FGCU softball senior balances EMT training and Regional playHomes For Our Troops grants veteran new home
GAINESVILLE FGCU softball senior balances EMT training and Regional play Ahead of NCAA Regional play, FGCU senior outfielder Riley Oakes started EMT training as she works toward being a trauma surgeon.
PUNTA GORDA Homes For Our Troops grants veteran new home Through all the cheers and a community-wide escort, it’s a ‘welcome to your forever home for army sergeant veteran Brandon Rethmel and his family.
ALVA LCSO responds to triple drowning in Alva The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is responding to a scene of a water rescue where three people were recovered.
PUNTA GORDA Preparing for hurricane season at the 2024 Charlotte County Hurricane Expo With hurricane season less than two weeks away, it’s important to start preparing.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Beat the Heat: Stay safe during extreme weather The Weather Authority has issued a heat advisory for portions of South, Southeast, and Southwest Florida from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday.
FORT MYERS Leaders discuss possibility of shutting down Caloosahatchee Bridge Should residents endure two years of partial lane closures, or fully shut the Caloosahatchee bridge down for 10 weeks?
GAINESVILLE FGCU softball parents cherish NCAA Tournament experience The parents of the FGCU softball team are relishing seeing their daughters play in the NCAA Tournament.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA The Weather Authority: Hot, hot, hot Heat advisory in place for Saturday until 8 p.m.
FORT MYERS Fort Myers teen finds dead body in bed of his truck A 16-year-old in Fort Myers drove to school, drove home, drove to the barbershop and back home again. Then, he noticed a swarm of flies in the back of his truck.
Scottie Scheffler facing felony charges; local attorney reacts The attorney we spoke with told us that, at a minimum, we’d spend the night in jail before having our first appearance and getting bail.
GAINESVILLE FGCU softball falls to No. 4 Florida in NCAA Tournament The FGCU softball team couldn’t keep up with the No. 4 Florida Gators as the Eagles drop their first Regional game 6-0 to the Gators.
Summer Safety: Swim safety tips to know before the summer The pool is warming up to be the hot spot for kids and families this summer. It’s now also the number one leading cause of drowning deaths for children ages 1-4 in the state.
FORT MYERS BEACH ‘The Whale’ restaurant to break ground on new building The Whale is a place that has shown great strength and determination.
COLLIER COUNTY Endangered Florida panther deaths surpass 2023 total in 5 months It’s taken wildlife officials just over five and a half months to report finding more dead endangered Florida panthers than in all of 2023.
FORT MYERS FMPD honors 7 officers and 2 K-9s who died in the line of duty dating back to 1930 Nine lives were given, and all nine will remain remembered. A lifetime of gratitude for the fallen officers.
GAINESVILLE FGCU softball senior balances EMT training and Regional play Ahead of NCAA Regional play, FGCU senior outfielder Riley Oakes started EMT training as she works toward being a trauma surgeon.
PUNTA GORDA Homes For Our Troops grants veteran new home Through all the cheers and a community-wide escort, it’s a ‘welcome to your forever home for army sergeant veteran Brandon Rethmel and his family.
ALVA LCSO responds to triple drowning in Alva The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is responding to a scene of a water rescue where three people were recovered.
PUNTA GORDA Preparing for hurricane season at the 2024 Charlotte County Hurricane Expo With hurricane season less than two weeks away, it’s important to start preparing.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Beat the Heat: Stay safe during extreme weather The Weather Authority has issued a heat advisory for portions of South, Southeast, and Southwest Florida from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday.
FORT MYERS Leaders discuss possibility of shutting down Caloosahatchee Bridge Should residents endure two years of partial lane closures, or fully shut the Caloosahatchee bridge down for 10 weeks?
GAINESVILLE FGCU softball parents cherish NCAA Tournament experience The parents of the FGCU softball team are relishing seeing their daughters play in the NCAA Tournament.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA The Weather Authority: Hot, hot, hot Heat advisory in place for Saturday until 8 p.m.
FORT MYERS Fort Myers teen finds dead body in bed of his truck A 16-year-old in Fort Myers drove to school, drove home, drove to the barbershop and back home again. Then, he noticed a swarm of flies in the back of his truck.
Scottie Scheffler facing felony charges; local attorney reacts The attorney we spoke with told us that, at a minimum, we’d spend the night in jail before having our first appearance and getting bail.
GAINESVILLE FGCU softball falls to No. 4 Florida in NCAA Tournament The FGCU softball team couldn’t keep up with the No. 4 Florida Gators as the Eagles drop their first Regional game 6-0 to the Gators.
Summer Safety: Swim safety tips to know before the summer The pool is warming up to be the hot spot for kids and families this summer. It’s now also the number one leading cause of drowning deaths for children ages 1-4 in the state.
FORT MYERS BEACH ‘The Whale’ restaurant to break ground on new building The Whale is a place that has shown great strength and determination.
COLLIER COUNTY Endangered Florida panther deaths surpass 2023 total in 5 months It’s taken wildlife officials just over five and a half months to report finding more dead endangered Florida panthers than in all of 2023.
FORT MYERS FMPD honors 7 officers and 2 K-9s who died in the line of duty dating back to 1930 Nine lives were given, and all nine will remain remembered. A lifetime of gratitude for the fallen officers.
A court filing by lawyers for former President Donald Trump is photographed Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, as lawyers ask a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate until a neutral special master can be appointed. The attorneys asserted in a court filing, their first since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago, that the sets of documents taken from the residence were “presumptively” covered by executive privilege. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) In a new lawsuit, former President Donald Trump has filed a motion asking that a special master be named to review the documents seized by the FBI at his Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this month. He has also asked the court to block the Justice Department from further reviewing the material until that happens, court documents filed Monday reveal. According to the filing in the Southern District of Florida, attorneys for the former president wrote that a special master — a court-appointed monitor who would go over the evidence and review its contents for any privileged information — is necessary to protect Trump’s constitutional rights, following what they referred to as an “unprecedented” law-enforcement operation. Calling for a “careful review process,” Trump’s attorneys also ask the Justice Department to provide them with a more detailed accounting of what the FBI took from his Florida resort and return any property not within the scope of the search warrant. That search warrant, approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland and then the court, and later released to the public at the Justice Department’s request, revealed that investigators are probing whether federal statutes protecting national defense information were broken after documents from the Trump White House were brought from Washington, D.C., to his Palm Beach mansion in January of 2021 instead of being filed with the National Archives, as federal law requires. The FBI collected boxes marked top secret, secret and confidential, and documents marked “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” photos and information about the president of France, among other things, the public disclosure revealed. Trump’s lawsuit filed Monday calls the search warrant “overbroad” and alleges investigators took “presumptively privileged” documents created during his time in office and as such, “it is unreasonable to allow the prosecutorial team to review them without meaningful safeguards.” Monday’s filing does not address any reasoning for Trump’s bringing the documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in the first place, and does not refute investigators’ contentions that some of the boxes the FBI seized contained documents related to national security information. Around 150 classified documents were found in the batch of material that Trump initially returned in January, according to one source familiar with the retrieval and another who is close to Trump. The New York Times first reported the number of classified documents in that first batch. It has not been disclosed what types of documents these were. The Times also reported Monday that the government has recovered over 300 documents with classified markings from Trump since the end of his presidency, including the January material, records provided by Trump aides in June and what the FBI seized in early August from Mar-a-Lago. CBS News has learned filter teams have examined, and continue to examine, the documents seized to ensure that anything that should not be in the government’s possession is returned. Last week, prosecutors notified Trump’s legal team that passports belonging to the former president had, they say, been swept up in the raid and were subsequently returned after being detected by such filter teams, a law enforcement source confirmed. But Trump’s legal team argues in its motion for a special master that “[m]erely ‘adequate’ safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the preservation of executive privilege.” Until such care is taken, Trump argues, investigators should be barred from reviewing the documents and seized materials any further. “The Aug. 8 search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause. The Department is aware of this evening’s motion, Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said in a statement, “The United States will file its response in court.” Trump’s filing also contends that the receipt of property included with the search warrant disclosure that was provided to his legal representatives upon the completion of the Aug. 8 search is insufficient and requires more detail. The filing’s first page relies on a political argument, rather than a legal argument, to try to cast doubt on the legality of the search. “Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run,” his attorneys claim on page one, before going on to accuse the government of using law enforcement “as a weapon for political purposes” in carrying out the Mar-a-Lago search. In the days following the execution of the search warrant, Garland made an unusual statement to the media to emphasize that the search at Mar-a-Lago was a matter of “applying the law evenly.” “Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy,” the attorney general said, “Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor. Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing. All Americans are entitled to the evenhanded application of the law, to due process of the law, and to the presumption of innocence.” Nevertheless, the former president said in Monday’s filing that federal investigators “have demonstrated a willingness to treat President Trump differently than any other citizen” and claimed his attorneys attempted to pass along a message to Garland before the attorney general’s statement to the media. According to the complaint, one of Trump’s attorneys spoke with Jay Bratt — head of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control section — and said, “President Trump wants the Attorney General to know that he has been hearing from people all over the country about the raid,” adding later, “Whatever I can do to take down the heart, to bring the pressure down, just let us know.” Monday’s filing offers other alleged details about communications between Trump’s team and the Justice Department leading up to the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. On May 11, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena “seeking document bearing classification markings,” according to the document, after which Trump says he complied, ordering his staff to search the boxes moved to Florida during the presidential transition. By June 3, at the invitation of Trump’s legal team, Bratt and three FBI agents traveled to Mar-a-Lago where they retrieved any responsive documents and examined the room in which they were stored, the filing contends. Weeks later, on June 22, investigators subpoenaed footage from Mar-a-Lago’s security cameras. Federal investigators are now looking closely at video evidence they’ve obtained, which shows people at Mar-a-Lago with access to storage areas where former President Donald Trump’s papers from his residence were being held — including some classified documents, a U.S. Official tells CBS News. The video showing this potential access to a site with highly sensitive material remains a significant cause for concern inside the Justice Department, but a source close to Trump’s lawyers said they are aware of the video and cautioned against reading into it. The former president’s filing comes as a magistrate judge in the same federal district is weighing whether to unseal a redacted version of the evidence that prompted the Mar-a-Lago search in the first place. At issue is whether the media, and by extension the public, have such a vital interest in viewing the search warrant affidavit – which normally contains specific information about evidence — that Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart should take the unusual step of releasing it. Multiple news organizations, including CBS News, have petitioned the court to unseal the affidavit, but the Justice Department countered that there is a need to “protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security.” In the face of opposition from the Justice Department, the judge wants to review proposed redactions before making a final ruling on what may be unsealed “I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure,” Reinhart wrote, addressing the Justice Department’s argument that they would so heavily redact the record that it would become worthless to the public. “I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government.” Investigative methods and the identities of FBI agents and witnesses are at stake, prosecutors argued, and releasing the record to the public might “chill” cooperation from other potential witnesses. “We are demanding that all items wrongfully taken from my home be IMMEDIATELY returned,” Trump himself said in a statement late Monday. ________ Andres Triay, Robert Costa and Fin Gomez contributed to this report.