until next time, whoo! it's tuesday, february 23rd, coming up on "early today." it's vivau las vegas for donald trump as he tried to pat his lead over sniping marco rubio and ted cruz. the kalamazoo killer faces a judge as they piece together a shooting spree that left six dead and two injured. the wife of bill cosby testifies for hours in a sexual assault case brought against her husband. plus sports caster aaron andrews $75 million trial set to begin. and who is wearing this costume.

divers swimming with the moleau moleau. "early today" starts right now. i'm dara brown. nevada voters 30 republican delegate delegates. the race has become a three-way race. and cruz came under fire after showing marco rubio dismissing the bible a cruz staffer was reading. >> for them to transscribe words, it's flat out lying. >> and rick snider said the video was inaccurate. cruz addressed the situation monday afternoon. >> i've spend this morning investigating what happened. and this morning i asked for rick tyler's resignation.

good spokesman and calling for cruz's campaign to quote do the right thing and stop telling lies. and one thing he's remained relatively silent on is trump. and tweeting about the controversy, calling it more dirty tricks. for the latest, we go to tracie potts in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning everyone. so, we know donald trump is not prone to be silent on anything and we learned that more late last night. he had a rally in nevada talking about the cruz ads and essentially calling cruz dishonest. listen. >> the cruz ad, it's not a subject i know anything about. but this guy is sick. there's something wrong with him. >> reporter: so, let's talk about today.

caucuses. the latest poll show donald trump with a 16-point lead over cruz. and marco rubio hoping to make his mark here. a lot of analysts are wondering if trump takes this one is is he going to be unstaublableunstoppable? and interestingly, kasich is getting heat from protesters at some of his events in nevada after signing off on planned parenthood and defunding it back home in ohio. could be interesting race. those caucuses happening later in the evening nevada time. so, here on the east coast it could be a while before we start to see results. meanwhile, the democrats are gearing up for saturday in south carolina. and hillary clinton is pushing hard to maintain her lead over bernie sanders and clinton

being hosted by surrogates, including the mothers of trayvon martin and jordan davis. and members of congress and high ranking party members free to choose their own candidate. the key win for obama in 2008 over clinton. according to the ap, clinton is indorsed by 87 to sanders' 11. award delegates are proportionately. meaning sanders would have to win many of the remaining contests by a large margin to remain competitive. but super delegates may change their mind anytime before the elections.

program, sanders said he considers the holy father to be a socialist. >> well, what it m mns to be a socialist in the sense of what the pope is talking about, what i'm talking about is to say that we have got to do our best and live our lives in a way that allev allev allev yates human suffering. >> so far the vatican has not commented. the uber driver accused in saturday's deadly shooting spree in kalamazoo has been denied bail. jason bryan dalton has admitted to the crimes. appearing oen a live feed, he said he preferred to remain silent when asked if he had anything to say. if convicted, dalton facings life in prison. he's due back in court on march

meanwhile, mourners gathered for a mass last night in memories of the six victims. michigan governor, rick snyder has ordered the flag to fly half mast each day for each victim. and 14-year-old abigail continues to fight for her life and remains in critical condition at a local hospital. a 16-year-old boy has died from injuries sustained in last week's helicopter crash in hawaii. the teen along with three family members' tour helicopter crashed near the visitors center. the teen had to be cut free from his seat. two of the family members remain hospitalized, the third was treated and released. no news on the status of the pilot.

testified under oath but she's not done yet. during the nearly seven-hour deposition, mrs. cosby only answered questions for two 1/2 hours. another round has been scheduled for march 14th. lawyers objected to questions siting spousal privilege and attorneys had to call the judge twice for rulings. he argued that her conversations with her husband are private. he is facing a civil suit by seven women claiming he defamd him the l them by denying the sexual assault allegations. he has continued to deny the allegations of assault and misconduct dating back to the 1960s. he's counter sued claiming they

an alarming now report on climate change. scientists say seas are now rising faster than they have in 2800 years. scientists reconstructed sea levels going back 3,000 years and found the increase grew sharply over the last century. the study blames, human-caused global warming and sea walls could raise 24 feet by 2100. and good morning, bill. could be dangerous and possibly deadly afternoon and evening. we're worried about tornados. the storm won't be able to follow them much after dark. and short lee time. right now, no tornado threats. damaging winds possible around victoria. and further to the north, waco

across east texas, and louisiana and southern alabama and mississippi, that's the area of greatest risk in here. strong risk in the red color and the best chance of tornados is in this moderate risk area from batten rouge to new orleans, beluxy, mobile and into southern portions of alabama, not including the montgomery area. one or two strong tornados are possible. those are the ones typically are the most deadly and the timing is right around the dinner hour into the evening hours, especially as we go through alabama and on wednesday, we'll see the strong line of storms from columbia to jacksonville, maybe an isolated tornado in eastern north carolina. this is a two-day severe weather threat. that's your national weather, now a closer look at your day ahead. well,io acan see from this map the active weather storm

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and a weird one off the court for kyrie irving, he says hotel bed bugs caused his flu-like symptoms thursday. they did confirm that bed bugs were found in irving's room. he was back in action against detroit but they managed to take them. and taking on number three virginia at home. the hurricanes managed a late surge to hold on for the upset. from the hard court to the court room, jury selection began in the case against sports broadcaster aaron andrews against the franchise owner against a national hotel and the man who admitted to secretly taking nude pictures of andrews in 2008. the trial is expected to last

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across the skies of china and taiwan. thousands gathered to celebrate the end of the lunar new year by writing their hopes and wishes on paper lanterns before setting them off in the skies. the tradition which dates back 2000 years holds that the gesture will bring good luck. so you write it in the lantern and then send it off to the sky. >> it's beautiful. where they land is a different story. >> well, and does anybody read them? that's an interesting thing too. the obama administration plans to submit a plan to shut down guantanamo bay. president obama is seeking to make good on his promise to close the facility before the end of his presidency. and happy birthday to dakota fanning, and emily blunt is 33

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