{"id":188514,"date":"2026-03-12T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188514\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:47:20","slug":"morning-briefing-central-florida-march-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188514\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Central Florida March 12 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Sun to start will give way to increasing clouds throughout Thursday afternoon. Offshore winds will help send temperatures into the mid- to upper 80s, with cooler readings to the north where showers start a bit earlier; a broken line of showers with a few embedded rumbles of thunder will cross the peninsula by late afternoon as a cold front moves by.<\/p>\n

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

Stay up to date on the forecast by\u00a0downloading the Spectrum News app<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Highs: Mid-Upper 80s\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lows: Mid-60s<\/p>\n

Rain Coverage:\u00a050%<\/p>\n

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

Around Central Florida<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Orange County commissioners OK resolution opposing use of warehouses for ICE detention facilities<\/a>
Orange County leaders voted on Tuesday to oppose any planned ICE facility in east Orlando, taking a \u201cprincipled stand\u201d against any\u00a0federal plans to add a detention center in Orange County.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Orlando City, coach ‘mutually agree to part ways’<\/a>
Orlando City SC and coach Oscar Pareja have agreed to mutually part ways, and assistant coach Martin Perelman has been named interim head coach, the club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Lake County purchases land for Britt Road construction<\/a>
Efforts to restore Britt Road in Lake County\u00a0are underway. Commissioners\u00a0agreed to purchase\u00a0a small easement\u00a0of land before they begin the bidding process.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Citrus County mother working tirelessly to bring her stranded daughter home from Iran<\/a>
A Citrus County mother is desperately trying to bring her daughter home from Iran.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Central Florida\u2019s aerospace and defense industry sees rising demand as Middle East tensions escalate<\/a>
As tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East, the affects are being felt here in Central Florida. The region is home to a growing aerospace and defense manufacturing industry, and some companies are already seeing increased demand tied to the conflict.<\/p>\n

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

1.\u00a0Inflation held steady last month, but that was before the attack on Iran sent energy costs soaring<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0IEA agrees to release record 400 million barrels of emergency oil reserves to calm prices<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Iran targets ships, Dubai airport and oil facilities as economic concerns mount<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Homeland Security restarts Global Entry program after travelers faced long airport lines<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Day<\/p>\n

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Jill Biden is breaking her silence about Joe Biden’s decision to abruptly end his 2024 presidential reelection bid under pressure from Democrats concerned about his age, health and viability against Republican Donald Trump in a rematch of their 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n

A political spouse for nearly 50 years, Jill Biden said she has never publicly discussed her feelings about the three-week stretch when her husband ended his political career, instead saving her thoughts for the pages of her soon-to-be-released memoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Central Florida.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner Sun to start will give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2126,139,141,140,275],"class_list":["post-188514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-morning-briefing","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188514","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=188514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}