Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Rep. Jared Moskowitz, the two candidates running for Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections, and Rodney Jacobs, of Miami’s civilian investigative panel. Milberg also reported on Florida Amendment 4, the Right to Abortion Initiative.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg talks to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava after her re-election. She also hosts a Roundtable with Jesse Scheckner, of Florida Politics; Douglas Hanks, of The Miami Herald; and Anthony Man, of The Sun Sentinel; and she presents Anchor Calvin Hughes’s one-on-one interview with the new prime minister of Haiti.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Rep. Jared Moskowitz, the two candidates running for Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections, and Rodney Jacobs, of Miami's civilian investigative panel. Milberg also reported on Florida Amendment 4, Right to Abortion Initiative.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Rep. Jared Moskowitz about gun control in response to school shootings.

On the sixth anniversary of the Parkland school shooting, parents and former students joined lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday for a bipartisan school safety effort.

A second group of U.S. House lawmakers toured the building where Parkland high school students were massacred in 2018.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Congressman Jared Moskowitz, Florida State Rep. Randy Fine, attorney Rafael Yaniz, WLRN correspondent Tom Hudson, Miami Herald editorial page editor Amy Driscoll and attorney Stephen Johnson.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Congressman Jared Moskowitz, Florida State Rep. Randy Fine, attorney Rafael Yaniz, WLRN correspondent Tom Hudson, Miami Herald editorial page editor Amy Driscoll and attorney Stephen Johnson.

With Israel’s intensive ground operation underway to eliminate the Hamas terror organization, South Floridians with ties to the people and land there grapple with the casualties and decades-long emotional debates.

Authorities are investigating an instance of hate outside a Broward County synagogue.

Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who organized the congressional tour of the Parkland school shooting site with Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, led a roundtable discussion after the tour with the families of those killed in the shooting.

Nine members of Congress toured the blood-stained and bullet-pocked halls at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday, shortly before ballistics technicians were set to reenact the massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead.

Gunfire again erupted at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as part of a reenactment of the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead.

A group of lawmakers from Florida, both Democrats and Republicans, recently displayed an interest in learning more about unidentified flying objects, as they discussed possible violations of congressional oversight, and the potential for white-collar crime due to a lack of transparency.

A group of lawmakers and Parkland activists announced new school safety legislation on Thursday, in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz will lead a bipartisan visit next week inside the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where the 2018 mass shooting occurred.

South Florida members of the Congress have always been among the most involved in crafting immigration reform, though for decades, compromise has been elusive.

President Joe Biden approved a federal disaster declaration Thursday night in the wake of this month’s historic flooding in eastern Broward County.

U.S. Rep Jared Moskowitz, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and local county officials announced Thursday the Broward County Metropolitan Planning Organization will receive a $5 million grant to help prevent pedestrian deaths by car.

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz remembered the victims of the Parkland school shooting Tuesday, five years to the day after a gunman took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Florida House Speaker Paul Renner, U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi, and former Virginia Key Beach Trust Chair N. Patrick Range II.

The swearing in this week for several Broward County members of congress was the ceremonial one, following the real one in DC.

Florida's 23rd Congressional District is going to have a new representative in 2023.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg welcome Congressman Carlos Gimenez, State Sen. Jason Pizzo, Broward Commissioner Jared Moskowitz, Congressional candidate Christine Olivo, and state congressional candidate Adam Benna.

Even as the Hurricane Ian's catastrophic tally is still being calculated, the discussions about whether and how to rebuild what was lost are underway.

Jared Moskowitz and Ben Sorensen are among the Democrats vying for the seat in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District.

Michigan’s attorney general says her office will review events that occurred before the mass shooting that left four students dead at Oxford High School, despite the district’s rejection of her offer to be a third-party investigator.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg is joined by attorney David Wallach, newly appointed Broward County commissioner Jared Moskowitz, Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman and University of Miami Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Dushyantha Jayaweera.

The recent primary elections to fill the late Alcee Hastings seat in Congress left some gaping holes in other places due to the people who resigned in order to become candidates.

Jared Moskowitz and Torey Alston are being appointed to open commission seats by Ron DeSantis, the governor announced at a news conference Tuesday morning.

Florida broke a record three times last week for the number of new COVID-19 cases reported in a single day, peaking at 23,903.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg are joined by Shane Strum, Jared Moskowitz, Alberto Carvalho and Manny Cid.

The fight against COVID-19 in Miami-Dade County is getting a new general, one who previously won some battles while running the state's division of emergency management.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg is joined by Director of Florida Division of Emergency Management Jared Moskowitz, Broward School Board member Debra Hixon, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, and attorneys Shannon Ligon and Aaron Carter Bates.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg is joined by Director of Florida Division of Emergency Management Jared Moskowitz, Broward School Board member Debra Hixon, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, and attorneys Shannon Ligon and Aaron Carter Bates.

Governor Ron DeSantis is scheduled to hold a news conference at 12 p.m. on Wednesday at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee.

Starting Monday, March 22, Miami-Dade County vaccine sites will begin vaccinating people 50 & older. Age eligibility will expand to those 40+ on March 29, lowering the age by 10 years each week. Orange County is lowering their age requirement to 40+ beginning next Monday. AdTuesday will also mark the start of the beginning of second dose vaccines at the FEMA-supported sites for those who need it. This operation may be extended based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, increased vaccine allocations and resource availability.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Joining the latest episode of This Week in South Florida are Florida’s Director of Emergency Management Jared Moskowitz, Florida state lawmakers Evan Jenne and Manny Diaz and Broward County Vice Mayor Michael Udine. The full episode can be seen at the top of this page.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Florida’s Director of Emergency Management directs crisis response, and Florida has had its share. Lately it’s getting COVID-19 vaccines to Florida’s senior citizens and those who need it most. Jared Moskowitz leads that effort as the sole Democrat picked by Gov. Moskowitz announced last week he will be leaving his post at the end of April. He joined This Week in South Florida hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg to discuss, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A top Florida official responsible for his state’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is stepping down. Jared Moskowitz heads Florida’s Division of Emergency Management and has overseen much of the state’s response to the outbreak. He told the USA Today Network that an official announcement of his departure was expected Tuesday by Gov. DeSantis spoke to the media on Monday from Tallahassee and had nothing but praise when asked about Moskowitz. When I started this job, they were 5 and 2,” Moskowitz told the USA Today Network.

Ron DeSantis to stop bragging about the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and to fix the problems with the COVID-19 vaccine distribution. When former President Donald Trump’s administration recommended that states give priority for the COVID-19 vaccines to essential workers, DeSantis gave priority to seniors age 65 and older who have had a higher mortality rate during the pandemic. DeSantis said Florida has 77 community vaccination sites. “The governor is saying that you know, he is ‘the champion of seniors’ and he is putting seniors’ safety first, that’s baloney,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, said his constituents are extremely upset with the way DeSantis has handled the distribution of the vaccine.

Ron DeSantis has made it a priority to provide coronavirus vaccines to seniors 65 and older, prompting a crush in demand. As of this week, more than 707,000 Floridians had at least one of shot of two vaccines approved by the federal government. More than 1.5 million people have tested positive for the virus in the state since the pandemic began; nearly 24,000 have died. At some vaccination sites, seniors have had to be turned away because vaccine allotments had dried up. Rivkees said he hopes other vaccines will soon come into the market to potentially speed up the timetable.

This Week In South Florida: Feb. 2 (Full Episode)PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Joining the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast are Florida Emergency Services director Jared Moskowitz, Chief Medical Officer at Holy Cross Hospital Dr. Eduardo Locatelli, Farm Share CEO Steve Shelley, and South Florida journalists Nancy Ancrum and Rosemary O’Hara. Subscribe to the weekly TWISF Podcast on iOS or Android

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Joining the latest episode of This Week in South Florida are Florida Emergency Services director Jared Moskowitz, Chief Medical Officer at Holy Cross Hospital Dr. Eduardo Locatelli, Farm Share CEO Steve Shelley, and South Florida journalists Nancy Ancrum and Rosemary O’Hara. The full episode can be seen at the top of this page.

Despite this, tens of thousands of seniors are still waiting for their shots, along with millions of younger Floridians. The rollout of the coronavirus vaccine has been rocky as less than a quarter of the more than 1,000,000 doses send to Florida have been administered. That raises questions as to what the holdup is, and why has the vaccine rollout been so chaotic and disorganized. Its Director is Jared Moskowitz, a former Democratic State Rep. from Coral Springs. He joined This Week in South Florida host Michael Putney to discuss, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

But Florida wanted to get started sooner, so it sent in a strike team involving the national guard, nurses and emergency workers to begin the process at long-term care facilities Wednesday. More than 21,000 doses were headed to 112 facilities in Broward and Pinellas counties first, then six facilities in Miami-Dade. “It wasn’t just COVID that struck the long-term care facilities. At 9 a.m. Wednesday, the process began to vaccinate 100 senior citizens, referred to as “elders” at John Knox Village. She is a retired third-grade teacher and a long-time resident of John Knox Village.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – As frontline medical workers have started getting the COVID-19 vaccine the past two days, senior citizens in long-term care facilities are now getting ready for the shots. On top of drug manufacturer Pfizer pushing out its vaccine this week, Moderna is expected to have its vaccine approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this week, Gov. A Johnson & Johnson vaccine could be approved in January, DeSantis said, and that one will only require one dose. The first shipment of Pfizer’s vaccine went to five major hospital systems in Florida, including Jackson in Miami-Dade and Memorial Healthcare in Broward. As for the Pfizer vaccine, an order is in for 205,000 more shots next week and 247,000 the week after, DeSantis said.

MIAMI – Jackson Memorial Hospital was one of the hospitals chosen to get the first round of vaccines because of its high coronavirus caseload, and the hospital received nearly 20,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. “Feel like we are finally on the offense,” said Dr. David Woosley, Jackson Memorial Hospital’s emergency department attending physician. Fernando Acosta headed to work at Jackson Memorial Hospital Tuesday morning, the same hospital where he received treatment last month for a severe case of COVID-19. Dr. Brian Hunis, an Associate Medical Director for Memorial Cancer Institute, received his Pfizer vaccination on Tuesday in Miramar. “I’m really excited that I got the vaccine so I’ll be able to protect my daughter when I come home from work,” said Dr. Hansel Tookes, an infectious diseases physician at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Jared Moskowitz said Florida is planning mass vaccination sites, called pods, which would be similar to the virus testing sites. Some frontline workers at Memorial Regional Hospital received their first of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday afternoon in Miramar. A 31-year-old nurse at Tampa General Hospital became the first person in Florida to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday morning. Jackson has ultracold freezers ready to store the vaccine, which must be kept at temperatures as low as -112 degrees. Just over 35% said they would consider it in the future, while nearly 15% said they were not interested in the COVID-19 vaccine at all.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. As Florida navigates through unprecedented dual emergencies, the state's point person for disaster planning and logistics is Jared Moskowitz. He is the Director of Florida's Emergency Management Division and he splits his time between Tallahassee and Parkland. The full interview can be seen at the top of this page.

All rights reserved.) During his Thursday briefing on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he is visiting Broward County on Friday. Gen. James Eifert and Jared Moskowitz, the director of the division of Emergency Management. DeSantis and his team is scheduled to arrive at 10 a.m. at the Urban League of Broward County, 560 NW 27th Ave., in Fort Lauderdale.

He is working on putting together temporary hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients. “That will become available if it becomes necessary,” Moskowitz said about the temporary hospital being set up at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. The temporary hospital in Fort Lauderdale will house roughly 250 beds to deal with the overflow from hospitals, where emergency rooms are being inundated with concerned patients. The Fort lauderdale Police Department is also setting up a command post at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Public health officials said that as the availability of testing increases, so will the number of COVID-19 patients.

Ron DeSantis said Florida is sending the Bahamas enough bottled water to fill 10 trucks as the islands recover from Hurricane Dorian. DeSantis announced Tuesday that Florida Power & Light is also contributing nine truckloads of water to the relief effort. The governor said the "huge amount of water" will be shipped to Nassau. Jared Moskowitz, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said more than 500,000 gallons of water are being donated. DeSantis also praised the many Florida-based businesses and citizens who have donated millions of dollars to help the Bahamas after the slow-moving Category 5 hurricane struck the islands.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Nine counties in Florida have issued mandatory evacuations, while seven counties are allowing residents to voluntarily evacuate. The following Florida counties have issued mandatory evacuations:Martin County Mandatory evacuation order for Zone A and Zone B are in effect. Palm Beach County Mandatory evacuation order for Zone A and Zone B. Brevard County Mandatory evacuation order has been issued for Zone A, including all mobile and manufactured homes. Nassau County Mandatory evacuation order has been issued for Zones A.

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