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12:27pm: Extended an invitation to Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla to address you, the public he is elected to serve, about allegations facing. He chose to dodge and deflect. Within two hours of this video FDLE would confirm he turned himself in at their Miami Office.
The sounds of
#LittleHaiti
as
#Biden
supporters wait for the arrival of the former Vice President across the street from the Little Haiti Cultural Complex. This will be Biden’s first trip back to Miami since becoming the Democratic Presidential nominee.
#Election2020
#Florida
This 👇 is the impact of
#gunviolence
. Powerful words from a mom channeling her pain into purpose. LISTEN 👇 to Omorose Butler as she rests one hand on a box containing her murdered son’s ashes. “This is not illness, this is a preventable death.”
@MomsDemand
@Bullets_4_Life
This Just In: There is now a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for killing Mendell Butler-Lebel and hurting two others in a 2018 drive-by shooting. Background:
@WPLGLocal10
@MiramarPD
@crimestoppers2
News: One week from today I'll be returning to
@WPLGLocal10
! I am thrilled to be working alongside my Local 10 colleagues again in direct service to the community. It will be the shoe-leather journalism I love, hitting the streets working daily coverage. See you soon!
“The AHA has released a statement on Florida House Bill 999, ‘express[ing] horror . . . at the assumptions that lie at the heart of this bill and its blatant and frontal attack on principles of academic freedom.’”
@AHAhistorians
Speaking with Dr. Armen Henderson it is interesting to note how he approaches his brief detention by
@MiamiPD
from a physician’s lens, concerned that the Sgt. wasn’t wearing a
#mask
. You will hear more from him +
@Jcolina67
coming up on
@WPLGLocal10
at 6p
#Biden
supporters are beginning to gather along NE Second Avenue across from the Little Haiti Cultural Complex - the former Vice President’s first stop in South Florida today during his first visit to Miami since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
At this moment, earning a
@NewhouseSU
Master of Science in Communications, grateful for the generations before me: their sacrifices, their lessons in hard work, patience, and perseverance that paved the way for this achievement. Highest GPA of my graduate cohort.
#SUGrad21
1/6
NEW:
@Nicklaus4Kids
Nicklaus Children's Hospital CMO Dr. Marcos Mestre tells me they are seeing an increase in cases. “Right now in the hospital we have 17 patients that are COVID-positive, 6 of them are in our ICU, 1 of them on a ventilator.”
#Kids
#COVID19
#SoundOn
▶️ (Thread)
He was born on a 118 degree Arizona summer day in 2008…and meeting him three months later, was love at first sight. He passed in his sleep tonight at home. 😔🐾 🧵
"Facebook’s entry into this market means every single company now has to take cryptocurrency seriously. Companies around the world are now considering their cryptocurrency strategy." via
@CoinDesk
#UltraMusicFestival
: “We demand answers from both the Ultra organizers and the City of Miami. We respectfully ask you to compel the city manager, the city's code compliance director, as well as the organizers of the Ultra Music Festival…” 1/
NEW: Florida Bar confirming there is a pending investigation regarding Assistant Public Defender Tamara Curtis. We don’t know who the complainant is, or what the investigation is about, because per the
@TheFlaBar
“while an investigation is ongoing, the complaint is not public.”
THIS is the moment the judge was talking about. The week before the trial began and before a hearing began, two defense attorneys appear to notice the new camera setup. One seems to suggest they flip off the camera and then this happens:
#ParklandShooter
“We have never seen Fort Lauderdale like this.” On his annual visit to Fort Lauderdale from Ohio, Jim Minyard just learned a hard lesson—avoid pockets of surface flooding—you just never know how deep they go—-he is now stalled on Seabreeze Blvd waiting on a tow.
#WX
#Flooding
▶️ The rain in Fort Lauderdale is relentless—disappointing tourists & putting a damper on restaurant business near the beach. Note: The National Weather Service says a TORNADO WARNING is in effect in this area until 4:45pm - there is also a FLASH FLOOD WARNING here until 6:45pm.
WATCH: An inside look at Brightline’s new station at
@MCO
. Patrick Goddard,
@GoBrightline
President, said ticket sales for
#highspeed
Miami-to-Orlando route scheduled to start next month in time for start of
#summertravel
season.
These two. The sweetest. At the end of my final - final exam last night for grad school walked out to find this delightful surprise. Flowers, cards, carrot cake (my favorite), and a bottle of champagne 🥂 🍾 to celebrate the milestone moment. Capstone Project also submitted. 💪
“Willie said the meeting is urgent because ‘every day, our students and employees are becoming sick with a life-threatening virus.’”
#COVID19
#kids
#schools
“A lieutenant sheriff in Bexar County, Tex.,...is under a second investigation after she posted multiple images of breaking into the Capitol on her Facebook account, according to KSAT.”
Did you know? Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham, who recently passed, was friends with the late Jimmy Buffett. According to the Bob Graham Center for Public Service: “Their ensuing friendship would lead to the creation of the ‘Save the Manatee Club.”
“Crews in Florida, using their hands with help from heavy machinery, have removed 13 million pounds of concrete and debris from the site.” Video Courtesy: Florida Task Force 2 (FL-TF2)
THIS is incredible. I often see Anhingas stately resting on mangroves drying out their wings between fishing dives - but I have never seen what they look like swimming underwater. Awesome view - thanks
@coralcitycamera
!
#waterbird
#Voices
from
#Surfside
:
#Taskforce2
leader Scott Dean hugs his sons Jax (6yo) & Landon (8yo) and gingerly kisses his 1-year-old baby Maddox. For the past month working
#Surfside
he’s had just one day home with them. His wife Shaun, proudly beaming his way, says he’s ‘our hero’.
This Just In:
@MiamiMayor
explains how the
@CityofMiami
’s new
#COVID19
testing site at Charles Hadley Park has just become the first to test at minimum age of 45yo. Now if you are a Miami resident, 45+, experiencing symptoms 👉 you can get tested. Appointment needed: 305-960-5050
#Voices
from
#Surfside
: For the last month of her 4mo daughter’s life
#FL
#taskforce2
member Nichole Notte has been on 12hr shifts engaged in grueling work to find the missing. She says the emotional toll was most difficult…processing what she saw, missing her baby Luca at home.
Walking with the protesters in the rain today is former prosecutor and former ACLU deputy director Melba Pearson who is currently running against incumbent Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle. I asked
@melbaformiami
about the legal legacy of the Lozano case. 👇
Soccer fans headed to
@InterMiamiCF
in Fort Lauderdale will no longer be able to park in the overflow lot. The city choosing not to extend an agreement for the team to utilize Lockhart Park, telling Local 10 News, Miami Beckham owes them more than $1M in building permit fees.
This group marching through the historic streets of Overtown - one of Miami’s most significant neighborhoods. As we walk with them, have noticed police presence on side streets intensify. The message from this group: agitators stay away! Only peaceful protestors welcome.
Former Miami Police Chief
@ArtAcevedo
pens
#oped
published by The Miami Herald “Miami leaders’ abuse of power has finally come under overdue public scrutiny…the tide finally seems to be turning, and I hope I played some small role in that.” 1/
Troubling allegation from
@artacevedo
#memo
re:
@joecarollonow
is claim Commisioner demanded police arrest people he deemed as “agitators”. Chief says Carollo “incensed”…”For my refusal to arrest and remove his enemies and those who were exercising their First Amendment rights”
"If he comes back I will address it, there is no need for all of you to rush the car. Let me put myself in danger for you. That's what I am here for." -
@MiamiPD
officer. Protester: "Yeah, thank you!" Protester: "Cool, cool, cool."
.
@NationalNurses
President and registered nurse Deborah Burger worries
#CDC
’s decision will only exasperate existing
#CriticalCare
staffing issues. “It is only going to make it worse…this certainly is not going to protect healthcare workers or our patients or our communities.”
“If you have no symptoms you know, please don’t get tested.” -
#Florida
’s State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo
*
“That is incredibly irresponsible.” -FIU Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Aileen Marty
*
“People can be contagious before they have symptoms.”
@NateHafer
#CovidTesting
▶️
Good morning from Miami Beach! I am joining my
@WPLGLocal10
work family to assist with the team’s
#HurricaneDorian
storm coverage in service to the community.
@peta
🔔 NEW: Miami-Dade County is taking action in the wake of USDA’s troubling findings—putting the Miami Seaquarium on notice it is in violation of its lease agreement, adding that the marine-mammal park is required to remedy the violations within 45 days from receipt of notice. 1/
The details are chilling. A 5th grader, shot dead, in cold blood, by a man investigators say he didn’t know, while the young boy was buying ice cream. “Just walked out of nowhere and started shooting.” And the child wasn’t the only shooting victim.
Guara Family Mass: Seeing these funeral hearses outside St. Joseph Catholic Church as caskets are guided to the entrance took my breathe away. Marcus Guara, 52, his wife Anaely, 42, and their two daughters, Lucia, 11, and Emma, 4, passed away in the
#Surfsidecollapse
. 😞
Also coming up on Local 10 News 6pm—you will hear from
@MiamiPD
: “We always welcome visitors because this helps the economy, the restaurants, the hotels. We just ask if are coming to Miami,” said
@FreddieCruz16
, “have a good time but please, respect the rules, respect the laws.”
Today I’m interviewing parents about their experience on this first day of school riddled by technical glitches and saved by so many teachers pivoting to other platforms like Zoom to host a virtual class. Also decided to interview my 9yo for a kid’s perspective
#distancelearning
Christmas came up. My little one wondered if in her letter she needs to warn him of the global pandemic - so he is prepared with a mask - so he doesn’t get sick delivering presents. Then she said she’s asking him if he can fix the tech issues for all kids so they can learn.
#2020
Earlier today I spotted these Miami PD ‘Crime Scene Investigations’ units along Collins Avenue south of 95th street in
#Surfside
. Miami Police tell me they are working with the MDPD Crime Lab, using their Rapid DNA machine, to facilitate identifications.
#SurfsideBuildingCollapse
NEW: “The
@FACDL
believes that Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s recent courtroom exchange with members of the criminal defense bar was inappropriate and violates Canon 1 of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct.”
#ParklandTrial
"I believe a far greater obstacle to blockchain’s success lies in our collective lack of imagination." Blockchain’s Adoption Challenge Is a Human Problem, Not Technical via
@CoinDesk
My husband &
#STEM
-loving 9yo watch
@BattleBots
on
@Discovery
. While at a store tonight she discovered
@HEXBUG
makes related toys - her reaction: 😍 Best part is her saying “they were in the boys’ section” of store & my husband saying - not the “boy section”-the tech section. 💪
My 9yo loves playing with the photo settings on my phone. She has started taking black and white photos. This was one of them. She later said she was trying to “capture my smile.” I love how it is a bit washed out with an unconventional angle. Perhaps a budding photographer? 🤔❤️
Clear water is forecasted for the next week, so don’t miss out on the cosmos of fishes beaming live and direct from Coral City into your home, office, classroom or wherever some fish therapy is needed!! 🐠🌌🐠🌌🐠Tune in live 24/7 on
#youtube
#coralcitycamera
#coralcity
@MiamiDadeParks
@peta
🚨 THIS JUST IN: Citing “Lessee’s numerous and significant violations” Miami-Dade County tells the Miami Seaquarium it has decided to terminate its lease. “Lessee will surrender and deliver possession of the Property back to the Lessor effective no later than April 21, 2024.”
@peta
🔔 NEW: Miami-Dade County is taking action in the wake of USDA’s troubling findings—putting the Miami Seaquarium on notice it is in violation of its lease agreement, adding that the marine-mammal park is required to remedy the violations within 45 days from receipt of notice. 1/
#ICYMI
Miami mayor reacts after federal court authorizes the US Marshals to seize the assets of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo in order to satisfy the more than $63 million judgment awarded by a federal civil jury.
“For me, the way to help at the moment is prayer,” said his daughter Devorah Andrusier while fighting back tears, “God does what he does we don’t understand it.” Several members of their synagogue she said remain unaccounted for following the
#SurfsideBuildingCollapse
. 2/2
Near the
#surfsidebuildingcollapse
site 7-year-old’s Estella’s smile radiates from bursts of blooms along this
#wallofflowers
honoring the missing. “Each kid comes into the world with a gift, she was just warm and sweet and so attached to her Mama.” -Mariela Porras (thread)
Love how she decided to wear her new Sherlock Holmes pin on this first day of middle school - meant to represent an inquisitive, open-minded, fact-based, excitement for the start of the new school year.
#BacktoSchool
#Education
BREAKING: The home of the
@MiamiHeat
is now a county-owned arena without a name. 👇 Bankruptcy Court Order Terminating Naming Rights
#FTX
+
#MiamiDadeCounty
Agreement. Filed today—back dated to December 30, 2022. Miami-Dade asked to end agreement after
#FTX
filed for bankruptcy.
NEW: Holtz Children's Hospital CMO Barry Gelman, MD says while seeing “more kids testing positive for COVID” at all ages - from infants to adolescents- the numbers in hospital have “roughly stayed the same”. 5 pediatric patients, of them 2 in ICU.
@ExpertKidsCare
@JacksonHealth
▶️
Over the last few weeks, the volume of hospitalized COVID-19-positive patients has continued to rapidly increase at Jackson Health System and in other local health systems.
A Bahamian flag on the balcony of a Palm Beach Shores residential unit. Jim Bronstien tells me he has friends in the Bahamas and has yet to connect with them. 🙏🇧🇸
#HurricaneDorain
A grandfather shot on his own property. A grizzly cell phone video recording filmed shortly after the
#officerinvolvedshooting
. Siblings who say what they are asking for—is a full accounting of the events leading up to their father’s death.
Hospitals tell us the majority of
#COVID
patients are unvaccinated. As insurance providers begin to end fee waivers for COVID treatment they could face a greater financial risk, in addition to the existing health risk, of choosing to remain unvaccinated.
To understand this burst of excitement from Dr. Sunil Kumar, first to receive
#pfizer
dose at
@BrowardHealth
today-is to understand his months-long sacrifice. While fighting Covid-19 at work, isolating at home, last time he had a sit down meal with his family was before March. ▶️
The sound of a mom’s deep pain and immense sorrow, as she shares her grief, as she pleads that someone with information come forward. “What shall be of my life!
That was my child!
Oh my God
Oh my God.
They took her from me.”
-Sheilla Nunez, Melissa’s Mom
@CrimeStopper305
Update: “Investigators are trying to determine whether Gonzalez was targeted or if she was hit by a stray bullet...Anyone with further information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.”
@CrimeStopper305
@WPLGLocal10
Happening Right Now: vaccine outreach effort underway in
#LittleHaiti
- they are going door-to-door to share vaccine eligibility information + helping folks register for a dose on the spot with
#QRCodes
. (Thread)
#Voices
from
#SurfsideBuildingCollapse
: Surfside survivor, 64yo Iliana Monteagudo said it’s as if a supernatural force woke her up. Then she spotted a crack, snaking its way down the wall. ‘Something inside me said run’ ▶️
#Voices
from
#Surfside
: “It is okay if you are having problems, it is okay if it becomes difficult for you to deal with…if you can’t sleep at night, call me.” Powerful remarks today by City of Miami Fire Chief Joseph Zahralban as they welcomed home
#FL
#Taskforce2
members. ▶️ 🙏
NEW: A rare window into deliberations in this letter to the judge by one of the
#ParklandTrial
#PenaltyPhase
jurors…she writes: “the deliberations were very tense and some jurors became extremely unhappy once I mentioned that I would vote for life.”
#ParklandShooting