December 18, 2025 • 22 mins
TOP STORIES - Highlights from Trump’s address to the nation, CFO Blaise Ingoglia announces proposal to codify FAFO, and the Dolphins are benching Tua Tagovailoa and turning to Quinn Ewers, Miami-Dade woman accused of assaulting son over house chores dispute, neighbors are clashing over a superyacht on one of Miami Beach's richest streets, Brown University shooting investigation update, woman sues IRS to have pets classified as dependents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Breona Torres,
and Natalie Ronriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we'll get to today's forecast for you with Danki Weather
meteorologists Jason Catarina before eight fifteen and right after that,
new developments in the Brown University shooting, including a new
person authorities want to speak to. Plus, Nick Rner appeared
(00:21):
in court for the first time yesterday. Our legal analyst
Royal Oaks. He'll check in to break down the case
against him at eight thirty five. Right now, let's get
to today's stop stories with Natalie ron Reguez.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, we're starting things off with President Trump in a
nearly twenty minute rather to the point speech. He started
off firing shots at the Biden administration. No shock there.
He mentioned Biden seven times, but he did pretty much
stick to script and he took merited credit where credit
was due. He says he's bringing down costs for all
of us.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I've secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment
into the United States, which means jobs, agentcases, growth, factory openings,
and far greater national security.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He pointed a car prices being down.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
He says they're working to tackle the price of groceries,
egg prices, gas prices, the whole works. He said, wages
for workers like construction workers are growing at a fast rate.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Since I took office, one hundred percent of all net
job creation has gone to American born citizens one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And of course, he touted the implementation of global tariffs
for making that possible. It was a rather standard speech.
There were no bells and whistles. It was delivered relatively
fast by Trump's standards. He did announce a couple things
holiday bonus for our troops. It's a payment of seventeen
hundred and seventy six dollars, which he's calling a warrior dividend,
(01:48):
a holiday bonus, and added that the checks are already
on the way to every soldier. And in spite of
some tried media frenzy leading up to the speech last
night that Trump would announce a wars Venezuela or some
otherwise big news related to Madoudal or otherwise, there was
nothing mentioned. The side note there is a UN meeting
(02:10):
set for Tuesday that Venezuela requested about the opposition that's
being presented by the US. But again, nothing about that
or related to that from Trump last night.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, which was weird because Tucker Carlson said the President
was going to potentially announce a war. Yeah, that's basically
where it came from, a US swinging a miss there. Yeah,
so a couple of things. Basically to summarize the eighteen minutes,
everything was awful before he took office. Everything's great now,
Everything's going to be even better next year. That was
(02:43):
the theme I think of the address. People feel it right,
it was. It was like a presidential version of Festivus.
At times, there was an airing of grievances, but again
he's trying to make the case that things are improving
and they'll get even better. It's just going to come
down to in twenty twenty six, leading into the midterms,
(03:03):
how like Americans actually feel about their finances.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's pretty much.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
It actually all comes true and prices go.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Down, rent goes down, yeah, power bills go down.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I did like the I did like the Warrior dividends.
I'm sure our service members kind of wish the country
is founded in the year two thousand, but you know,
I like the fact they're going to be getting a bonus.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
They absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I will say I found the background a little distracting.
What's that thing called the garlic, Yeah yeah, I wasn't
a big fan of that.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
The glare, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And then I think, you know, for Trump, when he
is delivering a speech, he generally slows down. Sometimes he
riffs a little bit. He stayed pretty much on script.
There are a couple of you know, improvised moments. But
if you're going to set a target of about twenty
minutes for a speech, then to me, you kind of
want to speech to be like fifteen minutes. Where it
(04:02):
felt like they tried to pack a twenty five minute
speech into twenty and he was kind of rushing through
it a lot.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
And he had all the charts and everything too.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah. Yeah, there were some ross parole moments Natalie in
there with the charts and everything, Yeah, throwback. But I
think really this was something he wanted to do to
close out the year, to talk about year one accomplishments
and set the stage for twenty twenty six to make
his case. Trump is convinced that, you know, when it
comes to making the case that what he's doing is
(04:31):
the right thing to do. He is the best one
to deliver that message, and he wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
To have a full glass half empty.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If we're only focusing on the fact that he spoke
little and quickly and the decor, I don't think he
did a bad job.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Look, I think this is a speech that it's not
going to do much in the big picture, you know,
political landscape. But it's kind of like what we're seeing
a lot right now, year end wrap ups.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Right, Yeah, And I think he wanted to make himself
feel better about everything too, because it.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Was therapy questions, the checklist. He went through a checklist.
It's like checking things off, making everything nice in time
for the holidays and starting off the new year again,
like you said, ahead of the midterms next year, it's
a nice way to set a sound foundation if they
continue this forward momentum.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, it was nice unless you're Joe Biden or some
of the other the Democrats, the people that he draft
his speech. All right, what else is going on, Natalie?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, so, as we were talking about finances, our state
chief financial officer is calling for new legislation that's aimed
at increasing oversight and transparency in local governments and how
they're spending our taxpayer money.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So Blazing Goglia was in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He says audits have identified about two billion bucks and
over spending across eleven cities and counties.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We already knew this.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
He already singled out Palm Beach County for spending roughly
three hundred and forty four million, though local officials are
disputing those numbers.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
I think we'll have more people come forward and show
us where the true waste, fraud, and abuse are in
these local governments.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
In theory, the legislation would subject cities and counties to
penalties for not providing financial information and giving the CFO
power to recommend local officials be removed from office for
fiscal wrongdoing or negligenceuff. This could be tied into that
whole theme of setting a foundation ahead of the elections.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I think this is one of those situations where the
CFO is getting a little ahead of his skis here,
like where are the audits.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Yeah, we haven't seen exactly what the money is being
wasted on.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
What we've heard allegations.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm saying it in all these different counties, but
he hasn't proven anything.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, we're seeing one point eight six billion dollars in
wasteful or excessive spending. But you've got a lot of
the local municipalities pushing back on that, saying it's non accurate.
So where is the final report before we create another
government agency on this kind of stuff, Let's see what
they actually found. So that's what I'm waiting for. And
(07:01):
I thought we would have had it by now. I
mean we've been talking about this.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Yeah, if they failed it, why isn't it documented they
wasted one billion dollars on.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
This, right exactly. That's what I want to see. Maybe
we'll get it in twenty twenty six. All right, let's
get to one more quick story, Natalie.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, look ahead into the weekend games on the Great Iron,
the Miami Dolphins benching quarterback to a tongue of Ila
and Mike mc dad earlie up the head coach. He
was justifying at saying Quinn yours deserves because deserves a
chance to replace Tua here, because it's giving them the
best chance to win.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Our focuses obviously to win the next three games, but
in particular, like I tell the players, we are focused
on beating the Bengals. So that was the motivation.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
How he would know that yours is going to give
them the best chance to win when he's a rookie
out of Texas and hasn't even made a first start.
He's going to do that on Sunday against Cincinnati at
hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'll tell you what's going on here. I think this
is pretty obvious. So Mike McDaniel's on the hot seat.
And two has been bad this season, and the Dolphins
are stuck with a brutal contract for Tua. But that's
a whole other issue. If you're Mike McDaniel and you're
trying to keep your job, you're looking for a scapegoat.
Well not just that, you're looking for a reason for
(08:14):
ownership to keep you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So you start the rookie Quinn viewers.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You hope that there is a little lightning in a bottle,
some progress, some big moments, and then you can go
to ownership and say you should keep me around. I
know we've struggled, but I'm making progress with this rookie quarterback.
Theres there are things to look forward to next year,
don't you know. Stop the momentum that's that's what he's
hoping for here. I don't know that that's gonna work.
(08:41):
I watched quinn Ewers when he played in college. I
think he was that good. It's when I was a
seventh round pick. But you know, you've got nothing to lose, basically,
if you're Mike McDaniel at this point. I think that's
what's going on here. Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop stories. Natalie,
thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now let's bring in Aki Weeather Media ologis chasing Katerina
for today's forecast and Chase. Pretty nice here, but a
bit of a mess in other parts of the country.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Yeah, anybody doing some traveling back home or has relatives
coming in from the Midwest or the Northeast. Tomorrow, Powerhouse
Clipper system making its way across. There's blizzard warnings across
pretty much the entire state of North Dakota, than high
wind warnings all the way down south of that to Nebraska,
wind advisories to the east of that approaching Chicago, and
(09:26):
that is moving east into the Northeast tomorrow. Those wind
warnings and high wind advisories starting to kick in tomorrow
morning for places like Philly, Newark, New York City, Boston,
all the big travel cities on the East Coast as
we head through tomorrow too, So not expecting a lot
of moisture out of this. It's really the wind that
this thing is packing that's going to create some problems
(09:48):
at the airports for us though. Yeah, not that partly
sunny around South Florida today, a shower in the area
of the high of eighty three, cloudy, warp humid tonight
seventy one for a low, approaching the record tomorrow that
was set in twenty sixteen. Gotta fall just short of it, though,
I'm mixed with clouds and sun. The high of eighty
five for US in South Florida on our Friday for
Tampa today at thunderstorm in the area late afternoon the
(10:10):
high seventy nine. Still with thunderstorm and spots this evening, cloudy,
warm overnight, the low down to seventy. Beautiful day for Friday, though,
to round out the week with clouds and sun in
the high seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
All right, ACCU weather meteorologists chasing Katerina with us chasing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Thanks so much. We'll talk to you tomorrow, all right,
see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Tom Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barner, Breonna Torrez,
and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we're gonna run through today's forecast with ACCU weather meteorologists
chasing Katerina before six fifteen. Right after that, we've got
our Bloomberg Business report, plus new developments in the Brown
University shooting, including a new person authorities want to speak to.
(10:46):
And the House passes a healthcare bill? What was in
it and will the Senate pass it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Next?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Senior reporter for The Hill, Mike Lillis checks in with
the latest at six thirty five. Right now, let's get
to today's stop stories with Natalie Ronriguez.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
A very disturbing story coming out of Miami Date this morning,
a mother busted for beating up her kid with a
broom and a fork over sloppy chores. Mimy the Sheriff's
office as thirty seven year old Maria Rodriguez no relation
is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and
an aggravated battery with the deadly weapon. She allegedly got
her teenage son to wake up at around like nine
(11:26):
to twenty at night when she discovered that he had
not done his chores, so she starts beating him up,
left bruises across the arms and chest, according to police.
Then she sent him to the bathroom to scrub the toilet,
but she allegedly sprayed him in the face with the
cleaning product, leaving his eyes red and swollen.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So somebody did not have a good day and took
it out on her kid.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I guess he was washing the dishes and he
dropped a fork and then she threw the fork, threw.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It at him, Yeah, at him.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
This is so sad.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
And I think about, you know, the kids who have
issues in school that are violent, that are rude to teachers.
And I always think to myself, what's going on at
home that's making this kid angry? And I get pissed
off my kids don't do their chores.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well, that's what I was going to ask, but this
is God.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Yeah, he'll get punished and told no video games until
Like that's how you discipline, Absolutely not no. And I
used to get hit with the wooden spoon and I
was like, I would never do that to my kid,
Like that's so far from what I would do to
my son.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
What is the chores situation? Like, are there set chores?
Is it kind of on demand? If you have something,
you say, hey do this?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
He should.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
He does a lot more at my ex husband's house
than he does a fine, yeah, because he makes him
do it. And I'm just kind of like, you know,
I maybe him, but he does have to take out
the trash most of the time, and then I will
make him do his laundry sometimes. And I actually cleaned
his room over the weekend. So but I told him
now from now on he has to do it. But yeah,
I really should do a better job at being strict
(12:51):
with him on making him do chores.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Kid, you kidding me?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Stop so bad because I know from my daughter notving
any chores, who now as an adult, struggles to take
care of stuff that I'm like, I really, I'm not
doing him any favors by babying him.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I still feel like we should get Dana couch here.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I'm just thinking of here to be like a sweatshop
in my place. They'd be doing all kinds of manual labor.
Kidding me, I know, and.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
He should be doing more, Like I'm not teaching him
any good life lessons by not making him do much.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
But yeah, we'll play back this segment for him and
let him know changes are coming.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, it was so funny because so we'd use a
chant that we use a slipper that's the modern day
spoon and.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
It doesn't bruise.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, smart, no bruises.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Smart, all right, but you're not their own forks and faces,
So that's good, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What else is going on, Natalie.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, we've got a super yacht drama unfolding in Miami,
Miami Beach. It's a long and exclusive stretch of North
Bay Roads.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
This is a concerning story. This is a this is
a tough situation. Is it for the one percenters?
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And it exclusive stretch of North Bay Road. It's called
Miami's richest road by Wall Street Journal. It is within
the city limits of Miami Beach and Case and Point.
Our star is seventy eight year old Louise Atkiss, who
it starts with her lounging by a pool one night
last fall with her boyfriend after indulging in a medically
(14:20):
prescribed weed gummy that she says was for her aches
and paints. Seventy eight year old Louise with a weed
gummy by the pool, lounging with her boyfriend. So her
Mediterranean inspired home overlooks the bay and downtown Miami's skideline.
It sits on this exclusive stretch of the road. That night,
her neighbors knocked on the door, and after you know,
(14:43):
chatting it up for a little bit, they asked her
if she would sign this document that would allow them
to build a new expanded dock next door. She agreed,
inking the documents and then just saying good night. Well,
the next morning she realized that she was a little
too high whoops.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So she fires off this text, which is now important documents,
revoking her consent to the dock. There was some back
and forth with the neighbors. Things got a little heated
after that, and she confirmed once again through a text
that she does not want the dock next door. Now
we are talking about an eighty eight foot super yacht. Yeah,
(15:24):
I love that you right now would block her view exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, this is, you know, one of those stories. You
just hope they can figure.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
It out because it's going to get real ugly.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Just you hate to see people going through these kinds
of issues in their neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, I can't imagine how distraught I would have somebody
about to put a big yacht blocking my view.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, just seems well.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
We've talked about building buildings next to bran remember when
we talked about when I think it was last year,
if somebody had decided to block your review from your condo, Yeah,
you would be a little pistol because you paid a.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Lot of money for that purpose, right right. I enjoy
overlooking the dump in my place. So somebody bought that few,
I would be furious. Let alone with an eighty eight
foot super yacht, that would that would really piss me off.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
All right, it's not yours.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, Well, we hope these we help these people in
their first world problems. We hope they get them figured out.
Natalie Rodriguez with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You got it all right.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now, let's bring an ACU weather mediorologists Jason Katerina for
today's forecast and Jason little cloudier today across the state.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Yeah, you've been a couple of showers around, big time
travel delays all around the country. Though, we've got blizzard
warnings across much of North Dakota. High wind warnings for
North and South Dakota, almost all of Nebraska and Kansas.
Wind advisories through Minnesota, Iowa closed again on Chicago. Wind
advisories for Philly, Newark, New York City all the way
(16:49):
to Boston today, and dense fog from Houston and all
along the Gulf Coast of New Orleans this morning. So
anybody traveling back or if you've got relatives coming in,
likely going to be some travel delays all around the country,
not only today but into tomorrow as the system continues
to track up to the northeast. But yeah, pretty quiet
for us, other than the fact that we could have
a shower in the area around South Florida. Partly sunny,
(17:12):
warm up to eighty three, cloudy, humid tonight, down to
seventy one, approaching the record tomorrow for US that record
eighty seven set back at twenty sixteen. We'll get to
eighty five with the mix of clowns in sun tomorrow,
So falling just a little short Tampa. A thunderstorm in
the area late this afternoon, up near eighty today with
the high seventy nine at thunderstorman spots this evening, still cloudy, warm,
(17:34):
the lowly down to seventy Nice day for Friday, though,
to round out the week with a mix of clowns
and sun, the high of seventy eight up in Tampa.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All right, Jason Katerina with us this morning. Jason, we'll
talk to you to bed. You got it, Tom Ryan
Gorman with Dana McCain, Jason Baringer, Brionna Torrez, and Chris
Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up this hour, Dan Bongino
on his way out as Deputy director of the FBI.
We'll get to that before seven twenty plus. The Reiner
family releases their first statement following the deaths of Rob
(18:01):
and Michelle Reiner and the arrest of their son Nick.
Dana has that for us at seven twenty five. Right now,
let's get to today's top stories, brought to you by
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Asknehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. So five
(18:21):
days after shooting at Brown University killed two people and
injured nine others, State and federal authorities admit they have
no idea where the suspect is. They said that he
could be anywhere, according to Colonel Oscar Perez, the chief
of Police and Providence, Rhode Island, not great and investigators
have recovered DNA evidence from the scene. So they're also
(18:42):
hoping that they can get information from a second person
that they found who appears to have crossed paths with
the possible gunmen based on surveillance that they have. But
the bottom line is we're now several days out. This
person could have gotten very far away from the crime
scene by now. Yeah, and even that person who might
have ran into or at least was close in the
(19:04):
close proximity of the suspect. Even if that person, and
I think they will find that person because their their
faces is pretty clear in the images that we saw,
although I can't tell if it's a guy or a girl, Like, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
One of the pictures, it looks like a guy, and
then in another picture like wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But even if they did get a decent look at
the suspect, first of all, they didn't know that was
somebody who was eventually going to commit a mass shooting.
And also the guy was pretty covered up. So I
don't know how much they'll be able to help, but
right now sounds like they're looking for any lead possible
to find the suspect.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And even the DNA evidence.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
If this person doesn't have a prior record when they
collected that person's DNA, it's not going to help them.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
No, no, not until they get this person in custody.
So that's the latest. They've got a new person they're
looking for, not another suspect, but somebody who they want
to talk to might have run into the suspect. And
not a great way to go into the holidays if
you're somebody who works or goes to Brown you diversity
knowing that this guy is still on the loose. So
a New York attorney and her golden retriever are suing
(20:07):
the IRS in an effort to get pets classified as
legal dependents.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I am on board with this.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Amanda Reynolds and her dog, eight year old Finnigan, filed
the lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York, arguing
the dog relies entirely on her for food, shelter, medical care, training,
and transportation, just like a child that is a dependent.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
There you go, Yeah, this would be your tax break,
your opportunity.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Yeah, I mean Finnegan has no independent income that resides
exclusively with her as annual expenses exceeding five thousand dollars,
that fits the requirements that the agency lays out.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
A Digle defended it does.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
The IRS nine spens right now is property, but Reynolds
says that it doesn't reflect the importance of the dog's
role in her life.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Nobody views their dog as property.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Nobody does that.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Your family exactly are responsible for.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, and as a single guy who has a dog,
I just get screwed on all these different tax breaks.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I never get them I have.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, so I would like this one. I think I
should be able to claim Statson as a dependence. He
has definitely dependent on me for seventeen years now. I mean,
why stop there, Let's go for like iguanas. Yeah, hey,
snakes and gerbils, right, you know, let's just do the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's exactly right. Yeah. Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Obviously, they are filing this and the judge is going
to review it, but they're waiting to see what the
IRS response is, which will obviously be a motion to
dismiss the case.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Tell you what, if Trump wants to improve his numbers,
he can tell the irs absolutely, we're doing this and
that will help. That will that will help. There are
a lot of pet owners out there that would be
on board with this. That's one way to turn those
numbers around. Chris Trankman with today's Tap Stories. Chris, thanks
of much, Thank you.
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Breona Torres,
and Natalie Ronriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we'll get to today's forecast for you with Danki Weather
meteorologists Jason Catarina before eight fifteen and right after that,
new developments in the Brown University shooting, including a new
person authorities want to speak to. Plus, Nick Rner appeared
(00:21):
in court for the first time yesterday. Our legal analyst
Royal Oaks. He'll check in to break down the case
against him at eight thirty five. Right now, let's get
to today's stop stories with Natalie ron Reguez.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, we're starting things off with President Trump in a
nearly twenty minute rather to the point speech. He started
off firing shots at the Biden administration. No shock there.
He mentioned Biden seven times, but he did pretty much
stick to script and he took merited credit where credit
was due. He says he's bringing down costs for all
of us.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I've secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment
into the United States, which means jobs, agentcases, growth, factory openings,
and far greater national security.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He pointed a car prices being down.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
He says they're working to tackle the price of groceries,
egg prices, gas prices, the whole works. He said, wages
for workers like construction workers are growing at a fast rate.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Since I took office, one hundred percent of all net
job creation has gone to American born citizens one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
And of course, he touted the implementation of global tariffs
for making that possible. It was a rather standard speech.
There were no bells and whistles. It was delivered relatively
fast by Trump's standards. He did announce a couple things
holiday bonus for our troops. It's a payment of seventeen
hundred and seventy six dollars, which he's calling a warrior dividend,
(01:48):
a holiday bonus, and added that the checks are already
on the way to every soldier. And in spite of
some tried media frenzy leading up to the speech last
night that Trump would announce a wars Venezuela or some
otherwise big news related to Madoudal or otherwise, there was
nothing mentioned. The side note there is a UN meeting
(02:10):
set for Tuesday that Venezuela requested about the opposition that's
being presented by the US. But again, nothing about that
or related to that from Trump last night.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, which was weird because Tucker Carlson said the President
was going to potentially announce a war. Yeah, that's basically
where it came from, a US swinging a miss there. Yeah,
so a couple of things. Basically to summarize the eighteen minutes,
everything was awful before he took office. Everything's great now,
Everything's going to be even better next year. That was
(02:43):
the theme I think of the address. People feel it right,
it was. It was like a presidential version of Festivus.
At times, there was an airing of grievances, but again
he's trying to make the case that things are improving
and they'll get even better. It's just going to come
down to in twenty twenty six, leading into the midterms,
(03:03):
how like Americans actually feel about their finances.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's pretty much.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
It actually all comes true and prices go.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Down, rent goes down, yeah, power bills go down.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I did like the I did like the Warrior dividends.
I'm sure our service members kind of wish the country
is founded in the year two thousand, but you know,
I like the fact they're going to be getting a bonus.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
They absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I will say I found the background a little distracting.
What's that thing called the garlic, Yeah yeah, I wasn't
a big fan of that.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
The glare, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And then I think, you know, for Trump, when he
is delivering a speech, he generally slows down. Sometimes he
riffs a little bit. He stayed pretty much on script.
There are a couple of you know, improvised moments. But
if you're going to set a target of about twenty
minutes for a speech, then to me, you kind of
want to speech to be like fifteen minutes. Where it
(04:02):
felt like they tried to pack a twenty five minute
speech into twenty and he was kind of rushing through
it a lot.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
And he had all the charts and everything too.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah. Yeah, there were some ross parole moments Natalie in
there with the charts and everything, Yeah, throwback. But I
think really this was something he wanted to do to
close out the year, to talk about year one accomplishments
and set the stage for twenty twenty six to make
his case. Trump is convinced that, you know, when it
comes to making the case that what he's doing is
(04:31):
the right thing to do. He is the best one
to deliver that message, and he wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
To have a full glass half empty.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If we're only focusing on the fact that he spoke
little and quickly and the decor, I don't think he
did a bad job.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Look, I think this is a speech that it's not
going to do much in the big picture, you know,
political landscape. But it's kind of like what we're seeing
a lot right now, year end wrap ups.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Right, Yeah, And I think he wanted to make himself
feel better about everything too, because it.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Was therapy questions, the checklist. He went through a checklist.
It's like checking things off, making everything nice in time
for the holidays and starting off the new year again,
like you said, ahead of the midterms next year, it's
a nice way to set a sound foundation if they
continue this forward momentum.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, it was nice unless you're Joe Biden or some
of the other the Democrats, the people that he draft
his speech. All right, what else is going on, Natalie?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well, so, as we were talking about finances, our state
chief financial officer is calling for new legislation that's aimed
at increasing oversight and transparency in local governments and how
they're spending our taxpayer money.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So Blazing Goglia was in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He says audits have identified about two billion bucks and
over spending across eleven cities and counties.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We already knew this.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
He already singled out Palm Beach County for spending roughly
three hundred and forty four million, though local officials are
disputing those numbers.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
I think we'll have more people come forward and show
us where the true waste, fraud, and abuse are in
these local governments.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
In theory, the legislation would subject cities and counties to
penalties for not providing financial information and giving the CFO
power to recommend local officials be removed from office for
fiscal wrongdoing or negligenceuff. This could be tied into that
whole theme of setting a foundation ahead of the elections.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I think this is one of those situations where the
CFO is getting a little ahead of his skis here,
like where are the audits.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Yeah, we haven't seen exactly what the money is being
wasted on.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
What we've heard allegations.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm saying it in all these different counties, but
he hasn't proven anything.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, we're seeing one point eight six billion dollars in
wasteful or excessive spending. But you've got a lot of
the local municipalities pushing back on that, saying it's non accurate.
So where is the final report before we create another
government agency on this kind of stuff, Let's see what
they actually found. So that's what I'm waiting for. And
(07:01):
I thought we would have had it by now. I
mean we've been talking about this.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Yeah, if they failed it, why isn't it documented they
wasted one billion dollars on.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
This, right exactly. That's what I want to see. Maybe
we'll get it in twenty twenty six. All right, let's
get to one more quick story, Natalie.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, look ahead into the weekend games on the Great Iron,
the Miami Dolphins benching quarterback to a tongue of Ila
and Mike mc dad earlie up the head coach. He
was justifying at saying Quinn yours deserves because deserves a
chance to replace Tua here, because it's giving them the
best chance to win.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Our focuses obviously to win the next three games, but
in particular, like I tell the players, we are focused
on beating the Bengals. So that was the motivation.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
How he would know that yours is going to give
them the best chance to win when he's a rookie
out of Texas and hasn't even made a first start.
He's going to do that on Sunday against Cincinnati at
hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'll tell you what's going on here. I think this
is pretty obvious. So Mike McDaniel's on the hot seat.
And two has been bad this season, and the Dolphins
are stuck with a brutal contract for Tua. But that's
a whole other issue. If you're Mike McDaniel and you're
trying to keep your job, you're looking for a scapegoat.
Well not just that, you're looking for a reason for
(08:14):
ownership to keep you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So you start the rookie Quinn viewers.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You hope that there is a little lightning in a bottle,
some progress, some big moments, and then you can go
to ownership and say you should keep me around. I
know we've struggled, but I'm making progress with this rookie quarterback.
Theres there are things to look forward to next year,
don't you know. Stop the momentum that's that's what he's
hoping for here. I don't know that that's gonna work.
(08:41):
I watched quinn Ewers when he played in college. I
think he was that good. It's when I was a
seventh round pick. But you know, you've got nothing to lose, basically,
if you're Mike McDaniel at this point. I think that's
what's going on here. Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop stories. Natalie,
thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now let's bring in Aki Weeather Media ologis chasing Katerina
for today's forecast and Chase. Pretty nice here, but a
bit of a mess in other parts of the country.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Yeah, anybody doing some traveling back home or has relatives
coming in from the Midwest or the Northeast. Tomorrow, Powerhouse
Clipper system making its way across. There's blizzard warnings across
pretty much the entire state of North Dakota, than high
wind warnings all the way down south of that to Nebraska,
wind advisories to the east of that approaching Chicago, and
(09:26):
that is moving east into the Northeast tomorrow. Those wind
warnings and high wind advisories starting to kick in tomorrow
morning for places like Philly, Newark, New York City, Boston,
all the big travel cities on the East Coast as
we head through tomorrow too, So not expecting a lot
of moisture out of this. It's really the wind that
this thing is packing that's going to create some problems
(09:48):
at the airports for us though. Yeah, not that partly
sunny around South Florida today, a shower in the area
of the high of eighty three, cloudy, warp humid tonight
seventy one for a low, approaching the record tomorrow that
was set in twenty sixteen. Gotta fall just short of it, though,
I'm mixed with clouds and sun. The high of eighty
five for US in South Florida on our Friday for
Tampa today at thunderstorm in the area late afternoon the
(10:10):
high seventy nine. Still with thunderstorm and spots this evening, cloudy,
warm overnight, the low down to seventy. Beautiful day for Friday, though,
to round out the week with clouds and sun in
the high seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
All right, ACCU weather meteorologists chasing Katerina with us chasing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Thanks so much. We'll talk to you tomorrow, all right,
see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Tom Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barner, Breonna Torrez,
and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we're gonna run through today's forecast with ACCU weather meteorologists
chasing Katerina before six fifteen. Right after that, we've got
our Bloomberg Business report, plus new developments in the Brown
University shooting, including a new person authorities want to speak to.
(10:46):
And the House passes a healthcare bill? What was in
it and will the Senate pass it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Next?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Senior reporter for The Hill, Mike Lillis checks in with
the latest at six thirty five. Right now, let's get
to today's stop stories with Natalie Ronriguez.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
A very disturbing story coming out of Miami Date this morning,
a mother busted for beating up her kid with a
broom and a fork over sloppy chores. Mimy the Sheriff's
office as thirty seven year old Maria Rodriguez no relation
is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and
an aggravated battery with the deadly weapon. She allegedly got
her teenage son to wake up at around like nine
(11:26):
to twenty at night when she discovered that he had
not done his chores, so she starts beating him up,
left bruises across the arms and chest, according to police.
Then she sent him to the bathroom to scrub the toilet,
but she allegedly sprayed him in the face with the
cleaning product, leaving his eyes red and swollen.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So somebody did not have a good day and took
it out on her kid.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I guess he was washing the dishes and he
dropped a fork and then she threw the fork, threw.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It at him, Yeah, at him.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
This is so sad.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
And I think about, you know, the kids who have
issues in school that are violent, that are rude to teachers.
And I always think to myself, what's going on at
home that's making this kid angry? And I get pissed
off my kids don't do their chores.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well, that's what I was going to ask, but this
is God.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Yeah, he'll get punished and told no video games until
Like that's how you discipline, Absolutely not no. And I
used to get hit with the wooden spoon and I
was like, I would never do that to my kid,
Like that's so far from what I would do to
my son.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
What is the chores situation? Like, are there set chores?
Is it kind of on demand? If you have something,
you say, hey do this?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
He should.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
He does a lot more at my ex husband's house
than he does a fine, yeah, because he makes him
do it. And I'm just kind of like, you know,
I maybe him, but he does have to take out
the trash most of the time, and then I will
make him do his laundry sometimes. And I actually cleaned
his room over the weekend. So but I told him
now from now on he has to do it. But yeah,
I really should do a better job at being strict
(12:51):
with him on making him do chores.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Kid, you kidding me?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Stop so bad because I know from my daughter notving
any chores, who now as an adult, struggles to take
care of stuff that I'm like, I really, I'm not
doing him any favors by babying him.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I still feel like we should get Dana couch here.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I'm just thinking of here to be like a sweatshop
in my place. They'd be doing all kinds of manual labor.
Kidding me, I know, and.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
He should be doing more, Like I'm not teaching him
any good life lessons by not making him do much.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
But yeah, we'll play back this segment for him and
let him know changes are coming.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, it was so funny because so we'd use a
chant that we use a slipper that's the modern day
spoon and.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
It doesn't bruise.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, smart, no bruises.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Smart, all right, but you're not their own forks and faces,
So that's good, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What else is going on, Natalie.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, we've got a super yacht drama unfolding in Miami,
Miami Beach. It's a long and exclusive stretch of North
Bay Roads.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
This is a concerning story. This is a this is
a tough situation. Is it for the one percenters?
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And it exclusive stretch of North Bay Road. It's called
Miami's richest road by Wall Street Journal. It is within
the city limits of Miami Beach and Case and Point.
Our star is seventy eight year old Louise Atkiss, who
it starts with her lounging by a pool one night
last fall with her boyfriend after indulging in a medically
(14:20):
prescribed weed gummy that she says was for her aches
and paints. Seventy eight year old Louise with a weed
gummy by the pool, lounging with her boyfriend. So her
Mediterranean inspired home overlooks the bay and downtown Miami's skideline.
It sits on this exclusive stretch of the road. That night,
her neighbors knocked on the door, and after you know,
(14:43):
chatting it up for a little bit, they asked her
if she would sign this document that would allow them
to build a new expanded dock next door. She agreed,
inking the documents and then just saying good night. Well,
the next morning she realized that she was a little
too high whoops.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So she fires off this text, which is now important documents,
revoking her consent to the dock. There was some back
and forth with the neighbors. Things got a little heated
after that, and she confirmed once again through a text
that she does not want the dock next door. Now
we are talking about an eighty eight foot super yacht. Yeah,
(15:24):
I love that you right now would block her view exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, this is, you know, one of those stories. You
just hope they can figure.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
It out because it's going to get real ugly.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Just you hate to see people going through these kinds
of issues in their neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, I can't imagine how distraught I would have somebody
about to put a big yacht blocking my view.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, just seems well.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
We've talked about building buildings next to bran remember when
we talked about when I think it was last year,
if somebody had decided to block your review from your condo, Yeah,
you would be a little pistol because you paid a.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Lot of money for that purpose, right right. I enjoy
overlooking the dump in my place. So somebody bought that few,
I would be furious. Let alone with an eighty eight
foot super yacht, that would that would really piss me off.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
All right, it's not yours.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, Well, we hope these we help these people in
their first world problems. We hope they get them figured out.
Natalie Rodriguez with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You got it all right.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now, let's bring an ACU weather mediorologists Jason Katerina for
today's forecast and Jason little cloudier today across the state.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Yeah, you've been a couple of showers around, big time
travel delays all around the country. Though, we've got blizzard
warnings across much of North Dakota. High wind warnings for
North and South Dakota, almost all of Nebraska and Kansas.
Wind advisories through Minnesota, Iowa closed again on Chicago. Wind
advisories for Philly, Newark, New York City all the way
(16:49):
to Boston today, and dense fog from Houston and all
along the Gulf Coast of New Orleans this morning. So
anybody traveling back or if you've got relatives coming in,
likely going to be some travel delays all around the country,
not only today but into tomorrow as the system continues
to track up to the northeast. But yeah, pretty quiet
for us, other than the fact that we could have
a shower in the area around South Florida. Partly sunny,
(17:12):
warm up to eighty three, cloudy, humid tonight, down to
seventy one, approaching the record tomorrow for US that record
eighty seven set back at twenty sixteen. We'll get to
eighty five with the mix of clowns in sun tomorrow,
So falling just a little short Tampa. A thunderstorm in
the area late this afternoon, up near eighty today with
the high seventy nine at thunderstorman spots this evening, still cloudy, warm,
(17:34):
the lowly down to seventy Nice day for Friday, though,
to round out the week with a mix of clowns
and sun, the high of seventy eight up in Tampa.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All right, Jason Katerina with us this morning. Jason, we'll
talk to you to bed. You got it, Tom Ryan
Gorman with Dana McCain, Jason Baringer, Brionna Torrez, and Chris
Trenkman from our newsroom. Coming up this hour, Dan Bongino
on his way out as Deputy director of the FBI.
We'll get to that before seven twenty plus. The Reiner
family releases their first statement following the deaths of Rob
(18:01):
and Michelle Reiner and the arrest of their son Nick.
Dana has that for us at seven twenty five. Right now,
let's get to today's top stories, brought to you by
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Asknehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. So five
(18:21):
days after shooting at Brown University killed two people and
injured nine others, State and federal authorities admit they have
no idea where the suspect is. They said that he
could be anywhere, according to Colonel Oscar Perez, the chief
of Police and Providence, Rhode Island, not great and investigators
have recovered DNA evidence from the scene. So they're also
(18:42):
hoping that they can get information from a second person
that they found who appears to have crossed paths with
the possible gunmen based on surveillance that they have. But
the bottom line is we're now several days out. This
person could have gotten very far away from the crime
scene by now. Yeah, and even that person who might
have ran into or at least was close in the
(19:04):
close proximity of the suspect. Even if that person, and
I think they will find that person because their their
faces is pretty clear in the images that we saw,
although I can't tell if it's a guy or a girl, Like, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
One of the pictures, it looks like a guy, and
then in another picture like wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But even if they did get a decent look at
the suspect, first of all, they didn't know that was
somebody who was eventually going to commit a mass shooting.
And also the guy was pretty covered up. So I
don't know how much they'll be able to help, but
right now sounds like they're looking for any lead possible
to find the suspect.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And even the DNA evidence.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
If this person doesn't have a prior record when they
collected that person's DNA, it's not going to help them.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
No, no, not until they get this person in custody.
So that's the latest. They've got a new person they're
looking for, not another suspect, but somebody who they want
to talk to might have run into the suspect. And
not a great way to go into the holidays if
you're somebody who works or goes to Brown you diversity
knowing that this guy is still on the loose. So
a New York attorney and her golden retriever are suing
(20:07):
the IRS in an effort to get pets classified as
legal dependents.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I am on board with this.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Amanda Reynolds and her dog, eight year old Finnigan, filed
the lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York, arguing
the dog relies entirely on her for food, shelter, medical care, training,
and transportation, just like a child that is a dependent.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
There you go, Yeah, this would be your tax break,
your opportunity.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Yeah, I mean Finnegan has no independent income that resides
exclusively with her as annual expenses exceeding five thousand dollars,
that fits the requirements that the agency lays out.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
A Digle defended it does.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
The IRS nine spens right now is property, but Reynolds
says that it doesn't reflect the importance of the dog's
role in her life.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Nobody views their dog as property.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Nobody does that.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Your family exactly are responsible for.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, and as a single guy who has a dog,
I just get screwed on all these different tax breaks.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I never get them I have.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, so I would like this one. I think I
should be able to claim Statson as a dependence. He
has definitely dependent on me for seventeen years now. I mean,
why stop there, Let's go for like iguanas. Yeah, hey,
snakes and gerbils, right, you know, let's just do the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's exactly right. Yeah. Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Obviously, they are filing this and the judge is going
to review it, but they're waiting to see what the
IRS response is, which will obviously be a motion to
dismiss the case.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Tell you what, if Trump wants to improve his numbers,
he can tell the irs absolutely, we're doing this and
that will help. That will that will help. There are
a lot of pet owners out there that would be
on board with this. That's one way to turn those
numbers around. Chris Trankman with today's Tap Stories. Chris, thanks
of much, Thank you.
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