{"id":177904,"date":"2026-03-04T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:34:38","slug":"morning-briefing-tampa-march-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177904\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Tampa March 4 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

We will see more warm weather for Wednesday with highs in the mid 80s.<\/p>\n

Expect partly sunny skies with winds out of the east.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Get the full forecast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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High:\u00a086<\/p>\n

Low:\u00a067<\/p>\n

Rain Coverage:\u00a020%<\/p>\n

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

Around Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Winter Haven soldier among 6 U.S. service members killed in Iran war<\/a>
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, was killed Sunday when a drone hit a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Madeira Beach working to restore Tom and Kitty Stuart Park<\/a>
The city of Madeira Beach is still working to restore a beachfront park that was destroyed by Hurricane Helene in 2024.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Rays hear from Hillsborough College students, among others, during first stadium meeting<\/a>
The team on Tuesday night hosted the first in a series of community meetings to gather feedback on a potential new ballpark.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0New free resource for Pinellas County parents to protect kids online<\/a>
Parent ProTech\u2019s vast online library includes videos and guides on topics like parental controls, social media, AI and more.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Why a cemetery in Lutz is attaching QR codes to gravestones<\/a>
A local cemetery is using a modern-day technology to honor the lives of people who died decades ago.<\/p>\n

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

1.\u00a0Trump insists he will keep same trade deals after Supreme Court tariff ruling, says he will cut off Spain entirely<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0After abandoning law firm executive orders, Trump administration reverses course and pursues fight<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Jets, missiles, emergency alerts: Americans in Middle East share their experiences amid U.S. war with Iran<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Noem blames ‘violent protesters’ for Minneapolis chaos under tough questioning in Senate hearing<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Day
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A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he’s accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school<\/a> was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jurors took less than two hours to find Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta. Gray is one of a number of parents prosecuted after their children were accused in fatal shootings across the country.<\/p>\n

Colin Gray was found guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo. Georgia law defines second-degree murder as causing the death of a child by committing the crime of cruelty to children. Gray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killings of teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner We will see more warm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2126,275,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-177904","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\/177904","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=177904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}