Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced he is nominating Charbel Barakat to the board of Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, which governs the Walt Disney World Resort, amid the feud with the central Florida company.
The National Hurricane Center forecasters are monitoring low pressure off the Southeast Coast for potential tropical developments. “Regardless if development, conditions over the peninsula will be unsettled today,” stated Florida Public Radio Emergency Network Meteorologist Megan Borowski. “The system should pull northward over the holiday weekend, and that conditions over our area will improve. Rough surf and rip currents could linger at Atlantic beaches.” Borowski added.
Disney filed a motion opposing attempts by lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to disqualify Judge Mark Walker from presiding over a pending lawsuit between the two parties in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.