Peter Busch
@peterbuschTV
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News anchor. Married with 3 daughters. Teller of dad jokes. Arizona Wildcat.
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I still can’t believe that the man in this truck, and the three passengers on that plane, survived yesterday’s crash on I-75 in Naples. My heart goes out to the pilots who died but did everything possible to make sure no one else did. True heroes.
📸 Chris O’Conner
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Negative!!! And I’m heading into work. See you on the news at 5!
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A few hundred thousand Puerto Ricans could easily decide the governor and senate races next year in Florida.
More & more Puerto Ricans keep moving to Florida. Between 1. the slower than Texas/Florida Federal emergency response; 2. the paper-towel tossing; 3. all the stupid stuff Trump says; & 4. thetax bill, statewide Republicans in FLA should be very worried. Muy, muy preocupados.🇵🇷
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15,300 new
#COVID
-19 cases in Florida. That is the most ever reported in a single day by any state...by nearly 4,000.
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This is Eko, the tiger that attacked someone at the Naples Zoo tonight. The attack was not his fault. This is what wild animals do. He's been at the zoo for about two years and never had an incident like this before. More information on who was injured tonight at 11 on
@NBC2
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I have tested positive for COVID-19. Dull headache for a few days then last night I woke up with sweats and chills so I went for test. No fever. No loss of taste/smell. Not sure how I got it. Wear your mask. You might have it too but if you wear a mask less likely to spread it.
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It has been the honor of my 21 years in TV news to play a small part in helping our community through this crisis. All of us at
@NBC2
have been working long hours to guide you through the hurricane and then keep you informed on the recovery efforts. Thank you for your trust.
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From my quarantine room, I could just faintly hear a scream followed by one of my daughters saying “I hate you so much” to another.
I think I might stay in here even if today’s test comes back negative.
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BREAKING: The Lee County School superintendent has invoked a mandatory mask policy for 30 days. It will start September 1st. The only opt out is with a doctor's note.
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This guy who went on a rant at a Lee County Walmart has been fired, according to Ted Todd Allstate Insurance.
Florida man at Fort Myers Costco in "Running the World Since 1776" shirt flips out on elderly woman who asked him to wear a mask and man who defended her
#BecauseFlorida
(via
@profjaffar
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It so so surreal scrolling through Twitter right now and realizing that in every other part of the country, and even other parts of Florida, life is totally normal right now. It’s only your community in total crisis mode. I hope people open their hearts and help SW Florida.
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A powerful legacy.
She is already saving lives. So many stories being sent to us about relationships being left with proper planning for safety, and people are being found due to her influence. We have much more work to do, but it’s a start.
#gabbypetito
#justiceforgabby
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I just donated my convalescent plasma! Hopefully this helps someone hospitalized with COVID-19 recover faster. We’ll be doing a story soon about how the process works.
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Governor Ron DeSantis has announced $600 million in new funding to increase salaries for public and charter school teachers in Florida. DeSantis says this will take Florida from 26th to 5th in the nation for average teacher pay.
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One of our caterpillars just weaved itself into a chrysalis! My daughter said it looked like it was doing the Macarena. 10 days and we’ll have a 🦋
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Unfortunately my new test came back positive, so I’m stuck in isolation a while longer. I can take another test on Friday. I haven’t had symptoms in 4-5 days. This virus is weird.
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The FBI says they found a body “consistent with the identity of Gabby Petito” in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. They have notified her family and are now working to confirm the cause of death.
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Tomorrow is the longest day of the year, not to be confused with every other day of 2020.
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BREAKING: The Collier County School Board has chosen Dr. Leslie Ricciardelli as the superintendent on a more permanent basis. She has been the interim superintendent for the past five months. The vote was 3-2 for Ricciardelli over the other finalist, Charles Van Zant, Jr.
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BREAKING: A federal arrest warrant has been issued for Brian Laundrie.
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Me leaving my quarantine room today after hearing I tested negative.
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BREAKING: A judge has ruled against Governor DeSantis regarding his ban on mask mandates in schools. The judge said it is reasonable for school districts to impose mask mandates to protect the health of students.
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"President Trump has been impeached."
I wrote that simple, factual sentence tonight on my work Facebook page, to which one person replied "No Peter he has not. No wonder we don’t believe the media."
Sometimes it just makes you want to give up.
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Great job by our 6 p.m. producer this evening giving our viewers some context on how much more deadly COVID-19 is compared to the seasonal flu.
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Me on Facebook right now against the conspiracy theorists. It’s exhausting.
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A contact tracer from the Florida Department of Health just now called me...16 days after I first tested positive. Kind of defeats the purpose.
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Please stop calling journalists "enemies of the American people" before more get shot at work.
Signed, my 3 daughters
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Congratulations to the
@MiracleBaseball
! Let’s support this team during their playoff run!
Your 2018 Second Half South Division Champions!
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Or...and just spitballing here...that making small sacrifices of personal convenience for the public good is sometimes necessary in a functioning society.
Fox News' Rachel Campos Duffy Warns the Real Danger of Masks is Teaching Children 'Submission and Compliance'
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My youngest daughter came to work with me today and wanted to do my TV makeup. Probably a major improvement!
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NEW: LCEC says 95% of Cape Coral should have power by next Saturday, the 8th.
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Claire Sattler won! The Bishop Verot Catholic High School student is moving onto the finals of the Jeopardy teen tournament!
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This money comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law passed by congress and signed by President Biden.
By investing more than $247 million towards improving rural broadband, 59,000 unserved and underserved businesses, homes, farms, hospitals, and libraries will be connected to high-speed internet. This will increase economic opportunities for the underserved regions and have a
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When life gives you lemons, Florida man leans back and has a beer.
#Idalia
📸 Bill Stewart in Weeki Wachee
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Susan Page needs to be more forceful at insisting they answer the actual question...for both candidates. Or else what's the point?
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Instead of spending your evening telling news outlets across the state that they're wrong for reporting numbers from the CDC (that your office gives the CDC), how about showing some leadership and making sure news outlets have the accurate information immediately?
Wrong again. The number of cases
@CDCgov
released for Florida today is incorrect. They combined MULTIPLE days into one. We anticipate CDC will correct the record.
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Michael Phelps is back in the drug-testing pool, which you don't do unless you plan to compete again. Great news for USA Swimming.
#2016
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We did some fact checking this evening on some of the claims made by anti-mask parents at last night's Lee County School Board meeting. It starts getting really good about a minute in. Retweet if you still believe in the power of good journalism!
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The next time someone asks me what it’s like to have young kids, I’m just going to show them this picture.
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The U.S. Senate just passed the bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. This would mean no more turning back the clock in the fall/winter. Bill now goes to the House.
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@ABC7Jeff
@joeyclark3
@briankoppelman
Fantastic song. "And every word is nonsense but I understand and Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing."
Now I have to listen to it again.
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The irony is so rich it’s going to get a tax cut.
President Trump: "We are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws ... You can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account."
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Boats came loose in a Cape Coral canal. Thankfully a Good Samaritan was able to corral them for his neighbors.
#Debby
🎥 Melissa Pearce
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stalone and Bruce Willis are all picking parts for a movie about classical composers. Willis says I get to be Mozart. Stalone says I got Beethoven. Schwarzenegger looks at them both and says, I'll be Bach.
Howdy, neighbor! All moved in to my new desk at
@NBC2
. I'm either going to get really good at dad jokes or really sick of them sitting behind
@peterbuschTV
. Wish me luck 😂
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A gun store owner once told me that Obama was the best salesman he ever had.
Gunmakers were betting that a Hillary victory in November would mean a rush to buy guns. Trump won and profits fell.
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Yours truly batting lead off here
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Hopefully this makes you smile.
@Lee_Health
just sent us this video of staff celebrating Ivan Munoz Suarez. The Lee Health employee just got out of the Intensive Care Unit at Gulf Coast Medical Center after eight days on a ventilator.
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All signs positive on Officer Jobbers-Miller. He made it past the 72-hour mark, which trauma surgeons told me is significant because swelling usually subsides after that point. He’s still in critical condition but he’s hanging tough. PLEASE RT and keep up that positive energy!
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NBC2 has confirmed that 17-year-old Carsyn Davis has died of the Coronavirus. Carsyn was a student at Cypress Lake High School. Her family says she was brought into the hospital last Friday and passed away this afternoon.
BREAKING: A Lee County School Board member just said in a board meeting that a "Cypress" student has died from
#COVID19
. She didn't specify which school. We know who it was but we're waiting to hear directly from the family or someone close to the family before reporting details.
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Ian is now a hurricane and will be a Cat 4 off the coast of Southwest Florida by late Tuesday. How far off will end up being key.
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Jeff is a tremendous journalist and Southwest Florida was lucky to have him.
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A friend who works in Lee Health hospitals sent me this text last night and I can’t stop thinking about it.
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My 12-year-old keeps saying things are "mid" and I have no idea what the hell she's talking about.
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Looking good, Nate!
Today
@DanaPerino
and
@BillHemmer
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@foymeetsworld
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One of the best pieces of advice someone ever gave me about press conferences was to follow up on other people’s good questions until the person talking gave an actual answer.
Journalists: this reporter asks a legit question about the nominee to be the third in line to the presidency supporting an effort to overturn the 2020 election- Congresswoman yells "shut up" and no other reporter follows up to demand an answer.
#getaspine
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Welcome to the club! Waiting for these negative tests is a test in and of itself. Glad you’re feeling better.
Had a few setbacks this week, but thankfully not feeling sick anymore. I'm not sure when I'll be able to get back to
@NBC2
but will keep following direction and hope it's real soon! Fingers crossed! 👍👍
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A rhino was just rescued from the brush fire in Golden Gate Estates. I did not see this coming.
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There is only one acceptable answer to that question in the United States of America.
Trump, Asked If He'll Commit to Peaceful Transfer of Power If He Loses, Says 'We're Going to Have to See What Happens'
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Three cheers for these guys. They just caught a 19-foot-long python, the largest ever recorded in Florida. The invasive Burmese pythons are wreaking havoc on the Everglades ecosystem.
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My daughters and I have found a new quarantine activity. Hangman through the glass.
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Virtual schooling day 8: I’m teaching them how to conjugate verbs in Spanish.
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Just so we’re all aware of who’s giving us this money. We are. Not President Trump. Not Congress. It’s our money.
Paper checks of coronavirus relief payments approved by Congress to be sent to Americans will have President Donald Trump's name printed on them, a Treasury Department official has confirmed to
@NBCNews
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We have two choices right now: significant short-term economic pain but preventing a massive surge of patients that will overload our hospitals, or a prolonged economic depression while also killing a lot of people who did not need to die. Let’s choose wisely.
#StayAtHome
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It really should be a law that every store has a place for dads to sit while their daughters shop. Preferably a bar.
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I'm thrilled that my special report from Puerto Rico received an Edward R. Murrow award. Here's the link.
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BREAKING: I-75 has reopened in Sarasota County in both directions. The interstate was closed since last night between mile markers 179-193 because the Myakka River rose to record levels. Engineers have determined it is now safe.
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Good news for Florida: the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests was below 10% today. That’s the first time in more than a month. Hospitalizations also continue to decrease. We’re once again headed in the right direction after an awful month of July.
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Technically, the death of Mr. Floyd happened under the knee of a bad cop.
as protesters march on Trump Tower in Chicago & the White House, a frank media might point out the death of Mr.Floyd happened under a democrat mayor, democrat senator, democrat governor, with a democrat county prosecutor. the only person who did shit was a republican. Trump.
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I call B.S.
Sanibel/Pine Island source: It's really bad down there.
The missing person count is up to around 4000 but there's roadblocks to accurately reconciling that number. There's a significant number suicides from the storm. Folks didn't evacuate, got flooded out, knew they were about
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BREAKING: The City of Fort Myers has voted to move the controversial bust of Robert E. Lee from its location downtown. They will try and find a museum to display it.
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JUST IN: Lee County is re-opening the CenturyLink Sports Complex for COVID-19 testing. First day of testing is tomorrow. The site will be open Monday-Saturday from 7 to 7. You can make an appointment or walk up.
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Stunning double rainbow tonight as seen from North Fort Myers! Courtesy of NBC2 viewer George Waters.
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I feel bad for the ESPN guys who broke the Brady retirement news over the weekend. Brady didn’t like how it leaked so he threw cold water on it even though the reporters had it right.
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My iPhone doesn’t do it justice but such a thrill to see the
#SpaceX
launch from my backyard! Four astronauts are on that rocket.
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I was getting so mad watching this video...and then I laughed so hard.
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Glass houses.
The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps? .....
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A day will come when my children turn off the lights when they leave a room. When they put away their dishes instead of leaving them on the counter. When they don’t interrupt me every time I go to the bathroom.
It will be a glorious day.
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This did not age well.
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
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