The National Hurricane Center continues to monitor several storms across the Atlantic basin Saturday morning, including Tropical Storm Beta, which is making its westward turn in the Gulf Coast and is expected to become a hurricane over the weekend. Also now Category 3 Hurricane Teddy grows closer to Bermuda, which endured a direct hit from Hurricane Paulette last week.

A county-by-county look at positive coronavirus cases including Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, Volusia, Brevard, Polk and Sumter counties.

The Florida Department of Health posted 3,573 new coronavirus cases and 62 new virus fatalities on Saturday. To date, 681,233 people have been infected statewide, and 13,287 Florida residents have died. With 163 non-resident deaths, the combined toll is 13,450.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott said it would be “irresponsible” for the U.S. Senate to allow an “extended vacancy” on the Supreme Court and that President Trump’s choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should get a vote on the Senate floor, despite the looming election.

The last name in the "2020 hurricane season name list” has been used as Tropical Storm Wilfred officially formed Friday morning in the east Atlantic as the earliest “W” named storm on record at the National Hurricane Center. And soon after, the NHC ventured somewhere it has only had to go once before - the Greek alphabet - as Subtropical Storm Alpha formed off the coast of Portugal, and the doubled down with Tropical Storm Beta in the Gulf of Mexico forming Friday evening.

The mother of Salaythis Melvin asked community activist Miles Mulrain Jr. — who has driven almost all the local protests calling for justice in her son’s killing by an Orange County deputy sheriff — to stop using his name as the “focal point” for any future demonstrations without her approval, according to a letter posted by Mulrain to social media.

Unemployment in Florida fell to 7.4% in August, a significant drop from previous months when joblessness was still in the double digits. But the Orlando area, where mass layoffs have displaced tens of thousands of workers, remains the worst region in the state for unemployment, at 11%.

The Marriott International hotel in between Epcot and Hollywood Studios called the economic impact “historic, swift and devastating" as it alerted the state as a requirement under federal law for mass layoffs.

The Florida Department of Corrections will begin carrying out certain federal immigration enforcement tasks in a new partnership with ICE, becoming the latest agency to join a controversial program that immigrant advocates have decried as overreaching.

A 30-year-old man was arrested Thursday for shooting and killing a man during a confrontation near Rosemont in May, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.