Florida News That Impacts You – March 31st, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.   

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From West Palm Beach to Tallahassee. This is Florida's news
that impacts you on the Brian Mudshall Yeah, Brian Mudd
and Joel Malcolm with you and Florida's flu season nearing
its end as cases low for a second consecutive week.
According to the CDC's weekly data. The lowest level is minimal,

(00:26):
so we're not quite there, but low is still good
in the rate of the spread of flu and flu
like activity declined in sixty two of Florida's sixty seven
counties over the past week, including the entire East Coast
of Florida. RSV cases they've been a lot more stubborn.
They actually increased in Martin County for the second straight
week and also fourteen other counties last week, but they've

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remained consistent in Palm Beach County. In the Indian River,
Florida CFO Jimmy Patrons, who's in his last week on
the job as he's up for election in Congress in
a special election on Tuesday. He's a learning twenty thousand
Floridians who has started to process with the My Save
Florida grant program that they need to finish the process
According to patrons, there's over one hundred million dollars in

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existing my Save Florida home funds at about thirty thousand
inspected properties where the homeowner has not completed the age
and income questionnaire. And he said, if you haven't done
so already, it's critical to go online and provide the
information as soon as possible. And on that note, the
My Save Florida portal has been reopened and will remain
open until April thirtieth for Floridians who've already had an

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inspection and need to finish the process. Core Logic's latest
report shows West bom Beach one of three Florida cities
at the highest risk of real estate price declines this year.
Tampa and winter Haven are the other two. The report
shows a greater than seventy percent chance of declining real
estate prices this year in West Palm Beach, though core

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Logic notes that if we experience lower mortgage rates, buyers
would move into the market. Passing showers remain possible today,
Sunny skies for much of the day hin in the
mid eighties, which is a bit warmer than usual for
this date. Expected to have similar weather on Tuesday and
gas prices. They fell a little bit through the weekend,
that they remained fourteen cents higher than a week ago.

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The average price four A regular unletted say why three
ten per gallon and the bad beach is the average
price this morning sitting at three twenty six and Martin
right there at the state average at three ten and
a bit above it in the Indian River County at
three eleven per gallon.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Hight, let's get look at your national headlines. President Trump
says he's very angry with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He
says if a peace deal in Ukraine can't be reached,
and he believes it's Russia's fault, he'll place more tariffs
on Russian oil. This happened during a phone call with
NBC News yesterday morning. Also making news during that phone
call and Brian referenced it. President Trump says he is

(02:50):
not joking about serving for a potential third term. He
was asked about joking multiple times about serving three terms,
to which he replied, wasn't a joke, also claiming he
has the highest poll numbers of any Republican for the
last one hundred years. Apparently, he likes to work likes
to work. He went on to add, there are ways
to make it happen. Atlantics Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg

(03:10):
is refuting the claims of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz
in the aftermath of the league of military attack plans
in Yemen. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Goldberg said
Walts's claims that the two had never met before are
not true. Goldberg didn't go into detail about how he
knows Walt's only saying his number was in Waltz's phone,
and that's a thing. How do you know if your
number is in somebody else's phone. I mean maybe he

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sent the number. That anyway, just another thing. Search and
recovery efforts are ongoing for four US soldiers missing in Lithuania.
Authorities on Saturday said the soldiers, based out of Fort Stewart,
were operating an armored recovery vehicle last week when it
sank deep into a bog during training exercises. Egg prices
dropping his chicken flocks begin to recover from the bird flu.

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The average wholesale price of a dozen eggs three bucks
last week. That's down from a record high eight dollars
and fifty fifteen cents. In February, law enforcement was out
in force. His protesters took to Tesla dealerships across the
country over the weekend. More than two hundred demonstrations were
held Saturday and what organizers call the Global Day of Action.
They're targeting Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk because of his work

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with Doze. Under President Trump speaking of people with mental conditions.
A proposed California ballot initiative, have you heard this? Brian
is being named after the alleged United Healthcare CEO Killer.
If passed, the Luigi Mangioni Act would make it harder
for insurance companies to deny medical care and would require

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the companies to pay full coverage without itemized lists. The
Luigi Mangioni Act all right. Two new or two NASA
astronauts who spend nine months aboard the International Space Station
set to give a press conference today. NASA SpaceX Crew
nine includes Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore, who had to
stay on the ISS a lot longer than expected. And
the NCAA Men's basketball tournament is down to its final

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four uf isn't it? On Saturday, the Gators took down
Texas Tech and Duke beat Alabama. Yesterday's action, Houston took
down Tennessee, Auburn defeated Michigan State. Saturday's final four, we'll
see Houston take on Duke after Florida's matchup with Auburn.
The winners will face off April seventh for the national championship.
Those are your headlines with a little editorialism in there.