BEST OF - Hurricane Melissa takes aim at Jamaica as most powerful hurricane this late in season, Hillsborough County’s sheriff admits staff showed “poor judgment” in an academic cheating scandal, and Governor Ron DeSantis announces New College of Florida’s debate prize will be named after Charlie Kirk. Plus, college tuition keeps climbing even as fired coaches collect massive payouts, Trump dodges questions about a potential third term, and Washington remains at a standstill over the government shutdown.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hurricane Melissa has suddenly become a storm for the ages.
It's now the most powerful storm to ever form in
the Atlantic basin this late and hurricane season as we're
down to the final month or so. It'll be the
strongest you ever hit Jamaica, with top winds of one
hundred and seventy five miles per hour, and it could
be one of the worst to make landfall ever because
(00:34):
typically storms weaken as a mouch land, especially if it's
a continent, but because Jamaica is just a small island. Yeah,
this storm has shown no signs of weakening.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's stayed the same basically in the past twenty four hours.
This really impressive, almost perfect looking major hurricane.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, that's absolutely right, and it really has stayed that
way in these overnight hours, which is very bad news
for Jamaica. The path right now is a northeastern path
is moving fairly slowly and looks like it'll hit the
western side of the island. There are some sort of
mountainous regions there. Those places will be particularly vulnerable because
(01:15):
they're right up there where a lot of the high
winds are and obviously coastal areas are looking at tremendous
storm surge, wind damage, major flooding. This is a slow
moving storm and the National Hurricane Center is predicting potentially
three feet of rain over a pretty short period of time.
So that's a combination of just awful factors from the
(01:36):
slow moving storm and the rainfall, to the terrain there
on the island of Jamaica, the storm surge, the wind speeds.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I mean, this is brutal. If you live through Hurricane Andrew,
this storm much stronger than that. I mean, if you
were in the Tampa Bay area for Hurricane Selena in
Milton last year, that storm surge that impacted how many homes,
nothing compared to what you is about to see with
this thing. That's absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
What wasn't Milton a four, three or four when it
made they became a five and then something happened and
it didn't end up being a five when it hit.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Us, right right. This storm is holding its strength as
it I mean, it's it's not far off from making
landfall now within the next couple hours.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Quite a few Jamaicans live in South Florida, and the
response teams down there have done an excellent job getting
ready to provide assistance. They've already sent the maid down there.
One thing that's been discouraging though, is a number of
tourists and some people on the island haven't really taken
this that seriously. A lot of people aren't realizing the
severity of this storm and that it's going to be
(02:38):
much worse than anything Jamaica has experienced in decades.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, Gilbert was the worst one that Jamaica had experienced
back in nineteen eighty eight, but this one is even
stronger than that. I don't know how you could not
take this here just looking at it. I mean, all
you have to do is look at the map and
you see that thing. You're like, that looks like it
looks like a buzzsaw. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The problem is it's pretty much too late to do
any major evacuation.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
There's no coming or going at this point.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, I mean, we're looking at landfall in a couple
of hours, and even though it hasn't made landfall yet,
the effects are tremendous. It's so strong, it's so powerful.
Even the outer bands are lashing the island right now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
A couple of quick notes, and this could change because
Race Atic from the Weather Channel about an hour ago
said that he had seen some data that indicated that
the pressure might have dropped below nine hundred, but at
its current level at nine oh one, eighth lowest pressure
in the Atlantic Basins history, the third lowest for an
(03:38):
October storm. It's the strongest hurricane ever this late in
the hurricane season at the end of October, and News
Channel eights Jeff Beardelli said that this storm broke the
world's record for the driest eye. Now, nobody's ever looked
in my eyes at two am. I tell you what,
they are, super dry, getting up on no sleep. It's
(03:58):
just like different kind of kind of eye. Yeah, but
no this that, and you could see it based on
the fact that it's just so clear. It's like a
perfect eye with nothing there in the middle. Absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It reminds me when Hurricane Irma went over that tiny
island years ago. It was, you know, same power, one
hundred and eighty miles an hour or something, and the
eye was so clear you could actually see down into
it from the satellite and you could see the island
in the eye. This storm is very much like that.
So what's going to happen is we're going to be
hearing shortly about the landfall and exactly how strong it
(04:30):
is and whether any records were set. But as of
right now, it's a monster storm and you know, let's
hope for the best for the folks on that island.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, we'll have all the latest throughout the morning. What
else going on this morning?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Christ So Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Cronister confirmed all six
members of his command staff who were recently resigned or
fired at someone else's complete academic and work related assignments
in a cheating scandal that has rocked his agency and
his leadership team. So for background, it's not unusual for
top ranking officers in law enforcement to take advanced classes
(05:05):
so they can qualify for promotions, and some agencies require
college degrees, but in this case, most of the deputies
didn't have degrees, but they can take other courses. They
can go to the FBI Academy and take other classes.
The sheriff says that an internal investigation found that a
guy who lives out of state, Robert Rausch, and is
not a law enforcement officer, was completing work for all
(05:27):
six of these deputies. And we're talking about his number
two at the agency, the chief deputy, two colonels, a
couple of captains.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Top officials. You know, they weren't using chat ept for
their assignments. They were using some guy who was doing
it for them. Bottom line is they weren't doing it themselves.
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He held a news conference saying that there won't be
any criminal charges for this behavior. He said that the
price paid was their loss of a career in law
enforcement and the fact that they had to leave the
agent and see. But obviously there's still a lot of
questions as to how so many people in his upper
echelon of command staff could have gotten that far by cheating.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Let me play a couple of quick clips from Hillsboro
kenty chef check ronister.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He emphasized that those who resigned or were fired aren't
bad people.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
What occurred here was not about a lack of ability
or care. It was a shortcut, a moment of poor judgment,
a choice that, while wrong, was not malicious. I will
not stand here and condemn the individuals involved in this matter.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
They are not bad people.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
They are respected leaders, decorated professionals, and compassionate human beings.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So a couple of things. These are obviously people who
have served for a long time. They've served their community.
They put their lives on the line. And I like
Hillsborough anty chef check Ronister. We've had him on numerous times,
but I did think he downplayed it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And did he say that he was disappointed by what
they did or anything like that, because what I heard,
the part that I heard was him basically saying, you
know what we just played that. He's not going to
condemn them, you know, talking about how great they were.
But I think when you do something like this, you know,
you can say they were well respected, but you lose
the respect of the community when you cheat.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, and what about those who maybe got passed over
for those positions within the department, who did the work,
who didn't have somebody do it for them, really unfair
to them? Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And there were also questions about are there more people
who've been getting away with this, he claims that the
investigation only found these six, but what is alarming is
how high up they were in the sheriff's office, and
it does make you wonder whether there is a cheating
scandal that goes further down. So Governor de Santas announced
a speech and debate competition award and scholarships during a
(07:57):
news conference at New College of Florida. Desanta says the
grand prize of the competition, which will be held next
April at the college, will be named after the political
commentator Charlie Kirk, who, of course, was fatally shot hosting
a debate event on a university campus in Utah last month.
The winner would receive a fifty thousand dollars scholarship, the
(08:19):
runner up twenty five thousand, and semi finalists will get
fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Have some big money.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It is yes, absolutely, and Desanta says it aligns with
his administration's policies promoting civics. And this is something that
was announced at a place on New College, which has
become a conservative school since Dissantas became governed. Originally was
a small liberal arts school. Right now it's become known
for its conservative curriculum, and they're going to build a
(08:46):
statue of Charlie Kirk on that campus, so that maybe
why they held the news conference there.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I like this idea much better than what we had
seen with these lawmakers and local officials trying to name
Rhodes the state after Charlie Kirk. This honors his memory
much more.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Somebody was trying to put a statue somewhere that didn't
make sense to I can't remember exactly what it was,
but this makes a lot of sense. A conservative college
campus where they're going to do this type of event
and embrace it, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I think the event is a state wide event.
They're holding it at New College next year. This is
not a New College event. Is a statewide debate competition.
They'll be held at other locations. They held a news
conference there because they're putting up a statue right at
that school. But I just think the idea of debate
competition and the grand prize being named after Charlie Kirk,
it just it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's a good idea, all right. Chris Trankman with Today's
Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much, Thank you. Just listen
to these numbers former Penn State coach James Franklin fifty
million dollar bio, former Gators coach Billy Napier twenty million
dollar bio, now former LSU coach Brian Kelly over a
fifty million dollars biot. And then you've got some of
(09:55):
these coaches at other schools like Rent Pryort Virginia Tech
six million bucks. Trent Dilfer, remember him, former Bucks quarterback.
He was the head coach at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham, not you know, the University of Alabama two
point four million dollar buyout. Overall, almost one hundred and
(10:16):
seventy million dollars in buyouts for college coaches so far
this year. Now, apparently a private donor is expected to
pay most of Brian Kelly's buyout. I wonder if it
was that Mellon guy, you know, who was given the
Trump administration. You have money to pay the troops during
the shutdown. You've got tuition through the roof. Okay, people
are paying off student loans while they're collecting Social Security.
(10:38):
I mean, it's insane, it really is.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, those numbers are ridiculous because there's that much money
in college.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh my god, so much money. These coaches are getting
buyouts of tens of millions of dollars, and it's not
always some private donor who can bail these universities out.
In most cases it's not. And for Kelly, who's sixty four,
it's like a cushy retirement plan basically for doing a
bad job like he did. They're getting fired because they've
done a bad job, and real quick on Brian Kelly,
(11:06):
it was never gonna work at LSU with him. He
came from Notre Dame and then Cincinnati before that, and
he's like a Midwest kind of dude, and he gets
to LSU and then he does code switching when he
gets the job, all of a sudden he's at Louisiana
State University. It was just really awkward. Only at like
(11:27):
these super high level jobs, do you get these kinds
of golden parachutes, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Like it really wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
There was somebody in the airline industry that I remember
talking about where they got a huge payout to leave
after doing a terrible job.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
If you do a bad job, as like a flight attendant,
you get fired and then you're gonna end up needing
Like all the free stuff Zoron Mamdani is offering in
New York City. Okay, if you do a bad job
as the CEO of that airline, you get a compensation package.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
That's that's I don't understand that, And how do we
get to that point.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Because that's not fair. And there's this weird dynamic at
universities too. You know, bad professors they have tenure, bad
coaches have huge buyouts. It's like they're rewarding mediocrity for
some of these people.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
And educational facilities in college.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
If I was sending a kid to one of these
schools and paying that bill, or helping pay that bill,
or watching them bet their future on that degree with
tens of thousands of dollars in loans, I would be
freaking pissed. Now for these schools, a lot of the
(12:38):
alumni and the students there, they're just happy they got
rid of these coaches, you know, as it sucks when
it's college football season and your team is supposed to
be one of the best and they're awful. But I
just I've seen these figures in the news lately and
it's just jaw dropping to me. It's insane, and nobody
seems to be talking about like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Yeah, stand that at all?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Why how did it get to this point? And is
anybody going to try to change this or we're just
going to roll with it? Where coaches just get fifty
million bucks for doing a really bad job.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
That's incentive to do a crappy job. Might as well suck.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I can get a big payout and not have to
come to work exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
President Trump didn't roll out the possibility of running for
a third term in twenty twenty eight, but he did
roll out the idea of running as a candidate for
the vice presidency.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
You'd be allowed to do that, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I would.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I think it's it's stoper cute. Yeah, I would rull
that up because it's stupiute. I think that people would
like that. It's stoop cute. It's done. It would be
right there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Was Trump speaking to reporters on Air Force one. When
asked about running for president again, Trump said this, I.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Haven't really good about it. We have some very good people,
as you know, but I have the best ball numbers
I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
He also mentioned two people in particular who he thought
could make a good twenty twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
People, Well, I don't have to get into that, but
we have wonderful setting right here. We have JD. Obviously,
the vice president is great. Think Marco is great. I
think I'm not sure if anybody would run against.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
My take on this is that we are in this dumb, pointless,
rinse repeat cycle. The media asked Trump about running again,
he keeps this response vague, the media freaks out. Then
we do it all over again every couple of weeks.
Doesn't I feel like that that's the circle talking.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
About this again, and his answer is always the same.
He's not saying yes I'm running again, Yes, I'm going
to do this.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, he keeps it open ended because it makes a
lot of headlines.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
And all of that, and I think he enjoys it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, exactly. Nobody cares. He's ten months into this term.
We're over a year away from the midterms. He's seventy
nine years old. I'm asking about twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, he's gonna be what eight eighty three?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But yeah, I mean the media, they're ready to go
nuts because of the constitutional problem that it It's like
they wanted. I consider this media masochism. That's what this
is Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
They want him to sit there, Yeah, hold on to
anything and there he's alluding to jd Vance and market
Rubio should be next day night.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
They want the drama, and he's more than willing to
give them the drama. It's a very codependent relationship between
the two. You know. It's one thing to ask Democrats,
like we talked about Kamala Harris yesterday. You a Gavin Newsom.
That's a little bit more interesting because they don't have
a leader of their party, so you're kind of trying
to see who might emerge. But continuing to ask Trump
every couple of weeks. Enough already, So just going back
(15:35):
to that discussion real quick on Obamacare and the subsidies
and all of that. In Florida, we've got four point
seven million people on those Obamacare exchanges, and when those
enhanced subsidies took effect during the pandemic, enrollment doubled in
this state and one another four hundred thousand this year,
So it's going to have a big impact, especially in
(15:58):
South Florida. Miami date has the highest enrollment rate in
the country for those on Obamacare. And just to give
you more of a sense of the real world, impact.
There was a story about a woman in Key West
pays about eight hundred dollars a month for her family's coverage. Now,
when those subsidies go away, her bill is going to
(16:21):
reach about two thousand dollars a month. And we're talking
about middle class families impacted here. You know, people who
are self employed, people working for small businesses, those who
were in those real extreme lower income groups. Those subsidies
are going to continue, so they'll continue to get help.
It's this group, and I don't know about you, but
(16:42):
if my healthcare coverage went from eight hundred a month
to two thousand a month, that'd be it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, I say, make that work. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
For the shutdown. We're on day twenty eight. The American
Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than
eight hundred thousand workers. They're claiming that a lot of
federal workers already lining up at food banks after missing
two paychecks. And we've got some anecdotal evidence on that too,
and food banks and organizations that help in these kinds
of situations. They're starting to feel the impact of Tampa
(17:16):
Bay Area Organization Metropolitan Ministry seeing what they call an
unprecedented surge of people seeking assistance, and they expect demand
to go up even more in a few days once
those SNAP benefits are frozen food stamps. That's going to
impact almost three million people here in Florida. And to
give you a sense as to why that's going to
(17:37):
be so problematic for these these food banks, they say
that for every one meal that they're able to provide,
SNAP usually covers nine meals for those families. So imagine
that disparity. And then you've got the travel issues. Today
marks the first missed payday for air traffic controllers. So
(17:58):
if you think they've been alling out sick up to
this point, just wait. Now they're missing their paycheck. Now
they're really going to call us. Yeah, there were some
flight disruptions across the country yesterday. Some of it had
to do with that, Some of it had to do
especially here in Florida with just some really bad weather.
That's what caused them delays. But I think that's going
to be a growing problem.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
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Speaker 1 (18:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hurricane Melissa has suddenly become a storm for the ages.
It's now the most powerful storm to ever form in
the Atlantic basin this late and hurricane season as we're
down to the final month or so. It'll be the
strongest you ever hit Jamaica, with top winds of one
hundred and seventy five miles per hour, and it could
be one of the worst to make landfall ever because
(00:34):
typically storms weaken as a mouch land, especially if it's
a continent, but because Jamaica is just a small island. Yeah,
this storm has shown no signs of weakening.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's stayed the same basically in the past twenty four hours.
This really impressive, almost perfect looking major hurricane.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, that's absolutely right, and it really has stayed that
way in these overnight hours, which is very bad news
for Jamaica. The path right now is a northeastern path
is moving fairly slowly and looks like it'll hit the
western side of the island. There are some sort of
mountainous regions there. Those places will be particularly vulnerable because
(01:15):
they're right up there where a lot of the high
winds are and obviously coastal areas are looking at tremendous
storm surge, wind damage, major flooding. This is a slow
moving storm and the National Hurricane Center is predicting potentially
three feet of rain over a pretty short period of time.
So that's a combination of just awful factors from the
(01:36):
slow moving storm and the rainfall, to the terrain there
on the island of Jamaica, the storm surge, the wind speeds.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I mean, this is brutal. If you live through Hurricane Andrew,
this storm much stronger than that. I mean, if you
were in the Tampa Bay area for Hurricane Selena in
Milton last year, that storm surge that impacted how many homes,
nothing compared to what you is about to see with
this thing. That's absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
What wasn't Milton a four, three or four when it
made they became a five and then something happened and
it didn't end up being a five when it hit.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Us, right right. This storm is holding its strength as
it I mean, it's it's not far off from making
landfall now within the next couple hours.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Quite a few Jamaicans live in South Florida, and the
response teams down there have done an excellent job getting
ready to provide assistance. They've already sent the maid down there.
One thing that's been discouraging though, is a number of
tourists and some people on the island haven't really taken
this that seriously. A lot of people aren't realizing the
severity of this storm and that it's going to be
(02:38):
much worse than anything Jamaica has experienced in decades.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, Gilbert was the worst one that Jamaica had experienced
back in nineteen eighty eight, but this one is even
stronger than that. I don't know how you could not
take this here just looking at it. I mean, all
you have to do is look at the map and
you see that thing. You're like, that looks like it
looks like a buzzsaw. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The problem is it's pretty much too late to do
any major evacuation.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
There's no coming or going at this point.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, I mean, we're looking at landfall in a couple
of hours, and even though it hasn't made landfall yet,
the effects are tremendous. It's so strong, it's so powerful.
Even the outer bands are lashing the island right now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
A couple of quick notes, and this could change because
Race Atic from the Weather Channel about an hour ago
said that he had seen some data that indicated that
the pressure might have dropped below nine hundred, but at
its current level at nine oh one, eighth lowest pressure
in the Atlantic Basins history, the third lowest for an
(03:38):
October storm. It's the strongest hurricane ever this late in
the hurricane season at the end of October, and News
Channel eights Jeff Beardelli said that this storm broke the
world's record for the driest eye. Now, nobody's ever looked
in my eyes at two am. I tell you what,
they are, super dry, getting up on no sleep. It's
(03:58):
just like different kind of kind of eye. Yeah, but
no this that, and you could see it based on
the fact that it's just so clear. It's like a
perfect eye with nothing there in the middle. Absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It reminds me when Hurricane Irma went over that tiny
island years ago. It was, you know, same power, one
hundred and eighty miles an hour or something, and the
eye was so clear you could actually see down into
it from the satellite and you could see the island
in the eye. This storm is very much like that.
So what's going to happen is we're going to be
hearing shortly about the landfall and exactly how strong it
(04:30):
is and whether any records were set. But as of
right now, it's a monster storm and you know, let's
hope for the best for the folks on that island.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, we'll have all the latest throughout the morning. What
else going on this morning?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Christ So Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Cronister confirmed all six
members of his command staff who were recently resigned or
fired at someone else's complete academic and work related assignments
in a cheating scandal that has rocked his agency and
his leadership team. So for background, it's not unusual for
top ranking officers in law enforcement to take advanced classes
(05:05):
so they can qualify for promotions, and some agencies require
college degrees, but in this case, most of the deputies
didn't have degrees, but they can take other courses. They
can go to the FBI Academy and take other classes.
The sheriff says that an internal investigation found that a
guy who lives out of state, Robert Rausch, and is
not a law enforcement officer, was completing work for all
(05:27):
six of these deputies. And we're talking about his number
two at the agency, the chief deputy, two colonels, a
couple of captains.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Top officials. You know, they weren't using chat ept for
their assignments. They were using some guy who was doing
it for them. Bottom line is they weren't doing it themselves.
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He held a news conference saying that there won't be
any criminal charges for this behavior. He said that the
price paid was their loss of a career in law
enforcement and the fact that they had to leave the
agent and see. But obviously there's still a lot of
questions as to how so many people in his upper
echelon of command staff could have gotten that far by cheating.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Let me play a couple of quick clips from Hillsboro
kenty chef check ronister.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He emphasized that those who resigned or were fired aren't
bad people.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
What occurred here was not about a lack of ability
or care. It was a shortcut, a moment of poor judgment,
a choice that, while wrong, was not malicious. I will
not stand here and condemn the individuals involved in this matter.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
They are not bad people.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
They are respected leaders, decorated professionals, and compassionate human beings.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So a couple of things. These are obviously people who
have served for a long time. They've served their community.
They put their lives on the line. And I like
Hillsborough anty chef check Ronister. We've had him on numerous times,
but I did think he downplayed it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And did he say that he was disappointed by what
they did or anything like that, because what I heard,
the part that I heard was him basically saying, you
know what we just played that. He's not going to
condemn them, you know, talking about how great they were.
But I think when you do something like this, you know,
you can say they were well respected, but you lose
the respect of the community when you cheat.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, and what about those who maybe got passed over
for those positions within the department, who did the work,
who didn't have somebody do it for them, really unfair
to them? Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And there were also questions about are there more people
who've been getting away with this, he claims that the
investigation only found these six, but what is alarming is
how high up they were in the sheriff's office, and
it does make you wonder whether there is a cheating
scandal that goes further down. So Governor de Santas announced
a speech and debate competition award and scholarships during a
(07:57):
news conference at New College of Florida. Desanta says the
grand prize of the competition, which will be held next
April at the college, will be named after the political
commentator Charlie Kirk, who, of course, was fatally shot hosting
a debate event on a university campus in Utah last month.
The winner would receive a fifty thousand dollars scholarship, the
(08:19):
runner up twenty five thousand, and semi finalists will get
fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Have some big money.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It is yes, absolutely, and Desanta says it aligns with
his administration's policies promoting civics. And this is something that
was announced at a place on New College, which has
become a conservative school since Dissantas became governed. Originally was
a small liberal arts school. Right now it's become known
for its conservative curriculum, and they're going to build a
(08:46):
statue of Charlie Kirk on that campus, so that maybe
why they held the news conference there.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I like this idea much better than what we had
seen with these lawmakers and local officials trying to name
Rhodes the state after Charlie Kirk. This honors his memory
much more.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Somebody was trying to put a statue somewhere that didn't
make sense to I can't remember exactly what it was,
but this makes a lot of sense. A conservative college
campus where they're going to do this type of event
and embrace it, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I think the event is a state wide event.
They're holding it at New College next year. This is
not a New College event. Is a statewide debate competition.
They'll be held at other locations. They held a news
conference there because they're putting up a statue right at
that school. But I just think the idea of debate
competition and the grand prize being named after Charlie Kirk,
it just it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's a good idea, all right. Chris Trankman with Today's
Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much, Thank you. Just listen
to these numbers former Penn State coach James Franklin fifty
million dollar bio, former Gators coach Billy Napier twenty million
dollar bio, now former LSU coach Brian Kelly over a
fifty million dollars biot. And then you've got some of
(09:55):
these coaches at other schools like Rent Pryort Virginia Tech
six million bucks. Trent Dilfer, remember him, former Bucks quarterback.
He was the head coach at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham, not you know, the University of Alabama two
point four million dollar buyout. Overall, almost one hundred and
(10:16):
seventy million dollars in buyouts for college coaches so far
this year. Now, apparently a private donor is expected to
pay most of Brian Kelly's buyout. I wonder if it
was that Mellon guy, you know, who was given the
Trump administration. You have money to pay the troops during
the shutdown. You've got tuition through the roof. Okay, people
are paying off student loans while they're collecting Social Security.
(10:38):
I mean, it's insane, it really is.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, those numbers are ridiculous because there's that much money
in college.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh my god, so much money. These coaches are getting
buyouts of tens of millions of dollars, and it's not
always some private donor who can bail these universities out.
In most cases it's not. And for Kelly, who's sixty four,
it's like a cushy retirement plan basically for doing a
bad job like he did. They're getting fired because they've
done a bad job, and real quick on Brian Kelly,
(11:06):
it was never gonna work at LSU with him. He
came from Notre Dame and then Cincinnati before that, and
he's like a Midwest kind of dude, and he gets
to LSU and then he does code switching when he
gets the job, all of a sudden he's at Louisiana
State University. It was just really awkward. Only at like
(11:27):
these super high level jobs, do you get these kinds
of golden parachutes, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Like it really wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
There was somebody in the airline industry that I remember
talking about where they got a huge payout to leave
after doing a terrible job.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
If you do a bad job, as like a flight attendant,
you get fired and then you're gonna end up needing
Like all the free stuff Zoron Mamdani is offering in
New York City. Okay, if you do a bad job
as the CEO of that airline, you get a compensation package.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
That's that's I don't understand that, And how do we
get to that point.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Because that's not fair. And there's this weird dynamic at
universities too. You know, bad professors they have tenure, bad
coaches have huge buyouts. It's like they're rewarding mediocrity for
some of these people.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
And educational facilities in college.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
If I was sending a kid to one of these
schools and paying that bill, or helping pay that bill,
or watching them bet their future on that degree with
tens of thousands of dollars in loans, I would be
freaking pissed. Now for these schools, a lot of the
(12:38):
alumni and the students there, they're just happy they got
rid of these coaches, you know, as it sucks when
it's college football season and your team is supposed to
be one of the best and they're awful. But I
just I've seen these figures in the news lately and
it's just jaw dropping to me. It's insane, and nobody
seems to be talking about like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Yeah, stand that at all?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Why how did it get to this point? And is
anybody going to try to change this or we're just
going to roll with it? Where coaches just get fifty
million bucks for doing a really bad job.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
That's incentive to do a crappy job. Might as well suck.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I can get a big payout and not have to
come to work exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
President Trump didn't roll out the possibility of running for
a third term in twenty twenty eight, but he did
roll out the idea of running as a candidate for
the vice presidency.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
You'd be allowed to do that, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I would.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
I think it's it's stoper cute. Yeah, I would rull
that up because it's stupiute. I think that people would
like that. It's stoop cute. It's done. It would be
right there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Was Trump speaking to reporters on Air Force one. When
asked about running for president again, Trump said this, I.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Haven't really good about it. We have some very good people,
as you know, but I have the best ball numbers
I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
He also mentioned two people in particular who he thought
could make a good twenty twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
People, Well, I don't have to get into that, but
we have wonderful setting right here. We have JD. Obviously,
the vice president is great. Think Marco is great. I
think I'm not sure if anybody would run against.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
My take on this is that we are in this dumb, pointless,
rinse repeat cycle. The media asked Trump about running again,
he keeps this response vague, the media freaks out. Then
we do it all over again every couple of weeks.
Doesn't I feel like that that's the circle talking.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
About this again, and his answer is always the same.
He's not saying yes I'm running again, Yes, I'm going
to do this.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, he keeps it open ended because it makes a
lot of headlines.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
And all of that, and I think he enjoys it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, exactly. Nobody cares. He's ten months into this term.
We're over a year away from the midterms. He's seventy
nine years old. I'm asking about twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, he's gonna be what eight eighty three?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But yeah, I mean the media, they're ready to go
nuts because of the constitutional problem that it It's like
they wanted. I consider this media masochism. That's what this
is Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
They want him to sit there, Yeah, hold on to
anything and there he's alluding to jd Vance and market
Rubio should be next day night.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
They want the drama, and he's more than willing to
give them the drama. It's a very codependent relationship between
the two. You know. It's one thing to ask Democrats,
like we talked about Kamala Harris yesterday. You a Gavin Newsom.
That's a little bit more interesting because they don't have
a leader of their party, so you're kind of trying
to see who might emerge. But continuing to ask Trump
every couple of weeks. Enough already, So just going back
(15:35):
to that discussion real quick on Obamacare and the subsidies
and all of that. In Florida, we've got four point
seven million people on those Obamacare exchanges, and when those
enhanced subsidies took effect during the pandemic, enrollment doubled in
this state and one another four hundred thousand this year,
So it's going to have a big impact, especially in
(15:58):
South Florida. Miami date has the highest enrollment rate in
the country for those on Obamacare. And just to give
you more of a sense of the real world, impact.
There was a story about a woman in Key West
pays about eight hundred dollars a month for her family's coverage. Now,
when those subsidies go away, her bill is going to
(16:21):
reach about two thousand dollars a month. And we're talking
about middle class families impacted here. You know, people who
are self employed, people working for small businesses, those who
were in those real extreme lower income groups. Those subsidies
are going to continue, so they'll continue to get help.
It's this group, and I don't know about you, but
(16:42):
if my healthcare coverage went from eight hundred a month
to two thousand a month, that'd be it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, I say, make that work. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
For the shutdown. We're on day twenty eight. The American
Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than
eight hundred thousand workers. They're claiming that a lot of
federal workers already lining up at food banks after missing
two paychecks. And we've got some anecdotal evidence on that too,
and food banks and organizations that help in these kinds
of situations. They're starting to feel the impact of Tampa
(17:16):
Bay Area Organization Metropolitan Ministry seeing what they call an
unprecedented surge of people seeking assistance, and they expect demand
to go up even more in a few days once
those SNAP benefits are frozen food stamps. That's going to
impact almost three million people here in Florida. And to
give you a sense as to why that's going to
(17:37):
be so problematic for these these food banks, they say
that for every one meal that they're able to provide,
SNAP usually covers nine meals for those families. So imagine
that disparity. And then you've got the travel issues. Today
marks the first missed payday for air traffic controllers. So
(17:58):
if you think they've been alling out sick up to
this point, just wait. Now they're missing their paycheck. Now
they're really going to call us. Yeah, there were some
flight disruptions across the country yesterday. Some of it had
to do with that, Some of it had to do
especially here in Florida with just some really bad weather.
That's what caused them delays. But I think that's going
to be a growing problem.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
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weekday morning on news radio.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
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