{"id":145990,"date":"2026-02-06T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145990\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:33:42","slug":"morning-briefing-tampa-february-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145990\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Tampa February 6 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

We have plenty of sunshine today, but it will remain cool with highs near 60 at the coast and near 65 well inland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winds will still be a bit breezy out of the northwest at 15 mph.<\/p>\n

Tonight will not be as chilly with low 50s for lows in the Tampa area and low 40s farther north.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Highs:\u00a062<\/p>\n

Lows:\u00a052<\/p>\n

Rain Coverage:\u00a00%<\/p>\n

Check your hour-by-hour forecast here<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Share your weather photos<\/a><\/p>\n

Around Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Driver’s license exams only in English starting Friday<\/a>
Driver’s license knowledge and skills tests will only be available in English, starting today in Florida.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Dover residents without water after wells nearby run dry<\/a>
Most of the affected homes rely on well systems, and officials say the water table dropped sharply following a recent cold snap.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Tampa Bay Rays release new renderings of proposed ballpark at Hillsborough College\u2019s Dale Mabry campus<\/a>
This week, the Rays, the school, the state of Florida, and MLB voiced support for the new ballpark.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0GiGi\u2019s Playhouse calls on community for volunteer help<\/a>
A Tampa nonprofit that provides free educational and therapeutic programs for individuals with Down syndrome says it\u2019s facing a critical shortage \u2014 not of funding, but of volunteers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Strawberry prices could increase after cold snap damages harvesting<\/a>
Fancy Farms in Plant City says that 85 percent of what was harvested Thursday is no good.<\/p>\n

Around the Nation & World<\/p>\n

1.\u00a03 dead, 6 hurt after 92-year-old driver hits bicyclist and crashes into Los Angeles grocery store<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Democrats on Senate Banking panel, GOP’s Tillis seek to hold up Trump’s Fed chair pick until Powell probe over<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Treasury secretary defends Trump’s tariffs on Capitol Hill as Supreme Court decision looms<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Authorities believe Savannah Guthrie’s mom ‘is still out there’<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Day
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Bad Bunny says he’s approaching his highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime performance with a mix of excitement, gratitude and perspective.<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican superstar born Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, is one of the most-streamed artists on the planet. He will take the Super Bowl stage just one week after he won album of the year at the 2026 Grammys for “Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos.” It’s the first time an all Spanish-language album has taken home the top prize.<\/p>\n

During a press conference on Thursday<\/a>, Bad Bunny joked that fans didn’t need to learn Spanish to enjoy his set \u2014 but they should be prepared to dance, a reference to his “Saturday Night Live” monologue from last October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner We have plenty of sunshine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2126,275,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-145990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-morning-briefing","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}