Spring arrives with a perfect day, temps near 80 and sunny skies.  And it stays nearly perfect through Friday.  We do have a slight chance of rain Saturday but will otherwise stay dry.

Wicked storms bring heavy rain, hail and at least one tornado to the nation's midsection.  Storms swept from Texas north to Missouri and there could be more flooding rain this week.  Some homes near San Antonio are damaged from a tornado but no one was hurt.

Today's interview lineup:

At 6:53 hear Jamie Dupree explain why, despite the polls, the Illinois primary is not a slam dunk for Mitt Romney.

At 7:23 hear reporter Patrick Johnson in central Florida, where the Justice Department will investigate the shooting death of an unarmed teenager.

At 8:23 hear Jamie Dupree describe why the calendar may end up hurting the momentum for whoever wins today's Illinois primary.

Our Top Local Story:  While you were sleeping Governor Rick Scott signed the controversial bill to drug test state workers.  Florida is the first state in the nation to now have a random, suspicionless drug test.  The ACLU is trying to get the law before the courts.  The law is scheduled to go into effect the first day of July.

The Justice Department is called in to investigate
the shooting of an unarmed teenager by a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford. It follows a day of protests, calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman.  The Hispanic man claims he shot Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, in self defense last month in the gated community. The Justice Department is sending its community relations service to Sanford to address the tension.

The Tim Tebow talk continues in Jacksonville, now that the Broncos are picking up Peyton Manning.  Jags owner Shad Khan tell us he won't comment on players who are not member of the Jaguars organization, and wishes Manning the very best in the AFC West.

Jacksonville's own Everbank is one of 8 banks being accused of improper foreclosure practices.  The Federal Reserve has already announced $766 million in fines against the five of the big banks.  Consumers who suffered financial injury could be in line for compensation after a newly appointed consultant reviews the homeowners’ case.

We are expecting an update from Jacksonville police today on a hotel fight that ended with police gunfire.  It all went down at the Emerson Inn on Phillips Highway around dinner time yesterday.  Two men were in a fight, the officer ordered a guy to drop his weapon and the officer fired five shots.  The guy was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.  Another man, believe to be the guy's brother, had not been caught at last check.

A man taken to Baptist South aboard a charter bus remains unable to speak after being severely beaten -- and now, police need your help in finding that bus and its driver.  Police believe the bus came from Orlando. They say the driver pulled up to the emergency room and asked for help for 34-year-old Christopher Brown.  Before police arrived, the bus driver got back into the bus and took off.

A 15-year-old Nassau County girl is still missing, and police need your help in finding her.  Gladdavia Brontee-Monique Mealing was last seen Friday afternoon at West Nassau High School in Callahan. 

Our Top National Story:  54 delegates are at stake in today's Illinois primary.  Mitt Romney has been surging in recent polls from the Land of Lincoln.  Romney will be the only one spending election night in Illinois.  Rick Santorum is in his home state of Pennsylvania.

Today's primary in Illinois will bring defeat for at least one more member of Congress, as two sitting Republican Representatives face eachother.  This is another example of the changing dynamic in Congress.

Republicans unveil an election year budget plan that calls for getting the debt under control.  The plan would impose cuts on many programs, but we find it still fails to reach balance over the next decade.  It's expected the plan will reform Medicare, but less dramatically than what was proposed last year.

The U.S. must stick to its strategy in Afghanistan. That's what the top American commander for the war is expected to tell the House Armed Services Committee today.  General John Allen says the planned pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is on track, despite recent setbacks such as the killing of 16 Afghan civilians and the burning of Qurans.

His lawyer says the Army sergeant accused of gunning down 16 Afghan civilians and burning some of their bodies remembers very little about the massacre.  John Henry Browne met with Robert Bales, who is being held at Fort Leavenworth.  Bales' wife says she can't understand what her husband is accused of because it's so out of character.