Florida News That Impacts You – October 31st, 2024

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.   

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Helpful. I'm grateful for it. Your spot.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Repeat the Brian Mud Show. Yeah, Florida News that impacts you.
Brian Mud and the garbage man here with you, white trash,
as he referred to himself.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Think we would both be the garbage man.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Okay, gotcha. Total of just under five point seven million Floridians,
or forty one percent of Florida's voters, have voted via
vote by mail, ballots or through early voting, with Republicans
having now voted Democrats by nearly six hundred and sixty
eight thousand voters. Now. Turnout is forty nine percent in
Palm Beach County, fifty five percent of Martin, fifty one
percent in Indian River County. Early in person voting continues today.

(00:39):
Baulbach County. You got twenty six early voting locations open
from seven until seven daily through Sunday. For residents of
Martin County. Six locations operating from eight until five through Saturday.
Indian River County three locations from made until four, also
through Saturday. A reminder, you're able to vote in any
early voting location within your home county. You just need

(01:01):
to bring a government issued photo idea when you go
to the polls. Martin County hosted a workshop aimed at
getting assistance for those impacted by the tornadoes during Hurricane Milton.
Contained a common theme issues with federal assistance programs. Numerous
residents complained to FEMA outright rejecting claims or delayed the
decision process for many of the communities four hundred plus
homes damaged by tornadoes. Complaints by business owners about the

(01:23):
SBA non meeting needs were also apparent. Martin officials helped
connect residents with experts and resources aimed at helping move
along these processes going forward, Harley cloudy, windy yet again
Today hins in the low eighties, a little warmer than
usual for this date. Hurricane Center is still tracking the
one disturbance in the Caribbean Sea. It now has a
fifty percent chance of developing over the next seven days.

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The disturbance is expected to drift north, but again it's
still way too early to tell what direction and what
it would look like when it would get wherever it
theoretically will end up going. Gas prices they dropped by
four cents per gallon on Wednesday. The price four regular
unleaded three to eight per gallon. In the Palm Beaches
average price three twenty seven, martin three point fifteen, and

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in Indian River County the average three eleven per gallon.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
All right, let's get a look at your national headlines.
As you mentioned former President Trump arriving to his latest
campaign event in a MAGA themed garbage truck. He spoke
yesterday to rallying Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he rode in
on a garbage truck that he said was in honor
of Kamala and Joe Biden and Trump wrote the truck
in an effort to draw attention to comments made by
President Biden, who called his supporters Trump supporters garbage. Kamala

(02:33):
Harris also on the campaign trail in Wisconsin. Yesterday, the
Vice president hosted a rally in Madison, saying it was
good to be back in town, the town where she
spent several years of her childhood. Supreme Court allowing Virginia
to move forward with the removal of around sixteen hundred
elleged non citizens from the state's voter rolls. A request
from state officials was granted by the High Court to
pause a lower court ruling the block Virginia from moving

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forward with its removal program and started in August. Justice
as Soda Mayor Keigan and Brown Jackson and said they
would have denied the request from the State Virginia argued
the lower court's ruling violated state lawn mandated a variety
of disruptive measures. White House condemning North Korea's recent missile tests. Yesterday,
a spokesperson for the National Security Council called North Korea's
test launch a flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council

(03:18):
resolutions for the second time in five years. The La
Dodgers or World Series champs. The Dodgers clinched their eighth
championship in franchise history after rallying for a seven to
six win over the Yankees Game five last night in
New York. Spirit Airlines is getting ready to sideline hundreds
of pilots, a company spokesperson tells Reuters the discount airline
will furlow three hundred and thirty pilots on January thirty

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first as part of a cost cutting move. And some
Halloween costumes are evergreen, like princesses, pirates, ghosts, others come
and go with pop culture fads, and Google Trends is
out with the new ranking of the most searched costume
ideas by region. Marvel's Deadpool and Wolverine are popular this
year across the country. Minions from the Despicable Me franchise
up there as well. The most common costume search for

(04:02):
a real person is Taylor Swift. No mention of the
garbage costumes. But I guess it was just too soon
to get that on the goog.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
That is a late that's a late breaking.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Maybe next year, well, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I think it'll win. I still think it'll win.