Sunny and warm with temps near 90, and a chance of afternoon thunderstorms today.  Temps by this weekend are still in the low 90's with rough surf at the beaches from Hurricane Irene Friday.

Our Top Local Story:  Hurricane Irene is becoming less of a threat to us with every update from the hurricane center.  Accuweather's Heather Zehr says the only effect we're going to feel on Friday is rough surf and showers and thunderstorms.  Irene should pass by Jacksonville by more than 200 miles.

Even though the threat is pretty much over, Mayor Brown and EOC officials say they're still monitoring the track of Irene.  Listen to our conversation here.

Our hurricane expert, Accuweather's Dr. Joe Sobel, predicts Irene will end up at least 300 miles east of Jacksonville by Friday.  Hear what impact we're most likely to feel at the beaches.   And the projections could come true that the storm will impact parts of New England, hear his forecast. 

Tourists on a small North Carolina island have been told to evacuate as Irene heads for the East Coast, and it will be the first test of whether people heed orders to get out of the way of what could be a monstrous storm.

And Irene's northerly track puts in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island by late this weekend. 

Updating breaking news in St. Johns County:  A Jacksonville Sheriff's cruiser has been involved in a crash this morning at County Road 210 near Greenbriar Road.  The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of the crash.  We do not know the extent of injuries.

A Lake City mother is breathing a sigh of relief after her son's alleged would-be kidnapper is under arrest.  Police say Aniball Barris grabbed three-year-old Austin Anders from outside his apartmet complex and covered his mouth.  He let go and ran when a neighbor screamed. Barris is a registered sex offender and is being held on 300-thousand dollars bail. 

Despite Mayor Brown asking for a one-year delay, the Jacksonville city council votes to require an actuarial study of its pension system.  11 of the 18 voted to defer the study but because it didn't get a two-thirds majority the study will be conducted this year.  The study is expected to show the city owes nearly six-million dollars more than it has put into the pension fund.  The mayor says that vote could cost the city as much as ten-million dollars this upcoming budget year.

A fifth arrest is made in connection with a University of Alabama football player's death at a Fernandina Beach house party back in May.  Investigators arresting 50-year-old Rodney Odum for allegedly selling and delivering methadone.  21-year-old Aaron Douglas died at the party, in which police say at least 16 underage people drank or used drugs.

A box of light bulbs was apparently suspicious enough to trigger a bomb scare at Jacksonville City Hall.  Sheriff Rutherford says there was reason to be suspicious of the package, thinking it was a bomb.  As it turned out, the package contained LED lightbulbs. City Hall was evacuated and streets closed for hours after it was found before 9 o'clock yesterday morning.  The package got attention when it went through the x-ray machine.

Senator Marco Rubio says he was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.  Rubio spoke last night at the Reagan Presidential Library on the role of government in America.  Rubio says the current field of Republican presidential candidates is underrated.

Casey Anthony's latest attempt to skip out of probation for check fraud has been denied.  A state appeals court denied Anthony's request to have the probation order  lifted.  A judge earlier this month ordered Anthony to report to a probation office no later than noon on Friday.

Our Top National Story:  The East Coast earthquake has left cracks in the Washington Monument, and three capstones broke off the tower at Washington's National Cathedral.  By West Coast standards, the 5.8 magnitude jolt was mild, but it's the strongest quake to strike the East Coast since World War II.

Reporter Carol Han with WOKV's Washington bureau first thought that it was a terror attack.  Hear how the evacuation went. 

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi is calling on residents of the capital to ``free Tripoli'' from the ``devils'' who have overrun it. From an unknown location, Gadhafi asked Libyans, ``Why are you letting them wreak havoc?''

Dominique Strauss-Kahn could be handed back his passport as soon as today, now that he's been cleared to leave the United States. Yesterday, a judge in Manhattan dropped sexual assault charges against the former leader of the International Monetary Fund. New York prosecutors had said they no longer could trust the hotel maid who accused Strauss-Kahn of attacking her.