it's monday, february 22nd. coming up on "early today," breaking overnight. camille cosby forced to testify. the last-minute bid to stop today's deposition related to sexual-assault allegations against husband bill cosby. super tuesday a week away, the shrinking field pass the candidates spinning as they shore up suprt and money.

after a shooter went on a rampage. new detail on this the kalamazoo killing spree. the coolest move and closest finish in daytona 500 history. the ultimate battle of wits and endurance. chess like you've never played it before. and one of the coolest white house meetings ever. "early today" starts right now. i'm dara brown. breaking overnight, overruled. camille cosby, wife of bill cosby, is being forced to testify under oath later this morning. late sunday night a massachusetts federal judge denied an emergency motion to delay the deposition of bill cosby's wife. compelling her to answer questions related to sexual assault allegations against her husband. this is the latest of several motions lawyers for mrs. cosby have lost seeking to dismiss demands she be deposed in the civil case against her husband in which seven women claim he defamed them by denying their

mr. cosby has repeatedly denied the allegations made by dozens of women accusing him of sexual misconduct or assault dating back to the 1960s. he has counter-sued the seven women suing him in massachusetts claiming they defamed his character. it was a whirlwind weekend for the presidential candidates with a close finish in nevada and a tight fight for second in south carolina. in the end hillary clinton and donald trump took the top spots in their respective races. the south carolina win rockets donald trump ahead with 67 delegates. ted cruz and murks a distant second and third. for the drams hillary clinton gained 22 in nevada giving her 67 to bernie sanders '52 ' 52. the south carolina primary, clinton leads sanders by 29 points going into saturday's matchup. crossing paths the republicans head to nevada for tomorrow's caucuses. most national polls show trump in front by a large margin but

journal" poll shows cruz edging up to donald by 2 points. all are trying to position themselves best this week because looming large is next week's super tuesday where 13 states hold over 1,000 delegates on both sides. jeb bush is the latest casualty following south carolina's heated race. marco rubio received a shot of adrenaline edging out fellow senator ted cruz by a razor-thin 1 percent and getting the endorsement of nevada senator dean heller. donald trump topped them all. nbc's katy tur has the latest. >> it's beautiful. thank you. >> reporter: donald trump's grip tighter. and he knows it. playing to a crowd of more than 5,000 in atlanta. >> we won with everything. tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people. just won. >> reporter: trump sweeping all of south carolina's congressional districts, banking all the state's 50 delegates. despite marco rubio's

and ted cruz's focus on evangelicals. a voting bloc trump clinched, 34% to cruz's 26%. exit polls showing like in new hampshire, the majority of trump's voters decided on him months ago, meaning his myriad of controversies and outrageous statements didn't matter. and ninetieth doer his inconsistencies. flip-flopping again, republican hot-button issues like funding planned parenthood. >> planned parenthood does a lot of good, a really good job in a lot of different areas. but not on abortion. so i'm not going to fund it if it's doing the abortion. i am not going to fund it. >> reporter: the same exit polling showed nearly half of south carolina voters did not decide until the last minute and they mostly did not decide for donald trump. going forward since the field is winnowing he's going to have to gain, not just maintain, support. if this crowd is any indication the campaign is confident they will be able to do that. >> katy tur reporting. hillary clinton held on to a thin margin in nevada against bernie sanders. the campaign instagramed this

before taking the stage. but after that it was anything but quiet. nbc's kristen welker has more. >> reporter: hillary clinton riding a wave of fresh momentum. >> is this a great night or what? >> reporter: after a decisive victory in critical nevada. >> some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other. >> reporter: for bernie sanders, the loss is a big blow. courting african-american voters at a baptist church in south carolina. >> brothers and sisters, we can do a lot -- >> reporter: and it was black voters who largely delivered clinton's victory. choosing here by a whopping 76% to 22%. after she aggressively engaged them. and rallying with congressman jim cleburne and morgan freeman, who released a new ad -- >> just like she's always stood with us. ere also obstacles she must overcome. latinos chose sandishes by

younger voters pickedrmont senator by. >> we will do well when young people, when working-class people come out -- >> reporter: both candidates looking forward to south carolina where clinton has a big lead and super states will be in play. >> if she wins big in south carolina, as some people think she will do, then she's going to have tremendous momentum goingekend and the super tuesday states. i think it's just a real problem for bernie sanders. >> that was nbc's kristen the latest in the standoff between apple and the fbi over apple's refusal to help ccess to the i phone of one of the san bernardino shooters. last night fbi director james comey released a statement defending his agency's request saying, "we simply want thea search warrant to try to guess the terrorist's pass code without the phone essentially without it taking a decade to guess correctly. that's it. we don't want to break anyone's encryption or set a mooster key loose on the land. holds the clue

maybe it doesn't. but we can't look the survivors in the eye or ourselves in the mirror if we don't follow this apple said bite not comply with a court order to help investigators access encrypted data on the phone, arguing it would endanger the privacy ofits customers. reuters is reporting some victims of the december 2nd attack plan to file a legal the government's request. 14 people were killed, 22 others were wounded in the mass shooting. uber has confirmed thatdalton, the man accused of saturday's deadly shooting spree in calla kalamazoo, michigan, was a driver for thempany. "uber is horrified and dalton did not have a criminal record. one man identified as derek said dalton after the shooting began but before he was arrested. >> i kind of jokingly said to

he gave me some sort of no lons, like he shook his head or said no and i said, are you sure?d he said, no, i'm not, i'm just tired. and we proceeded to have a sation. >> authorities say there is no obvious motive for the shootings and police have recovered a 9 millimeter handgun and otherm dalton's car and home which they say was related to the shootings. in total six people were killed. a 14-year-old girl wasally pronounced dead over an hour when she suddenly squeezed her mother's hand just as doctors were preparing to remove her organs for donationnto surgery. hollywood is suffering from a stunning lack of diversity in tv and film roles according to a new study from the university offornia. researchers looked at more than

2014 and 2014 and foundacters filled only 28.7% of speaking roles in films. only 18% of all films and series were gender balanced.ing characters in films and series were minorities. only 2% of speaking characters were identified as lgbt. rologist bill karins is here with your monday forecast. good morning to you. >> good morning. very warm weekend. a lot of record highs. north of houston. also northern louisiana and arkansas. eventually this rain is going to push into mississippi and that's where you need the umbrella. the heaviest rain in montgomery, mobile, especially north of mobile. possibility of 2, 3 inches.torm one. storm two behind that is going to be a bigger storm toward the middle and end of the week. that storm, mostly a warm storm, could give us severerrow in areas of the deep south along the gulf.

the mid-atlantic region on wednesday. mostly a rain event. if we're going to get illinois, indiana, michigan the best chance. the back side, snow showers. temperatures are starting warm but as that storm begins to move to the north some colder air so below-average temperatures middle of the week in the deep south and a good chunk of the eastern half of the country will be chilly by the time we head into next weekend.tional weather. here's a closer look at your day ahead. today the heavy rain this morning around shreveport and down towards houston, louisiana, i don't expect much in the way of severe storms today but tomorrow watch that closely, areas like mobile, new orleans, through montgomery, alabama.azing, last full week of february and not talking about any big snow storms, just rain. >> rain starting off on a damp spring coming our way.. much more ahead on a monday, including sportscaster erin andrews heads to civil court in

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