TOP STORIES - A government shutdown pauses new flood insurance policies in Florida, school boards debate how to handle a backlog of bus citation hearings, and a firefighter is placed on leave amid stalking and tampon-related charges. Plus, a Florida councilman’s controversial posts draw calls for Governor DeSantis to intervene, and Universal reopens the Stardust Racers ride at Epic Universe following a fatal accident.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Breonna Torrez,
and Natalie Ronriguez from our news room. Coming up this
hour for You're going to run through today's forecast with
Weather Channel mediorologists Race Stageeck before six point fifteen. Right
after that, we've got our Bloomberg Business Report for you.
Plus President Trump continues to push hard for a Middle
East peace deal. We're going to have all the latest
(00:22):
on that at six thirty five, but we start with
today's top stories and Natalie Ronriguez, Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, the federal government remains closed amid the bitter impasse
on Capitol Hill over competing congressional spending bills.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's one that's backed by each party.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The Senators schedule to reconvene to put those bills up
to a vote today. House Democrats are meeting virtually to
try to talk about the government shutdown. How's Minority Leader
King Jeffries did upload a letter to his website this
weekend saying, quote, people will die if the Affordable Care
Act tax credits are not renewed in the government funding
stopgap bill. Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson he's pointing fingers
(01:01):
at Democratic lawmakers like Jeffries and at the ongoing shutdown.
He appeared on NBC's Meet the Press saying that his
colleagues on the other side of the aisle are not
working to fix the issue.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
The reason the government is closed is because Schuch Schumer
and forty three of his Democrat colleagues in the Senate
have decided now to vote multiple times to keep the
government closed. We need them to turn the lives back.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
On, and I don't know how this is going to
move forward with top Republicans vowing not to cave in
to democrats demands for healthcare funding. There is a vote
that's scheduled at around five point thirty this afternoon, so
we shall see.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, well, I tell you what Democrats, they seem dug in.
I mean, when you upload a strongly worded letter like
Akeem Jeffries did, you're not caving anytime soon. I mean,
that's a big deal. That's a power move right there.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
It's more effective than the live stream he tried to
do less.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So the problem with this coming to an end any
time soon is that both sides at the moment feel
like they're winning the messaging battle, and Americans really haven't
felt the effects all that much of the shut down
by the middle of October.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
By the middle of this month, so in a couple
of weeks you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Would have federal workers, members of the military, they'll start
missing paychecks.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Oh yeah, that's when things are going to get nasty, right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And Democrats what they're trying to hold on for are
when people start getting those notices that their health insurance
premiums are going to skyrocket in twenty twenty six. So
they're kind of trying to hang on until those letters
go out because you have a lot of people in
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states and counties that Trump won in twenty twenty four
that are on those insurance exchanges and that would experience
those premium hikes. So they're trying to hold out for that,
and I think they think that will will help them
right now. I got to tell you, and I saw
some polling over the weekend, Americans are pretty split in
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terms of who they blame. A few more, it seems like,
blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, but a lot
of that has to do with the fact that they're
in power, and so if you're not paying close attention,
you know, you just assume, like, yeah, why is the
government shut down?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But I think for the most part, everybody's just looking
at DC and rolling their eyes, you know, like again,
because we go through this, it feels like every couple
of months there's a threat of a government shutdown.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, the debt ceiling or all this stuff right up
to the brink, and now there is one. Until people
really start feeling it, I don't think either side is
going to cave anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What else is going on this morning? Natalie Hillsborough's school buses.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They have cameras primarily supplied by bus patrol as part
of a safety program. So its point is to deter
drivers from i legally passing the stop school buses. It
records the violations, it issues citations. It's installed on all
county buses, and they use AI powered cameras along with
cameras in school zones to just keep students safe and
(03:59):
promote driverountability. Well, it's been a good six months or
so since the Miami Dad Sheriff's Office suspended its school
bus safety program. So now we've got a school board member,
Danny Esposino or Espino rather, who was proposed contracting with
the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings based out of Tallahassee
to use law administrative law judges to hear the challenges
(04:23):
to those traffic citations virtually because it's been causing this
huge backlog, just like in Hillsborough County, So it looks
like it's going to probably progress.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, the rollout of these cameras, there have been a
number of different problems. First of all, you've got a
lot of people who were confused about how exactly these
cameras work and when you could potentially get a citation.
And that is not just the school bus camera issue.
That's also the school speed zone issue that we've seen
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across the state. So there's been some confusion there. And
then the ability to chan challenge these citations. It just
feels like this stuff wasn't really well planned out.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
No, I mean, they got everything installed to make the money,
but they didn't think about the consequences or how people
were going to be able to contest it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, and especially in South forty, you've got this company
bus patrol and the political connections that it has to
get this contract to get you know, this revenue sharing deal.
They're bringing in a ton of money, and so there's
lots of questions about how all of that went down,
and you had different sheriff's offices across the state. They
(05:32):
just got fed up and they're like, you can't deal
with all of this. We've got to get this all
fixed before we move forward with it a little more success.
It sounds like in Hillsborough County with how they've been
handling things as compared to in South Florida, and now
they'll follow Hillsborough's lead and we'll see if that helps
it all. I don't I was thinking about this the
other day. I don't really go anywhere, especially during school time,
(05:56):
you know, when buses would be traveling and all of
that other humans around. Yeah, so I haven't seen the cameras.
Have you seen the cameras on the school buses and
the I.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Haven't noticed them.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I mean I do occasionally have to stop for a
school bus and I see them go by, but I
haven't paid close attention, and I'm sure it's probably just
a small camera yet, so I haven't noticed it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, and when you stopped, you were confident that you
were doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
If you weren't going to get ticketed.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And all of that, Yeah, because you had an incident
that you weren't sure about.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah. So on this like off the street that I
used to live.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
On the bus, there's like a median, but then there's
a gap in the median where you can, you know,
like make a left turn. So the school bus stops
there and the sign comes out, but people who were
on by side would go through it, and I'm like, no,
you still have to stop because there's that gap there.
And I posted that picture on Facebook and people were
torn over what you should do. And then one person
(06:53):
was like, why are you taking a picture of the
bus while you're driving?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Like I was stopped for the stop sign.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
So yeah, there's definitely still some confusion about me.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Meanwhile, that bus patrol company they're raking in the dos.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Sure are you all right?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Let's get to one more quick story.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Natalie Well, hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn,
but in this case, this is just disgusting. Gabrielle Franz,
she is or was a firefighter at this point. She
stands accused of stalking after she allegedly dumped seventy five
possibly used tampons onto her ex boyfriend's lawn she found
(07:31):
out that he was dating a new woman. The Felucia
Caddy Sheriff's office was contacted by a woman after she
and her boyfriend woke up finding the pile of tampons
on their front lawn that were stained red as it
was possibly used. And this is what the probable cause
arrust affidavit states.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So here's the thing. Well, there's a lot to unpacked
from this story. I never heard of anything quite like
this before. Gross, But was this some like long.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Term plan where she meditated?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, where she was collecting these.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
She just doesn't empty her bathroom.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I don't know, because I mean, you know, it's one
thing if it's one or two, it's another thing if
it's seventy far.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Now, I don't think Natalie and I aren't answering.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Anything with this conversation, because I am do. I have
lots of questions. I'll wrap it up.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I'm not answering.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop stories.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Natalie, thanks so much. Oh yeah, now let's.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Bring in Weather Channel meteorologists race stage check for Today's
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the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Ex Thank you for thinking of me anytime, anytime? Really,
All right, let's talk about let's talk about the weather.
And first of all, is it ever gonna cool down?
I mean, I think it's supposed to be fall. Tampa
tied a record high yesterday.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Ninety three, ninety three, tying a record down. So here's
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We've got this easterly flow.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
It's been real crappy, kind of for lack of a
better term. On the East coast, king tides, got coastal
flooding inundation. Some sponsors still floodwatches. Looks like Palm Beach
County points north Miami saw some rain over the weekend.
The heaviest was north though, so that was good. And
then with that easterly flow, so you've got to flow
off the land, so you've that much influence from the Gulf,
(09:44):
so you don't get a lot of humidity, but you
do get dryer air and it has a tendency to
warm up. Clicker. So ninety three yesterday's still near or
maybe even just above ninety again in Tampa today, still
talking about feels like or heat index values maybe the mid.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Upper nineties, so still warm.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Have me with the clouds and the onshore flow, the
rain chants at about sixty percent, looking at temperatures in
the middle and upper eighties, so raine chances further southeast,
there's a threat we get a few afternoon storms in Tampa,
but it's a hot one once again. We think that
continues through tomorrow. I'm out in the Atlantic, probably going
to have a depression or storm in the next five
to seven days, maybe sooner with Jerry, but it does
(10:24):
look like it's going to take the turn and stay offshore.
Some of the guidance later in the week toward the
weekend on the East coast, maybe northeast of England, trying
to develop low pressure. I don't know if that's going
to be tropical or not, but something maybe closer to home,
which is where we look this time of year. That
we might have to keep our eyes on.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We'll see, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Weather Channel Media RelA just raced Ajic with us this morning. Ray,
thanks so much.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Brionna Torrez,
and Chris Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
a federal court puts a stop to President Trump's troop
deployment in Portland. We're gonna get to that before seven
twenty plus. How long will this government shutdown last? Our
national correspondent Roy O'Neil has that report for us at
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(11:10):
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Speaker 8 (11:20):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. A lot of finger pointing
going on because of the government shutdown. One party's Democrats
shutdown is another party's Trump shutdown. But whatever you believe,
the shutdown is impacting all Floridians by putting a halt
to FEMA's National Flood Insurance program, something that millions of
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policy holders rely on in the country and in this state.
Congressman Jimmy Petrona says, it's quote gross at one point
eight million Florida policy holders, the most in any state.
Cannot write new policies or renew existing ones. And as
we're sitting here in peak hurricane season, he word is
that there are potential storms that could create a problem
(12:03):
if they don't get this shutdown result.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yees, So I guess policy holders they can't renew or
buy this coverage. And Florida holds like twenty percent of
all of FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program policies, So we're
definitely impacted by this. This is one of those things
where you know, the government shuts down and for the
most part, it didn't really seem like there's a whole
(12:27):
lot that's changed, and then you get into something like
this and it does impact people, especially people here in Florida. Now,
the broader effects of the shutdown would be felt in
a couple of weeks. If you start getting into the
middle of October and then the paychecks start getting withheld.
You know, you got members of the military, federal workers
(12:47):
who are missing their next paycheck. That's when you really
start to see things ramp up.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I think that's why both sides are kind of holding
the line because the pain isn't that bad and.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They think they're winning the messaging war.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But again, this is one of those interesting things that
you don't really think about until government shuts down and
then it's like, oh, crap, this is going to impact
some people here.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Yeah, I mean it's a vital program because flood insurance
is essentially unaffordable YEP without these federal subsidies, and so
unless they get this straightened out, there could be some
people vulnerable if they can't get a policy in place
and we get hit with something. So that is absolutely right.
People who are in that limbo need the government to
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get back up and run. A Palm Bay City councilman
social media posts regarding the Indian community have sparked outrage
and calls for him to be removed from office. On
Thursday night, the city council meeting packed with community members
who showed up to speak out against Councilman Chandler Langevin
and his comments that he posted on x They are
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stirring up controversy where he stated, there's not a single
Indian that cares about the United States, and he said,
deport every Indian immediately, about Indians from India in regards
to what happened on the turnpike right where there was
a guy you know who made the illegal U turn
with a truck and caused a deadly crash, and of
(14:12):
course he was in the country illegally and is of
Indian background. Now, speakers at the meeting demanded that he
apologize and resign. He didn't do that. He said, if
you are interested in me resigning, you can vote for
his letter that he put up saying that he's going
to be there for another three years and get used
to it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, that's the new Norman politics. It's not you know,
you say something as outrageous as that and there are
calls for your resignation and you step down, you double
down and say, no, I'm not apologizing and no, I'm
not resigning. He said that his comments were about illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
When you say to port every Indian immediately, seems pretty clear. Yeah,
it seems clear. And you had Congressman Randy Fine who
actually condemned the comments, calling them repulsive and when Randy
Fine condemns your comments and says they're repulsive and over
the top, you.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Know, yeah, you've sung pretty much.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So look the calls for governor disantiers, there were some
calls for him to suspend this individual.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We've got to stop with that.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I feel like that's happening all the time now in
this state, where it's like, you know, the governor needs
to suspend them or remove them, or vote him out.
I mean, unfortunately, he'll be there for a couple more
years if you can't put enough pressure on him to
get him out, but then you vote him out.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
That's how it works. Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean,
he didn't break any laws here. He's just using his
right to free speech to be a repulsive individual.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's exactly right. Yep.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
So Stardust Racers is back open. It had been closed
since September seventeenth at Universal after thirty two year old
Kevin Rodriguez Avalla was pronounced dead at a hospital if
he was found unresponsive in his respect. So Universal reopened
this ride Saturday, and it was packed. There was a
(16:05):
line for several hours for people to get on this thing.
After Zavala had suffered what the medical examiner called multiple
blunt impact injuries. But how however, despite that determination, the
death was ruled in accident, and the state came in
and did a review on universal safety methods and determined
(16:28):
that the company hadn't done anything wrong either, and that
is the basis for reopening the ride.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
There are some new warning signs, or there's going to
be some new warning signs with some safety language there.
But I tell you what, I'm not surprised people got
on that ride. I was thinking about going over there
and getting on the ride myself. But oh yeah, any
little kink in my neck after that ride, I'm jumping
right on with those lawsuits that are coming.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, exactly represent you well.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
The family actually, and this came out last week Read
and I talked about it when you were off. The
family came out last week and said that they've had
other people who got hurt on that ride reach out
to them and say, yeah, I got a concussion, Yeah
I was injured.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
You have a back injury. Now that there are multiple
people who have gotten hurt on that.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Ride, yeah, that's all the past potential injuries tied to
that ride.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
They're all coming out of the woodwork. So now we're.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
People lining up to get on the ride because they
wanted to experience the thrill of the ride, or were
they looking for a paid.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I think they're looking for a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I mean, I'm telling you, if I had stubbed my toe,
I would have been calling Ben Crump and they're like, hey,
lump me in with all of all of those people
who you got lined up for this lawsuit. But it
clearly is not deterring anybody from getting on the ride.
I think when Universal and the state sign off and
say this was kind of a freak thing, I think
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that's probably what most people figure happens. But you'll see.
I mean I was a little surprised. I didn't think
it was going to go anywhere. And then all of
a sudden, we had a couple of new people, including
one woman in particular, who came out and said that
they were injured on the ride. And we'll see how
it plays out in court.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Yeah, I guess the I guess the park said that
there have been four injuries that they've acknowledged and that
they were all due to people having pre existing conditions.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That, and then I think sometimes you know, if people
aren't paying attention on the rides, you can you know,
some rides I think if you're.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Not, you got to you gotta hold.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, you gotta know, like tense your muscles and stuff
so you're not flopping all over the place. I don't
go on those rides anymore because I always feel like
I get hurt.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Look, I could be Ronald.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I find it hard to believe that Universal would have
a ride that you know, it's killing deadly.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Yeah, I think they would have tested it. But I've
gotten headaches after a couple of those roller coasters because
your head bangs the uh yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
You're the hardest.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yeah, your head knocks all over that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That could be uh trauma, brain trauma. You should call
Ben Crump. That could be some serious injury. Yeah, I
got a phone call to make. I gotta go, and
Chris Trankman with today's Stop Stories. Chris, thanks somebody you
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Breonna Torrez,
and Natalie Ronriguez from our news room. Coming up this
hour for You're going to run through today's forecast with
Weather Channel mediorologists Race Stageeck before six point fifteen. Right
after that, we've got our Bloomberg Business Report for you.
Plus President Trump continues to push hard for a Middle
East peace deal. We're going to have all the latest
(00:22):
on that at six thirty five, but we start with
today's top stories and Natalie Ronriguez, Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, the federal government remains closed amid the bitter impasse
on Capitol Hill over competing congressional spending bills.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's one that's backed by each party.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The Senators schedule to reconvene to put those bills up
to a vote today. House Democrats are meeting virtually to
try to talk about the government shutdown. How's Minority Leader
King Jeffries did upload a letter to his website this
weekend saying, quote, people will die if the Affordable Care
Act tax credits are not renewed in the government funding
stopgap bill. Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson he's pointing fingers
(01:01):
at Democratic lawmakers like Jeffries and at the ongoing shutdown.
He appeared on NBC's Meet the Press saying that his
colleagues on the other side of the aisle are not
working to fix the issue.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
The reason the government is closed is because Schuch Schumer
and forty three of his Democrat colleagues in the Senate
have decided now to vote multiple times to keep the
government closed. We need them to turn the lives back.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
On, and I don't know how this is going to
move forward with top Republicans vowing not to cave in
to democrats demands for healthcare funding. There is a vote
that's scheduled at around five point thirty this afternoon, so
we shall see.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, well, I tell you what Democrats, they seem dug in.
I mean, when you upload a strongly worded letter like
Akeem Jeffries did, you're not caving anytime soon. I mean,
that's a big deal. That's a power move right there.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
It's more effective than the live stream he tried to
do less.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So the problem with this coming to an end any
time soon is that both sides at the moment feel
like they're winning the messaging battle, and Americans really haven't
felt the effects all that much of the shut down
by the middle of October.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
By the middle of this month, so in a couple
of weeks you.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Would have federal workers, members of the military, they'll start
missing paychecks.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Oh yeah, that's when things are going to get nasty, right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And Democrats what they're trying to hold on for are
when people start getting those notices that their health insurance
premiums are going to skyrocket in twenty twenty six. So
they're kind of trying to hang on until those letters
go out because you have a lot of people in
(02:40):
states and counties that Trump won in twenty twenty four
that are on those insurance exchanges and that would experience
those premium hikes. So they're trying to hold out for that,
and I think they think that will will help them
right now. I got to tell you, and I saw
some polling over the weekend, Americans are pretty split in
(03:01):
terms of who they blame. A few more, it seems like,
blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, but a lot
of that has to do with the fact that they're
in power, and so if you're not paying close attention,
you know, you just assume, like, yeah, why is the
government shut down?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But I think for the most part, everybody's just looking
at DC and rolling their eyes, you know, like again,
because we go through this, it feels like every couple
of months there's a threat of a government shutdown.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, the debt ceiling or all this stuff right up
to the brink, and now there is one. Until people
really start feeling it, I don't think either side is
going to cave anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What else is going on this morning? Natalie Hillsborough's school buses.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They have cameras primarily supplied by bus patrol as part
of a safety program. So its point is to deter
drivers from i legally passing the stop school buses. It
records the violations, it issues citations. It's installed on all
county buses, and they use AI powered cameras along with
cameras in school zones to just keep students safe and
(03:59):
promote driverountability. Well, it's been a good six months or
so since the Miami Dad Sheriff's Office suspended its school
bus safety program. So now we've got a school board member,
Danny Esposino or Espino rather, who was proposed contracting with
the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings based out of Tallahassee
to use law administrative law judges to hear the challenges
(04:23):
to those traffic citations virtually because it's been causing this
huge backlog, just like in Hillsborough County, So it looks
like it's going to probably progress.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, the rollout of these cameras, there have been a
number of different problems. First of all, you've got a
lot of people who were confused about how exactly these
cameras work and when you could potentially get a citation.
And that is not just the school bus camera issue.
That's also the school speed zone issue that we've seen
(04:53):
across the state. So there's been some confusion there. And
then the ability to chan challenge these citations. It just
feels like this stuff wasn't really well planned out.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
No, I mean, they got everything installed to make the money,
but they didn't think about the consequences or how people
were going to be able to contest it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, and especially in South forty, you've got this company
bus patrol and the political connections that it has to
get this contract to get you know, this revenue sharing deal.
They're bringing in a ton of money, and so there's
lots of questions about how all of that went down,
and you had different sheriff's offices across the state. They
(05:32):
just got fed up and they're like, you can't deal
with all of this. We've got to get this all
fixed before we move forward with it a little more success.
It sounds like in Hillsborough County with how they've been
handling things as compared to in South Florida, and now
they'll follow Hillsborough's lead and we'll see if that helps
it all. I don't I was thinking about this the
other day. I don't really go anywhere, especially during school time,
(05:56):
you know, when buses would be traveling and all of
that other humans around. Yeah, so I haven't seen the cameras.
Have you seen the cameras on the school buses and
the I.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Haven't noticed them.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I mean I do occasionally have to stop for a
school bus and I see them go by, but I
haven't paid close attention, and I'm sure it's probably just
a small camera yet, so I haven't noticed it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, and when you stopped, you were confident that you
were doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
If you weren't going to get ticketed.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And all of that, Yeah, because you had an incident
that you weren't sure about.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yeah. So on this like off the street that I
used to live.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
On the bus, there's like a median, but then there's
a gap in the median where you can, you know,
like make a left turn. So the school bus stops
there and the sign comes out, but people who were
on by side would go through it, and I'm like, no,
you still have to stop because there's that gap there.
And I posted that picture on Facebook and people were
torn over what you should do. And then one person
(06:53):
was like, why are you taking a picture of the
bus while you're driving?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Like I was stopped for the stop sign.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
So yeah, there's definitely still some confusion about me.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Meanwhile, that bus patrol company they're raking in the dos.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Sure are you all right?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Let's get to one more quick story.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Natalie Well, hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn,
but in this case, this is just disgusting. Gabrielle Franz,
she is or was a firefighter at this point. She
stands accused of stalking after she allegedly dumped seventy five
possibly used tampons onto her ex boyfriend's lawn she found
(07:31):
out that he was dating a new woman. The Felucia
Caddy Sheriff's office was contacted by a woman after she
and her boyfriend woke up finding the pile of tampons
on their front lawn that were stained red as it
was possibly used. And this is what the probable cause
arrust affidavit states.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So here's the thing. Well, there's a lot to unpacked
from this story. I never heard of anything quite like
this before. Gross, But was this some like long.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Term plan where she meditated?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, where she was collecting these.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
She just doesn't empty her bathroom.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I don't know, because I mean, you know, it's one
thing if it's one or two, it's another thing if
it's seventy far.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Now, I don't think Natalie and I aren't answering.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Anything with this conversation, because I am do. I have
lots of questions. I'll wrap it up.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I'm not answering.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop stories.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Natalie, thanks so much. Oh yeah, now let's.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Bring in Weather Channel meteorologists race stage check for Today's
forecast brought to you by arch Well Health. Arch Well
healths preventive care for adults age sixty plus means catching
small issues before they become big problems. All ray, you
want to touch that last story here? Hands off off, Okay,
I appreciate it. Just I just wanted to offer you
the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Ex Thank you for thinking of me anytime, anytime? Really,
All right, let's talk about let's talk about the weather.
And first of all, is it ever gonna cool down?
I mean, I think it's supposed to be fall. Tampa
tied a record high yesterday.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Ninety three, ninety three, tying a record down. So here's
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We've got this easterly flow.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
It's been real crappy, kind of for lack of a
better term. On the East coast, king tides, got coastal
flooding inundation. Some sponsors still floodwatches. Looks like Palm Beach
County points north Miami saw some rain over the weekend.
The heaviest was north though, so that was good. And
then with that easterly flow, so you've got to flow
off the land, so you've that much influence from the Gulf,
(09:44):
so you don't get a lot of humidity, but you
do get dryer air and it has a tendency to
warm up. Clicker. So ninety three yesterday's still near or
maybe even just above ninety again in Tampa today, still
talking about feels like or heat index values maybe the mid.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Upper nineties, so still warm.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Have me with the clouds and the onshore flow, the
rain chants at about sixty percent, looking at temperatures in
the middle and upper eighties, so raine chances further southeast,
there's a threat we get a few afternoon storms in Tampa,
but it's a hot one once again. We think that
continues through tomorrow. I'm out in the Atlantic, probably going
to have a depression or storm in the next five
to seven days, maybe sooner with Jerry, but it does
(10:24):
look like it's going to take the turn and stay offshore.
Some of the guidance later in the week toward the
weekend on the East coast, maybe northeast of England, trying
to develop low pressure. I don't know if that's going
to be tropical or not, but something maybe closer to home,
which is where we look this time of year. That
we might have to keep our eyes on.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We'll see, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Weather Channel Media RelA just raced Ajic with us this morning. Ray,
thanks so much.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Brionna Torrez,
and Chris Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
a federal court puts a stop to President Trump's troop
deployment in Portland. We're gonna get to that before seven
twenty plus. How long will this government shutdown last? Our
national correspondent Roy O'Neil has that report for us at
seven thirty five. Right now, it's time for today's top stories,
(11:10):
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Speaker 8 (11:20):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. A lot of finger pointing
going on because of the government shutdown. One party's Democrats
shutdown is another party's Trump shutdown. But whatever you believe,
the shutdown is impacting all Floridians by putting a halt
to FEMA's National Flood Insurance program, something that millions of
(11:40):
policy holders rely on in the country and in this state.
Congressman Jimmy Petrona says, it's quote gross at one point
eight million Florida policy holders, the most in any state.
Cannot write new policies or renew existing ones. And as
we're sitting here in peak hurricane season, he word is
that there are potential storms that could create a problem
(12:03):
if they don't get this shutdown result.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yees, So I guess policy holders they can't renew or
buy this coverage. And Florida holds like twenty percent of
all of FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program policies, So we're
definitely impacted by this. This is one of those things
where you know, the government shuts down and for the
most part, it didn't really seem like there's a whole
(12:27):
lot that's changed, and then you get into something like
this and it does impact people, especially people here in Florida. Now,
the broader effects of the shutdown would be felt in
a couple of weeks. If you start getting into the
middle of October and then the paychecks start getting withheld.
You know, you got members of the military, federal workers
(12:47):
who are missing their next paycheck. That's when you really
start to see things ramp up.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I think that's why both sides are kind of holding
the line because the pain isn't that bad and.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They think they're winning the messaging war.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But again, this is one of those interesting things that
you don't really think about until government shuts down and
then it's like, oh, crap, this is going to impact
some people here.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Yeah, I mean it's a vital program because flood insurance
is essentially unaffordable YEP without these federal subsidies, and so
unless they get this straightened out, there could be some
people vulnerable if they can't get a policy in place
and we get hit with something. So that is absolutely right.
People who are in that limbo need the government to
(13:28):
get back up and run. A Palm Bay City councilman
social media posts regarding the Indian community have sparked outrage
and calls for him to be removed from office. On
Thursday night, the city council meeting packed with community members
who showed up to speak out against Councilman Chandler Langevin
and his comments that he posted on x They are
(13:50):
stirring up controversy where he stated, there's not a single
Indian that cares about the United States, and he said,
deport every Indian immediately, about Indians from India in regards
to what happened on the turnpike right where there was
a guy you know who made the illegal U turn
with a truck and caused a deadly crash, and of
(14:12):
course he was in the country illegally and is of
Indian background. Now, speakers at the meeting demanded that he
apologize and resign. He didn't do that. He said, if
you are interested in me resigning, you can vote for
his letter that he put up saying that he's going
to be there for another three years and get used
to it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, that's the new Norman politics. It's not you know,
you say something as outrageous as that and there are
calls for your resignation and you step down, you double
down and say, no, I'm not apologizing and no, I'm
not resigning. He said that his comments were about illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
When you say to port every Indian immediately, seems pretty clear. Yeah,
it seems clear. And you had Congressman Randy Fine who
actually condemned the comments, calling them repulsive and when Randy
Fine condemns your comments and says they're repulsive and over
the top, you.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Know, yeah, you've sung pretty much.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So look the calls for governor disantiers, there were some
calls for him to suspend this individual.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We've got to stop with that.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I feel like that's happening all the time now in
this state, where it's like, you know, the governor needs
to suspend them or remove them, or vote him out.
I mean, unfortunately, he'll be there for a couple more
years if you can't put enough pressure on him to
get him out, but then you vote him out.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
That's how it works. Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean,
he didn't break any laws here. He's just using his
right to free speech to be a repulsive individual.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's exactly right. Yep.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
So Stardust Racers is back open. It had been closed
since September seventeenth at Universal after thirty two year old
Kevin Rodriguez Avalla was pronounced dead at a hospital if
he was found unresponsive in his respect. So Universal reopened
this ride Saturday, and it was packed. There was a
(16:05):
line for several hours for people to get on this thing.
After Zavala had suffered what the medical examiner called multiple
blunt impact injuries. But how however, despite that determination, the
death was ruled in accident, and the state came in
and did a review on universal safety methods and determined
(16:28):
that the company hadn't done anything wrong either, and that
is the basis for reopening the ride.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
There are some new warning signs, or there's going to
be some new warning signs with some safety language there.
But I tell you what, I'm not surprised people got
on that ride. I was thinking about going over there
and getting on the ride myself. But oh yeah, any
little kink in my neck after that ride, I'm jumping
right on with those lawsuits that are coming.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, exactly represent you well.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
The family actually, and this came out last week Read
and I talked about it when you were off. The
family came out last week and said that they've had
other people who got hurt on that ride reach out
to them and say, yeah, I got a concussion, Yeah
I was injured.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
You have a back injury. Now that there are multiple
people who have gotten hurt on that.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Ride, yeah, that's all the past potential injuries tied to
that ride.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
They're all coming out of the woodwork. So now we're.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
People lining up to get on the ride because they
wanted to experience the thrill of the ride, or were
they looking for a paid.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I think they're looking for a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I mean, I'm telling you, if I had stubbed my toe,
I would have been calling Ben Crump and they're like, hey,
lump me in with all of all of those people
who you got lined up for this lawsuit. But it
clearly is not deterring anybody from getting on the ride.
I think when Universal and the state sign off and
say this was kind of a freak thing, I think
(17:49):
that's probably what most people figure happens. But you'll see.
I mean I was a little surprised. I didn't think
it was going to go anywhere. And then all of
a sudden, we had a couple of new people, including
one woman in particular, who came out and said that
they were injured on the ride. And we'll see how
it plays out in court.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Yeah, I guess the I guess the park said that
there have been four injuries that they've acknowledged and that
they were all due to people having pre existing conditions.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That, and then I think sometimes you know, if people
aren't paying attention on the rides, you can you know,
some rides I think if you're.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Not, you got to you gotta hold.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, you gotta know, like tense your muscles and stuff
so you're not flopping all over the place. I don't
go on those rides anymore because I always feel like
I get hurt.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Look, I could be Ronald.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I find it hard to believe that Universal would have
a ride that you know, it's killing deadly.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Yeah, I think they would have tested it. But I've
gotten headaches after a couple of those roller coasters because
your head bangs the uh yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
You're the hardest.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yeah, your head knocks all over that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That could be uh trauma, brain trauma. You should call
Ben Crump. That could be some serious injury. Yeah, I
got a phone call to make. I gotta go, and
Chris Trankman with today's Stop Stories. Chris, thanks somebody you
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