nbc 10 news starts now. deposition day for camille cosby. a judge says despite a last-minute attempt to postpone it, bill cosby's wife will have to answer questions in a defamation lawsuit. fire tragedy in delaware county. a woman is dead, her husband hospitalized with burns after trying to save her from the flame. starting the workweek above normal. temperatures in the 30s and 40s across our area ahead of a mainly sunny monday. this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. let's get right to meteorologist bill henley with his first alert forecast. bill? >> we're looking at clouds breaking in the area. it's a beautiful early morning. the rain has cleared out.

the temperatures in the 30s and 40s right now. some colder spots. one of them is not philadelphia. philadelphia international 42 degrees. look at the 40s across south delaware and jersey. farther north and west, getting colder, allentown 33 degrees and still falling. here's your forecast hour by hour, 6:00, 40 degrees. northerly wind blowing, at 9:00, at 42 degrees with bright sunshine. we'll see sunshine and that northerly breeze at noontime. 48 degrees. heading into the 50s again today. back with your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast in ten minutes. jessica boyington is following first alert traffic. >> we're looking at the schuylkill expressway around girard avenue. a 12-minute from the blue route to the vine street expressway. here's the pa turnpike, no problems there as well. westbound or eastbound. we are still in the green. we're at a 22-minute, 23 minutes at the most if you're headed eastbound. those average speeds are up into the 60s.

mass transthink the morning is doing great. no problems or delays so far. we'll keep you çupdated for th rest of the morning. comedian bill cosby's wife camille will be asked questions about a lawsuit against her husband. matt delucia is live in the digital operations center. what happened this weekend leading up to this point tonight? >> camille cosby has been orred to give a deposition in a defamation suit against her husband, bill cosby. her lawyers tried this weekend to delay that appearance. that effort did not work. this case we're talking about is surrounding that defamation suit brought on by a group of women who say they were assaulted by bill cosby decades ago. camille cosby has been ordered to answer questions about that under oath. her lawyers filed an emergency motion to postpone that deposition. here's why. they are arguing the public testimony would create unnecessary media circus and

personal security threat. they claim camille cosby has had no involvement with the facts or accusations underlying this case. meanwhile, a preliminary hearing in bill cosby's sexual assault case, the criminal case is scheduled for march 8th. his lawyers are appealing a montgomery county judge's decision to let that case go forward. he's accused of drugging and molesting a temple university employee in 2004. coming up at 4:30, more on why the lawyer for the woman suing cosby wants to hear from cosby's wuf. as for now, that deposition is still on the schedule for 9:30 this morning in springfield, massachusetts. live in the digital operations center, matt dlaushia, nbc 10 news. >> thanks. 4:03 and 42 degrees in philadelphia. happening today in trenton, the union representing new jersey corrections officers is urging state lawmakers to pass a bill that would establish a compensation program for those injured on the job. it comes in the wake of recent reports of inmates attacking

officers. the pictures you've been looking at are some of the injuries allegedly at the hands of inmates. nearly 100 firefighters battled flames and smoke trying, unsuccessfully, to save a dell did elle county woman who died in a house fire. they weren't alone in their efforts. katy zachry is live to explain what happened. katy? >> here's the scene of that deadly house fire. you can see in the last few hours the windows have been boarded up. her husband also tried to save her. he was yelling the victim's name outside the home, trying to go inside but the fire was too strong. here's video of the fire. it was taken during the height of it, recorded by a neighbor across the street. she tells us about a half hour before she had seen the victim playing outside with her granddaughter. investigators at this hourç ar not releasing the name of the woman killed though neighbors have told us who it is but out of respect for the family and

waiting on investigators, we are withholding it at this time. now she was the only person inside the home at the time. her husband right now is at crozer-chester medical center being treated for burns he sustained trying to get into the fire to save her. there are unanswered questions about how this fire started, the cause of it. coming up in the next hour, you'll hear from neighbors what happened in the minutes before the house was set on fire. reporting live in boothwyn, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. a driver accused of causing a high-speed crash last summer is under arrest this morning. he may have been drag racing. 17-year-old yvette and two others died. for months, the families of the victims held vigils to keep the case alive.

they say bloomfield's arrest was a good start. >> wasn't an accident he decided to street race with three other people in the car. it was bittersweet, it's what i've been waiting for but i still don't have my daughter. >> bloomfield faces vehicular homicide charges. 4:06. this surveillance video shows three men leaving a scene on saturday. a victim was attacked three blocks from campus. new jersey lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would give the state broad powers over atlantic city operations. mayor don guardian blasted the proposal last week saying the city would be left out of any decisionmaking process. just last month guardian agreed with the governor and state senate president on a

preliminary partnership plan is what they called it to save the city from bankruptcy. a south jersey church says they will not be intimidated after someone stole their black lives matter sign. they put up a new sign yesterday. an employee noticed the signs were gone and a frame that held it up was broken. they say this is the second time something like this has happened. >> this is vicious. this is angry. this is hate-filled. that's not what we are. >> the church says the signs were men to the start a conversation and advertise a forum that the church is hosting on the subject on thursday night. this morning, a local politician running for pennsymfania attorney general has the endorsement of governor tom wolf. wolf said he supports josh shapiro who shares the montgomery county board of commissioners. shapiro is also a former state lawmaker. he's one of three nominations

face iing zapalla and another m. rafferty and peters are the republicans. rafferty represents berks, chester and montgomery countys. peters served as kathleen kane's communications director. the allentown planning commission is holding a public hearing on plans to repurpose an old factory building at 10th and turner streets. the owner wants to transform the building into a high-end apartment complex through the city's adaptive reuse program. it's designed to find new uses for buildings that can no longer be used for its original purpose. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. eight minutes after 4:00. had some rain last night. that rain is quickly moving out. we are clearing out this morning. still clouds around.

scattered clouds in philadelphia. those, too, will be clearing quickly. we'll see sunny skies with a pretty good warmup, special for february. we should see afternoon high temperatures in the middle 40s. will be in the 50s today. i'm tracking rain, not for today. it will return tomorrow. that will not be the only day that will encounter wet weather. for now, clouds over mt. pocono, 31 degrees. look at northeast philadelphia, way above the normal 20s that would you would yet this time of year in the morning. 42 degrees even warmer in atlantic city at the airport. the clouds, they've already stopped producing rain, boathouse row, the water is barely moving. not much of a ripple. the wind will stay light, below ten miles an hour. a few scattered clouds across philadelphia and into delaware. those are the clouds that produced the rain, quickly

moving offshore. the last few rain drops into southern delaware, sussex, millsboro, just a sprinkle in southern delaware. it's too warm for anything else. look at the numbers, 37 in kennett square, wilmington 38 degrees, 41 in washington township. 36 degrees in quakertown. where it's cleared out first, that's where you're seeing the cooler temperatures this morning, one degree above freezing for allentown, while it's 35 in reading and pottstown and in delaware and south jersey, middletown atç 44 and also in the middle 40s for woodbine. starting off in the 40s, warming into the 50s during the day today. your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast, looking pretty good for a february day. sunshine in the pocono mountains, 38 degrees this afternoon, 50 degrees for allentown and close to it for reading and quakertown. not much wind today. upper 40s in doylestown and norristown, 51 in mt. holly. at the shore you'll see partly to mostly sunny skies with temperatures in the 40s for cape may but vineland will reach into

the low 50s, 48 degrees this afternoon for dover. dry day, completely dry. leave the umbrella at home today. you'll need your sunglasses, though, as the temperatures will be climbing into the low 50s this afternoon. we have your look at the weekend forecast when i'm back in ten minutes. >> we can look at the weekend? it's only monday. okay. that's awesome, bill, thanks. 11 minutes past 4:00. let's check your ride to work on this monday morning, including the vine street expressway. jessica boyington has that. jessica? >> clear through center city right now, no construction, no lane restrictions right now. as you can see on the vine, around 24th street, these are the westbound lanes in here. that is headed towards the schuylkill expressway. no problems at 30th street station, no problems eastbound into 95. the rest of the majors, brave times are still okay. the schuylkill and 95 into center city, no problems, we are still in the green taking 13 minutes or under in both directions. 95 southbound from woodhaven road to the vine street expressway, again, a 13-minute

trip, no problems on the blue route when headed southbound. route 73 in voorhees, new jersey, right around cooper road. roadways are dry. everybody is moving along nicely. tracy? >> jessica, thanks. an unexpected weekend stay along the jersey shore. an update on the tugboat and barge that got stuck in brigantine surf. joe pa returns. find out where two statues will soon be heading.

4:14. 42 degrees in philadelphia. from our jersey shore bureau, a tugboat and barge that ran aground in brigantine over the weekend is now free.

coast guard crews got both vessels going yesterday. the barge the tugboat was towing drifted and hit a nearby jedi. no one was hurt. a man accused of shooting six people in a random shooting spree is to be charged. he chose victims at random, saying he shot people outside an apartment complex, a car dealership and restaurant, over a seven-hour period. six people died and two others were seriously injured. the 45-year-old uber driver has no criminal record. authorities are still trying to figure out the motive behind the murders. >> we don't know anything about a motive right now. our common denominator in this is him. >> two other people were injured during a shooting ramrampage, including a 14-year-old girl. look at the scene. three car crash yesterday sent

the truck over the side of a highway near sacramento. crews had to use a gurney basket to lift the driverç up from th wreckage. medics rushed him to the hospital. the two other drivers had minor injuries. new information from overnight on government's battle with apple to access that smartphone used by one of the san bernardino shooters. fbi director james comey says the agency owes it to the victims of the terror attacks to try to gain access to that iphone simply as a matter of justice. the balance between security and privacy is at the heart of the dispute between apple and the federal government. the tech giant refused the fbi request for help in hacking the iphone of shooter si eer syed f. apple executives and tech experts say the order could set a dangerous precedent. >> it's just one phone now. if you build that pathway, others will come looking for it and you cannot control who those people are and whether they're going to use it for good

purposes. >> federal prosecutor called that an overstatement, saying apple could keep custody of its software without requiring the company to hack its own users. pope francis is calling for a worldwide ban on the death penalty. at the vatican yesterday, the pope said the commandment you shall not kill applies to both the guilty and the innocent. he called for a ban on executions during the church's holy year ending in november. here at home, new jersey abolished the death penalty in 2007. last year, pennsylvania governor tom wolf said he was suspend executions pending a review and earlier this month, a delaware judge put the death penalty on hold until the state supreme court rules on how executions are carried out. 4:17. now to decision 2016. the next test for the republican presidential candidates comes tomorrow in the nevada caucus. yesterday, senator marco rubio

picked up the endorsement of nevada senator dean heller. rubio finished second behind donald trump in the south carolina primary. ohio governor john kasich finished fifth but he said he won't be dropping out of the race anytime soon. the two democrats running for the white house had looking ahead to their primary in south carolina on saturday. hillary clinton beat bernie sanders in the nevada caucus over the weekend. polls showed clinton is favored to win in south carolina on the strength of her support from african-american voters in that state. authorities say carbon monoxide poisoning killed a family of six near detroit. a relative discovered the bodies of a couple and their four children in the home. the children range in age from 2 to 11. officials say a generator was running in the lower level of the house. they said the family turned it on during a power outage on friday night. the number of dead in fiji now stands at 18 after a pow powerfulç cyclone ripped across that island this weekend. these new aerial photos show the

escape of the damage. rescuers are trying to get aid to some of the harder hit outer islands. thousands are in nj shelters, homes destroyed. cyclone winston packed winds of 177 miles an hour. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 19 minutes after 4:00. it is a mild morning. clouds have been with us overnight. that's held in some of the heat left over from yesterday when it was so nice and mild. also brought us some rain. the rain is quickly clearing out of the area and the temperatures have started to come down. 42 degrees right now with the wind out of the north at 8 miles an hour. the temperatures will come down a little bit more but then we're back into the warm zone this afternoon into the 50s. at the shore, temperatures will climb into the upper 40s. you can see the rain has already ended for cape may. i am tracking some more rain that's going to be here later tomorrow. for today we're seeing clearing

skies. the last few rain drops have fallen at the shore and pretty much done in southern delaware. there it is, dry from allentown through philadelphia and wilmington. but look to the south. you see showers over the deep south, texas into arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, that's part of the storm system that will be coming to us as rain. it's going to bring with it some warm air that will keep us in the warm zone. it makes progress by 6:00 tomorrow morning, that rain will still be to our south. during the later morning hours it starts to move into delaware and south jersey. that's noontime tomorrow. the rain will be moving in for tomorrow afternoon. then it will stay for a while. for today, you'll see sunshine. 39 degrees at 6:00. by 9:00, the sun will be up. the temperatures will be up to 43 and 48 degrees at lunch time. making weekend plans? looks like it will be dry, just a slight chance of a shower early on saturday and partly to mostly sunny skies. a little on the cool side.

43 on saturday, milder weather with mostly sunny skies sunday. full seven-day forecast to show you how long the rain will last this week when i come back in the next half hour. >> see you then. thanks. 4:21. let's get you out the door this monday morning and check the roads before you head out. jessica boyington has a look at that. >> we are looking at the xx k around girard avenue. no problems in either direction. we just did have a traffic stop over here on the eastbound side. that drive time looks okay, eastbound from the blue route to the vine street expressway, still a 13-minute trip. average speeds into the 60s. we are moving along nicely on 202 as well. high 50s there, 11 minutes 4-táá)(ááz 30 to the th or schuylkill expressway. moving over into new jersey, this is right in berlin on the white horse pike and cross keys road, not even a car in sight. i'll check with area bridges when i come back in the next ten. a salute to philadelphia first responders at the rossman

rink at dilworth park. the men and women in blue and their families got free admission. the event is designed as a thank you to the city's emergency workers. 4:22. what a rude awakening for more than a dozen car openers. this is what they woke up to, smash windows and their cars and trucks ransacked. ahead in the next half hour, where the crime happened and what the police are doing. and next, something to dance about in happily valley. hear how much money students raised this weekend. on twitter, our twitter addresses are right there on your screen. read our posts, tweet us directly and we will tweet you right back.

4:25. happening today, new jersey lawmakers will reconsider a bill to ban smoking on beaches in the garden state. if approve, smoking would be prohibited at public parks and beaches. the state would create designated smoking areas under the proposal. governor christie vetoed a similar bill in 2014. from the lehigh valley, immigration protesters today will demand the release of families and children inside a berks county detention facility. the leesport sunner it lost its license yesterday after state officials said it was only approved for children. protesters will go to immigration offices in philadelphia this morning and then head to leesport.

artists say they are nearly finished with two new statues of joe paterno. both artists help make the statue and say penn state won't tell them where it is being kept now. that's one reason they're making a new one and they posted video of their work on facebook. the new statues will not be exact copies. one statue will go to the paterno family and the other will travel around for penn state fans. meantime, penn state's thon dance marathon raised more than $9.7 million for pediatric cancer over the weekend. the annual 46-hour thon dance weekend wrapped up yesterday afternoon, the money benefiting pe pediatric cancer patients and their families. now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> 42 degrees. clouds are moving out and we are drying out this morning.

jessica boyington is watching your first alert traffic. jesse? >> we're in the lehigh valley right now on 78 right around lehigh street. no problems yet. a lot of people out there so far for this early time. more updates on your majors when i come back at 4:30. closing time.ç next, learn why the days are numbered for worshipping at this conshohocken church.

nbc 10 news starts now. happening today, bill cosby's wife camille will be questioned by a massachusetts judge. she'll be asked under oath about her husband's alleged sex

assault. this is the scene, more than a dozen car owners in northeast philadelphia woke up to. someoou smashed their windows and looted their cars. and a final farewell to a pioneering black journalist. today family and friends and colleagues of long-time inquirer editor and reporter acele moore. this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. let's get right to meteorologist bill henley with his first alert forecast. bill? >> the rain has ended, showers cleared out overnight. we are drying out, the last few showers pushing offshore right now. with skies clearing, that's allowing the temperatures to cool down. those clearing spots that had it first are seeing cooler temperatures now. 35 in reading and pottstown. 33 in allentown. 42 in philadelphia, 40s in delaware and south jersey. a mild start, another mild day. down to 39 degrees at 6:00. sunshine warming to 43 at 9:00 d