South Florida

King tides are inundating streets across South Florida, with floodwater pooling in low-lying neighborhoods in and around Miami. Officials and forecasters warn the seasonal high tides will keep producing flooding in the coming days as water levels remain elevated.

A University of South Florida doctoral student who had been reported missing has been found dead, and the student's roommate has been charged with murder, according to the local sheriff's office. Authorities say the investigation is ongoing as more details about the circumstances of the death and the relationship between the two have yet to be released.

Veteran Miami news anchor Eliott Rodriguez has publicly criticized Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar over a recent campaign advertisement tied to Donald Trump. The ad is reportedly linked to immigration, a defining issue in Florida politics, and Rodriguez's comments have drawn attention to tensions over how Trump-era immigration messaging plays with South Florida's Cuban American and Latino communities.

President Trump has publicly turned on Representative Maria Elvira Salazar after reports that Miami Republicans rejected an immigration advertisement. The episode highlights tensions within the GOP over immigration messaging, with Trump distancing himself from a fellow Republican whose South Florida district includes significant Latino voter communities. The fallout is drawing attention to divisions in the party's approach to immigration outreach.

South Florida school districts have lost 35,000 students in another year of steep enrollment declines, according to the Sun Sentinel. The continuing drop affects public school funding, which is tied to student counts, and raises questions about classroom closures and staffing. It follows a multi-year trend that educators in the region attribute to shifting demographics and families leaving traditional public schools.