{"id":8150,"date":"2025-10-17T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8150\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:17:12","slug":"orlando-oct-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8150\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando \u2014 Oct. 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Central Florida.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Dry air continues to engulf Central Florida, providing us with another day of ample sunshine paired with scattered fair weather clouds. Winds from the east-northeast could send in a very stray shower, but most will stay rain-free for Friday as highs peak in the low to mid-80s.<\/p>\n

Get the latest right here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stay up to date on the forecast by\u00a0downloading the Spectrum News app<\/a>. You can use Klystron 13 to track the dry airmass into the state and send in weather photos and videos for a chance to be seen on air.<\/p>\n

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Highs: Low to mid-80s<\/p>\n

Lows: \u00a0Mid-60s<\/p>\n

Rain Coverage:\u00a00%<\/p>\n

Check your hour-by-hour forecast here<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Share your weather photos<\/a><\/p>\n

Around Central Florida<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Palm Bay City Council votes to censure Councilmember Chandler Langevin over Indian American comments, other issues<\/a>
The Palm Bay City Commission voted to censure Chandler Langevin, two weeks after they drafted a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, asking him to remove the councilman due to derogatory comments he made on social media about Indian Americans.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Seminole County School Board members hold meetings communication complaints after elementary school incident<\/a>
Parents are putting the pressure on Seminole County Public Schools leaders over the way an incident involving potential threats made by a paraprofessional\u00a0was handled at Sabal Point Elementary School.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Clocking Florida\u2019s \u2018Super Speeder\u2019 law after 3 months of enforcement<\/a>
It\u2019s been a little more than 100 days since Florida\u2019s new \u201cSuper Speeder\u201d law took effect, criminalizing extreme speeding for the first time.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Brevard Sheriff’s HIT unit demolishes nuisance homes<\/a>
The Brevard County Sheriff\u2019s Office is implementing a new unit to get rid of nuisance homes in neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Large fire breaks out at scrapyard in Osceola County<\/a>
Fire crews are battling a significant fire at a scrapyard on Old Tampa Highway in Osceola County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Around the Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Trump won\u2019t rule out U.S. strikes on Venezuelan soil, confirms CIA operations<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Energy Department offers $1.6 billion loan guarantee to upgrade transmission lines across Midwest<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Trump warns Hamas ‘we will have no choice but to go in and kill them’ if bloodshed persists in Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Alaska works to rescue storm victims by helicopter and plane in historic airlift<\/a><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Day
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For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college \u2014 or whether to go at all \u2014 has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price?<\/p>\n

Public confidence in higher education has plummeted in recent years amid high tuition prices, skyrocketing student loans and a dismal job market \u2014 plus ideological concerns from conservatives. Now, colleges are scrambling to prove their value to students<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Central Florida.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner Dry air continues to engulf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2126,139,141,140,275],"class_list":{"0":"post-8150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-morning-briefing","9":"tag-orlando","10":"tag-orlando-headlines","11":"tag-orlando-news","12":"tag-spectrum-news-staff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}