Florida News That Impacts You – April 18th, 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 Munjo podcast is driven by Brayman Motor Cars.
My family is a Brayman Motor Cars family. Your family
should be too. Visit Braymanmotorcars dot com.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is Florida's news that impacts you.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
On the Brian Mutchial it is Brian mut and Joel
Malkin with you, and of course we received the awful
news that has dominated our state yesterday from Florida State.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
The son of the sheriff's deputy is behind bars, accused
of a deadly mass shooting at Florida State University. The
twenty year old suspected gunman opened fire outside the student
union on the Tallahassee campus, killing two people and injuring
six others. Officers who arrived at the scene quickly shot
and injured the gunman. Investigator say he used one of
his mother's weapons. She served with the Leon County Sheriff's

(00:51):
office for eighteen years.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
And that is Fox's Shinley Painter on the report. Now
in happier news around our state, Florida, we have received
over fifty seven billion dollars new business investments over the
past year. Based on a new study which also shows
Florida currently ranking fourth nationally for startups and business investment
over the past five years. You want to talk about

(01:15):
how Florida in our economy has matured over time over
the past five years. So this is prior to the pandemic.
This starts with twenty nineteen goes through twenty twenty four.
Total business investment into the state of Florida has risen
by nine hundred ten percent. That is remarkable. That is

(01:36):
the largest gain of any large state in the country,
and it's not particularly close. Two students were arrested at
Wellington Community High School on Thursday after bullets were found
following a tip that was reported to authorities. Officials set
a full sweep, but the campus revealed new weapons or
immedia threats to students or campus safety. Harleycotty's guys breezy

(01:58):
today his near eighty typical this date. We can expect
similar but windier weather through the weekend. Gas prices black
yesterday they are thirteen cents lower than a week ago.
The Everts price four regular on leaded state wide three
to two per gallon, and the Von Beaches the average
price this morning three seventeen and Martin back above three
bucks a gallon. This morning and three oh three Indian
River County three to four per gallon.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
All right, good morning, Let's get a look at some
national headlines. Supreme Court will hear arguments on birthright citizenship
next month. President Trump signed an executive order ending automatic
birthright citizenship has enshrined in the Constitution. He wants to
confer citizenship only on those who have at least one
parent who's a US citizen or permanent resident. Midwest dealing
with multiple tornadoes. A large tornado reported in Omaha, Nebraska

(02:43):
last night, another about sixty miles away in Essex, Iowa.
The President extending the federal hiring freeze for another ninety days,
signing the executive order yesterday ordering no federal government positions
be filled until mid July and no new jobs created
unless directed by the administration. Freeze does not apply to
terry personnel or positions related to immigration enforcement. US stock

(03:04):
and bond markets closed today for Good Friday. They'll reopen
on Monday. And the Lerid meteor shower lighting up the
sky's annual celestial display started Wednesday night at the last
through April twenty fifth. Those meteors are flying trails of
debris left behind by a comet that shower the Earth
each year in the third week of April. Those are
your headlines.