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Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news.

My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

Thank you. is smarter news. Feels good to have that little beat come in as we start off another week of news. And also,

we're going to be celebrating or marking the first day of spring, which is going to be really nice as well.

There's a big announcement

coming out of Washington, D.C. that has nothing to do with politics that I thought would be good to

start with because that way we kind of start with like a clean, a clean slate. There's a lot of

different opinions and a lot of different things, but hopefully when it comes to cherry blossoms,

we all just can kind of look at them and think, wow, that's so beautiful.

The National Park Service just put this out this morning. There's always this question about

when peak bloom will happen in Washington, D.C. When the cherry blossoms will be fully blooming

and it's this amazing imagery at the nation's capital. It's a very interesting

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