dr. james coffman was found face down in his cell with a sheet around his neck. >> i think that dr. coffman realized he was found out. i guess this was his answered. >> april coffman found in their house. >>> fake news, folks. >> that was the president in switzerland. the white house says the president never considered firing mueller. a source tells nbc news the president backed down when he threatened to quit. >> the call for the firing reportedly came as mueller looked into a possible obstruction case. >>> bill cosby shifting their strategy. learning cosby's lawyer has seeked a different defense. in his initial trial, the defense -- retrial is set for april in montgomery county. this year, the number of flu cases is surging hitting state after state and south jersey is not immune. 439 cases. the number of cases more than doubled in three weeks. some people we spoke to are not sure what to believe about the dangers of this year's flu. >> still too early in the season to know how this will rank among other seasons. >> my take is that because this virus lingers for such a long time, p

dr. jamye coffman is a board certified child abuse pediatrician. >> it's abuse on the child, but it's ton or some kind of secondary gain for themselves. >> sometimes it's financial. >> it can be. the most common, though, is actually emotional gain. i look at it kind of like an addict who needs that fix. >> when you have a suspicion and hard is caused to the child you can report that to social services and say, "i have a suspicion." i at the time did not think that it had enough information just to call. >> reporter: dr. flasterstein didn't call child protective services but someone later else did -- according to this police report obtained by "20/20" a doctor alerted authorities when he "could not find any symptoms that support what dee dee alleges to be wrong with her daughter. two case workers later did visit the blanchard home. but they found nothing out of the ordinary and closed the case. >> how was dee dee able to get away with this for so long? >> most of the time, these mothers are pathologic liars. they're very difficult to detect. they're very manipulative. i think she probably

dr. james kauffman is part of the group that has a detention hearing today to determine whether bail is an option forts suspect. last week, prosecutors charged coffman, three other men, and one woman in a drug-related murder plot. a worker for the kauffman easy found april kauffman dead inside the couple's linwood home back in 2012. she was a popular jersey shore radio host. >>> in north philadelphia, two mass gunman stormed a corner store and shot a man eating a sandwich and then took off. when police arrived just after 7:00 last night they found the victim in an aisle, his body was riddled with bullets. doctors pronounced the 22-year-old dead after he was rushed to the hop. police say the victim often went to the north sixth street store and they believe he was targeted. >>> shot while waiting at a bus stop, philadelphia police say someone rattled off more than a dozen bullets in northern libertity around 9:30 last night. one of them hit a woman in the hip. investigators don't believe she was an intended target. police tell us the only evidence they found at the scene near 7th and green streets were bullet casings. the victim is expected to make a