October 8, 2025 • 15 mins
TOP STORIES - The new Tampa Bay Rays owners outline ambitious stadium plans and face a long road ahead; Hillsborough County closes multiple inquiries into social media posts about Charlie Kirk; Senator Jay Collins slams “paparazzi-chasing” politicians as speculation grows about a possible run for governor. Plus, Florida Democrats and Republicans trade blame over the ongoing government shutdown, a Miami Northwestern student says a brutal bathroom attack sent her to the ER, and the ex-husband of a Real Housewives of Miami star sues Bravo.
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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 say for your future, they can
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at Askthhollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So the new owners of the Tampa Bay Rays made
a good impression at their first public appearance after the
nearly two billion dollars sale of the team from the
previous owner, Stuart Sternberg. Now, they made all the right statements.
They said that they were going to be good stewards
of the community, but they did not pull out a
surprise plan about how to solve the Ray's ongoing issue
(00:34):
with finding money for a new stadium. And despite a
lot of praise from local leaders about the sale, Tampa
Mayor Jane Caster once again reiterated her position that taxpayers
would not be paying to build a facility across the
Bay from the Ray's current home in Saint Petersburg. Now,
the owners said they want a mixed use development that
(00:54):
would include a stadium along with residential, business and entertainment facilities.
They said that's the kind of development that has proven
to be successful in other cities that have gotten new stadiums.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, Atlanta seems to be like the gold standard that
set up with the ballpark and the suburbs and the
development around it. That seems to be what they're aiming
for here. Let me play a few clips from that
press conference yesterday. Co chair Patrick Selepsky. He addressed the
ballpark issue.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's no secret that we need a new forever home
to secure the Ray's long term future in Tampa Bay,
and delivering upon that objective will be our first priority.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
He also noted the new ballpark is going to have
a roof.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We envision a fully enclosed, domed, climate controlled, non retractable ballpark.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think that whole test run at Steinbrenner Field and
the open air that yeah, made everyone realize he had well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He said that other owners who are in markets where
they have the retractable roof, it's broken most of the
time and it's just not wor the huge maintenance cost
to keep it operational. So you can open it up
and have hot humid air grids exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And then new CEO Can Babby offered an update on
the repairs to the trop.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
At the end of this week. We'll have twelve of
our twenty four panels on the roof.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's worth a drought, So I make it a lot
of progress. And they're going to do some new things
to the trop as well. They've got some upgrades that
they're planning on putting in there, So once the trop reopens,
it'll be a little bit different. Now, I've said this
from the beginning. Patrick Seleupski is a developer, and a
(02:39):
development project was always going to be part of this
ballpark deal. Now what he's talking about one hundred acres
with the ballpark at the center of the plan. That
is a big development, So that could fit the Tropicana
Field site that's about ninety five acres at all. I
don't get the sense that that's their target destination. I
(03:01):
think they want a redevelopment site that's large and that
has the potential to draw more people to the park
than what you would see if the ballpark run the
Saint Pete's side of the bay.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, I think they were talking about that Hillsboro College site.
Then the problem there is that the box might not
want that right.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So that Hillsboro College campus site, which is right next
to Raymond James Stadium and steinber and a field. You've
got about one hundred and eight acres there, so plenty
of room right to work. And then you would create
kind of a setup like you see in some other
cities where you've got you know, the football stadium the
baseball stadium all kind of right around each other. And
(03:43):
then you've got the Florida State Fairgrounds. There's about one
hundred acres that you could work with there. And then
you have some smaller areas ebor Harbor with what they're
talking about with that big of a redevelopment project that's
probably out, that's only about thirty three acres.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And then you have some other developers who are involved
in that, so I don't know if they would want to,
you know, work with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So look, what they want to do is much bigger
than a ballpark.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
This is this is a real estate deal basically with
a baseball team.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Bottom line, the trup's going to be their home for
the foreseeable future. And there is no ideal site because
we are a tri city area, yeah, and it's just
difficult to find one spot that everybody will like, right.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And that's the same same issue in South Florida too,
where the Marlins play. It's it's difficult for people in
Broward because of uh, you know, where the Marlins ballpark
is located. So you know, these are some of the
complications that come along with with finding the right spot
for these ballparks, like here in Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I do want to point out Gordon in the
newsroom so that the Ray's owners put out an urgent
bulletin to the media to recognize that it's zuloop Ski.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, zoloop Ski.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's how you pronounce as in like fruit loops ah.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Not zski. So you know he's from Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We're still getting to know these things, and you know,
they just wanted to clear that up for everybody who
obviously had been mispronouncing the name all day.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yet totally.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, they probably should have put that email out at
the beginning of the day, not after.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
The news conference. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Following state leader's calls to investigate teacher comments on social
media about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination, Hillsborough County Schools
have investigated posts by seventeen employees, but so far, it
doesn't look like any of them are going to lose
their job from what it appears to be at this point,
(05:38):
people have been spoken to and cautioned and that's about it.
According to district officials, there was a verbal reprimand for
one teacher, a few others got a letter of direction,
and the rests of the punishment didn't go any further
than that. Now, exactly what they said was not made public,
so we don't know how necessarily egregious or a minor
(06:00):
statements were. But in comparison to say, Lee County down there,
they're expected to fire three teachers over their posts on
social media. Yeah, in Hillsborough County, they just they basically
got call to the principal's office.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And to just put that into perspective, we've got about
seventeen employees. I think there's some twelve thousand teachers in
Hillsborough County, like twenty something thousand school employees, so you know,
again very small, small number. There was also a story
while we're on the topic of Charlie Kirk, a state
lawmaker calling for public universities to pay tribute to Kirk
(06:37):
by requiring roads or portions of roads on public college
campuses to be named for Kirk, and those who don't
comply would lose state funding, enough arting, enough for itady,
just to stop.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
These visual schools decide what they want.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
To do, right, if they want to do something great,
if they don't find But this again, every time I
see this, it's more about and that's why I'm not
saying the person's name. It's more about the lawmaker trying
to get their name out than it is about paying tribute.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Charli Kirk. It's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins appears to be saying that politicians
who are trying to run for higher office are shirking
their current responsibility. And he's saying this even as their
speculation he's driving out for higher office. So he told
a Florida Tech What Text Watch gathering in Orlando that
voters deserve better. He said that they were elected to
(07:31):
do hard things and he doesn't want any more paparazzi
chasing politicians. He wants men and women who are willing
to breach and lead.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yes, stop looking for those viral moments. We don't need
more politicians who do those like made for camera stunts,
like you know, traveling to California to personally bring back
an illegal immigrant involved in a deadly crow. Oh, that's right,
that was a lieutenant governor Jay.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, he was asked about whether he was going to
run for governor and he said that no, he is
working on being the lieutenant governor, which we're still trying
to figure out exactly what that job is.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, that job is basically whatever Covenant Santa says
it is. But there was a lot of talk that
he would already be in the race, that he would
have gotten in by the beginning of October, hasn't yet,
so got a tough road.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I mean Byron Donald's not only has a lot of money,
he is a fixture on cable TV. This guy would
somehow have to compete with a guy who's very versed
in getting media attention.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Exactly, and he'd have to do it without doing those
paparazzi chasing stunts that he just announced. And that's tough.
Chris Trankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much,
thank you. Let's get to today's Top Stories with Karen Curtis.
Good morning, Karen.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Good morning. So we've sold the government shut down.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
We're in our second week, and Florida Democrats and Republicans
are kind of playing the blame game, so it is
a clean cr but Pencil Pensacola Republican Congressman Jimmy Patronis's
Democrats are pushing the s shut down to get health
benefits for illegal migrants. Meanwhile, Florida Democrats are calling for
both parties in the delegation to unify for the sake
(09:09):
of healthcare.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Florida Congressional Delegation, I'm asking you and hoping that you
listen to your constituents and find a way to come together.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Put a partisan difference to a side, put Floridians.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
First, please, But remember the ball is in the Senate's
court and we don't have any Democratic senators. So Florida
Democratic Party chair there Nikki Fried, says currently nearly two
million Floridians are enrolled in the ACA marketplace, and the
subsidies run out at the end of the year, so
they're trying to get ahead of the ball right now.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
But she says both sides need to come together or
Florida's uninsured rate will hit ten percent.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Well, there was.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
One positive developments overnight Apparently a group of bipartisan senators
got together for Thai food.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
That's according to Political Now.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
One of the senators involved wasn't a fan of Tie food,
and and there's some speculation that maybe he was going
to eat cereal instead. I got to tell you, if
I was trying to hammer out a negotiation on something
like this, Tyfield would not be my go to. Oh
my gosh, a fan, Yeah, I'd probably go with the
cereal instead, to be honest. So there were no votes
(10:17):
last night. More votes are set for today. The Senate's
going to be voting for the sixth time. The vote
on the House passed continuing resolution and the Democratic continuing
resolution that'll all fail later today. Then you had Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy. Because air travel is becoming a mess now,
he was delivering pizzas to air traffic controllers at Newark.
Oh geez, I think they need more than pizzas.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
So hey, you get pizza if you come to.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Work, especially at Newark where it's been a disaster. But
there were more than thirty five hundred flights delayed as
of last night, five hundred and seventy flights at Chicago
hair and more than two hundred flights at Nashville. Nashville
like shut down for a couple hours over that's a
big airport.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Oh yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Go dark.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And the reason the air travel chaos is important if
you go back to twenty nineteen when we had that
thirty five days shutdown when when Trump was president back
then the same day that the FAA had to limit
air traffic at LaGuardia because of air traffic control problems.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That was when a deal was reached.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you know this now the pressure really starts to
get put on lawmakers.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's not just an inconvenience either. It's a safety problem.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Oh, it absolutely is. We've already had issues exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And then House Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday he floated passing
legislation that would maybe allow military members and FA air
traffic controllers to be paid during the shutdowns.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
So you know, everybody else would be furlough but they
would they would they would be.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Paid necessary Yeah, yeah, or those other necessary employees. They're
not going to receive their paychecks now, they'll get back pay,
but those employees, military members and air traffic controllers would
get paid during the shutdown we'll see if that goes anywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
What else has happened in this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Karen So the Miami Northwestern student that was in the bathroom.
She says that she was beaten with a Stanley cup,
not the one the Panthers have won twice in a row,
but also it's you know, it's the cup that's a
yeah old liquid.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
The one that it's the one that I drink my water.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Is ready to beat me with that every five seconds, Yeah,
you should get some real damage.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
And a trumpet, now, I mean that would hurt. And
it sent her to the er for stitches. So seventeen
year old Arianna Sharpton says that several girls attacked her
in the bathroom and it was a coordinated tack with
these odd objects. According to her mom, someone hit her
in the head with the Stanley cup. Someone took a tuba.
Oh it wasn't a trumpet. Was some sort of an instrument.
(12:51):
Hit her in the head again. And there's a difference
between a trumpet and a tuba.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I'd rather be hit with a trumpet.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, yes, smaller.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Really deep. So it goes h and then trump it
goes prayer.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Okay, So it was she apparently when she figured out
what was going on, she said there were eight of
them on top of her. So two of the girls, though,
say sharp and provoked them. A fifteen year old sophomore, though,
was in court yesterday charged with third degree felony battery
for this that happened on Monday, the fight.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The mother was frustrated because I guess no one from
the school contacted her after the incident.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And she's claiming that that her daughter was standing up
to a girl who was teasing her.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
She's not going to be returning to the school.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
To me, Like, if there's a beatdown in a bathroom
with a Stanley cup and a trumpet or a tuber
or whatever, isn't that expulsion?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Like yes, that's what I don't understand. Everyone involved in
that should be completely expelled. That's it. You're out. But
these schools they tolerated and that's why it keeps happening,
and they make excuses for the kids. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
All right, Let's get to one more quick story.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Karen.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Yeah, she had to get stitches.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
So an ex husband of a Real Housewives of Miami
star is suing Bravo for allegedly saying he's broke Miami
real estate investor and developer Todd Is it Napola?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I don't watch this. I'm so sorry, Neapola.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I don't want to think.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Sounds about right. Just say it with confidence, Karen's all, there.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
You go, right.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Neppola, who's the ex husband of the Real Housewives of
Miami veteran Alexia Neppola, filed a lawsuit against Bravo Media,
NBC Universal Media, purveyors of Pop Productions, the companies behind
the show. He claims that the show falsely portrays him
as someone in financial distress and accuses them of deformation
and also using his nil name, image, and likeness to
(14:44):
fabricate false stories for Alexa. She's apparently dropping the name,
thank god, because I can't say it. Yeah, but he's
asking for ten million of damages for deformation, a million
for unauthorized use of his name and likeness.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, he said this whole thing caused reputational harm in
Miami's real estate community.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
But that isn't your reputation harm the minute you go
on one of those shows.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I don't know if he has a case on that part.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Karen Curtis with today's top story is Karen, Thanks so much,
Thank you. It's a Ryan Gorman Show five to nine,
every weekday morning on news radio WUFLA
Time now for today's top stories, brought to you by
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You worked hard to say for your future, they can
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at Askthhollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So the new owners of the Tampa Bay Rays made
a good impression at their first public appearance after the
nearly two billion dollars sale of the team from the
previous owner, Stuart Sternberg. Now, they made all the right statements.
They said that they were going to be good stewards
of the community, but they did not pull out a
surprise plan about how to solve the Ray's ongoing issue
(00:34):
with finding money for a new stadium. And despite a
lot of praise from local leaders about the sale, Tampa
Mayor Jane Caster once again reiterated her position that taxpayers
would not be paying to build a facility across the
Bay from the Ray's current home in Saint Petersburg. Now,
the owners said they want a mixed use development that
(00:54):
would include a stadium along with residential, business and entertainment facilities.
They said that's the kind of development that has proven
to be successful in other cities that have gotten new stadiums.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, Atlanta seems to be like the gold standard that
set up with the ballpark and the suburbs and the
development around it. That seems to be what they're aiming
for here. Let me play a few clips from that
press conference yesterday. Co chair Patrick Selepsky. He addressed the
ballpark issue.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's no secret that we need a new forever home
to secure the Ray's long term future in Tampa Bay,
and delivering upon that objective will be our first priority.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
He also noted the new ballpark is going to have
a roof.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We envision a fully enclosed, domed, climate controlled, non retractable ballpark.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think that whole test run at Steinbrenner Field and
the open air that yeah, made everyone realize he had well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
He said that other owners who are in markets where
they have the retractable roof, it's broken most of the
time and it's just not wor the huge maintenance cost
to keep it operational. So you can open it up
and have hot humid air grids exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And then new CEO Can Babby offered an update on
the repairs to the trop.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
At the end of this week. We'll have twelve of
our twenty four panels on the roof.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's worth a drought, So I make it a lot
of progress. And they're going to do some new things
to the trop as well. They've got some upgrades that
they're planning on putting in there, So once the trop reopens,
it'll be a little bit different. Now, I've said this
from the beginning. Patrick Seleupski is a developer, and a
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development project was always going to be part of this
ballpark deal. Now what he's talking about one hundred acres
with the ballpark at the center of the plan. That
is a big development, So that could fit the Tropicana
Field site that's about ninety five acres at all. I
don't get the sense that that's their target destination. I
(03:01):
think they want a redevelopment site that's large and that
has the potential to draw more people to the park
than what you would see if the ballpark run the
Saint Pete's side of the bay.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, I think they were talking about that Hillsboro College site.
Then the problem there is that the box might not
want that right.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So that Hillsboro College campus site, which is right next
to Raymond James Stadium and steinber and a field. You've
got about one hundred and eight acres there, so plenty
of room right to work. And then you would create
kind of a setup like you see in some other
cities where you've got you know, the football stadium the
baseball stadium all kind of right around each other. And
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then you've got the Florida State Fairgrounds. There's about one
hundred acres that you could work with there. And then
you have some smaller areas ebor Harbor with what they're
talking about with that big of a redevelopment project that's
probably out, that's only about thirty three acres.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And then you have some other developers who are involved
in that, so I don't know if they would want to,
you know, work with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So look, what they want to do is much bigger
than a ballpark.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
This is this is a real estate deal basically with
a baseball team.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Bottom line, the trup's going to be their home for
the foreseeable future. And there is no ideal site because
we are a tri city area, yeah, and it's just
difficult to find one spot that everybody will like, right.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And that's the same same issue in South Florida too,
where the Marlins play. It's it's difficult for people in
Broward because of uh, you know, where the Marlins ballpark
is located. So you know, these are some of the
complications that come along with with finding the right spot
for these ballparks, like here in Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I do want to point out Gordon in the
newsroom so that the Ray's owners put out an urgent
bulletin to the media to recognize that it's zuloop Ski.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, zoloop Ski.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's how you pronounce as in like fruit loops ah.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Not zski. So you know he's from Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We're still getting to know these things, and you know,
they just wanted to clear that up for everybody who
obviously had been mispronouncing the name all day.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yet totally.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, they probably should have put that email out at
the beginning of the day, not after.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
The news conference. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Following state leader's calls to investigate teacher comments on social
media about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination, Hillsborough County Schools
have investigated posts by seventeen employees, but so far, it
doesn't look like any of them are going to lose
their job from what it appears to be at this point,
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people have been spoken to and cautioned and that's about it.
According to district officials, there was a verbal reprimand for
one teacher, a few others got a letter of direction,
and the rests of the punishment didn't go any further
than that. Now, exactly what they said was not made public,
so we don't know how necessarily egregious or a minor
(06:00):
statements were. But in comparison to say, Lee County down there,
they're expected to fire three teachers over their posts on
social media. Yeah, in Hillsborough County, they just they basically
got call to the principal's office.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And to just put that into perspective, we've got about
seventeen employees. I think there's some twelve thousand teachers in
Hillsborough County, like twenty something thousand school employees, so you know,
again very small, small number. There was also a story
while we're on the topic of Charlie Kirk, a state
lawmaker calling for public universities to pay tribute to Kirk
(06:37):
by requiring roads or portions of roads on public college
campuses to be named for Kirk, and those who don't
comply would lose state funding, enough arting, enough for itady,
just to stop.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
These visual schools decide what they want.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
To do, right, if they want to do something great,
if they don't find But this again, every time I
see this, it's more about and that's why I'm not
saying the person's name. It's more about the lawmaker trying
to get their name out than it is about paying tribute.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Charli Kirk. It's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins appears to be saying that politicians
who are trying to run for higher office are shirking
their current responsibility. And he's saying this even as their
speculation he's driving out for higher office. So he told
a Florida Tech What Text Watch gathering in Orlando that
voters deserve better. He said that they were elected to
(07:31):
do hard things and he doesn't want any more paparazzi
chasing politicians. He wants men and women who are willing
to breach and lead.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yes, stop looking for those viral moments. We don't need
more politicians who do those like made for camera stunts,
like you know, traveling to California to personally bring back
an illegal immigrant involved in a deadly crow. Oh, that's right,
that was a lieutenant governor Jay.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, he was asked about whether he was going to
run for governor and he said that no, he is
working on being the lieutenant governor, which we're still trying
to figure out exactly what that job is.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, that job is basically whatever Covenant Santa says
it is. But there was a lot of talk that
he would already be in the race, that he would
have gotten in by the beginning of October, hasn't yet,
so got a tough road.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I mean Byron Donald's not only has a lot of money,
he is a fixture on cable TV. This guy would
somehow have to compete with a guy who's very versed
in getting media attention.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Exactly, and he'd have to do it without doing those
paparazzi chasing stunts that he just announced. And that's tough.
Chris Trankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much,
thank you. Let's get to today's Top Stories with Karen Curtis.
Good morning, Karen.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Good morning. So we've sold the government shut down.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
We're in our second week, and Florida Democrats and Republicans
are kind of playing the blame game, so it is
a clean cr but Pencil Pensacola Republican Congressman Jimmy Patronis's
Democrats are pushing the s shut down to get health
benefits for illegal migrants. Meanwhile, Florida Democrats are calling for
both parties in the delegation to unify for the sake
(09:09):
of healthcare.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Florida Congressional Delegation, I'm asking you and hoping that you
listen to your constituents and find a way to come together.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Put a partisan difference to a side, put Floridians.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
First, please, But remember the ball is in the Senate's
court and we don't have any Democratic senators. So Florida
Democratic Party chair there Nikki Fried, says currently nearly two
million Floridians are enrolled in the ACA marketplace, and the
subsidies run out at the end of the year, so
they're trying to get ahead of the ball right now.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
But she says both sides need to come together or
Florida's uninsured rate will hit ten percent.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Well, there was.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
One positive developments overnight Apparently a group of bipartisan senators
got together for Thai food.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
That's according to Political Now.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
One of the senators involved wasn't a fan of Tie food,
and and there's some speculation that maybe he was going
to eat cereal instead. I got to tell you, if
I was trying to hammer out a negotiation on something
like this, Tyfield would not be my go to. Oh
my gosh, a fan, Yeah, I'd probably go with the
cereal instead, to be honest. So there were no votes
(10:17):
last night. More votes are set for today. The Senate's
going to be voting for the sixth time. The vote
on the House passed continuing resolution and the Democratic continuing
resolution that'll all fail later today. Then you had Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy. Because air travel is becoming a mess now,
he was delivering pizzas to air traffic controllers at Newark.
Oh geez, I think they need more than pizzas.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
So hey, you get pizza if you come to.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Work, especially at Newark where it's been a disaster. But
there were more than thirty five hundred flights delayed as
of last night, five hundred and seventy flights at Chicago
hair and more than two hundred flights at Nashville. Nashville
like shut down for a couple hours over that's a
big airport.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Oh yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Go dark.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And the reason the air travel chaos is important if
you go back to twenty nineteen when we had that
thirty five days shutdown when when Trump was president back
then the same day that the FAA had to limit
air traffic at LaGuardia because of air traffic control problems.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That was when a deal was reached.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you know this now the pressure really starts to
get put on lawmakers.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's not just an inconvenience either. It's a safety problem.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Oh, it absolutely is. We've already had issues exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And then House Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday he floated passing
legislation that would maybe allow military members and FA air
traffic controllers to be paid during the shutdowns.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
So you know, everybody else would be furlough but they
would they would they would be.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Paid necessary Yeah, yeah, or those other necessary employees. They're
not going to receive their paychecks now, they'll get back pay,
but those employees, military members and air traffic controllers would
get paid during the shutdown we'll see if that goes anywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
What else has happened in this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Karen So the Miami Northwestern student that was in the bathroom.
She says that she was beaten with a Stanley cup,
not the one the Panthers have won twice in a row,
but also it's you know, it's the cup that's a
yeah old liquid.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
The one that it's the one that I drink my water.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Is ready to beat me with that every five seconds, Yeah,
you should get some real damage.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
And a trumpet, now, I mean that would hurt. And
it sent her to the er for stitches. So seventeen
year old Arianna Sharpton says that several girls attacked her
in the bathroom and it was a coordinated tack with
these odd objects. According to her mom, someone hit her
in the head with the Stanley cup. Someone took a tuba.
Oh it wasn't a trumpet. Was some sort of an instrument.
(12:51):
Hit her in the head again. And there's a difference
between a trumpet and a tuba.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I'd rather be hit with a trumpet.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, yes, smaller.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Really deep. So it goes h and then trump it
goes prayer.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Okay, So it was she apparently when she figured out
what was going on, she said there were eight of
them on top of her. So two of the girls, though,
say sharp and provoked them. A fifteen year old sophomore, though,
was in court yesterday charged with third degree felony battery
for this that happened on Monday, the fight.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The mother was frustrated because I guess no one from
the school contacted her after the incident.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And she's claiming that that her daughter was standing up
to a girl who was teasing her.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
She's not going to be returning to the school.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
To me, Like, if there's a beatdown in a bathroom
with a Stanley cup and a trumpet or a tuber
or whatever, isn't that expulsion?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Like yes, that's what I don't understand. Everyone involved in
that should be completely expelled. That's it. You're out. But
these schools they tolerated and that's why it keeps happening,
and they make excuses for the kids. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
All right, Let's get to one more quick story.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Karen.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Yeah, she had to get stitches.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
So an ex husband of a Real Housewives of Miami
star is suing Bravo for allegedly saying he's broke Miami
real estate investor and developer Todd Is it Napola?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I don't watch this. I'm so sorry, Neapola.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I don't want to think.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Sounds about right. Just say it with confidence, Karen's all, there.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
You go, right.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Neppola, who's the ex husband of the Real Housewives of
Miami veteran Alexia Neppola, filed a lawsuit against Bravo Media,
NBC Universal Media, purveyors of Pop Productions, the companies behind
the show. He claims that the show falsely portrays him
as someone in financial distress and accuses them of deformation
and also using his nil name, image, and likeness to
(14:44):
fabricate false stories for Alexa. She's apparently dropping the name,
thank god, because I can't say it. Yeah, but he's
asking for ten million of damages for deformation, a million
for unauthorized use of his name and likeness.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, he said this whole thing caused reputational harm in
Miami's real estate community.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
But that isn't your reputation harm the minute you go
on one of those shows.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I don't know if he has a case on that part.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Karen Curtis with today's top story is Karen, Thanks so much,
Thank you. It's a Ryan Gorman Show five to nine,
every weekday morning on news radio WUFLA
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