelling and cursing at
a student, causing the bus to be delayed by nearly
an hour. Now you think, okay, how bad could it
(07:00):
possibly be? You know, when someone gets on a bus
and expresses themselves, why do we check in and see
how it went?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That you are I'm not my son, you are here
the king and I'll tell your mommy.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And that was just a little bit of it that
went on for almost two minutes. And that's just what
that kid caught on video of this woman.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
She's yelling at the bus driver, she's yelling at the kid.
I mean, it's a whole scene. Delayed the bus for
like an hour.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And then she went to the school and police caught
up with there at the school. And not only did
she get arrested because she wouldn't shut up, but then
her daughter got involved and she also got arrested.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And here's the thing. So investigators they look into all
of this and it was all tied to a fight
that happened a couple of days higher involving her two
kids and the student that she was cursing and yelling at.
And it was her kids who were bullying the student
she was screaming at. They were the aggressors. Yeah. Yeah,
(08:12):
So forty eight year old Atanya Rogue gets arrested and
based on the report from the sheriff, sounds like the
apples don't fall too yeah from the tree, exactly like this.
You could hear it in that clip. All right. Chris
Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much, Thank you.
So if you want to know why the government shut
down keeps going, we're now day twenty nine. Well, both
(08:33):
parties are seeing boosts in their approval ratings from their base.
U cnnpol shows a five point jump for congressional Republicans,
with support from the base up double digits. Democrats, they've
seen their approval numbers from their base go from forty
one percent in June to almost sixty percent. Now, now
you do have some members from both parties pushing for
(08:56):
negotiations to end this whole thing. There's there's bipartisan concern
over pay for the troops and air traffic controllers, snap
benefits being frozen on the first the impact of the
Obamacare subsidies going away. And I think we're getting to
a point now where even though neither side wants to budge,
(09:18):
they're really not going to have a choice. It's a
problem that just has to be dealt with. And the
way I would think of it, it's kind of like parenting.
So my cousin is dealing with a problem a lot
of parents that probably had to handle at some point.
Her kid busted out the F word recently. Yes, must
have overheard it well.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And even though it's hilarious when it happens my kids
in the car seat, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, you can't laugh. Yeah, kids are like sponges. So
all of a sudden in the car it comes out,
you know, one time, Like I said, kind of funny.
Maybe you want to discipline your kid and send a
strong message, but maybe your partner just wants to have
a conversation, make it a teachable moment. So you don't
agree on the solution. You just kind of let it go,
(10:03):
hope it doesn't happen again. And then you're in the
bakery section of publics and all of a sudden, your
kid bust out the F word. And people are shooting
you dirty looks and this kid, I have to know
you very young kid. Then you know, it happens again,
say in church peace bfing with you, you know, and
now you kind of have to put your differences aside
(10:26):
and figure out a way to handle it right. And
we're approaching I think the F bomb in church moment.
With this government shutdown, it's something that you just can't
let continue because it's a problem that you have to tackle.
It's just impacting too many people at this point. Today's
stage twenty nine of the government shutdown, and the biggest
(10:48):
emerging issue is food assistance, which is set to stop
on Saturday. Nearly three million Floridians depend on snap or
food stamps. It's about thirteen percent of the state. Democrats
in Florida legislature sent a letter urging the governor to
declare a state of emergency. What they want them to
do is unlock State Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund dollars
(11:12):
for food support and they're also proposing universal school meals
until the shutdown ends. Have no idea if that's something
the governor would even entertain. This all comes as food
banks across the state they're reporting demand at a crisis level.
We mentioned yesterday Metropolitan Ministries here in the Tampa Bay area.
They're calling the surge they're seeing unprecedented, we know, the
(11:33):
same as being seen by Feeding Tampa Bay and so
many others. And when it comes to those who were
on food stamps, you know, having had so many conversations
with these different organizations, it really is a diverse group
who ends up needing help, especially in crisis times like this.
So you've got a lot of people who may be
(11:56):
turning to Metropolitan Ministries or Feeding Tampa Bay for the
very first time, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
People who have never needed help before because of all
the circumstances right now, they're in a position where they
do need help.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The average demographic for food stamp recipients white, twenty five
to sixty four. In that age range, high school education.
Almost half are single moms. So you know, just think
you've got federal worker work. Yeah. Yeah, Let's say you've
got a federal worker, middle class salary, couple of kids,
(12:29):
recently had a medical issue that set you back, Maybe
you got a car that needed some work, You racked
up a little credit card debt. As a single mom
going into the new school year, supplies clothes, things like that.
Property insurance has been going up and up and up,
and now you don't have a paycheck coming in. The
mortgages do the bills are due? You turn to one
of these organizations for help. You're somebody who is dependent
(12:51):
upon SNAP in order to feed yourself or your family.
Could be a senior who is dealing with something like that. Yeah, exactly.
Now you don't have that coming in. You turn to
Feeding Tampa Bay or metropolitan ministries. So a lot of
different people in a lot of different circumstances. But the
bottom line is this is now really having a more
(13:14):
widespread impact than at any other time over the course
of the past twenty nine days. Vice President JD. Vance
says troops will get paid this week despite the shutdown.
The Pentagon is redirecting eight billion dollars in unspent funds
to cover paychecks, but the Treasury's warning that money's gonna
run out before November fifteenth. Meanwhile, you've got seven hundred
(13:35):
thousand plus federal workers furloughed nationwide, and SNAP benefits, food
stamps they're set to stop on Saturday. That's going to
impact almost three million people just here in Florida. And
then you have some of these other unintended consequences, like
a Jacksonville school for kids with autism now permanently closed
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because the shutdown delayed insurance reimbursements that und its operations.
Officials said, those administrative funding delays just made it impossible
for the school to stay open. And to me, that's
the problem with the Democrats strategy for shutting the government
down to try to make a deal on something like
(14:16):
the enhanced Obamacare subsidies. While you're trying to help a
large group of Americans who could face some really difficult
circumstances if those subsidies run out. The way you're attempting
to fix that problem is creating an entirely new set
of problems that's having a huge negative impact on a different,
(14:40):
large group of people. So now you have people who
are working in the federal government. You've got air traffic controllers,
Capitol police, people at the National Hurricane Center. They've been
tracking hurricane elicita, providing vital information, and they're not getting
paid right now. You're creating problems for them. And then
with snap benefits running out, hitting a problem for those
(15:01):
who need food assistance. This is why using the government
shutdown as a negotiating tactic is questionable. Strategy to the
mid life not working.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I don't know how much backlash there is against Democrats
right now, because it seems like those people are trying
to blame Republicans, but really it's the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I am going to answer that question in terms of
backlash and the polling and the politics of all this.
We'll get to that coming up at around seven seventeen.
What's get an update on President Trump's trip over in Asia.
We're joining the hotline now by our White House correspondent
John Decker. SA. John, what are the latest developments over
the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Well, this trip is slowly winding down. The President is
now on the third leg of this three leg trip.
He arrived in South Korea earlier today after spending the
past twenty four hours in Japan. The President speaking with
business leaders in Japan, Ryan who pledged five hundred billion
dollars in investments in the United States, including ten billion
dollars that was play by Toyota to build manufacturing plants,
(16:02):
more of them right here in the United States. The
President arriving in South Korea to attend the Apex summit,
and tomorrow that's in the President will have that big
meeting with Chinese President chi Jingping. We learned earlier today
the meeting will last at least three hours, so they've
got a lot of topics on the agenda when they
speak tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, and I think what you're going to see out
of that meeting, it sounds like the stage is being
set based on what we've heard from the Treasury Secretary
and some of the reporting meeting will have gone well,
there will have been progress made on a number of
fronts and a bit of a cooling down of tensions.
But you know, as is the case with a lot
(16:43):
of these different deals that we've seen the President make,
especially on the trade front, we don't often get a
lot of details from them.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No, they're frameworks for deals, yeah, you know, typically when
you have a full scale trade agreement, it's one that's
raut of by the US Senate, that's actually called for
in our constitution. These are not that, you know, these
are agreements, generalized agreements. You know, if you read the language,
it's very vague in the commitments that are being presented
(17:14):
by both parties. But Having said all that, the President
has received a commitment from China that was over the
weekend when Besson's met with his Chinese counterpart, that it
will continue purchasing American agricultural products, including soybeans, and that
should help out America's farmers in the Midwest quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I think one of the interesting things to watch for,
too is whether or not there's any kind of commitment
from China to scale back their purchase of Russian oil.
The President has put a lot of pressure on India
to do just that, but China is the largest purchaser,
so if they were to agree to something like that,
that would really put even more pressure on Russia than
(17:57):
we're already seeing with that latest round of sanctions.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh, I agree with you completely, Ryan. You know, I
asked the President about that last week last Wednesday, one
week ago today, about whether or not he'll put some
pressure on President she to put some pressure on President
Putin to force him to come to the negotiating table.
And certainly if China limits or reduces its purchase of
(18:23):
Russian oil, that certainly would put some pressure on Russia
in the sense that it's that Russian oil revenue that
funds their war against Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And last thing I want to mention. We're joined by
our White House correspondent John Decker. We learned that Japan
is giving the US a gift for our two hundred
and fiftieth birthday. Two hundred and fifty cherry trees are
coming our way.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah, that should really beautify the nation's capital. You know,
there already are quite a bit of you know, a
large amount of cherry trees around the title basin, and that's,
of course, is why we celebrate the cherry blossom Festival
every spring. But that's quite a gift. I think that's
a nice thing to take back. That will last for generations.
(19:08):
It's not a gift that comes and goes. It will
last well beyond the Trump presidency.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Now, if they really want to get on Trump's good side,
they should give us a gold cherry tree as well.
May put that outside the balls.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Festival is beautiful though it's so packed in DC when
you go check it out, but when I lived up there,
it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, now you're gonna have a little less room for
people with two hundred and fifty more of those trees.
John Decker, our White House correspondent with US John really
appreciate it. Thanks so much, Thanks so much, by BTE.
The Associated Press had quite the story yesterday, a veteran
Department of Homeland Security agent trying to recruit Nicholas Maduro's
(19:47):
personal pilot to secretly divert the Venezuelan leaders plane so
the US could arrest him on federal drug charges. So
the pitch happened during this quiet meeting at a Dominican
Republic airport hangar in twenty twenty four iNTS the planes
were undergoing some maintenance. The pilot apparently listened to the
(20:08):
pitch but didn't commit. Later returned to Venezuela. Over the
next sixteen months, the agent used encrypted apps to keep trying.
Even after he had retired, he kept in touch with
this pilot. He texted the pilot again this summer saying
that look, man, you can be rich and a hero.
(20:30):
There's a fifty million dollar bounty on Maduro. The pilot
pushedback and eventually blocked him. Wow, So opposition figures doesn't
end there. They then try to rattle Maduro by publicly
hinting that the pilot had flipped, so they posted on
(20:50):
Acts a photo from that secret meeting at the airport hangar.
It a sparking speculation that maybe the pilot had been
detained he was cooperating. Then you get this this brief mystery.
The pilot vanishes, Maduro's plane suddenly turns back mid flight.
But then days later he reappears on state TV. He
didn't say anything, but he's standing beside officials praising his loyalty.
(21:14):
And they called him a kick ass patriot, you know,
for not taking the money and doing what he could
have done. But just you know, some of the stuff
that we don't hear about that goes on behind.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It sounds like a plot of a movie that you
would think this doesn't happen in real life.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But it does.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I got to tell you, I mean turning down
a fifty million dollar bounty, Like look, I can only
imagine what that pilot was going through. There's there's lots
going on. Probably got yeah, scared, freaked out all of that.
Maybe he doesn't necessarily think that that he'll actually get
his end of the deal. Who knows, but boy, you
(21:50):
tell me, you can find a way to turn somebody in,
you get fifty million dollars. He'll tell you what I'm
turning somebody in.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
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at Asknahollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Hurricane
Melissa made landfall in Cuba this morning as an extremely
dangerous Category three hurricane with one hundred and twenty mile
(00:20):
per hour winds, following the devastation in Jamaica's the strongest
Atlantic hurricane to hit land in history. Now in Cuba,
severe flooding has hit the area. There's a tremendous storm surge.
But you can imagine what the people in Cuba were
thinking after they saw what was going on in Jamaica.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuating Cuba yesterday and
(00:43):
let's hope that that ended up saving lives. Yeah, it
went pretty close to Guantanamo Bay, Yes, it absolutely did.
And you know what, it's far from finished. I mean,
this storm is still powerful. It remains a category three.
Winds have diminished a little bit of one hundred and
fifteen miles per hour, but now it's targeting the Bahamas
and could cause a lot of damage there and continue
(01:04):
on to Bermuda before heading up into the Northern Atlantic
and hopefully into nowhere Land. But in the meantime, it's
going to go down in history as one of the
most powerful storms. And we're only just getting word of
what's going on in Jamaica. We'll find out more after dawn.
And as a rescue crew started getting into these remote areas,
(01:25):
so many roads were washed out there that rescue crews
really had no ability to even get to where people
were stranded or trapped at this point. And they don't
have a lot of numbers as far as the damage
or the number of people who may have been hurt
or killed as a result of the storm. Yeah, you've
got so many different factors. You've got one hundred and
eighty five mile per hour winds. The storm kept strengthening
(01:46):
as it was approaching Jamaica. And those of us who
have been through hurricanes before, you know this sound. But
just imagine the wind speeds at one hundred eighty five
miles per hour, that whistling, you know, yeah, non stop
(02:06):
every hurricane that I've covered. When you talk to people
who were going through it, they say, it's just that sound.
Sometimes it sounds like a freight train is coming and
it never lets up, and that's what's so unnerving, especially
if your roof blows off.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen videos of that happening.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, people who survived Hurricane Andrew, which was probably the
most powerful storm to strike South Florida in many, many years.
People's rooftops were just blown off by one hundred and
sixty plus mile per hour winds and they were stuck
in there listening to that wind and being soaked by
the rain. I mean, it was just a terrifying experience
for people. And the United States has never seen one
(02:49):
hundred and eighty five mile per hour landfall. I looked
up that type of wind speed and there was a
small island that Hurricane Irma passed over. You remember Hurricane
Irma in twenty seventeen. It basically formed into a category
five and went across the whole Atlantic as a five.
And it was huge too, so it impacted a much
(03:10):
larger area than Hurricane Melissa did. But it went over
this tiny little island, Okay, And you could actually see
the island in the eye of the storm at one point.
And when I looked at the damage. It literally flipped cars. Yeah,
like the winds were strong enough to like torn cars, Yes,
like a tornado exactly. The damage didn't look like what
you would expect from a hurricane. It was much more
(03:31):
like a tornado. And so obviously the hope is that
the people at Jamaica were able to find us somewhere
safe in that kind of environment. But I mean, you've
got infrastructure there that, while some parts have been upgraded recently,
you figure a lot of it's going to be just
wiped out. Plus you've got the potential for those landslides
with all the rain at the higher elevations, and then
(03:53):
you've got the storm. Search can only imagine what that
was like in parts of Jamaica with the storm that powerful.
And now you're going to see a lot of destruction there.
Major hurricane Category three rolling over that island. So as
soon as we start to really get some there's just
not a lot coming out of Jamaica. Right now, it's quiet,
but I have a feeling we're going to see some
pretty disturbing images soon. Absolutely. A new poll from the
(04:16):
Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida
shows that Republican candidates such as Casey DeSantis and Byron
Donald's are leading their Democratic counterparts in Florida's upcoming gubernatorial race.
The poll indicates that both the Santas and Donalds hold
significant leads over Democrats David Jolly and Jerry Demings in
(04:38):
head to head matchups. DeSantis leads Jolly by thirteen percentage points,
Demings by eleven. Donald's leads by eleven points over Jolly
and leads Demings by twelve. Now we're obviously still a
year out from the midterm election, and there are a
lot of undecided voters. According to Michael Binder, the unf
(04:59):
poll who handles this survey, Yeah, this wasn't all that
surprising the fact that they pulled Casey Desantas. I don't
think she's getting into race.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Why are they even worried about her?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And then Paul Renner just kind of left out. Yeah,
and he is running, Yeah, he is running. But that
sounds about right to me. Where you would see things
here in Florida. It's just a different landscape now for
Republicans and Democrats. What I thought was interesting about this survey,
and again, you got to take all these polls with
the grain of salt. But housing costs number one concern
(05:33):
among voters, followed by insurance, and then property taxes. Keep
saying affordability, that's the key issue. And then on the
question of eliminating property taxes for homeowners, forty nine percent
support that, forty three percent oppose it, so not nearly
the sixty percent threshold that you would need in order
(05:54):
to pass a constitutional amendment if it gets put on
the ballot. And then I thought this was interesting. The
way the US is handling immigration detentionis deportations fifty four
percent approved, forty four percent disapproved. But there was a
big split, so in North Florida and the rural areas,
you had a much higher approval of how immigration enforcement
(06:16):
is going compared to South Florida and some of the
urban areas. And then the one thing that it sounds
like just about everybody can agree on these days, everybody
wants the Epstein related files released eighty three percent, so
that crossed party lines. They all want the Epstein files. Yes, well,
the future governor won't be able to do anything about that. Yeah,
(06:38):
but yeah, that is obviously something that had really been
promised to to people and they're just not getting any
satisfaction based on what's been released so far. So Davenport
mother was arrested after authority said that she got on
to a school bus and began yelling and cursing at
a student, causing the bus to be delayed by nearly
an hour. Now you think, okay, how bad could it
(07:00):
possibly be? You know, when someone gets on a bus
and expresses themselves, why do we check in and see
how it went?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That you are I'm not my son, you are here
the king and I'll tell your mommy.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And that was just a little bit of it that
went on for almost two minutes. And that's just what
that kid caught on video of this woman.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
She's yelling at the bus driver, she's yelling at the kid.
I mean, it's a whole scene. Delayed the bus for
like an hour.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And then she went to the school and police caught
up with there at the school. And not only did
she get arrested because she wouldn't shut up, but then
her daughter got involved and she also got arrested.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And here's the thing. So investigators they look into all
of this and it was all tied to a fight
that happened a couple of days higher involving her two
kids and the student that she was cursing and yelling at.
And it was her kids who were bullying the student
she was screaming at. They were the aggressors. Yeah. Yeah,
(08:12):
So forty eight year old Atanya Rogue gets arrested and
based on the report from the sheriff, sounds like the
apples don't fall too yeah from the tree, exactly like this.
You could hear it in that clip. All right. Chris
Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much, Thank you.
So if you want to know why the government shut
down keeps going, we're now day twenty nine. Well, both
(08:33):
parties are seeing boosts in their approval ratings from their base.
U cnnpol shows a five point jump for congressional Republicans,
with support from the base up double digits. Democrats, they've
seen their approval numbers from their base go from forty
one percent in June to almost sixty percent. Now, now
you do have some members from both parties pushing for
(08:56):
negotiations to end this whole thing. There's there's bipartisan concern
over pay for the troops and air traffic controllers, snap
benefits being frozen on the first the impact of the
Obamacare subsidies going away. And I think we're getting to
a point now where even though neither side wants to budge,
(09:18):
they're really not going to have a choice. It's a
problem that just has to be dealt with. And the
way I would think of it, it's kind of like parenting.
So my cousin is dealing with a problem a lot
of parents that probably had to handle at some point.
Her kid busted out the F word recently. Yes, must
have overheard it well.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And even though it's hilarious when it happens my kids
in the car seat, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, you can't laugh. Yeah, kids are like sponges. So
all of a sudden in the car it comes out,
you know, one time, Like I said, kind of funny.
Maybe you want to discipline your kid and send a
strong message, but maybe your partner just wants to have
a conversation, make it a teachable moment. So you don't
agree on the solution. You just kind of let it go,
(10:03):
hope it doesn't happen again. And then you're in the
bakery section of publics and all of a sudden, your
kid bust out the F word. And people are shooting
you dirty looks and this kid, I have to know
you very young kid. Then you know, it happens again,
say in church peace bfing with you, you know, and
now you kind of have to put your differences aside
(10:26):
and figure out a way to handle it right. And
we're approaching I think the F bomb in church moment.
With this government shutdown, it's something that you just can't
let continue because it's a problem that you have to tackle.
It's just impacting too many people at this point. Today's
stage twenty nine of the government shutdown, and the biggest
(10:48):
emerging issue is food assistance, which is set to stop
on Saturday. Nearly three million Floridians depend on snap or
food stamps. It's about thirteen percent of the state. Democrats
in Florida legislature sent a letter urging the governor to
declare a state of emergency. What they want them to
do is unlock State Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund dollars
(11:12):
for food support and they're also proposing universal school meals
until the shutdown ends. Have no idea if that's something
the governor would even entertain. This all comes as food
banks across the state they're reporting demand at a crisis level.
We mentioned yesterday Metropolitan Ministries here in the Tampa Bay area.
They're calling the surge they're seeing unprecedented, we know, the
(11:33):
same as being seen by Feeding Tampa Bay and so
many others. And when it comes to those who were
on food stamps, you know, having had so many conversations
with these different organizations, it really is a diverse group
who ends up needing help, especially in crisis times like this.
So you've got a lot of people who may be
(11:56):
turning to Metropolitan Ministries or Feeding Tampa Bay for the
very first time, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
People who have never needed help before because of all
the circumstances right now, they're in a position where they
do need help.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The average demographic for food stamp recipients white, twenty five
to sixty four. In that age range, high school education.
Almost half are single moms. So you know, just think
you've got federal worker work. Yeah. Yeah, Let's say you've
got a federal worker, middle class salary, couple of kids,
(12:29):
recently had a medical issue that set you back, Maybe
you got a car that needed some work, You racked
up a little credit card debt. As a single mom
going into the new school year, supplies clothes, things like that.
Property insurance has been going up and up and up,
and now you don't have a paycheck coming in. The
mortgages do the bills are due? You turn to one
of these organizations for help. You're somebody who is dependent
(12:51):
upon SNAP in order to feed yourself or your family.
Could be a senior who is dealing with something like that. Yeah, exactly.
Now you don't have that coming in. You turn to
Feeding Tampa Bay or metropolitan ministries. So a lot of
different people in a lot of different circumstances. But the
bottom line is this is now really having a more
(13:14):
widespread impact than at any other time over the course
of the past twenty nine days. Vice President JD. Vance
says troops will get paid this week despite the shutdown.
The Pentagon is redirecting eight billion dollars in unspent funds
to cover paychecks, but the Treasury's warning that money's gonna
run out before November fifteenth. Meanwhile, you've got seven hundred
(13:35):
thousand plus federal workers furloughed nationwide, and SNAP benefits, food
stamps they're set to stop on Saturday. That's going to
impact almost three million people just here in Florida. And
then you have some of these other unintended consequences, like
a Jacksonville school for kids with autism now permanently closed
(13:56):
because the shutdown delayed insurance reimbursements that und its operations.
Officials said, those administrative funding delays just made it impossible
for the school to stay open. And to me, that's
the problem with the Democrats strategy for shutting the government
down to try to make a deal on something like
(14:16):
the enhanced Obamacare subsidies. While you're trying to help a
large group of Americans who could face some really difficult
circumstances if those subsidies run out. The way you're attempting
to fix that problem is creating an entirely new set
of problems that's having a huge negative impact on a different,
(14:40):
large group of people. So now you have people who
are working in the federal government. You've got air traffic controllers,
Capitol police, people at the National Hurricane Center. They've been
tracking hurricane elicita, providing vital information, and they're not getting
paid right now. You're creating problems for them. And then
with snap benefits running out, hitting a problem for those
(15:01):
who need food assistance. This is why using the government
shutdown as a negotiating tactic is questionable. Strategy to the
mid life not working.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I don't know how much backlash there is against Democrats
right now, because it seems like those people are trying
to blame Republicans, but really it's the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I am going to answer that question in terms of
backlash and the polling and the politics of all this.
We'll get to that coming up at around seven seventeen.
What's get an update on President Trump's trip over in Asia.
We're joining the hotline now by our White House correspondent
John Decker. SA. John, what are the latest developments over
the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Well, this trip is slowly winding down. The President is
now on the third leg of this three leg trip.
He arrived in South Korea earlier today after spending the
past twenty four hours in Japan. The President speaking with
business leaders in Japan, Ryan who pledged five hundred billion
dollars in investments in the United States, including ten billion
dollars that was play by Toyota to build manufacturing plants,
(16:02):
more of them right here in the United States. The
President arriving in South Korea to attend the Apex summit,
and tomorrow that's in the President will have that big
meeting with Chinese President chi Jingping. We learned earlier today
the meeting will last at least three hours, so they've
got a lot of topics on the agenda when they
speak tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, and I think what you're going to see out
of that meeting, it sounds like the stage is being
set based on what we've heard from the Treasury Secretary
and some of the reporting meeting will have gone well,
there will have been progress made on a number of
fronts and a bit of a cooling down of tensions.
But you know, as is the case with a lot
(16:43):
of these different deals that we've seen the President make,
especially on the trade front, we don't often get a
lot of details from them.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No, they're frameworks for deals, yeah, you know, typically when
you have a full scale trade agreement, it's one that's
raut of by the US Senate, that's actually called for
in our constitution. These are not that, you know, these
are agreements, generalized agreements. You know, if you read the language,
it's very vague in the commitments that are being presented
(17:14):
by both parties. But Having said all that, the President
has received a commitment from China that was over the
weekend when Besson's met with his Chinese counterpart, that it
will continue purchasing American agricultural products, including soybeans, and that
should help out America's farmers in the Midwest quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I think one of the interesting things to watch for,
too is whether or not there's any kind of commitment
from China to scale back their purchase of Russian oil.
The President has put a lot of pressure on India
to do just that, but China is the largest purchaser,
so if they were to agree to something like that,
that would really put even more pressure on Russia than
(17:57):
we're already seeing with that latest round of sanctions.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh, I agree with you completely, Ryan. You know, I
asked the President about that last week last Wednesday, one
week ago today, about whether or not he'll put some
pressure on President she to put some pressure on President
Putin to force him to come to the negotiating table.
And certainly if China limits or reduces its purchase of
(18:23):
Russian oil, that certainly would put some pressure on Russia
in the sense that it's that Russian oil revenue that
funds their war against Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And last thing I want to mention. We're joined by
our White House correspondent John Decker. We learned that Japan
is giving the US a gift for our two hundred
and fiftieth birthday. Two hundred and fifty cherry trees are
coming our way.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah, that should really beautify the nation's capital. You know,
there already are quite a bit of you know, a
large amount of cherry trees around the title basin, and that's,
of course, is why we celebrate the cherry blossom Festival
every spring. But that's quite a gift. I think that's
a nice thing to take back. That will last for generations.
(19:08):
It's not a gift that comes and goes. It will
last well beyond the Trump presidency.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Now, if they really want to get on Trump's good side,
they should give us a gold cherry tree as well.
May put that outside the balls.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Festival is beautiful though it's so packed in DC when
you go check it out, but when I lived up there,
it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, now you're gonna have a little less room for
people with two hundred and fifty more of those trees.
John Decker, our White House correspondent with US John really
appreciate it. Thanks so much, Thanks so much, by BTE.
The Associated Press had quite the story yesterday, a veteran
Department of Homeland Security agent trying to recruit Nicholas Maduro's
(19:47):
personal pilot to secretly divert the Venezuelan leaders plane so
the US could arrest him on federal drug charges. So
the pitch happened during this quiet meeting at a Dominican
Republic airport hangar in twenty twenty four iNTS the planes
were undergoing some maintenance. The pilot apparently listened to the
(20:08):
pitch but didn't commit. Later returned to Venezuela. Over the
next sixteen months, the agent used encrypted apps to keep trying.
Even after he had retired, he kept in touch with
this pilot. He texted the pilot again this summer saying
that look, man, you can be rich and a hero.
(20:30):
There's a fifty million dollar bounty on Maduro. The pilot
pushedback and eventually blocked him. Wow, So opposition figures doesn't
end there. They then try to rattle Maduro by publicly
hinting that the pilot had flipped, so they posted on
(20:50):
Acts a photo from that secret meeting at the airport hangar.
It a sparking speculation that maybe the pilot had been
detained he was cooperating. Then you get this this brief mystery.
The pilot vanishes, Maduro's plane suddenly turns back mid flight.
But then days later he reappears on state TV. He
didn't say anything, but he's standing beside officials praising his loyalty.
(21:14):
And they called him a kick ass patriot, you know,
for not taking the money and doing what he could
have done. But just you know, some of the stuff
that we don't hear about that goes on behind.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It sounds like a plot of a movie that you
would think this doesn't happen in real life.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But it does.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I got to tell you, I mean turning down
a fifty million dollar bounty, Like look, I can only
imagine what that pilot was going through. There's there's lots
going on. Probably got yeah, scared, freaked out all of that.
Maybe he doesn't necessarily think that that he'll actually get
his end of the deal. Who knows, but boy, you
(21:50):
tell me, you can find a way to turn somebody in,
you get fifty million dollars. He'll tell you what I'm
turning somebody in.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
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