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When David Mesfin moved to St. Augustine Florida from Ethiopia in his teenage years, he found swimming and surfing to be a means of escape from his problems.

In honor of the holiday celebrating King on Monday, we searched our archives and found two of the interviews he did with CBS 8- one which hasn't been seen since 1962

Posted By: JJ Hayes March 8, 2021 @ 3:45 am Blogs, JJ Hayes Show Page     Today’s Star Spangled Salute honors Veteran Dave Parramore.  Dave spent 26 years in the Army and now is focused on giving back.  Last February, Dave cycled almost 500-miles from his home in St. Augustine Florida to Key West in honor of the Wounded Warrior Project.  A week ago, Dave began pedaling for a bigger challenge.  He will ride from Oc...

5-year-old girl, 87-year-old great-grandmother located Deputies: Both are well, but they’re being evaluated by medical personnel Published:  Updated:  Tags:  File photo Because the child and woman are no longer missing, News4Jax has removed their names and photos from this article. ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – A 5-year-old girl from St. Johns County who was at the center of a Florida Missing Child Alert and her 87-year-old great-grandmother were found Thursday evening, according to authoriti...

Force in the party on capitol hill. its going to beat the squad featured very prominently as republicans -- cote >> jessica: i was reading this weekend that in districts you are seeing a lot of advertising already featuring the squad and hillary clinton. you can hear david wasnt speao the abyss, someone did bring us mugs. [laughter] >> melissa: thanks to david webb and kristen soltis anderson. of course, jessica tarlov. we are back on the couch at noon eastern tomorrow. now begin a brand-new hou...

Even started. we know this is a rain maker, >> yeah. super stubborn storm so far. i think were getting direction. this storm of epic proportions, well see what comes next, even the outer bands. youll start to feel that, too. sandra. have a terrific day. thats the collision of a lot >> great to have you back, bill. of water. see you tomorrow morning. thats how many people perish in storms like this if they "outnumbered" starts right now. dont get out of the way. griff jenkins, thank you, >> harri...

This right-hand turn. so it did spare us that it happened so far off the u.s. land across the bahamas. that really spared florida. that stalling out before making that turn to the north. for the bahamas were talking now 48 hours of having storm impacts from this. >> harris: absolutely. our prayers with them. thank you for the update. kristen, i know you lived in florida, every time we look at this kind of a forecast you think okay, ive been there. what are your thoughts today? >> kristen: a lot ...

And able to do what he wanted to do with guns? >> david: thats why i brought up the point of getting information from law enforcement locally to other authorities where it is relevant. if someone fails a background check because of particular reasons, where does that information go? >> harris: where does it go? >> jessica: it needs to get in a federal database. >> kristen: its also something that happened in parkland. the young man -- he was somebody he was known to law enforcement had been flag...

Thats one measure of doing it. the other thing is theyve benham erd here in florida. its part of life down here. they went 10 years without a direct hit. it changed in 2016 and 2017. those giant sand dunes you see are made for a reason. they were wiped out in 2017, they were wiped out in 2016. theyre hoping they hold on this year. you watch that track, harris, and you start to gain a little bit of confidence in the state of florida. not to suggest that anybody is past this thing right now, but i...

Here that is not law enforcement, doesnt have the carolinas. official business or isnt florida will feel hurricane trying to get somewhere because force winds tonight and they have an emergency should tomorrow. we have hurricane warnings in stay put. thats what the officials are effect for charleston area, pleading with people here as we very prone to flooding. see this water coming up and it hurricane watches to the north of that. a lot of people still impacted will be a few hours before it wit...