SpaceX ISS Crew Splashes Down Near Florida
(Cape Canaveral, FL)-- A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts from the International Space Station successfully splashed down off the Florida coast. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying three NASA astronauts and an Italian from the European Space Agency parachuted into the Atlantic Ocean late Friday afternoon after a five-hour flight from the space station.U.S. astronaut Jessica Watkins became the first African-American woman to be part of a long-duration ISS mission.
DeSantis Views Hurricane Damage In Flagler County
(Bunnell, FL)-- Flagler County is looking for some help recovering from Hurricane Ian. Governor Ron DeSantis visited yesterday to get a first-hand look at the storm damage and talk to local officials. Flagler Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord estimates residential and government damages at over 15 million dollars. He also says the county experienced catastrophic coastal erosion. Some state aid requires the county to put up a matching amount, but the county engineer says if the state could waive or reduce that requirement, it would help.
Sarasota County Schools Reopening Today
(Sarasota, FL)-- There's a sign of life returning to normal in Sarasota County. Eight schools in the south, including North Port High School, are reopening today for the first time since Hurricane Ian. District officials say Heron Creek Middle School had the worst damage. The principal tells 10 Tampa Bay kids want to return because they miss that sense of belonging. Two elementary schools won't reopen until tomorrow.
Scott Discusses Property Insurance Reform
(Jacksonville, FL)-- Rick Scott believes there's one thing lawmakers need to do before Florida can reform the property insurance industry. Senator Scott said yesterday the governor and the legislature need to eliminate fraud before rates will go down. The former governor says rates in the last four years have skyrocketed, and they're now three times the national average. Scott also tells News4Jax it's really a problem when rates are so high that people are dropping coverage.
DeSantis Calls For Change In Death Penalty Law
(Coral Springs, FL)-- The governor wants change after what he calls a miscarriage of justice. Governor Ron DeSantis said yesterday in Broward County he wants to change the death penalty law after Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life without parole. At a campaign stop in Coral Springs, DeSantis said when you murder 17 people in cold blood, the only appropriate punishment is capital punishment. Right now, death sentences are only imposed if the jury is unanimous. DeSantis says he'll ask lawmakers to revise that.
Man Arrested After Shooting At JSO Members
(Jacksonville, FL)-- A man is in custody after what appears to have been an attempted suicide-by-cop. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says officers were called yesterday afternoon to a home on Edgewood Ave for a man with a gun. The JSO says John Ervin wanted to engage officers in a shootout in the hopes that they would kill him. The 34-year-old allegedly fired at officers when they arrived and then retreated into the house. Eventually, he put down his gun, walked out of the house and surrendered. No one was hurt.
SpaceX Launch Set For Thursday
(Cape Canaveral, FL)-- SpaceX has a launch coming up. A Falcon 9 rocket is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday morning at 10:45. The rocket will be carrying more Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.
CA Woman Fired Over TikTok Video
(San Francisco, CA)-- A woman in California was fired from her job because of a TikTok video. The video showed coffee spilling all over the counter after she forgot to put her mug underneath the coffee maker. The coffee spill isn't what got 24-year-old Michelle Serna fired, it was the work meeting playing on her laptop in another room that got her in trouble. Serna said she didn't realize the meeting could be heard in the video until she was called into the human resources office and fired. The company let her go because "she didn't get consent from her coworkers or the company for recording a confidential conversation" and for making a social media video during work. Serna said, "rejection is redirection" and has started her own company.
Cost Of Candy Up 13 Percent For Halloween
(Undated) -- Halloween is getting a little scarier this year with candy prices higher than last year. Those who plan to give out candy this October 31st will be paying 13-percent more, according the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That comes out to about a two-dollar increase on a 15-dollar bag of Halloween candy. This is the largest yearly jump in candy prices that the CPI has ever recorded.
TODAY IN HISTORY
2015, Scott Kelly broke the American record for the longest time spent living in space. On this day in history, Kelly marked his 383rd day in space as a NASA astronaut.
1989, a major earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay area during a World Series game between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. The quake measured six-point-nine on the Richter Scale and caused an estimated 270 deaths, three-thousand injuries and more than three-billion dollars in damage.
1966, "The Hollywood Squares" debuted on NBC.
1931, noted mobster Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to eleven years in prison.