{"id":202279,"date":"2026-03-23T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202279\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:15:37","slug":"morning-briefing-tampa-march-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202279\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Tampa March 23 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Monday morning will still be comfortably cool with lows in the upper 50s around Tampa Bay to near 50 for the Nature Coast.<\/p>\n

Expect some fog briefly in the morning.<\/p>\n

Expect plenty of sunshine for the day with winds out of the west at 5 to 10 mph.<\/p>\n

High temperatures will be in the upper 70s near the coast to mid 80s inland.<\/p>\n

Check Klystron 9<\/a><\/p>\n

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Highs: 79<\/p>\n

Lows: 60<\/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.\u00a0Nonprofit group honors fallen U.S. Army soldier during memorial service<\/a>
His remains will be lead to\u00a0Bushnell National Cemetery today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Iowa beats No. 1 seed and defending champ Florida<\/a>
Alvaro Folgueiras\u00a0nailed a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds remaining\u00a0and Iowa eliminated defending national champion Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Tampa playground renamed after Harrison Boonstoppel<\/a>
Boonstoppel was one of two people killed in an October 2023 shooting in Ybor City.<\/p>\n

4. Enhanced role for ICE at U.S. airports; though no plans right now at Tampa International<\/a>
Trump made clear on Sunday that he was going ahead with the plan to have immigration enforcement officers assist the Transportation Security Administration.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a01 dead, 2 injured in Coquina Key house fire<\/a>
A house fire that broke out in Coquina Key left an 18-year-old girl dead and two others injured early Sunday morning, St. Petersburg Fire Rescue said.<\/p>\n

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

1.\u00a02 pilots killed in collision between jet and vehicle at LaGuardia Airport<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Former FBI Director Robert Mueller dies<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Democrats sharpen criticism of Vance as they look past Trump to the 2028 presidential campaign<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0U.S. and Iran trade threats of expanding war after strikes near sites tied to nuclear programs<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t Miss This<\/p>\n

‘NeuroWig’ program helps transform patients undergoing treatment for tremor<\/a>
\nTampa Bay area farmer shares experience, encourages women to join farming industry<\/a>
\nImprovements coming to the Sunshine Skyway Fishing Piers<\/a>
\nUniversal Orlando announces theme for its 2026 Halloween Horror Nights<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Day
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As thousands of Haitians in the United States face uncertainty over Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Haiti is taking a historic step to include its diaspora in the country\u2019s democratic future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plans are underway to allow Haitians living abroad to vote in Haiti\u2019s 2026 general elections\u2014potentially giving millions of people outside the country a formal political voice for the first time.<\/p>\n

The first round of voting is scheduled for\u00a0Aug. 30, 2026, marking Haiti\u2019s first national election in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Tampa Bay.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner Monday morning will still be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2126,275,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-202279","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\/202279","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=202279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}