Florida News That Impacts You – April 9th, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.    

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Brian Mudjoe podcast is driven by Brayman Motor Cars.
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news that impacts you on the Brian Mudsill and.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Brian Mudd and Joel Malkin with you and Ryan Ruth.
The attempted assassin Trump International a second assassination attempt last
year against President Trump. These developments we've learned of.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
In a motion filed Monday, the government says Ruth was
trying to buy a rocket propelled grenade or anti aircraft
missile from an associate he thought was a Ukrainian with
access to military weapons, writing send me an RPG or
stinger and I will see what we can do. Trump
is not good for Ukraine. By the way, I have

(00:55):
breaking news effectively. I think we're done with China.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
China just added fifty percent tariffs and US goods we
are at one hundred and four percent on them. I
forgot where we were with China before they just added.
I think we're done with China. Is what goes on here,
which in the grand scheme of things, is not a
bad thing. The getting there will be interesting, Okay. So
as we take a look at news from around the
state that impacts you, uh locally, Two men, Jamie Figueroa

(01:24):
and Raymond John were arrested for the sex trafficking three
underage girls who ran away from home. According to police reports,
the men drugged the girls, brought them into prostitution, lived
off of their earnings. Two hotels, and boytant Beach and
one in Lantana were used by the suspects. Paul Beach
County Commission has approved to Palm Beach Atlantic's plan for

(01:45):
a finance in a new twenty five story mixed u
storm in West bomb Beach. PBA's plan issue bonds totaling
two hundred and fifty million dollars, which was the subject
of tuesdays vote. The dorm, once completed, we'll have nine
hundred and ninety beds the ETA August of twenty twenty seven,
and as Joel has been reporting, West Palm Beach still
has a vote in this as well. Publics have announced

(02:07):
opening dates for new locations surround South Florida. Store in
West Boca's new shopping center, the Greens on State Road
seven that'll open on May first, with a grand opening
for its new location in the Promenade Shopping Plaza on
Alternate A one A and Palm Beach Gardens that will
happen on May eighth. To the cloudy, windy today chance
at passing showers highs in the upper seventies. Similar weather

(02:29):
with slightly higher range chances are in the forecast for Thursday.
Gas prices they rose a penny per gallon yesterday. The
average price for regular un leaded state wide three twenty
per gallon in the Palm Beach is your average price
three thirty four Martin three twenty five in the Indian
River County three twenty four. And again we are hitting
a new fifty two week low in the price of

(02:51):
a barrel of oil, also wholesale refined gasoling. All this
stuff started to hit after the announcement last Wednesday. Takes
about a week and a half before you get those
supplies to the to to the gas stations. Those lower
prices are coming in, much lower gas prices are coming
very soon.