Desperately seeking rainfall--and we may just get our wish in spots today.  Accuweather's Heather Zehr is tracking afternoon and evening storms.  But like yesterday it's a 50-50 shot of seeing the rain.  While more than half an inch fell at NAS Jax--we saw just trace amounts elsewhere.  Our rain deficit year to date is more than 8 inches, one of the driest on record.  Wednesday is our best shot for widespread rainfall--then it turns dry and nice for the rest of the week and for The Players.

Reinforcements arrive to help battle the Baldwin Bay Fire.  Four tractors, two engines and 15 people from the Panhandle are lending a helping hand in battling the 440-acre wildfire, which is 30%. The fire is burning on the border of Duval, Nassau and Baker counties, just west of Baldwin.

Today's interview lineup:

At 6:53 hear Jamie Dupree explain how a long-time Republican Senator could find himself out of a job by tonight. 

At 8:23 hear Jamie Dupree set up the next big spending showdown in Washington. 

The mother of 16 year-old Jessie Herr, who jumped from a moving school bus on Friday, says he has passed away.  His parents have decided to donate his organs.  Jessie's mother told Channel 4 that his brain stem snapped and he had no brain activity while on life support.  It's still unclear as to why he jumped from the bus.

A big step could be taken today in the push to allow alcohol sales on Sunday in Clay County.  Thousands of residents have signed a petition to change the county's ban on Sunday alcohol sales.   Today, county commissioners decide whether they'll put the issue on the ballot in November. 

The furniture fight comes to a head in City Council tonight.  The council will hear Kimberly Daniels' bill that would allocate 750-thousand dollars to furnish the seventh floor of the courthouse. Mayor Brown says he would prefer to use the existing furniture from the old courthouse to save taxpayers the expense.

A group of religious leaders is urging Mayor Brown to back legislation to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. The bill is being introduced to the City Council this evening.

Trying to clear his name -- a former principal at Raines High School charged with lying to police is trying to have those charges dropped.  George Maxey admits to lying to police over a theft incident at a football game in November in which electronics were stolen from the visitor's locker room. But he says he told the truth less than two hours later.  The next hearing is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

Our Top National Story:   FBI experts are picking apart a new type of al-Qaida underwear bomb.  They're trying to figure out if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane.  A covert CIA operation in Yemen recently stopped a suicide mission before the target was selected. The device is an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate on a plane about to land in Detroit Christmas Day 2009.

The White House says it will not negotiate with al-Qaida, despite calls from an American hostage to do so. Warren Weinstein made a chilling plea in a video released by the terror group, asking the President to meet al-Qaida's demands or else he will be killed.

You Decide 2012:  Longtime Republican Senator Richard Lugar is battling for political survival against a tea party-backed challenger in the Indiana primary. It is the highest-profile contest in four states with voting Tuesday.  Mitt Romney is expected to coast to victory in primaries in Indiana, West Virginia and North Carolina.

The national debate over gay marriage turns its attention to North Carolina.  Voters today decide the fate of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman.  In the final days before the vote, members of President Obama's cabinet expressed support for gay marriage and former President Bill Clinton recorded phone messages urging voters to oppose the amendment.

New this morning--The Senate plans to vote today on a plan to keep interest rates on federal student loans from doubling July 1st.  Democrats want to pay for the interest rate freeze with a Social Security and Medicare payroll tax hike on many privately owned companies.  Republicans want to freeze the loan rates too, but want to pay for them a different way.

Mitt Romney is saying that he deserves a lot of credit for the resurgence of the American auto industry.  His claim comes in spite of Romney having argued that Detroit should have been allowed to go bankrupt.  Romney tells a Cleveland television station that President Obama followed his lead when he ushered auto companies through a managed bankruptcy.

Rick Santorum is endorsing his one-time bitter rival. We're looking at a late-night e-mail that Santorum sent us, in which he's urging his supporters to join him in working with Mitt Romney. Acknowledging that he and Romney had deep disagreements during the primaries, Santorum says above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated.

Health specialists will meet in Washington today to look for a blueprint on reducing America's obesity problem -- and they'll debate what strategies should be a priority. Today, a little more than a-third of adults are overweight.  A government-funded study predicts that by 2030, 42-percent will be.