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November 19, 2025 11 mins
TOP STORIES - Florida’s property insurance market is showing signs of stabilization as private companies ease pressure on Citizens Insurance. We also cover the chaotic scene at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport after a man claimed he had a bomb in his bag, and police say a Tallahassee man stole an ATM before taking a forklift on a joyride. A Florida lawmaker has introduced a bill to stop the state from selling drivers license information to private companies.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barnsher, Brionna Torrez,
and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom. Coming up to so
how we're going to get to today's forecast with Weather
Channel mediorologists race stage before eight fifteen. Then right after that,
the House and Senate passed the measure of forcing the
Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
We'll get to that, including what happens next.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Plus a new candidate entered the twenty twenty six race
for Florida CFO. We're going to tell you who it
is and why this campaign launch is notable when we
check in with the publisher of Florida Politics, Peter Schorsch
at eight thirty five. Right now, let's get to today's
top stories with Natalie Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, we may no longer have to gulp when we
open our insurance policy renewal forms, whether they be online
or in pay per form, because prices apparently are coming down.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
That was the lowest increase in the country compared to
other states. In fact, Florida is no longer the most
costly place to average premium in the country. So there
is that continued positive momentum we're seeing in the marketplace.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
I haven't seen a drop yet, but that was nice.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Insurance Commissioner Michael Yorwarski says that the average premium is
two seven hundred and fifty five bucks, adding that the
top five riders of auto insurance in the state had
all filed for rate decreases on top of excess profits
being returned to customers that include State Farm and Progressive.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
So a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
They noted that that private insurers have taken roughly one
point six million policies from citizens property insurance, and while
that is a good thing reducing the amount of people
on the state run insure, it also does mean that
a lot of people probably saw big increases because if
you're within twenty percent from a private insurre of the

(01:49):
price of your citizen's property insurance they want you off, then.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
Yeah, you've got to pay the extra twenty percent.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, yeah, So you got that happening to a lot
of Floridians. It was also noted that the private carriers
they're returning because those legal reforms the state legislature put
into place, they cut property insurance lawsuits by about thirty percent.
I'm sure that's bringing the price down a bit, but
I also think, you know, we didn't have any storms

(02:16):
this last year that helped. If we had gotten hit
with another big hurricane or something like that, that would
have caused more problems. It does feel like on the
auto insurance side, things are maybe coming down a bit
more than the property insurance side, but anecdotally, I'm still
not hearing from people the rates are coming down.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Well.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
My property insurance, I don't have anything to compare it
to because I never had to have it before, but
I did shop around, and the range of prices was
pretty significant. Yeah, yeah, anywhere from I think I'm paying
like twenty two hundred dollars a year, but some of
them were up to like four thousand dollars and I
was like, nope, I don't need that for the same coverage.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
And then with my auto insurance, it's on my to
do list and it has been for a long time
to start shop around, shop around, yeah, to get a
better rate.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, what about you, Natalie, I don't have the property
insurance issue yet, but I do shop around. Every six months,
I shop around for layer rates on my car insurance,
just like I used to do with cable. It seems
to be pretty competitive, but I have not had this
non gulping experience at all. I still gulp, and I'm

(03:20):
still paying up the gazoo for for auto insurance, and
I think it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
So I want to open up our text line real quick.
Just a simple question, because you know you've got officials
from the state and you've got a lot of lawmakers
saying that the things are getting better, that these prices
for property insurance and car insurance are coming down. I
want to do a quick pull and get a sense
as to what all of you are experiencing. So just

(03:44):
text talk and then whether or not the prices are
coming down for you. Just put it all in one
message to eight two nine four five. So again that's talk,
and then whether or not you're seeing increases or decreases
with property and auto insurance, all in one message to
eight two nine four five. I'll be curious to see
the responses that we get. What else is going on

(04:05):
this morning, Natalie.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, things are back to normal this morning at Fort
Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. This after an evacuation Terminal four
the Broward Sheriff's office says a guy walked in and
claimed he had a bomb in a bag.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I don't know what is sententious. I haven't heard anything
about it.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
It's what they told me, is said, we come down here,
I'm going to work and I got to go to
the securities.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
How scary if you're just at the airport mining your
own business and all of a sudden you see all
this commotion. Fortunately, nothing suspicious was found, but thirty five
year old Angel Garcia was arrested and he is charged
with making a false report of a bomb. No telling
what was going on in his head, and well made
him say that.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I actually have exclusive audio of this incident, so you
can get a sense as to how it all played
out there.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Take a listen, say, bomb on an airplace.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Bomb bah bah bah bomb, blah blah blah blah blah bom.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
You can arrest me. You assaulted an airline. I was
only in the military. That was a bump of year.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
It sounds like he was just trying to make a point.
Instead he became a yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. It's
definitely not been still in there. All right, let's get
to one more this story I gotta tell you, I
know the guy's in trouble, but he had himself a
hell of a time.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
To say the least, talk about I'm not so discrete.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Caught on camera, Florida guy, of course, stealing a forklift
and an ATM while.

Speaker 7 (05:25):
He was at it.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
And the best is that he left a whole trail
of debris.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's like, come find the yips.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
You know, there was no hiding the evidence here.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Tallahassee police did arrest thirty year old Joshua Adalgo. He's
facing several charges burglary of a structure, criminal mischief, resisting
an officer without violent's, grand theft to name a few
of those charges. So, the forklift that he stole allegedly
was from a construction site near a middle school, and

(05:55):
then the ATM was stolen from a business right down
the street.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
And he literally just drove off on a busy residential.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Area and just like left the cookie crumbs, you know,
cookie crumbs right around the street.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I wonder if there was a plan in advance to
get the forklift and then use it to take the ATM,
or if it was like a crime of opportunity. The
forklift was there and then he thought to himself, well,
I could use this to steal in ATM and it
just kind of all played out. And then I guess
when officers when they arrived on the scene, he tried

(06:30):
to do something to fake them out. If I'm reading
this right, he told them, oh, I just dropped this
thing over there, and then he.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Took off and they chased him down. So yeah, he's
gonna have some stories to tell for quite some time.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
Nice Jah.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Also in big trouble too, Natalie Rodriguez with today's top stories.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Natalie, thanks so much. He got it all right.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Now let's bring in Weather Channel mediaologist Race Stage of four.
Today's forecast brought to you by my friends over at
Brighter Home Services reach out today for a brighter Tomorrow
at Brighterservices dot com. So, Ray, if you like being outdoors,
this is quite a stretch of weather for you. If
you like being indoors like me, it really doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
Well, so yeah, it's it's temperatures that have come up
at that little cool stat What was that about a
week ago? Now that's another but a memory. Fifties and
sixties this morning to almost seventy degrees closer to south beach. Obviously,
as you get closer to the southern latitudes, it'll be milder,
and as we go through the next few days, everybody's
going to be hovering close to or slightly above normal.

(07:32):
For Tampa, your normal highest seventy eight, you'll be above that,
probably about eighty to eighty four the next few days.
Miami your average highest eighty one, you'll probably be eighty
two to eighty three right up through the rest of
the week, potentially the weekend. Now for Tampa we'll get
close to records. Tomorrow's record eighty six, we're going eighty five.
Same thing for Friday eighty six, fourcast high eighty four.

(07:53):
So well, you might touch one of those records. But
there's no rain, a few high clouds, and I think
that will continue the next I think think chance of
getting rained here probably isn't going to be until we
get into later next week. That could be tour Thanksgiving
her the day after or that weekend, So we'll see
if that front gets you.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
The crazy thing is, it was just it was last week,
right we set the record for call weather. Now we're
getting close to records for warm weather.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's it's nice exactly all right, Weather Channel Media Alog
just race stage with this ray. Thanks so much. Okay, Okay,
so I didn't know this was going on. I didn't
need it.

Speaker 8 (08:26):
Okay, I'm not surprised. But here's what's going on. We've
got a Florida lawmaker has now introduced legislation that seeks
to end what has been a statewide practice of selling
our driver's license information or ID card information to private companies,

(08:46):
data brokers, insurance analytics firms, and foreign owned entities. This
is a bill coming from a representative, Peggy Gossip Sideman.
She's a Republican and my new favorite lawmaker. I don't
know this is, but I'm on board with this.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I am too.

Speaker 8 (09:02):
I'll tell you this is going on, going on for
more than fifteen years, and it's estimated that these data
sharing agreements have generated over four hundred and ninety million dollars.
I know I'm selling driver information which includes names, addresses,
birth dates, driver license numbers, are driving histories, crash records,

(09:24):
vehicle information, organ dome.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
It just goes on, even driver photos. So that yeah,
full picture.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
It's look at the DMB that's out there, and these
sales happened.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
She says.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
The representative says without residence knowledge, I didn't know about it,
without our consent, or without any option to opt out.
And so a lot of times you'll get all kinds
of stuff in the mail and you don't know where
it came from.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
You you ended up on that list I ended up getting.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
Now that I bought my house, I've been getting an
insane amount of junk mail related to homeownership, and some
of it makes you think that it's coming from the
mortgage come but when it's not. And my mortgage company
and my real estate agent told me to look out
for it, So I'm sure this is kind of the
same thing.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
But it looks official and it's not. It's chump.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
This is outrageous.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
And I crap on a lot of bills that are
proposed up and tall acid because a lot of them
are really stupid. This one is a great bill, and
it should pass unanimously and be signed by the guy.
I don't care if the state loses four hundred ninety
million dollars. Okay, this is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
No, they're doing this. It's bad enough to me.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
It's bad enough that there are algorithms out there that
everything you click on. Yeah, on social you get advertisements
for it down the road. Okay, that's bad enough.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
And look, I just know that I'm giving all my
information to Facebook and these different companies.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't a knowledge that.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
When you sign up this is something you have to
get a driver's license if we haven't had a choice
to have our information sold and we don't know who
it's being sold.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
To or for what. Yeah, So this was I thought,
a really notable bill that's being proposed and hopefully pat
We're going to follow this as it makes its way
through during this upcoming legislative session.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Read Shepherd with today's top stories. Read thanks so much,
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