it's thursday, february 4th, coming up on "early today," hillary clinton and bernie sanders trade jabs. ahead of their first one on one debate tonight. meanwhile. >> it is no surprise that donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum or a trumper tantrum. >> cruz hits back after trump accuses him of voter fraud in iowa. and the judge decides the sexual assault case against bill cosby will move forward.

hole in an airliner in somalia. and a giant panda makes his pick for super bowl 50. you don't want to miss it. "early today" starlths ts right now. tonight democratic candidate said hillary clinton and bernie sanders will face off in their first ever one on one debate with things getting heated as the race kindles closer. sanders is doubling down on calling clinton a moderate and not a progressive. an attack she says she's disappointed in. >> it was kind of a low blow when senator sanders said in response to a question, well, you know maybe she's a progressive on some days. >> you can be a moderate and a progressive. across the aisle it's becoming more brutal. trump says he will probably file

int and may even challenge the iowa caucus results. this over a mailer that said carson was dropping out. and cruz has responded. >> it is no surprise that donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum or if you like, yet another trumper tantrum and i understand he finds it very hard to lose. that he finds it very difficult for him but at the end of the day, the iowa people spoke. >> i don't think that new word is going to take off. i'm joined by tracie potts live in washington. >> reporter: we're on the way to new hampshire and one thing we're learning new hampshire is not iowa. the numbers totally different there. donald trump with a double digit lead and on the other side, bernie sanders saying he's the underdog but that's not what the numbers show.

hillary clinlt ton's last chance to take on sanders face to face. >> if this is about our record, hey, i'm going to win by a land slide tuesday. >> reporter: he's hammering clinton on her six figure speeches. >> i do not know any progressive who has a super pack and takes $15 million from wall street. >> reporter: her response. >> i don't know. that's what they offered. >> reporter: the leading republican, donald trump, is claiming he could have won iowa if cruz hadn't sent out false information that said carson was dropping out. >> you know these pall tishz oliticians are brutal. cookies. >> i wake up and laugh at the latest thing donald has tweeted

>> reporter: rubio is a close number three here. >> ultimately i think it goes back to what i said before and that's the willingness to say or do anything. >> reporter: santorum dropped out and indorsed rubio. but rand paul dropped out and indorsed no one. mike huckabee also out now, so the field is definitely getting smaller. >> now as tracie mentioned, hillary clinton and bernie sanders debate live in durham. it all starts tonight at 9:00 eastern on msnbc. and in pennsylvania, a judge ruled wednesday prosecutors can move forward with their sexual assault case against bill cosby. this after his defense team argued the 78-year-old couldn't

with the local attorney. >> reporter: the sexual assault case against bill cosby moves forward. a pennsylvania judge ruled there was no agreement between cosby and proskurtd ecutor prosecutors. this cosby's attorneys contend he had been promised a decade ago that charges would never be filed. this comes a second straight day after arguments and testimony. and he said he believes the 2005 decision not to prosecute cosby was irrevocable. and pointed to caster's news release announcing the decision as proof charges would never be filed. tuesday caster himself testified that when he decided cosby wouldn't be charged, he meant

prosecute him either. and schmidt says if the threat of criminal charges loomed, cosby never would have testified in a civil suit against him. this is him admitting to giving her pills and wine, which gave them enough evidence to file charges against cosby late last year. he couldn't find any case law that matches the scenario in the cosby case and instead forging out on his own and the prosecution of the comedy icon can continue. nbc news norris town, pennsylvania. cosby has said sex was consensual and denied all allegations of sexual misconduct. florida governor rick scott. at least nine cases of zika have

in an effort to contain the outbreak, the red cross is asking people to wait 28 days before donating blood back here in the u.s. and it's mated an appearance in georgia and texas with another 11 cases reported there. meanwhile in brazil tourists carnival. and they're rushing to spray pesticides in front of a crowd that could attract up to 1 million people. officials continue to examine the events that tore a hole in the side of a somali plane midflight tuesday. they see no evidence of terror group, al-shabaab's involvement but can't rule it out. >> reporter: the moments after an explosion ripped a hole in the cabin of a commercial airliner. flapping as it desends from

they claim a burning man was sucked out. while most paschg sengers stunningly calm, walked away. >> we couldn't see anything for a few seconds. >> reporter: experts are studying the images for clues. >> it's evident it happened from inside out. that means it looks like it originated inside the cabin and blew the structure outwards. >> reporter: could it have been a bomb or failure to the plane. a plane in honolulu, passengers torn from the seats. while in 2011, a plane lost part of its roof. metal fatigue was blamed and then attempted terrorism. richard reed tried to detonate explosives in his shoes.

plain had explosives in his underwear, the device failed. and in somali, they told nbc news no shrapnel has been found and the cause is unclear but the country is home to al qaeda-lirnged qaeda- qaeda-linked extremists. experts say had this plane been flying at a higher altitude, it might have suffered the same catastrophic fate. nbc news, london. wow. punxsutawney phil may have predicted an early spring but on medicine lake it was a brisk degrees. pretty radical, dude.

>> no, but i'd love to. >> never seen that before. let's talk about the southeast where we have all the bad weather this morning. still bad rain along the south carolina coast. florida, especially north florida as we go through the day today. heaviest rains right now, south carolina from charlson to myrtle beach and during the day, the front is going to try to inch off the coast. there's the storm as we go throughout the afternoon. and melbourne area possibly going to get storms. and note this is front snakes. this is where it gets more interesting later on tonight as an area of low pressure tries to form and sneak up the coast. a winter watch has been issued for almost over to boston, the providence area included. it looks like just enough moisture that we're going to get plowable snow. forecast on cape cod 4 to 6 inches.

but if it inches closer, we could push totals even further. as of now, it doesn't look like the storm should be effecting you. so, the forecast for today. nice weather oklahoma to dallas. very typical southeast to the 50s. and there will be a lot more talk about cold next week. that's your national weather, now a closer look at the day ahead. florida has one more warm day in the 80s and then the thunderstorms and cold front will cool you off. not too cold in the great lakes but there are snow showers in areas of michigan. so, for our friday morning, looks like there will be school delays and maybe even cancellations in new england tomorrow. >> thanks. just ahead, a california lotto winner has just hours to claim a $63 million jackpot. plus, a horrific highway crash caught on camera. you're watching "early today." stay with us. eck this out, bro. what's that, broheim? i switched to geico

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