October 30, 2025 • 8 mins
TRENDING - Tourists in Montego Bay share harrowing stories of riding out Hurricane Melissa as windows shattered around them. Plus, an appeals court overturns a key decision in the high-profile Take Care of Maya case, FBI Director Kash Patel is accused of using a $60 million government jet for date nights, and new billboards across Florida call for the full release of Jeffrey Epstein files.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're now getting more information about what people experienced during
Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Two tourists talked about the force
of the wind and what that felt like as they
sheltered in hotels in Montego Bay.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The door, the balcony door.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Was shaking from the get go, and we got them
to common six sixth wife to make it kill and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Eventually it literally snapped into and just gave right in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But being in the room, my ears were.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Popping because of the.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Pressure from the storm.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It was lack of vortex.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
If you went near the front door, it's as if
you had.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Been sopped out.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We were lying down on the bed and all of
a sudden, whom everything the windows shattered, everything like, thank
god we had the mattress and everything there because the
glass when it came at us.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And then the Fox News weather team they were staying
in a beautiful home in sant Anne Parish that was
badly damaged during the storm, and when the winds died
down a little bit, reporter Robert Ray gave a tour
of the home, showing the windows blown out, the water
all over the floor, the furniture had been blown across
the house and it's a little tough to hear him
at some point, you know, during this this audio, because
(01:07):
he was standing where the wind was just blowing at him.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
I'm going to be very very careful as we walked through.
We have to maneuver through the water. It's all over
the floor, it's slick, the glass that leads. We never
thought that he would be in a position like this,
certainly especially with the turn that Hurricane Melissende. If we
(01:35):
didn't think he's gonna comes.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
God.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, So he's standing almost like in a hallway where
there's like a broken window and where a patio had
fallen down, so it's all open and you can just
see like like metal and all this stuff kind of hanging,
and the wind is blowing at him, and I'm thinking
this guy's an idiot, like any of those things.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Could break on and impale him.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But through the report and that other person that we
played earlier, the tourists who was talking about the pressure,
I mean, we've all experienced that where you know, the
door like slam shut because the wind and how it's
moving through the home and everything. You can only imagine
with one hundred and eighty five miles per hour hurricane
with that must affect.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Was popping and Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
This trending story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit
them at trajanwealth dot com. The two hundred and eight
million dollars settlement awarded to the family of Maya Kowalski
has been overturned by an appeals court here in Florida
after JOHNS Hopkins All Children's Hospital claimed the court wrongly
allowed evidence that should have been excluded. They argued that
(02:44):
the trial court misrepresented the Florida statute granting immunity for
good faith reporting when the welfare of a child is
at stake, that evidence admitted in the trial should have
been excluded, according to their lawyers, and the appeals court agreed,
saying and the hospital acted in good faith in its
participation with child protected protection activities. This was a three
(03:07):
judge panel and they also believed the hospital should have
been given a new trial and it should have been
determined by a judge and not a jury. So this,
of course was the case that everybody followed along with
In the Netflix show Take Care of Maya, Maya's mother
took her own life after losing custody of Maya to
the state.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
She was kept in the hospital, wasn't allowed to see
her mom.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I mean, this case was huge, and this was
pretty shocking that it was all overturned yesterday. So there's
going to be a new trial based on limited claims
where they can't allow any of that evidence that had
to do with the mandatory reporting.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Essentially, what the court said is when the hospital reported
potential child abuse, they were acting in good faith. And
that was at the center of the Kowalski families lawsuit
because they were saying that, you know, that shouldn't have happened,
that reporting there was no abuse, and that reporting of
(04:06):
alleged abuse directly led to her mother killing herself.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yes, and I think part of it, you know, the bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Issue is that what the what the hospital said in
their statement after is that now mandatory reporters don't have
to worry about anything being used against them.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And a lawyer for the hospital said, and I'm quoting,
we thank the judges for their time and attention to
this matter, and we appreciate that they understood what many
did not, that a one sided movie is no substitute
for a fair judicial process. Taking a shot obviously at
that Netflix documentary. But I also was a little confused.
I don't know about you, but I saw two hundred
(04:45):
and eleven million dollars for the judgment too, undred at
eight million Georgia thirteen million.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, I did too. I was like, which one do
I think? So I went with two o.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Eight Yeah, I think there was an additional they got
one chunk and then I think there was some type
of additional money that they got.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But yeah, the exact number, who knows that.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That's the latest on the case, again, a pretty big twist. Yesterday,
FBI director.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Cash Battel has been accused of using taxpayer money to
fly his girlfriend around the country. He was seen at
Penn State, where his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins was
performing at a wrestling event. She posted a picture of
the two of them on Instagram that night, and flight
logs show his FBI plane landed at the.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
College airport the day of the event.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So a MAGA podcaster who used to be an FBI
agent and is now critical of the agency, noted the
flight and set on X We're in the middle of
a government shutdown where they're not even going to pay
all of the employees that work for the FBI that
this guy heads, and he's jetting off to hang.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Out with his girlfriend in Nashville on our dime.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He accused them of grifting off the American public, and
then he said he flew a sixty million dollar aircraft
to go hang out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Is that gross to anybody else?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
So it's also been noted that back in twenty twenty three,
Cash Battel called then FBI director Christopher Ray a government
gangster and criticized him for jetting off on taxpayer dollars. Now,
it's worth noting that FBI directors are required to use
government planes for security, and then they have to reimburse
the government for their personal trips at the rate they
(06:19):
would pay for a commercial coach ticket. So for this
trip from you know, he went to Penn State, he
then went to Nashville with her, it would have cost
about two hundred and thirty nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Game respects game. I do the same thing, and so
at any guy. Have you seen Alexis Wilkins.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, he's forty five and she's twenty six.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, I would. I would jet around on the FBI
plane too to make her happy. So yeah, I've been
critical of Cash Betel in the past, but can't criticize
him for this. I mean, I'm looking at our Instagram
right now. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Cash.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The National anti Trafficking coalition World Without Exploitation is expanding
its Courage is Contagious campaign into Florida as they push
for the release of the Epstein files. So they're going
to be putting up billboards in Miami West, Palm Beach,
and Stewart. And the billboards say hundreds of Florida girls
were abused by Jeffrey Epstein. The other one says courage
(07:15):
is Contagious, release all the Epstein files. Similar billboards have
already gone up in Colorado, Illinois, and Louisiana, and the
director of the organization said putting them up in Florida
is a big deal because this is where so many
of the girls were recuted and.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Recruited and abused.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
She said, sadly, so much of Epstein's trafficking and abuse
took place in the Sunshine State. But they also say
sunshine is the greatest disinfectants.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, and we saw with that UNF Paul we were
talking about yesterday that eighty three percent of respondents want
the Epstein files released, and that is something that Republicans, Democrats,
independents all basically agreed about. Everybody wants to know all
that you yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know there
was anything else on the that got eighty three percent support.
(08:02):
So people want the files. And I don't know that
this is going to do the trick, but good for
them for getting the word out and putting more pressure
on to get them released. The Ryan Gorman Show on
NewsRadio WFLA. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan
Gorman Show, and find us online at ryangormanshow dot com
We're now getting more information about what people experienced during
Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. Two tourists talked about the force
of the wind and what that felt like as they
sheltered in hotels in Montego Bay.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The door, the balcony door.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Was shaking from the get go, and we got them
to common six sixth wife to make it kill and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Eventually it literally snapped into and just gave right in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But being in the room, my ears were.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Popping because of the.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Pressure from the storm.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It was lack of vortex.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
If you went near the front door, it's as if
you had.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Been sopped out.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We were lying down on the bed and all of
a sudden, whom everything the windows shattered, everything like, thank
god we had the mattress and everything there because the
glass when it came at us.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And then the Fox News weather team they were staying
in a beautiful home in sant Anne Parish that was
badly damaged during the storm, and when the winds died
down a little bit, reporter Robert Ray gave a tour
of the home, showing the windows blown out, the water
all over the floor, the furniture had been blown across
the house and it's a little tough to hear him
at some point, you know, during this this audio, because
(01:07):
he was standing where the wind was just blowing at him.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
I'm going to be very very careful as we walked through.
We have to maneuver through the water. It's all over
the floor, it's slick, the glass that leads. We never
thought that he would be in a position like this,
certainly especially with the turn that Hurricane Melissende. If we
(01:35):
didn't think he's gonna comes.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
God.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, So he's standing almost like in a hallway where
there's like a broken window and where a patio had
fallen down, so it's all open and you can just
see like like metal and all this stuff kind of hanging,
and the wind is blowing at him, and I'm thinking
this guy's an idiot, like any of those things.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Could break on and impale him.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
But through the report and that other person that we
played earlier, the tourists who was talking about the pressure,
I mean, we've all experienced that where you know, the
door like slam shut because the wind and how it's
moving through the home and everything. You can only imagine
with one hundred and eighty five miles per hour hurricane
with that must affect.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Was popping and Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
This trending story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit
them at trajanwealth dot com. The two hundred and eight
million dollars settlement awarded to the family of Maya Kowalski
has been overturned by an appeals court here in Florida
after JOHNS Hopkins All Children's Hospital claimed the court wrongly
allowed evidence that should have been excluded. They argued that
(02:44):
the trial court misrepresented the Florida statute granting immunity for
good faith reporting when the welfare of a child is
at stake, that evidence admitted in the trial should have
been excluded, according to their lawyers, and the appeals court agreed,
saying and the hospital acted in good faith in its
participation with child protected protection activities. This was a three
(03:07):
judge panel and they also believed the hospital should have
been given a new trial and it should have been
determined by a judge and not a jury. So this,
of course was the case that everybody followed along with
In the Netflix show Take Care of Maya, Maya's mother
took her own life after losing custody of Maya to
the state.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
She was kept in the hospital, wasn't allowed to see
her mom.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I mean, this case was huge, and this was
pretty shocking that it was all overturned yesterday. So there's
going to be a new trial based on limited claims
where they can't allow any of that evidence that had
to do with the mandatory reporting.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Essentially, what the court said is when the hospital reported
potential child abuse, they were acting in good faith. And
that was at the center of the Kowalski families lawsuit
because they were saying that, you know, that shouldn't have happened,
that reporting there was no abuse, and that reporting of
(04:06):
alleged abuse directly led to her mother killing herself.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yes, and I think part of it, you know, the bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Issue is that what the what the hospital said in
their statement after is that now mandatory reporters don't have
to worry about anything being used against them.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And a lawyer for the hospital said, and I'm quoting,
we thank the judges for their time and attention to
this matter, and we appreciate that they understood what many
did not, that a one sided movie is no substitute
for a fair judicial process. Taking a shot obviously at
that Netflix documentary. But I also was a little confused.
I don't know about you, but I saw two hundred
(04:45):
and eleven million dollars for the judgment too, undred at
eight million Georgia thirteen million.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, I did too. I was like, which one do
I think? So I went with two o.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Eight Yeah, I think there was an additional they got
one chunk and then I think there was some type
of additional money that they got.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But yeah, the exact number, who knows that.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That's the latest on the case, again, a pretty big twist. Yesterday,
FBI director.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Cash Battel has been accused of using taxpayer money to
fly his girlfriend around the country. He was seen at
Penn State, where his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins was
performing at a wrestling event. She posted a picture of
the two of them on Instagram that night, and flight
logs show his FBI plane landed at the.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
College airport the day of the event.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So a MAGA podcaster who used to be an FBI
agent and is now critical of the agency, noted the
flight and set on X We're in the middle of
a government shutdown where they're not even going to pay
all of the employees that work for the FBI that
this guy heads, and he's jetting off to hang.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Out with his girlfriend in Nashville on our dime.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He accused them of grifting off the American public, and
then he said he flew a sixty million dollar aircraft
to go hang out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Is that gross to anybody else?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
So it's also been noted that back in twenty twenty three,
Cash Battel called then FBI director Christopher Ray a government
gangster and criticized him for jetting off on taxpayer dollars. Now,
it's worth noting that FBI directors are required to use
government planes for security, and then they have to reimburse
the government for their personal trips at the rate they
(06:19):
would pay for a commercial coach ticket. So for this
trip from you know, he went to Penn State, he
then went to Nashville with her, it would have cost
about two hundred and thirty nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Game respects game. I do the same thing, and so
at any guy. Have you seen Alexis Wilkins.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, he's forty five and she's twenty six.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, I would. I would jet around on the FBI
plane too to make her happy. So yeah, I've been
critical of Cash Betel in the past, but can't criticize
him for this. I mean, I'm looking at our Instagram
right now. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Cash.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The National anti Trafficking coalition World Without Exploitation is expanding
its Courage is Contagious campaign into Florida as they push
for the release of the Epstein files. So they're going
to be putting up billboards in Miami West, Palm Beach,
and Stewart. And the billboards say hundreds of Florida girls
were abused by Jeffrey Epstein. The other one says courage
(07:15):
is Contagious, release all the Epstein files. Similar billboards have
already gone up in Colorado, Illinois, and Louisiana, and the
director of the organization said putting them up in Florida
is a big deal because this is where so many
of the girls were recuted and.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Recruited and abused.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
She said, sadly, so much of Epstein's trafficking and abuse
took place in the Sunshine State. But they also say
sunshine is the greatest disinfectants.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, and we saw with that UNF Paul we were
talking about yesterday that eighty three percent of respondents want
the Epstein files released, and that is something that Republicans, Democrats,
independents all basically agreed about. Everybody wants to know all
that you yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know there
was anything else on the that got eighty three percent support.
(08:02):
So people want the files. And I don't know that
this is going to do the trick, but good for
them for getting the word out and putting more pressure
on to get them released. The Ryan Gorman Show on
NewsRadio WFLA. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan
Gorman Show, and find us online at ryangormanshow dot com
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