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Highs: 82<\/p>\n
Lows: 49<\/p>\n
Rain Coverage:\u00a070%<\/p>\n
Check your hour-by-hour forecast here<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Share your weather photos<\/a><\/p>\n Around Tampa Bay<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Florida, UCF, USF and Miami reach men’s NCAA Tournament<\/a> 2.\u00a0Volunteer group works to protect sand dunes by removing invasive plant species<\/a> 3.\u00a0Developer scales back Tierra Verde Marina redevelopment proposal<\/a> 4. Orlando, Tampa in top 10 for spring break destinations<\/a> Around the Nation & World<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Gulf countries report new attacks after Iran warns major UAE ports to evacuate<\/a><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0American flag raised at U.S. Embassy in Venezuela for the 1st time since 2019<\/a><\/p>\n 3.\u00a0The biggest change to voting in Republican election bill could become a burden for many U.S. voters<\/a><\/p>\n 4.\u00a098th Academy Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ takes Best Picture, Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor<\/a><\/p>\n Don’t Miss This<\/p>\n Second grader helps fight food insecurity in Pinellas County<\/a> Quote of the Day The American flag was raised Saturday over the U.S. Embassy in\u00a0Venezuela\u00a0for the first time since 2019, a move that highlighted the recent shift in relations between the two countries since then President\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u00a0was captured by American troops in January.<\/p>\n The flag was raised “exactly seven years after it was taken down,\u201d the U.S. Embassy team said in a statement published on its social media channels.<\/p>\n The American flag being raised drew immediate attention from local residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner The morning will start out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2126,275,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-193334","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\/193334","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=193334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Four teams in the state of Florida will fight to become men’s basketball champions in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
There are four main invasive species in the area next to the Don CeSar that they’re working to remove, including the Brazilian Pepper Tree.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A local nonprofit still opposes the proposal.<\/p>\n
AAA listed Orlando as the most popular spring break destination based on their bookings, followed by other Florida cities.<\/p>\n
\nJennifer Yeagley leads growing St. Pete Free Clinic<\/a>
\nTampa students get hands-on lesson in healthy eating<\/a>
\nIn Focus:\u00a0More women running for office in 21st century<\/a><\/p>\n
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