this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good morning, a tragedy, a husband tries to save his wife from a burning home. obstacles that prevented them from saving her life. also day in court for the suspect in the deadly rampage in michigan watch police now know so far about the alleged gunman. >> and, a judge makes the call on whether camille cosby must give a deposition in the lawsuit against her husband, while the cosby's lawyers explain were they want a delay. >> good morning, it is monday, february 22, i'm erika von tiehl. we want to check in with katie and meisha after a beautiful weekends. how can we top that, degrees. >> yes, good morning, so gorgeous, and i have to say that even this morning even though it is still very earl at this felt pretty nice out

there. so traffic looking nice and light right now. what's in store for us? >> not looking at too much here today. we had disturbance brought in yesterday, brought in little wet weather. that's really clearing out fast, and now we just have to look ahead to the mid week, in terms of wet weather, i would say the start of the work week, pretty nice overall. definitely going to be little chillier than it was over the course of the weekends you will still remain average for a handful of degrees. we start it off with storm scan3, nice wide zoom on the camera here, and at the moment things are starting to look a little more active down across the deep south. at least back here at home it is nice and clear. as skies continue to clear out, we are ending one more and more sunshine once the sunrises over the horizon, so storm scan3 at the local level, looking very tranquil at this point. area temperatures, not bad. despite the fact we had showers move through. temperatures are mild enough in most locations, do you not have to worry about any icing for sure. forty-two currently at the airport, not bad, actually more emmies end of typical

daytime high for us at this time of year. forty-five in wildwood as well as millville. obviously colder by comparison in the poconos, allentown, but again, it is drying out across the region here, 39 degrees in palmyra as well as mt. holly where the national service regional headquarters is located. out to the day planner, skies clear out, looking atmore and more sunshine through the course of the day, not bad, as we hit 3:00 p.m. mostly sunny skies, ooh degrees, keep in mind guys again mid 40's is typical for this time of year. so even though it is not as warm as the weekends, still going to over achieve on the thermometer today, again, nice bright sunny day the problem is this does not last forever, new storm system waits in the wings, we'll track that for you coming up as the show guess on, meisha? >> oh, no, couldn't we just leave it at the sunshine, katy? all right, we will take it, good morning, everyone, happy monday to you, well yes, this weekend was slutly stunning. and 50 degrees, not bad for february today. right now, in terms of the roadways, looking actually

pretty good, dry, 59 south at girard, looking nice and quiet as we would expect at 3:30 in the morning, we would of course on a monday morning see this heat up probably into the 5:00 hour. schuylkill, westbound at city half, looking nice and quiet, beyond the trees moving in the eastbound direction, same thing there, looking nice and quiet. early risers out there, we always do, center city the vine headlights, 24th, you can see, again looking nice and quote it, streets nice and dry, great things to wake to up on a monday mornings fire department activity morris at west mt. pleasant avenue. electrical fire here. make note that far. not hearing any report of any road closures, make note you do know in or around that area that's out there. gas leak lower merion, rockland at hampton road, make note of. that will in terms every mass transit, septa buses, subways, trolleys, running new schedule that starts today. >> the media elwyn and chestnut hill east lines are back to normal, running a weekend schedule, now all back to normal.

those every you taking mass transit today it will probably be a fairly good day. looking nice and quiet in the world of travel. >> community mourns a mass moving fire kills a grandmother and critically injuries her husband desperately trying to save her. the flames broke out around 5:00 yesterday on the 2300 block of blue bell avenue in boothwyne. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joining us outside the crozer-chester medical center with more on that victim's condition. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, that victim who passed away has been identified as brenda mccape. her husband has spent the overnight here recovering at chester crozer burn unit and at last checklist in the critical condition. upper chichester fire marshall david holland says her husband was injured trying to rescue hits wife from their burning boothwyne delaware county home yesterday. fire reports came in about 5:00 sunday evening, and the fire itself was captured on cell phone video by neighbors

on the 2300 block of blue bell avenue. passersby even tried helping but the flames were too intense, so hot they were felt across the street. fire crews would find heavy fire and smoke at the two story house, and inside crews found that 50 year old female victim trapped on the second floor near the stairs. she was pronounced dead soon after. meantime, close to 100 firefighters got the fire under control within the hour. as neighbors spoke to "eyewitness news" about their sudden lost. >> it is very painful. specially when someone just half hour prior to that i saw her with her beautiful blonde hair out in the backyard playing with her grandchild, and then to see her on a stretcher burned, and then to hear that she was dead. so i'm just -- just keep prayers for the family. >> and prayers for this father's recovery, and husband's recovery. now this fire broke out officials say her husband was

outside with the grand kids, saw and heard that fire and moved in to rescue her again. he was in critical condition, at last check. the fire remains under investigation at this time. the fire marshall says they may have an answer about how this fire started and what started it perhaps later on today. and we are live here outside chester crozer, justin finch, "eyewitness news", erika, back over to you. >> justin, thank you for the update. >> two fire fight remembers recovering from injuries they suffered in a burlington county house fire. that call came in yesterday afternoon to this home on 15 wilson avenue in bordentown. their injuries are considered minor. cause of the fire is under investigation. >> investigators are also trying to pinpoint the cause after fatal accident in gloucester township, new jersey, a car struck and killed a woman on the 600 block of college drive last night. the driver stayed at the scene, and is cooperating with police. >> camille cosby will have to give a deposition today in a lawsuit against her husband. a judge denied a request to delay it.

she's scheduled to answer questions under oath in a lawsuit brought against her husband, by seven women who say he sexually assaulted them decades ago. her lawyers said camille cosby's deposition should be delayed, because she, quote, has had no involvement with the facts oral gazes underlying this case. also, happening today, former philadelphia police officer is scheduled to go on trial accused of mixing terroristic threat. prosecutors say, while off duty, edward hit a man in the knee with his car on october of 2013. he then allegedly threatened the victim with racial slurs, and showed off a gun. he faces six to 12 years in prison if convicted. >> the uber driver who police say went on seven hour shooting rampage in michigan set to be arraigned today. police say 45 year old jason daulton allegedly drove around did a ma zoo saturday night shooting his victims at random. six people were killed, and two injured, including a 14 year old girl, there were

seriously injured. authorities say daulton pick up uber passengers between the shootings. matthew melon says he road with the suspect. >> we were kind of driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along, then finally once came to a stop i jumped out of the car and ran away. they had his name and description of them on the news, and i had a horrible feeling in my gut that this was probably the man that i had gotten the ride from earlier. >> daulton was taken into custody early sunday morning without incident. police say he has no previous criminal record. >> right now, it is 4:38. it is onto nevada where republican presidential candidates are seek to go win support in tomorrow's caucuses. donald trump made a stop in atlanta where he ran into some technical difficulties. >> probably sent here so we put them in our jails because to put them in our jails they didn't pay the electric bill. >> oh, right there, didn't pay the electric bill.

trump kept ongoing, earlier on "face the nation" on cbs-3, and he spoke his win saturday in the south carolina primary. >> i had a great victory yesterday, south carolina was amazing, new hampshire was an amazing, you know, the size of the victories, i think, were incredible. yesterday i won every delegate. i won all seven congressional district on top of having a big margin. so, that was a great victory. >> exit polls show it was trump's strong performance monkey van gel calls in south carolina that helped him knowledge another victory and sweep all delegates. >> attention shifts to the democrat after hillary clinton's victory in the nevada caucuses saturdayment clinton is coming off six-point win over bernie sanders, yesterday she made campaign stop in houston and made a repeal to voters to sends her to washington. >> and what we're going do in this election is to make sure we have a democrat in the white house to succeed president obama to keep our

progress going. >> clinton's victory helps yell some fierce among her supporters. but, challenger bernie sanders looks to super tuesday to regain ground. a handful of states will choose their favorite candidates on march 1st. >> stay with "eyewitness news" as we follow the president as call dawned in campaign 2016. our coverage continues on line at cbsphilly.com. and, there is much to cough here on "eyewitness news", a tugboat runs into problems at the jersey shore. find out how it got out that far jam. >> career night for the sixers owe for, only to be upstaged by a bigger night for one of the mavericks. we're back in two minutes.

former corrections officer from south jersey running to help remember fallen police officers across the country. james ran every day in january. this month he's running 155 miles dedicating each day to a different state. this weekend he and other ran

in memory of philadelphia police officer robert wilson and other fallen officers from pennsylvania. >> the negativity around law enforcement, like there are people throughout doing good for them, you shouldn't have like a few people just put a blemish on a whole group. >> so far he has raised more than $2,000 for charity. once again, penn state university student raised big money for childhood cancer research one dance step at a time. thousands of student brought in more than $9.7 million in this year's thon, thon is the largest student run philanthropy in the country and wands 46-hour dance session. since 1977, it has raised more than $125 million. the money benefits pediatric cancer patients at the penn state at hershey medical center. great event. >> coast guard pulls a barge and tugboat from the beach in brigantine. on saturday the 77-foot tugboat and 135-foot barge

renee grounds after the tug lost power. last night, with the help of the tide, both the tug and the barge were pulled back to sea. no one was hurt and no fuel was spilled. >> but just coming off this weekend, just beautiful weekend, hard to beat that katie today. >> it real i we'll still do our very best to do that for you. little -- ands moved through last night, london at this point, even despite that still over achievers today. hit about 50 degrees. >> sounds nice. >> he is actually, with sunshine, not shabby at all. really start off on decent note. then it goes right back downhill. yes, we've got in the one but two separate systems coming our way in the days ahead. they do look like they'll come through with a climate trends of much milder air, so we had within talking about the possible we might see some snow. it is not looking good if you were craving that snow. it doesn't look as though that's going to be the main story. it is primarily a rain event. actually, two rain event, that will be coming our way. so for now you can actually see the retreat of the wet weather rolled on through leaving behind couple of damp

road, no harm, no foul. treat i tranquil beginning to the morning specially because the temperatures are well above freezing in most of the spots here. don't have to worry about any icing issues, so really quiet beginning to the work week certainly beginning to the day as well. things do start to change with time here. we see high pressure gradually start to retreat. then system one comes along. so we get through the tire day today, and the entire morning, then the first disturbance comes in trying to pick up portions of the northern counties may get in on little bit of pink on the radar, authorities, little hint of icing, see how we do, looks like too mild for. that will we'll see what happens. meantime, system two comes along, that's the doozy for wednesday. but right now, look how far inland that cold air is. counter clockwise flow around areas of low pressure in the northern hemisphere, seeing the warmth get drawn in. that means it is primarily rain. however, you could see some stronger storms specially across the southern tear of the area, definitely dealing

with very heavy rain through wednesday specially, nice meantime, today, guys, enjoy partly cloudy and chilly, we dip to 34, then the soggy weather arrives afternoon at the earlier tomorrow, pretty much any time wednesday, and lingering on thursday morning. so prolonged event here, erika, back to you. >> thank you, talking sports, the six letters try to break four game losing streak tomorrow night, when at the take on the orlando magic in south philly. last night sixers and the dallas mavericks in texas, good night for sixers okafor, made the steel and the slam for two of his career high 31 points. but, the mavericks kept the sixers at bay. dallas' kurt passed career 29,000-point mark. and the mavs beat the sixers 129 to 103. >> to college basketball, fran dunphy and the owls fails the cougars, tied with 152nd left when the owls senior deaf and coleman hits a clutch. three-point tow put the owls

ahead. cougars have a chance but ron long three pointer is no gang. -- good, oils wins 69-66, stay in first place in the american conference. >> still ahead this morning, popular search engine may be looking for potential buyers. learn who might be in line. first though here's what's coming under tonight on cbs-3.

>> investigators trying to pint point what sparked a fire that killed a woman in delaware county. brenda was taped inside her home in boothwyne. her husband was critically injured as he and firefighters tried to save her. also, today, camille cosby will be answering questions under oath in a defemation lawsuit against her husband. seven women claim bill cosby's sexually assaulted them decades ago. a judge ruled that a physician

can -- a deposition can proceed. >> trial scheduled to start for former philadelphia police officer, prosecutors say that edward hit a man in the knee with his car while off duty in 2013. he then allegedly midrash al slurs and showed the man his gun. >> 4:50, time for check on business news, money watch's jill wagner at the new york stock he can changes, jill, i love the sound of this, markets opening after the best week of the year. hopefully we can keep this going. also big changes for popular tech company. which one are we talking about here? >> that's right, good morning, erika. yahoo could be on the market. bloomberg reports that the struggling tech company will start to approach buyers as early as today, so, that includes companies like verizon, comcast, and at&t. the fate of ceo mercy myers still unclear, she took over in 2012, and the company's really struggled to compete against other tech giants, like google and facebook. erika? >> see what happens with them. but meantime, one job that's getting a lot of interest,

astronaut, a record number of people are applying to be nasa's next astronaut class. how about that? >> yes, there are more than 18,000 applicants, triple the number of people that applied to the previous class, there is one little problem, there are only 14 spot. these future astronaut could actually be tapped poor mission to mars, so will spend the next 18 months sifting through some of the resumes. >> okay, so 18 months, 18,000 applicants, you know, a thousand per month, they'll work their way through. >> you know what, cool job, so i understand why they're being selective. >> great to see the interest there, jill, thanks so much. coming up after the break, meisha checks the early morning trouble spots on the road, katie tell us when to car that i umbrella. when "eyewitness news" continues. we'll be right back.

time for check on the forecast, katie, can we keep the nice temperatures going? >> i would say so. it will be little cooler than it was yesterday. but certainly a nice day for the standards of mid to late february. this is going to be a bad one for us at all. we do have high pressure on our side for at least one more day. here is my advice. enjoy it while you've got it. storm scan3 did have disturbance push out, it is pushing away, fizzling away to nothingness on the radar right now. you can bank on full sunshine here. we have to talk about what's coming down the pike here. tuesday, wednesday, and thursday, essentially your entire mid week going to have some sort of impact here with two separate storm systems, so the rain moves, in primarily tuesday afternoon, you'll likely have mixture of some icing up toward the poconos, then periods of heavy rain off and on throughout the day wednesday, windy conditions, as well, and thursday morning, it is starting to taper off completely, so again tuesday to thursday, starting tuesday afternoon ending thursday

morning, for two separate systems to bring primarily rain thank goodness to the area, then it is a lot colder, as we wrap up our wok week. meisha, over to you. >> you nailed it, enjoy it while we've got it. thank you so much. will do. happy monday to you, still early out there. we certainly are seeing some early risers out there, first accident, 95 got at girard point bridge, out to the shoulder since cleared. not that it was causing too many slow downs, make note it was there but looking good now. all clear. 422, taillights moving, oaks looking good in this direction. see headlight as well as tail light. moving slowly starting to rise. now is a great time, great company, looking beautiful. ben franklin bridge moving from jersey, keep my ian looking good good. beautiful shot, no traffic, that gets a big thumbs-up. mass transit, buses, subways, trolleys, running new schedule that starts today. make sure check your schedules on line. media elwin line and chestnut

hill back to east, and also, this fire department activity in ambler, outdoor electrical fire here all since cleared. so if you are in this area of ft. washington all good there. construction 42 both directions between route 544 and 295, just make note that's there, i'll let you know when it clears, back to you. >> thank you, coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news", family is shaken after extremely close call in their house. stray bullet nearly hit their sleeping daughter. see just how close that bullet came to the little girl. >> also: dancing with joy. that woman goes wild when she meets the president and mrs. obama. why this visit was years in the making. we're back at the top of the hour. good morning.

>> good morning, searching for answers after deadly fire in delaware county. a woman is killed and her husband is fight to go survive after he's hurt trying to save her. firefighters explain why they had such a hard time reaching the victim. >> also, forced to testify, bill cosby's wyche loses last ditch effort to get out after deposition today. the key questions about her husband, she won't have to answer under oath. >> i was pleading with him to stop. just wanted to get out of the vehicle, i felt extremely unsafe. >> terrifying tails from uber pass he can ers who road with the driver accused of going on deadly shooting spree in michigan. hear the bone chilling exchange they had with the suspect as he continued to pick up passengers.

good morning, it is monday, february 22, i'm erika von tiehl. we start things offer right now with a nice dry day after wet end to the weekend, katie and meisha stands bias we head back to work. >> good morning, happy monday, yes, feeling great outside, katie, tell us all about that, roadways looking nice and dry, no accidents to report either. so katie what is in store for us today? >> thankfully looking at some sunshine, did have disturbance roll through, brinking in a bit of wet weather, now clearing out of here, so if you have any cloud cover that's all that's left at this point from that little minor disturbance, but it is to will be nice day to enjoy before the next big thing comes along, and why that next big thing, i mean two, separate systems for the middle the part of the week, nice and quiet to kick it off here, we overlook the delaware river here from palmyra cove nature park, you can see there is still some cloud cover, still being reflected up toward the sky there. but we are seeing these clouds break thin, and thin out, as the day progresses. you can see also in the beginning s