TOP STORIES - Miami International and Fort Lauderdale are among 40 major U.S. airports facing flight reductions tied to the government shutdown, with Tampa International potentially losing up to 60 flights a day. A new poll shows Florida’s Latino voters unhappy with President Trump’s handling of the economy and immigration. Plus, a fire breaks out at Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra’s home, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings launches his campaign for governor, and Duke Energy customers are set to see lower bills next year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tom Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Brionna Torrez,
and Chris Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up to this hour,
President Trump announced a big price cut for weight loss
drugs yesterday. Our national correspondent Roory O'Neil's going to have
that report for us. At seven thirty five plus, former
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement. Our White House
correspondent John Decker. He'll check in right after Rory to
(00:22):
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Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Airports across Florida can expect fifty to sixty flights a
day will be impacted by the Federal Aviation Administration capacity restrictions.
The FAA expected to cut ten percent of flights from
Tampa International, Orlando International for Lauderdale, Hollywood and Miami International airports,
and the economic costs could be a billion dollar a
(01:00):
day nationwide. Normally, what we would tell you to do
is you know, check with your airline right find out
if you're affected. But what we found is that a
lot of airlines and even airports took the initiative yesterday
and tried to get ahead of this or let people
know if they were going to be affected today. So hopefully,
if you had some flight that maybe on the cancelation list,
you found out about it yesterday and you're not heading
(01:21):
there now and finding out that it's been canceled. So
this was a little bit of a controversy yesterday because
a lot of airports seemed to know that they were
on the list, and yet we couldn't get an official
word from the FAA until much later in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now list leaked and so it was out there. I mean,
we were talking about it yesterday morning. I was running
through what people need to know Miami, Fort Lauderdale. Yeah,
there was no official announcement till much later, but it
sounds like between thirty five hundred and four thousand flights
a day could be canceled or delayed across the country.
All the big airports here in Florida and nationwide are
(01:57):
on the list. You've got almost seventy percent of the
men stick flights either flying to or flying from one
of the forty affected airports. What I thought was interesting
was how this is going to be rolled out, because
we learned a little bit more about this as well.
It's gonna be gradual. So it starts with a four
percent reduction today, then it increases to six percent on Tuesday,
(02:20):
then eight percent on Thursday, and then ten percent a
week from today. And FA leadership said, even if the
shutdown ends, that doesn't mean normal operations are going to
return right away. So the longer this goes on, with
this reduction in flights and gets closer and closer to
that Thanksgiving holiday week, they might not be able to
(02:41):
ramp up to full capacity before the busiest travel season
of the year. That's a huge freaking problem.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be really bad. I
think this is going to keep getting worse.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, And I think you're gonna have people at the airports.
It's kind of like when you go to the doctor's
office and you're sitting there and people still getting called
before you, and you get frustrated and you're like mad
at them. You know what I mean, You don't know them. Yeah,
right right. You're gonna have people at the airport and
they're gonna be sitting there delayed, and other people are
(03:10):
gonna be getting on their flights and there's gonna be
alcohol flowing because they're there for a few hours. Like,
I just worry about the situation at some of these airports.
Let me go through the airlines real quick. United is
giving passengers a full refund if they choose not to
fly while the reductions are in place, even if your
flight wasn't directly affected. If you just say I don't
(03:31):
want to deal with this, you get your full refront
from United American Airlines. They're letting customers change their flight
to request a refund without penalty. Delta, they're waiving fair
differences for rebook flights and issuing refunds if you decide
to just stay home. Jet Blue passengers affected by the
reduction are gonna be automatically rebooked, but you can request
(03:52):
a full refund. Southwest doing the same thing, because that
automatic rebooking might not work for you. Yeah, and then
Frontier there waiving change and cancelation fees, but passengers who
rebook still have to pay the fair difference and it
was the CEO of Frontier who said, you might want
to book a backup flight on another.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Carriero tickets in case we cancel.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, just in case.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah. Well, they're hanging by a thread. But that's part
of the problem here. I mean, you're talking about a
major economic impact.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
This is not going to do anything to help the economy.
And so we'll see if that has a you know,
bigger impact. We've already heard from some tourism industry officials
who said they're already dealing with some lower numbers and
now you're.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Going to cut flights. That's not good either.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings says his run for governor
will be focused on bringing down costs for families and
he'll be the candidate who puts delivering results before grabbing headlines.
It's obviously a shot at governor de status.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, but here's the thing. In today's political environment, you
kind of need to grab headlines, don't you. Well, if
you don't deliver, then you're going to be called out
on it. Aren't true, that's true, but you kind of
need some attention.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We do both.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
If the headline was that they greatly reduced property insurance.
That would be a great headline and something that we need.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But Chris, you said this about Jerry Demmings when we
were talking about this the other day because we knew
this announcement was coming, that he's kind of an understated face. Definitely.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, And you know you're getting old when you remember
Jerry Demmings when he had brown hair. He held a
rally last night and his hair as white as snow.
But that doesn't mean that he doesn't have experience. I mean,
obviously brings you know, almost eight years of leading Orange Counties.
Obviously you know the sheriff of that county as well,
one of the fastest growing in the nation. But he
(05:36):
says the issue here is America families in Florida trying
to keep up with the cost of housing, groceries, insurance, right,
and power. So he said that it's only fair to
try and make the state more affordable because in the
last eight years it's become so expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The problem for him he's running against David Jolly in
that Democratic primary, and David Jolly, I believe, already has
the slogan make Florida for Again.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
M hmm, Well, that's definitely going to be the Democrats issue,
especially after the off year election and success they had.
But you know what about the idea though, that you
would have Byron Donald's and Jerry Demmings.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's fascinating, you know, on the ticket for a choice.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
How would that affect things and how would voters react
to that would be really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I also want to note that one of his promises
that he made yesterday was that he wants to shift
power back to local governments. Now that's not like a
sexy headline, but boy, that's something we've talked a lot about.
You have seen Tallahassee take a lot of control from
local governments and somebody who is a mayor he certainly
(06:38):
experienced that, and I think that's something a lot of
other cities and local governments would be interested.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, I mean it hardly seems fair, does it that?
Like a developer who wants to, like, you know, level
a piece of property and gets to cut down all
the trees can go to Tallahassee and get a state
law banning the cutting of trees or or or banning
the ban of cutting trees. It's a huge shift in
recent years where the power in Florida has been pulled
away from local governments and it's been consolidated in Tallahassee,
(07:07):
which is different from how the state had worked previously.
So Duke Energy announced that the Florida Public Service Commission
has approved its request to lower customer bills starting in
March of twenty twenty six. The company said that residential
customers can anticipate about a forty four dollars decrease for
every thousand kilowad hours of electricity they use.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But though and I cannot lie.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So the bill reduction is largely due to Duke Energy
removing its storm cost recovery charge because of the hurricanes Debbie,
Helene and Milton. You may remember after those storms, the
company went crying to the Public Service Commission, we need
a rate increase because it's so expensive. So those were
actually surcharges that they're removing. It's not really a rate reduction,
(07:53):
not quite.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No, no, And before the decrease kicks in, you're going
to see a temporary run for January and February of
about seven dollars and fifty cents, So you get one
more bump. You've got to pay a little more to
start twenty twenty six and then the reductions will come
from removing the increases that they had just put into place.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well, Duke Energies in a public relations battle, yes, with
the City of clear Water and potentially other municipalities. They
want to get rid of them, yep, because of their
notoriously high rates and rate increases over the years. And
this is another example. They're putting it out that they're
going to lower rates because of the removal of a
search charge, which is good news for consumers. But I
(08:35):
think they're trying to make it look like they're the
good guy in all this. In reality, those hurricanes have passed.
They're just removing the charges that were a result of
the storm.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And this is all coming as FP and L is
waiting on that decision about the massive increase in rates,
the massive amount of money that they want to add
on to their bottom line. They're waiting on that decision
to come down. So it's an interesting time for the
utilities here in Florida, interesting time for customers paying the bills.
(09:04):
And that's that's right. Chris Trankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, thank you. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay,
Jason Barringer, Brionna Torrez, and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom.
Coming up this hour, we'll get to this weekend's forecast
with Weather Channel meteorologist Jeff Martin before six fifteen. Right
after that, we've got our Bloomberg Business Report, plus the
Senate set to vote on a shutdown ending deal despite
(09:27):
opposition from Senate Democrats. We're gonna get the latest on
all of that from the Hills Mike Lillis at six
thirty five. Right now, let's get to today's top stories
with Natalie Rodriguez. Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
People are waking up with their flight itineraries in hand
and hopefully some aspiriner are lead to deal with the
headaches YEP for major Florida airports, joining a whole list
of forty of them that are dealing with flights being
reduced by ten percent thanks to the shutdown. Travel editor
Peter Greenberg says four thousand flights were canceled from today
(10:00):
through Tuesday. Across the board.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You're taking flight crews out of sequence, planes out of
alignment and schedule, which means a lot of people will
be able to connect on flights or even originate on flights,
and this is just the beginning.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
So the best suggestion, he says, is arrivally be prepared
to wait, meaning pack extra snacks and games if you've
got little ones. If you do have a big trip
or a major life event and you're able to do so,
change your itinerary and try to get out on the
first flight available, even if you have to sacrifice a
little bit of sleep in the process.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, taking a look at the situation right now again,
American airlines, they've already canceled like two hundred and twenty
flights today, Delta one hundred and seventy, United two hundred,
Southwest over one hundred. I mean, they're just really starting
to pile up. And we're talking about basically every major
airport across the country. Of course, Tampa International, Miami International,
(10:54):
for Lauderdale, Hollywood, almost seventy percent of domestic flights or
either flying two or flying from one of these forty airports.
So hopefully that gives you a census to the scale
of the disruption we're about to see now. As of
yesterday afternoon, Miami International operations were normal, but ten percent
of Tampa Internationals flights were already delayed. In American airlines.
(11:17):
They account for the most flights at Miami International. They
said that most of their customers are not going to
see changes in their travel plans. I would plan for
the worst. Yeah, I would plan for the worst.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I don't see how this goes smooth for anyone.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And then just think about so your flight gets canceled,
you can't get another flight. If you booked a vacation,
you've also booked a hotel in a rental car, You're
going to lose all that money.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I mean, yeah, it's going to be awful.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah. Now, a couple of tips here. If you receive
a notice that your flight is canceled, check the airlines' website.
Most carriers are going to put you on a later flight,
or they'll offer you some kind of a deal to
get a new flight. According to the Department of Transportation,
you have the right to turn down a rebook flight
in favor of a refund. You have that right, so
make sure you know that. And if your flight's delayed,
(12:04):
I wouldn't put off getting to the airport because you
also have the problem involving TSA agents not showing up.
So some of those lines could start to get really
really like they need to still. Yeah, workers at the
airport and well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
There's probably gonna be some viral videos of people getting angry.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. And another suggestion was to book non stop direct
flights because if you're starting to do a stop you know,
stop over here or stop over there, something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Something's gonna want it's canceled.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You missed the next one.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah. Yeah, So a couple of tips there, And of
course we'll have more on this throughout the course of
the morning. What else is going on, Natalie.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
There's a new poll out by the Latino Vote Initiative
at Unito's US. It finds that the nation's second largest
voting block is mostly worried about the cost of living, jobs,
and housing.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The Hispanic population in Florida, like all the other states,
is feeling very insecure with respect to income and job stability.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's researcher Barry Sagura, who says that the poll finds
that more Cubans than Puerto Ricans living in Florida are
unhappy with the administration's handling of the economy and immigration.
Majority of Latinos are holding the President and Republicans responsible
for the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, fifty three percent in this poll, ssite cost of
living as their biggest worry. How many times do I
have to say it. I've been screaming this from the
rooftops for the last couple of years. That is the
top issue here in Florida. And it's across the board.
It's not just Latino voters, it's all voters here in
this state. And I did think it was interesting immigration matters,
(13:39):
but it ranks fifth behind every financial issue that you
could think of.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Right, if people don't have enough money to afford living
the way that they've been living, then they don't really
care about other things as much.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
That's the number one thing.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And this would be the worry for Republicans and the
President in the midterms next year. Only fourteen said the
economy has improved over the past year, and the poll
suggests that support for Republicans, those gains that they made
in the last election could start to slip if those
(14:12):
economic concerns aren't addressed. And we see this, you know,
not just in this pole, but there was an Axios
poll as well that found basically the same thing. But
what that pole also founded that was of Latino voters,
majorities say they want the Trump administration to stop deportations
and enforcement sweeps. And I think that is in a
(14:35):
lot of cases a very personal issue. So some people
might not consider that top priority, you know, like the economy,
that's their their big issue. But if you've been impacted
by that, like I've heard anecdotal stories of you know,
so and so's family member who's been here for a
couple of decades, you know, the person that you would
see at Thanksgiving or whatever.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You know, somebody was effected, then it becomes an.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Issue, right right, So that's something else to keep an
eye on, especially with those numbers in New Jersey, in
particular among Latino voters there that slipped quite a bit
in Tuesday's elections.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, well, we're getting an update on yesterday's fire of
Miami heat head coach Eric Spolstra's home near Coral Gables.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Except for two losses within hours.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
The team lost in Denver to the Nuggets and then
he gets home to like literally watching flames consuming his
over six million dollar property. MIMYD Fire Rescue responded with
over twenty units, including a hazardous material's response to combat
this fire. And we were watching along as it was
happening and that's Miami Dade Fire Battalion Chief Victoria Bird.
(15:43):
She says, even though they weren't able to contain the
blaze to one property, because at one point this hour's
long blaze just seemed like it was going to consume
everything in its path, so they were able to contain
it to that one property fought of course, a total loss,
there was a collapse. It just he was just dispolstart watching,
dumbfounded as firefighters tackled this fire. Fortunately, no reports of
(16:07):
any injuries and we're still a little bit in the
shadows as far as what may have actually caused it.
Fire investigators are back out there this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, they worked on the fire for like eight hours.
I mean this thing was a monster.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well yeah, I mean that huge house, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Burned down and and I guess the team they had
landed at my International about thirty five minutes after firefighters
were dispatched. So literally he lands, goes home, sees this
whole thing unfolding. Can't imagine what that must have been like.
And the house had just been renovated. He recently hosted
(16:43):
a full team gathering there a couple of weeks earlier,
so still big questions like how did the thing start?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it could be anything some type.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It was just at renovations and somebody messed something up
with the electrical or who knows, right, it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Was beautiful, it was beautiful. Yeah, and those pictures. I mean, look,
he is in the middle of an eight year on
hundred and twenty million dollar contract, but still, yeah, that's
his home, that's his stuff. And watching the memory stand there,
you know, watching it all burn. I think any one
of us could relate, no matter.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
How much money you've met, watching your home burned down
is devastating.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's Tap Stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
You got it. Now let's bringing Weather Channel media rellagist
Jeff mar for today's forecast, brought to you by arch
Well Health. Arch Well Health's preventative care for adults aged
sixty plus means catching small issues before they become big problems.
So Jeff, looks like, what a few more decent days
before that arctic blast.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah, cold front sweeps in as we start off next week,
and that's going to have a big impact on our temperature,
especially as we head towards Monday night and early on
Veterans Day on Tuesday. In the meantime, though, you're right,
not too bad today. Load to mid eighties for highs
both in Tampa and in Miami, with a mix of
cloud to design any rain limited to South Florida, with
a slight chance for a shower thuder storm into the
afternoon at evening hours partley cloudy, overnight lows in Tampa
(17:57):
in the mid to upper sixties, low seventies in South Florida.
A beautiful week and expect sunshine lod to mid eighties
for highs, and then on Monday cooler in Tampa, sunny
and windy, upper sixties lo to mid eighties and South
Farda with clouds the long Monday night Tampa nere forty
and low fifties in South Florida, and temperatures continue to
trend cool as we head into Veterans Day.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Hi'ms Jeff mar with us this morning. Jeff, we'll talk
to you in a bit. Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You got it.
Tom Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Brionna Torrez,
and Chris Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up to this hour,
President Trump announced a big price cut for weight loss
drugs yesterday. Our national correspondent Roory O'Neil's going to have
that report for us. At seven thirty five plus, former
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement. Our White House
correspondent John Decker. He'll check in right after Rory to
(00:22):
talk about her political legacy. Time now for today's top stories,
brought to you by my friends over the Holland Group,
Retirement and wealth advisors. You worked hard to save for
your future. They can help you make the most of it.
Find them online at Askthehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris,
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Airports across Florida can expect fifty to sixty flights a
day will be impacted by the Federal Aviation Administration capacity restrictions.
The FAA expected to cut ten percent of flights from
Tampa International, Orlando International for Lauderdale, Hollywood and Miami International airports,
and the economic costs could be a billion dollar a
(01:00):
day nationwide. Normally, what we would tell you to do
is you know, check with your airline right find out
if you're affected. But what we found is that a
lot of airlines and even airports took the initiative yesterday
and tried to get ahead of this or let people
know if they were going to be affected today. So hopefully,
if you had some flight that maybe on the cancelation list,
you found out about it yesterday and you're not heading
(01:21):
there now and finding out that it's been canceled. So
this was a little bit of a controversy yesterday because
a lot of airports seemed to know that they were
on the list, and yet we couldn't get an official
word from the FAA until much later in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now list leaked and so it was out there. I mean,
we were talking about it yesterday morning. I was running
through what people need to know Miami, Fort Lauderdale. Yeah,
there was no official announcement till much later, but it
sounds like between thirty five hundred and four thousand flights
a day could be canceled or delayed across the country.
All the big airports here in Florida and nationwide are
(01:57):
on the list. You've got almost seventy percent of the
men stick flights either flying to or flying from one
of the forty affected airports. What I thought was interesting
was how this is going to be rolled out, because
we learned a little bit more about this as well.
It's gonna be gradual. So it starts with a four
percent reduction today, then it increases to six percent on Tuesday,
(02:20):
then eight percent on Thursday, and then ten percent a
week from today. And FA leadership said, even if the
shutdown ends, that doesn't mean normal operations are going to
return right away. So the longer this goes on, with
this reduction in flights and gets closer and closer to
that Thanksgiving holiday week, they might not be able to
(02:41):
ramp up to full capacity before the busiest travel season
of the year. That's a huge freaking problem.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be really bad. I
think this is going to keep getting worse.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, And I think you're gonna have people at the airports.
It's kind of like when you go to the doctor's
office and you're sitting there and people still getting called
before you, and you get frustrated and you're like mad
at them. You know what I mean, You don't know them. Yeah,
right right. You're gonna have people at the airport and
they're gonna be sitting there delayed, and other people are
(03:10):
gonna be getting on their flights and there's gonna be
alcohol flowing because they're there for a few hours. Like,
I just worry about the situation at some of these airports.
Let me go through the airlines real quick. United is
giving passengers a full refund if they choose not to
fly while the reductions are in place, even if your
flight wasn't directly affected. If you just say I don't
(03:31):
want to deal with this, you get your full refront
from United American Airlines. They're letting customers change their flight
to request a refund without penalty. Delta, they're waiving fair
differences for rebook flights and issuing refunds if you decide
to just stay home. Jet Blue passengers affected by the
reduction are gonna be automatically rebooked, but you can request
(03:52):
a full refund. Southwest doing the same thing, because that
automatic rebooking might not work for you. Yeah, and then
Frontier there waiving change and cancelation fees, but passengers who
rebook still have to pay the fair difference and it
was the CEO of Frontier who said, you might want
to book a backup flight on another.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Carriero tickets in case we cancel.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, just in case.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah. Well, they're hanging by a thread. But that's part
of the problem here. I mean, you're talking about a
major economic impact.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
This is not going to do anything to help the economy.
And so we'll see if that has a you know,
bigger impact. We've already heard from some tourism industry officials
who said they're already dealing with some lower numbers and
now you're.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Going to cut flights. That's not good either.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings says his run for governor
will be focused on bringing down costs for families and
he'll be the candidate who puts delivering results before grabbing headlines.
It's obviously a shot at governor de status.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, but here's the thing. In today's political environment, you
kind of need to grab headlines, don't you. Well, if
you don't deliver, then you're going to be called out
on it. Aren't true, that's true, but you kind of
need some attention.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We do both.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
If the headline was that they greatly reduced property insurance.
That would be a great headline and something that we need.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But Chris, you said this about Jerry Demmings when we
were talking about this the other day because we knew
this announcement was coming, that he's kind of an understated face. Definitely.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, And you know you're getting old when you remember
Jerry Demmings when he had brown hair. He held a
rally last night and his hair as white as snow.
But that doesn't mean that he doesn't have experience. I mean,
obviously brings you know, almost eight years of leading Orange Counties.
Obviously you know the sheriff of that county as well,
one of the fastest growing in the nation. But he
(05:36):
says the issue here is America families in Florida trying
to keep up with the cost of housing, groceries, insurance, right,
and power. So he said that it's only fair to
try and make the state more affordable because in the
last eight years it's become so expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The problem for him he's running against David Jolly in
that Democratic primary, and David Jolly, I believe, already has
the slogan make Florida for Again.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
M hmm, Well, that's definitely going to be the Democrats issue,
especially after the off year election and success they had.
But you know what about the idea though, that you
would have Byron Donald's and Jerry Demmings.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's fascinating, you know, on the ticket for a choice.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
How would that affect things and how would voters react
to that would be really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I also want to note that one of his promises
that he made yesterday was that he wants to shift
power back to local governments. Now that's not like a
sexy headline, but boy, that's something we've talked a lot about.
You have seen Tallahassee take a lot of control from
local governments and somebody who is a mayor he certainly
(06:38):
experienced that, and I think that's something a lot of
other cities and local governments would be interested.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, I mean it hardly seems fair, does it that?
Like a developer who wants to, like, you know, level
a piece of property and gets to cut down all
the trees can go to Tallahassee and get a state
law banning the cutting of trees or or or banning
the ban of cutting trees. It's a huge shift in
recent years where the power in Florida has been pulled
away from local governments and it's been consolidated in Tallahassee,
(07:07):
which is different from how the state had worked previously.
So Duke Energy announced that the Florida Public Service Commission
has approved its request to lower customer bills starting in
March of twenty twenty six. The company said that residential
customers can anticipate about a forty four dollars decrease for
every thousand kilowad hours of electricity they use.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But though and I cannot lie.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So the bill reduction is largely due to Duke Energy
removing its storm cost recovery charge because of the hurricanes Debbie,
Helene and Milton. You may remember after those storms, the
company went crying to the Public Service Commission, we need
a rate increase because it's so expensive. So those were
actually surcharges that they're removing. It's not really a rate reduction,
(07:53):
not quite.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No, no, And before the decrease kicks in, you're going
to see a temporary run for January and February of
about seven dollars and fifty cents, So you get one
more bump. You've got to pay a little more to
start twenty twenty six and then the reductions will come
from removing the increases that they had just put into place.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well, Duke Energies in a public relations battle, yes, with
the City of clear Water and potentially other municipalities. They
want to get rid of them, yep, because of their
notoriously high rates and rate increases over the years. And
this is another example. They're putting it out that they're
going to lower rates because of the removal of a
search charge, which is good news for consumers. But I
(08:35):
think they're trying to make it look like they're the
good guy in all this. In reality, those hurricanes have passed.
They're just removing the charges that were a result of
the storm.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And this is all coming as FP and L is
waiting on that decision about the massive increase in rates,
the massive amount of money that they want to add
on to their bottom line. They're waiting on that decision
to come down. So it's an interesting time for the
utilities here in Florida, interesting time for customers paying the bills.
(09:04):
And that's that's right. Chris Trankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, thank you. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay,
Jason Barringer, Brionna Torrez, and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom.
Coming up this hour, we'll get to this weekend's forecast
with Weather Channel meteorologist Jeff Martin before six fifteen. Right
after that, we've got our Bloomberg Business Report, plus the
Senate set to vote on a shutdown ending deal despite
(09:27):
opposition from Senate Democrats. We're gonna get the latest on
all of that from the Hills Mike Lillis at six
thirty five. Right now, let's get to today's top stories
with Natalie Rodriguez. Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
People are waking up with their flight itineraries in hand
and hopefully some aspiriner are lead to deal with the
headaches YEP for major Florida airports, joining a whole list
of forty of them that are dealing with flights being
reduced by ten percent thanks to the shutdown. Travel editor
Peter Greenberg says four thousand flights were canceled from today
(10:00):
through Tuesday. Across the board.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You're taking flight crews out of sequence, planes out of
alignment and schedule, which means a lot of people will
be able to connect on flights or even originate on flights,
and this is just the beginning.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
So the best suggestion, he says, is arrivally be prepared
to wait, meaning pack extra snacks and games if you've
got little ones. If you do have a big trip
or a major life event and you're able to do so,
change your itinerary and try to get out on the
first flight available, even if you have to sacrifice a
little bit of sleep in the process.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, taking a look at the situation right now again,
American airlines, they've already canceled like two hundred and twenty
flights today, Delta one hundred and seventy, United two hundred,
Southwest over one hundred. I mean, they're just really starting
to pile up. And we're talking about basically every major
airport across the country. Of course, Tampa International, Miami International,
(10:54):
for Lauderdale, Hollywood, almost seventy percent of domestic flights or
either flying two or flying from one of these forty airports.
So hopefully that gives you a census to the scale
of the disruption we're about to see now. As of
yesterday afternoon, Miami International operations were normal, but ten percent
of Tampa Internationals flights were already delayed. In American airlines.
(11:17):
They account for the most flights at Miami International. They
said that most of their customers are not going to
see changes in their travel plans. I would plan for
the worst. Yeah, I would plan for the worst.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I don't see how this goes smooth for anyone.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And then just think about so your flight gets canceled,
you can't get another flight. If you booked a vacation,
you've also booked a hotel in a rental car, You're
going to lose all that money.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I mean, yeah, it's going to be awful.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah. Now, a couple of tips here. If you receive
a notice that your flight is canceled, check the airlines' website.
Most carriers are going to put you on a later flight,
or they'll offer you some kind of a deal to
get a new flight. According to the Department of Transportation,
you have the right to turn down a rebook flight
in favor of a refund. You have that right, so
make sure you know that. And if your flight's delayed,
(12:04):
I wouldn't put off getting to the airport because you
also have the problem involving TSA agents not showing up.
So some of those lines could start to get really
really like they need to still. Yeah, workers at the
airport and well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
There's probably gonna be some viral videos of people getting angry.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. And another suggestion was to book non stop direct
flights because if you're starting to do a stop you know,
stop over here or stop over there, something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Something's gonna want it's canceled.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You missed the next one.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah. Yeah, So a couple of tips there, And of
course we'll have more on this throughout the course of
the morning. What else is going on, Natalie.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
There's a new poll out by the Latino Vote Initiative
at Unito's US. It finds that the nation's second largest
voting block is mostly worried about the cost of living, jobs,
and housing.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The Hispanic population in Florida, like all the other states,
is feeling very insecure with respect to income and job stability.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
That's researcher Barry Sagura, who says that the poll finds
that more Cubans than Puerto Ricans living in Florida are
unhappy with the administration's handling of the economy and immigration.
Majority of Latinos are holding the President and Republicans responsible
for the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, fifty three percent in this poll, ssite cost of
living as their biggest worry. How many times do I
have to say it. I've been screaming this from the
rooftops for the last couple of years. That is the
top issue here in Florida. And it's across the board.
It's not just Latino voters, it's all voters here in
this state. And I did think it was interesting immigration matters,
(13:39):
but it ranks fifth behind every financial issue that you
could think of.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Right, if people don't have enough money to afford living
the way that they've been living, then they don't really
care about other things as much.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
That's the number one thing.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And this would be the worry for Republicans and the
President in the midterms next year. Only fourteen said the
economy has improved over the past year, and the poll
suggests that support for Republicans, those gains that they made
in the last election could start to slip if those
(14:12):
economic concerns aren't addressed. And we see this, you know,
not just in this pole, but there was an Axios
poll as well that found basically the same thing. But
what that pole also founded that was of Latino voters,
majorities say they want the Trump administration to stop deportations
and enforcement sweeps. And I think that is in a
(14:35):
lot of cases a very personal issue. So some people
might not consider that top priority, you know, like the economy,
that's their their big issue. But if you've been impacted
by that, like I've heard anecdotal stories of you know,
so and so's family member who's been here for a
couple of decades, you know, the person that you would
see at Thanksgiving or whatever.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
You know, somebody was effected, then it becomes an.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Issue, right right, So that's something else to keep an
eye on, especially with those numbers in New Jersey, in
particular among Latino voters there that slipped quite a bit
in Tuesday's elections.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, well, we're getting an update on yesterday's fire of
Miami heat head coach Eric Spolstra's home near Coral Gables.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Except for two losses within hours.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
The team lost in Denver to the Nuggets and then
he gets home to like literally watching flames consuming his
over six million dollar property. MIMYD Fire Rescue responded with
over twenty units, including a hazardous material's response to combat
this fire. And we were watching along as it was
happening and that's Miami Dade Fire Battalion Chief Victoria Bird.
(15:43):
She says, even though they weren't able to contain the
blaze to one property, because at one point this hour's
long blaze just seemed like it was going to consume
everything in its path, so they were able to contain
it to that one property fought of course, a total loss,
there was a collapse. It just he was just dispolstart watching,
dumbfounded as firefighters tackled this fire. Fortunately, no reports of
(16:07):
any injuries and we're still a little bit in the
shadows as far as what may have actually caused it.
Fire investigators are back out there this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, they worked on the fire for like eight hours.
I mean this thing was a monster.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well yeah, I mean that huge house, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Burned down and and I guess the team they had
landed at my International about thirty five minutes after firefighters
were dispatched. So literally he lands, goes home, sees this
whole thing unfolding. Can't imagine what that must have been like.
And the house had just been renovated. He recently hosted
(16:43):
a full team gathering there a couple of weeks earlier,
so still big questions like how did the thing start?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it could be anything some type.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It was just at renovations and somebody messed something up
with the electrical or who knows, right, it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Was beautiful, it was beautiful. Yeah, and those pictures. I mean, look,
he is in the middle of an eight year on
hundred and twenty million dollar contract, but still, yeah, that's
his home, that's his stuff. And watching the memory stand there,
you know, watching it all burn. I think any one
of us could relate, no matter.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
How much money you've met, watching your home burned down
is devastating.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's Tap Stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
You got it. Now let's bringing Weather Channel media rellagist
Jeff mar for today's forecast, brought to you by arch
Well Health. Arch Well Health's preventative care for adults aged
sixty plus means catching small issues before they become big problems.
So Jeff, looks like, what a few more decent days
before that arctic blast.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah, cold front sweeps in as we start off next week,
and that's going to have a big impact on our temperature,
especially as we head towards Monday night and early on
Veterans Day on Tuesday. In the meantime, though, you're right,
not too bad today. Load to mid eighties for highs
both in Tampa and in Miami, with a mix of
cloud to design any rain limited to South Florida, with
a slight chance for a shower thuder storm into the
afternoon at evening hours partley cloudy, overnight lows in Tampa
(17:57):
in the mid to upper sixties, low seventies in South Florida.
A beautiful week and expect sunshine lod to mid eighties
for highs, and then on Monday cooler in Tampa, sunny
and windy, upper sixties lo to mid eighties and South
Farda with clouds the long Monday night Tampa nere forty
and low fifties in South Florida, and temperatures continue to
trend cool as we head into Veterans Day.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Hi'ms Jeff mar with us this morning. Jeff, we'll talk
to you in a bit. Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You got it.
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