It’s Monday, May 2nd – and NBC 6 has the high tales for the day.
No. 1 – Domestic employees throughout South Florida gathered for a march via Downtown Miami on Sunday throughout International Workers’ Day to protest the hire hike.
Attendees stated they want extra rights as renters as a result of the affordability disaster is pricing them out of their neighborhoods. Care employees and home employees with the Miami Workers Center say that to stay in South Florida, they want increased wages and protections on the job. A report from Rent.com places a one-bedroom condo in Miami at $2,744 per thirty days, up 21.6% from final yr. Many say it’s simply not attainable to stay right here. Especially home employees who say their low wages can’t give them entry to protected housing.
No. 2 – Democrat Ken Russell stated Sunday he’s switching from the U.S. Senate main race in opposition to U.S. Rep. Val Demings to a run for a Miami-area congressional seat.
Russell made his announcement by way of a TikTok video. Russell, a Miami metropolis commissioner, stated it is change into clear Demings — who at present represents Orlando in Congress — is more likely to be the Democratic nominee in opposition to incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and that he’ll help her. Now, Russell stated he’ll deal with a House District 27 race in opposition to freshman GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in a single of Florida’s foremost swing districts.
No. 3 – After an preliminary plan to construct a brand new soccer stadium for the Miami Hurricanes in the metropolis of Coral Gables was met with backlash, billionaire booster John Ruiz reportedly has his sights set on a brand new location nearer to campus.
Ruiz advised the Miami New Times he now desires the stadium constructed at Tropical Park in southwest Miami-Dade – 9 miles from the college’s campus versus the 30 miles to UM’s present dwelling subject, Hard Rock Stadium. Ruiz stated he has spoken to the architectural agency that construct SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California – website of February’s Super Bowl LVI – about constructing a 65,000-seat stadium on the west facet of the park positioned off Southwest fortieth Street. Ruiz initially proposed constructing a stadium on the website of Coral Gables High School, which was met with opposition from the metropolis and Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
No. 4 – Exactly 25 years after 4 members of the family had been murdered at a Miramar dwelling in what police have known as one of the “most heinous crimes” in the metropolis’s historical past, members of the family and detectives are coming collectively for a memorial service.
Theresa Laverne, her daughter, Marie Altidore, and Marie’s daughters, 6-week-old Sabrina and 2-year-old Samantha had been discovered murdered in a house in the 8800 block of S. Crescent Drive on April 30, 1997. Laverne, 68, had traveled to South Florida from Haiti to assist her 29-year-old daughter with the new child. Laverne and Altidore had been fatally shot, and the two little ladies had been crushed to dying. Detectives consider it was against the law of ardour, fueled with rage. They stated the assassin tried to stage a house invasion, however there have been no indicators of pressured entry and no valuables had been stolen.
No. 5 – The Miami Heat and Philadelphia 76ers will tip off their Eastern Conference semifinal collection Monday evening with Game 1 inside the FTX Arena.
For the third straight sport, the Miami Heat will likely be with no participant introduced on this season for his playoff expertise. The crew introduced Sunday that time guard Kyle Lowry will miss Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Monday in opposition to the Philadelphia 76ers. Forward Jimmy Butler, who missed Miami’s collection clinching win final Tuesday in opposition to the Atlanta Hawks in Game 5 of their first spherical collection, is amongst the gamers listed as questionable.
No. 6 – Just in time for National Orange Juice Day on Wednesday, May 4th, Bradenton, Florida-based Tropicana is introducing a brand new breakfast product which will make some individuals cheer and others increase an eyebrow.
Saying it’s going to create an (*6*) the firm is introducing Tropicana Crunch, a honey almond breakfast cereal particularly made in order that orange juice is used as an alternative of milk. “Some call it weird. Some call it breakfast. We . . . didn’t even know it was a thing,” the firm stated in a launch on their web site. The cereal field includes a smiling orange holding a spoon and orange juice being poured right into a bowl of almond cereal. Each field additionally comes with a paper straw. Tropicana has not stated if the cereal’s launch is non permanent or full-time, or when or if you can purchase the cereal in shops.