{"id":215940,"date":"2026-04-02T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:51:10","slug":"orlando-april-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215940\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando \u2014 April 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Today, partly cloudy skies will build with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms by late afternoon mainly starting up around the final bell for kids getting out of school. However, isolated rain or storms may develop along the coast as early as late morning.<\/p>\n

We will continue scattered wet weather activity into the early evening most likely to last until 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. this evening. Our wet weather activity is more likely due to a steady seabreeze and onshore flow, mixing with minor instability within the mid levels as warm air lifts moisture by mid to late afternoon.<\/p>\n

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

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Highs: Low to Mid-80s<\/p>\n

Lows:\u00a0Upper 60s<\/p>\n

Rain Coverage:\u00a040%<\/p>\n

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

Around Central Florida<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0LIFTOFF: Artemis II takes off from Kennedy Space Center<\/a>
More than 50 years have passed since humans visited the moon, and history was made on Wednesday as NASA launched its crewed Artemis II for a flyby of Earth\u2019s lunar sister.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Daytona Beach city manager survives termination vote during contentious discussion of audit results<\/a>
After this week\u2019s release of two purchasing card audits\u00a0that found hundreds of thousands of dollars of misspent taxpayer funds, the Daytona Beach City Commission is working to make sure it does not happen again.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Jaguars season in Orlando to bring big economic boost<\/a>
The Jacksonville Jaguars made it official \u2013\u00a0they will play their 2027 season at Orlando\u2019s Camping World Stadium. That\u2019s the year after the upcoming NFL season, when the stadium in Jacksonville will be renovated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Magic make Franz Wagner available for Wednesday night’s game<\/a>
Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner’s status has been upgraded to available for Wednesday night’s game as of 5 p.m. on the official NBA Injury Report.<\/p>\n

Around the Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0SpaceX files initial paperwork to sell shares to the public and likely make Musk a trillionaire<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Supreme Court weighs Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases amid review of Noem-era contracts<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Attacks persist on Iran and across the Mideast as Trump threatens escalation<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote of the Day
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The systems that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel are convenient but don’t improve safety because people are often too reliant on them and end up paying more attention to their cellphones and infotainment screens than to the road, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

At Tuesday’s hearing on\u00a0two fatal crashes\u00a0involving Ford\u2019s Blue Cruise system, the NTSB recommended that Ford find ways to improve the way its system monitors drivers, and urged the federal government to establish minimum safety standards. Even though this investigation focused on these Ford crashes, the board made clear that their concerns apply across the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Central Florida.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner Today, partly cloudy skies will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2126,139,141,140,275],"class_list":["post-215940","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\/215940","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=215940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}