The Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 seat has not been open for 20 years. Former Commissioner Bruno Barreiro resigned earlier this year to run for Congress, and now his wife Zoraida Barreiro is in the race for the seat. In the May 22 primary , Zoraida Barreiro, came in second with a close 33 percent following her opponent Eileen Higgins, who took 35 percent. Barreiro has spent many years living in District 5. She says she knows the areas and communities that make up the district --

Sundial spoke to Zoraida Barreiro , who is running for the same Miami-Dade District 5 commissioner chair that her husband, Bruno Barreiro , left vacant in March when he announced he was running for Congress. He held the seat for 20 years. Miamians living in downtown, parts of Brickell, parts of Miami Beach and Little Havana will vote for Eileen Higgins or Barreiro in a special runoff election June 19. (Last week Sundial spoke with Higgins , who took the most votes in the May election.)

Dr. Tim Hall is a Senior Research Scientist with NASA and adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has been studying weather patterns and their correlations to climate change. Dr. Hall joined Sundial to talk about climate change affecting the intensity of hurricanes and his upcoming talk at the Coworking and Office Space for Innovators in Wynwood tonight at 6 p.m. Keegan Hankes is a senior research analyst with The Southern Poverty Law Center . The center just release a new report called

Thousands of scientists are working on research related to climate change and extreme weather. Dr. Tim Hall is one of them. Dr. Hall is a Senior Research Scientist with NASA and adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has been studying weather patterns and their correlations to climate change. He says wind, flooding and rainfall can affect the intensity of a hurricane. NASA scientists have begun to prove that hurricanes are getting worse. In the last year they have collected date on

PBS NewsHour White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor returns to South Florida to co-moderate this year’s Gubernatorial Democratic Primary in the Miramar Cultural Center Monday. Sundial host Luis Hernandez will also moderate the debate. A Miami native, Alcindor joined Sundial to talk about what drives South Florida politics. When former U.S. Attorney for South Florida Richard Gregorie arrived in Miami in the 1980s, he said it was “the wild wild west.” Back then the city was caught in the

Yamiche Alcindor, White House correspondent of the PBS Newshour , grew up in South Florida. She remembers living through hurricane Andrew and debating at Fort Lauderdale and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Since moving away to pursue a career in journalism, the native Miamian has worked as a reporter for USA Today and The New York Times, covering politics and social justice. Alcindor reported on the presidential campaigns of Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016

The Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 seat has not been open for 20 years. Former Commissioner Bruno Barreiro resigned earlier this year to run for Congress, causing the need for a special election. In the May 22 primary , newcomer Eileen Higgins, a progressive Democrat, took 35 percent of the vote, and Barreiro’s wife, Zoraida Barreiro, came in second with a close 33 percent. Higgins says it was a surprise to her that a progressive message and candidate resonated more with people of Miami

Incident reports filed after the Feb. 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School show that first responders asked several times during the critical first minutes to go into the school buildings to help the victims, but their requests were denied by Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO) deputies because the shooter had not been captured or neutralized yet. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel continues to face scrutiny over how his department operated during the tragedy. Michael Moser is the

Sun Sentinel reporter Megan O’Matz recently reported on new public information that the Broward Sheriff's office delayed the entrance of fire department medics into Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school during the February Parkland shooting. O’Matz joined Sundial with Michael Moser, the public information officer for the Coral Springs Police Department, to talk about the incident report filed by the deputy chief for Coral Springs fire-rescue after the shooting. Cognitive scientist Dr. Anthony

She calls herself an “anomaly” in public radio. Tanzina Vega, the new host of the public radio program “The Takeaway,” says she knows that the country's top radio hosts aren't generally women of color or those from a low social economic background. Vega was "passed the mic" in March, after the previous host of "The Takeaway," John Hockenberry, was accused of sexual misconduct. She previously worked at the New York Times and CNN , where she reported on race, inequality and class in the United