What to Know
- It’s Friday, January 25th – and NBC 6 has the top six stories you need to know for the day.
It’s Friday, January 25th – and NBC 6 has the top six stories you need to know for the day.
Weather wise, South Florida is in for a cloudy and cooler end of the work week with highs expected to reach the upper 60s with rain chances sticking around through Saturday and increasing into Sunday.
No. 1 - Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday morning in Fort Lauderdale on several criminal charges stemming from the special counsel's Russia investigation.
Stone is charged in a seven-count indictment with witness tampering, obstruction and false statements about his interactions related to the release by WikiLeaks of hacked emails during the 2016 presidential election.
No. 2 - Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigned Thursday after photos surfaced showing him in blackface dressed as a Hurricane Katrina victim at a Halloween party in 2005.
Gov. Ron DeSantis accepted Ertel's resignation after the photos were shown to his office by the Tallahassee Democrat, the paper reported.
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No. 3 - Two former Miami-Dade County Public School employees are among three people facing charges for allegedly selling GED certificates in exchange for cash, authorities said Thursday.
The duo was charged along with a test broker as part of a scheme to sell GEDs to people willing to pay up to almost $3,000, officials said.
No. 4 - Florida will get potentially hundreds of million dollars for Hurricane Michael recovery after President Donald Trump agreed to expand the number of days the federal government will reimburse state and local governments for cleanup efforts, the state's governor announced Thursday.
The federal government had already committed to reimburse Florida for five days of storm cleanup. ov. Ron DeSantis said that is now being expanded to 45 days after he had a private meeting with Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
No. 5 - Florida State University has reached a $1 million settlement with a student who was paralyzed during a 2014 campus shooting.
Ronny Ahmed's attorney and Florida State announced the settlement Thursday in a joint statement. Ahmed and the university had reached an agreement during a mediation conference last week.
No. 6 - Are you looking for something to do Friday night? Come hang out with the NBC 6 team at a special night edition of the NBC 6 Cafe!
The NBC 6 Cafe will be at Finka Table and Tap in West Kendall, giving away free churros and hot chocolate.
