Castro Not Dead and Still in control July 31, 2007

Sometimes a good quote puts it all into perspective. I got a good one from Frank Hernandez-Trujillo the other day. Frank heads up a very low key U.S. Government organization that sends goods and material into Cuba. The story we were producing dealt with the one year anniversary of the transfer of power on [...]

Florida Vacaton: Day 7-Pack it up! July 27, 2007

It was the quickest week in the world. We pack it up tomorrow morning early. The beach was a little too hot today. Spent the early part of the day in the water, the rest finishing up a true crime book that caught my interest. Luly, the lovely Mrs. Tester was on the phone with [...]

Florida Vacation Day Six: Shark Spotted July 26, 2007

The water had been full of bait fish all day. In came the larger fish, in massive schools, churning up the water, dolphins began working closer to shore and as the sun dipped in the west, there was Mr. Shark. No one was in the water, it was the end of the day and we [...]

Florida Vacation Day Five-Breaking News! July 25, 2007

My wife Luly was “carded” at last nights restaurant of choice! We had ordered a couple of glasses of Chardonnay and the waiter said, “before I serve you mam I have to see an ID.” Was this guy fishing for a tip or was he dead serious, then he looked at me and said, “I [...]

Florida Vacation Day Four! July 24, 2007

What’s great about Florida is all the free stuff you can see from a waterside balcony. Like dolphins at play and gathering dinner, pelicans diving into a school of bait fish, terrific early morning displays of lightning and pink and red sunsets laced again with searing bolts of lightning accompanied by the distant thunder. [...]

Hank’s Florida Vacation Day One, Two, Three! July 23, 2007

We are on vacation, our first since the “empty nest” phenomena hit our house. The lovely Mrs. Tester and I have a week off we decided to do what tourism guru’s Andy Newman and Bill Talbert are continually promoting, a “Florida Drive Market” vacation. We have driven, we have been shopping at a local Publix, [...]

Goooooood Morning Miami! July 17, 2007

Gooooooooood Morning Miami!
Yep that’s me out there in the early Mornings! I will be out in the streets for Today in South Florida all this week. Up at 2:30, a mad scramble to the scene of the morning’s story, and in an exact reverse of what we call “dayside,” we [...]

July 12, 2007

Two Dead not News in Miami Gardens
Two dead at a Miami Gardens apartment complex, police swam the area, bodies lay under yellow tarps for hours, apartment residents gather to gawk, friends and family of the two slain teens pound fists, and shriek in their grief. It was a nasty shooting. Witnesses say there were over [...]

Two More Dead in Miami Gardens July 11, 2007

The address is too familiar. An apartment complex at 37th Ave and Northwest 186th Street, Miami Gardens. Two are dead, witnesses say 30-40 shots rang out around midnight. I have often covered homicides here and once there was a heist at the post office across the street where two gangsters jumped across the counter [...]

New Chief at Hurricane Center July 9, 2007

Ed Rappaport appointed acting director of the National Hurricane Center. It will be a popular choice within the walls of the center. Rappaport is a scientist, a forecaster and was Max Mayfield’s deputy for sometime. He will be the on-camera presence during hurricanes. He is low key, matter of fact, and will undoubtedly keep the [...]