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Drive past the Pulse nightclub now and you’ll see something different.

The chainlink fence that served as a backdrop for people’s handmade memorials is gone, replaced by a smaller fence that allows more room for people to come and pay their respects to the victims of the shooting. We talk to Pulse owner Barbara Poma about the new fence. We’ll also hear about the process of saving those thousands of memorial items, and hear from a business nearby about how they’re doing three months on.

Then- simulation is big business in Central Florida… and the industry covers everything from immersive video games to train soldiers, to hyper realistic mannequins used for medical training. Two local industry leaders join us to talk about the future of simulation.

And the next time you get the late night munchies and go for a pizza… you could be standing in front of a vending machine! Orlando Weekly food critic Faiyaz Kara joins us to talk about the kinds of high end foods available at the push of a button.

Would you eat pizza from a vending machine? A Florida based company hopes enough people will say yes, and it’ll see its pizza vending machines spread across the country. 90.7's Talia Blake talks to the owners of the Pizza Touch vending machine. And Orlando Weekly food critic Faiyaz Kara joins us to talk about other high end foods you can get from vending machines around the world, from cupcakes to caviar... and even live crabs.

According to the National Center for Simulation, modeling, simulation, and training industries contribute nearly five billion dollars to Florida and directly employs more than 27,000 Floridians. Waymon Armstrong of Engineering & Computer Simulations and Angela Alban from SIMETRI, Inc. join Intersection to talk about the latest in simulation.

A new fence has gone up around Pulse nightclub. Owner Barbara Poma says it leaves more room for people to come and pay their respects to the victims of the shooting. We hear about the process of saving thousands of hand made memorial items, and a nearby business owner talks about how his business is doing 3 months on.

The I-4 corridor is shaping up as a crucial part of Florida as the two presidential candidates try to win this swing state in November. Latino voters are an increasingly important part of the electorate in Central Florida and throughout the state.

Joel Hunter is the pastor at Northland, a Church Distributed. Northland is a non-denominational church in Longwood, with some 20,000 members. After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June Hunter took time out to reflect on his beliefs and on how the church treats the LGBT community.

Local singer songwriter Cat Ridgeway has debut album already under her belt. Cat's latest project is an extended EP called Passenger Seat. Cat played a few songs and talked with Intersection about her eclectic music abilities.

The Pulse nightclub shooting forced Pastor Joel Hunter to examine his own heart and do some soul searching about LGBT discrimination.

Congress failed to pass a Zika spending bill again as the number of Florida locally-acquired cases ticks up. At the height of it, Hurricane Hermine left tens of thousands of people in north Florida in the dark. How did Governor Rick Scott handle the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade?

Juice bike share was rolled out in Orlando just over a year ago. Ian Sekonia from the city's transportation planning division tells 90.7's Brendan Byrne what he's learned from mapping the data from the bright orange bikes.