WFSU Local

Florida’s Capital Area Chapter of the Red Cross is accepting donations to support the Oklahoma City community as they begin to recover from yesterday’s tornado.

At least two dozen are dead – many of them children – and hundreds of residents have been displaced from their homes.  Relief crews are still combing through the wreckage.

Dan Samborn, CEO of the local chapter of the Red Cross said the focus at this stage is reconnecting people with basic services like shelter, food, water, and healthcare.

Bob Hill is a retired contractor who has been bringing his trash to the Miccosukee Rural Waste Service Center for more than 30 years. But he says he’s not so set in his ways to oppose a county proposal that would require him to pay a monthly fee to get curbside trash pickup:

“I can’t see any negative side unless you come from a place where, ‘it’s inconvenient and this is the way we’ve always done it’. But I think we can do it closer to home.”