Florida News That Impacts You – April 8th, 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 (00:00):
The Brian Mudshow podcast is driven by Brayman Motor Cars.
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Beach to Tallahassee. This is Florida's news that impacts you.
On The Brian Mud Show.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
The Florida Gators defeated Houston sixty five to sixty three
Monday Night, rallying from a twelve point second half deficit
for the program's third overall national championship and first since
two thousand and seven.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Awesome for Florida comebacks. That was the hallmark of their
championship run. And you know, the Florida Night even projected
to be a top three team in the SEC and
then there they are national champions. So just awesome all
the way around our weather.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
From Lauren to Leski over at CBS twelve. She's a
very happy girl today. She's a Gator alum and also
traffic jam Sam over there at twelve.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I guess they got into the sports. My wife is
a UF alum too. She just doesn't care about any
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
The two of them, they're they're wearing one of them's
in orange and one of them is in blue. So
they're you know, they're all excited today.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
There you go. Yeah. Now it's it's funny because a
lot of people expect Ashley to be like totally into
it and everything else. You know, she was at Florida
when Emmett was playing and is like she like whatever, Yeah,
but yeah, as we take a look at the news
that impact you from around the state, Florida speaking of winning,

(01:28):
Florida is the world's favorite place to visit, according to
Governor De Santis. Actually the facts back it up. The
governor made the statement is Florida announced record tourism for
the state over the past year. Highlights include a record
fifteen and a half year of all domestic tourism happening
in Florida, strong growth in international tourism as well, leading
to a record I one hundred and forty two point

(01:48):
nine million visitors over the past year. Floridians have a
new property insurance option. A Monday, Forda's Office of Insurance
Regulation announced Florida based apex Star Reciprocal Exchange has been
improved to begin underwriting policies throughout this date. Legislative reforms
of previous years, credited with stabilizing Florida's insurance market, which
has now added twelve proper insurance companies over the past

(02:10):
two years. The Florida Supreme Court has disciple intent attorneys
across the state, including three in Palm Beach County. Boker
Atones Shane Epstein was issued a public reprimand for a
conflict of interests for his involvement with the recruiting firm
focused on foreign nationals. Lake Park's chance McLain was disbarred

(02:31):
for unlawfully transferring his mother's Mercedes Benz into his name
while representing her in a case. Wellington's Jeffrey Mark Siskuide
he was disbarred for misappropriation of clients' funds. It'll be
cloudy wendy raining today. Heights in the seventies along with
along the Treasure Coast to the low eighties in the

(02:51):
Palm Beaches. It's coldfront does make its way into the area,
bringing that rain and cooler temperatures along with it, similar
but slightly cooler whether expected on Wednesday. Gas prices up
just under opinion over the past day. The average price
for regular unleaded three nineteen stay wide and the Pond
Beach is three point thirty three this morning, then Martin
three twenty two, and then Indian River County three twenty three. Again,

(03:13):
prices will be coming down as the week moves along
and certainly into next week.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
All right, let's get a look at some national headlines.
Good morning. In a five to four ruling yesterday, Supreme
Court and Brian You mentioned this earlier, will allow the
DOJ to remove Venezuelan gang members from the country under
the Alien Enemies Act. That ruling ends a lower court
freeze on Trump using the act. President may now invoke
the law to speed up removals while things play out
in lower courts. Israel says it is going to eliminate

(03:42):
trade barriers with the US as President Trump's tariffs take effect.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin yeah who made that announcement during
a White House visit yesterday. Trump says Israel will always
be a close ally, and Yeaho said he wants to
be a close trading partner with the US. President Trump
said to undergo his annual physical exams i AM on Friday.
Trump took truth social yesterday to make the announcement, saying

(04:04):
he's never felt better, but these things must be done.
Presidents typically visit Walter Reed and Maryland for an annual physical,
with results than released by the White House physician. Those
are your headlines.