News today. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. Lets start with meteorologist bill henley in that first alert forecast. Bill, tell us about that first alert that weve issued. Vai, it is for late this afternoon and this evening. Well see on and off showers until the potential for Severe Weather. A line of thunderstorms develop to the west and swing through during the evening hours. With those storms comes heavy c rainfall. Unfortunately also the threat of damaging winds. We could see wind gusts in those storms have yet to take shape in our area, so far, scattered mainly light showers. One line of showers has moved through most of Chester County. Now its in upper Chester County heading into Montgomery County, west vincent is seeing the as far as the big storms, you can see them in the south and its this line thats moving through the atlanta area that will likely fire up in our area late today. Until then, its going to be kind of rainy and dreary. But the temperatures will be climbing in spite of the rain. 44 degrees with showers at 7 00. At 10 00, 47 degrees and then at 56 degrees at 1 00 this afternoon with winds kicking in at 19 miles an hour. Well likely warm into the 60s this afternoon. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington is watch iing scene. Watch out far that, slippery spots there. Were not pink on 422 but we have a good drive time from eastbound to the schuylkill expressway, only a nineminute trip. Mass transit doing okay, septa started that new spring schedule that came out on monday. Check before you go there. Otherwise, no problems or delays. 5 32 and now to decision 2016. Donald trumps president ial campaign is picking up more steam after his latest caucus victory in nevada. Trump dominated the caucus with 46 of the vote. Marco rubio finishing second with 24, ted cruz in third with 21 . Nbc 10s matt delucia here with more on what the candidates had to say following the latest caucus. Matt . Donald trump says his campaign is, quote, winning, winning, winning. Senator ted cruz meantime is counting on next tuesday, super tuesday as a major day for the campaign. Cruz spoke to supporters in las vegas shortly after donald trump was the projected winner of nevadas republican caucus. Cruz and marco rubio trail by a significant margin. Cruz claims that by winning iowa, his campaign showed its the only one that can beat trump. He drew f;l aj the biggest cheers of the night when he proclaimed he had won the hispanic vote. Were going to be the smart people. Were not going to be the people that get pushed around all over the place. Well be the smart people. Youre going to be proud of your president and youre going to be even prouder of your country. Okay . Candidates john kasich and ben carson are still in the race but finished well behind the top three in nevada. What was on the mind of voters in nevada last night . Im working on that part of the story, coming up at 6 00. Tracy . Matt, thanks. Meantime, the democrats running for president , answering questions at a town hall in south carolina. That states democratic primary Bernie Sanders calls for reforms in the criminal justice system. Hillary clinton talked about racial barriers in society. A bully and an abuser. Thats what the former Temple University employee at the center of the bill cosby criminal case calls the comedian this morning. Andrea constands lawyer claims cosby is using the courts to bully her and other witnesses. Cosby claims she violated the confidential settlement of the civil lawsuit and wants her to return the settlement money. Cosby is accused of drugging and molesting constand in 2004. Hes scheduled to appear in court in Montgomery County for a preliminary hearing in march. Weve been following the fight to save st. Lorentes church. They wrote letters to the state attorney general pleading for the churchs survival. The archdiocese wanted to tear the church down. Then last summer, the Philadelphia HistoricalCommission Designated as a historical site. Back then, the archdiocese said the ruling didnt take into account that the church poses a Public Safety hazard. Pennsylvanias budget battle could force Temple University to hike its tuition. The state usually funds a 5,000 discount for instate students. Without a budget there will soon be no discount. Temple says its figuring out how much of that money students might have to cover. Temple increased tuition for all students by nearly 3 last july. 5 36. A former homeless man in ocean county who became the butt of a cruel joke that went viral is back on his feet. And a Pro Football Team is among those who stepped up to help him. We have a package here from california. Ronald leggett xefed a care package from the San Francisco 49ers on friday that included a Brand New Team jacket. The team saw these pictures of leggett wearing an old 49ers jacket in a Facebook Post that went viral. A man had paid leggett 5 to pour coffee over his head last month in lakewood. Leggett was homeless. And the post prompted an outpouring the support. Unbelievable. From the 49ers. Still cant believe it. Somebody meant it to mock ron as a homeless person. It turned around, where ron got housing because of the situation. Probably saved his life this winter. At the time of the coffee pouring incident he was staying in a local baseball field dugout. Weather with meteorologist bill henley. 5 37. Its a rainy, dreary morning. Light rain now entering philadelphia. Its part of a line that is producing a moderate shower in the reading area. This is just rain. The temperatures are toox trenton and mt. Holly with rain steady during the day today. A chance of thunderstorms late this afternoon and into the evening hours, especially topping out at 60 in cape may. Warmer for dover and vineland with rain steady later this morning and this afternoon. And the thunderstorm threat late this afternoon and this evening. The temperatures 60s today. But it is going to get cooler on us. The sevenday forecast and a closer look at the Severe Weather threat when im back in ten minutes. All right, thank you, bill. Always keep track of the Severe Weather conditions later today with our nbc 10 app. There you can get the hour by hour forecast, this live weather radar and a custom forecast specific to your neighborhood. Now lets get you a custom traffic forecast. Lets look at 295. Jessica boyington has that customized traffic report. Especially if youre heading out the door in west deptford, Pay Attention right now. Its customized for you. 295 around route 130. This is typically what were seeing, a lot of the camera lenses are difficult to see the roadways because theyre covered in water right now. Southbound to the delaware memorial bridge, 60s. A slippery spot. A road obstruction reported in Montgomery County in horsham on west conte line road and Meeting House road. Watch out for potential Police Activity on the scene. If youre out in berks county, theres an accident in manatawny road. From the schuylkill to 95, 15minute trip. Speeds in the 60s there. 42 degrees through most of philadelphia and about 20 minutes before 6 00. Doing more harm than good. Well tell you about the new ordinance in philadelphia thats targeting a certain kind litter scattered across the city. Plus, the boys are back. Find out the latest from phillies spring training down in florida, including the slugger whos trying to turn things around. Youre unpacking already . Yeah, help me find some mugs. Sure. beep hey. O. K. Theyll do. Wake up to the mountain grown aroma of folgers. The best part of wakin up so, where do you want to start . I think this is a pretty good place. Is folgers in your cup heres a look at the nbc 10 first alert weather radar. Heavy rain, got thunder and gusty winds. Thats what we could be dealing with later on today. Thats why weve issued a first alert for you this morning. And happening today, Philadelphia Health officials will team up with a couple of nonprofit groups to try and get teenagers to stop smoking. The goal of the philly First Campaign is to reduce the teen smoking rate to zero. It will urge teenagers to use peer pressure to get their friends to quick. Philadelphia officials want to get rid of clothing bins around the city that have fallen by the way side. Mayor jim kenney and city council are pushing an antiblight ordinance. Around 70 byrins around the cit look like this one. Whoever owns them arent maintaining them. Ill be happy to give the bins back if they fine and pay for the cost of keith warrens crews picking them up and storing them. A city order gnat painance p year requires the bins to be taken care of. A Rowan UniversityResearch Project is headed into space. Nasa selected the project called memsat. Rowan satellite will test new electronic memory technology. Its 5 45. 42 degrees outside. Former bucks county congressman Patrick Murphy starts his new job at the pentagon. Murphy will take the oath as undersecretary of the army, essentially the armys chief management officer. He oversees 1 million employees and a 143 billion budget. Murphy is the first iraq war veteran to serve in congress. Happening today, a Senate Committee will meet in washington to discuss the publics growing concern about the spread of the zika virus. The Deputy Director of the centers for Disease Control and others in the medical community are expected to testify. We will have an update from that hearing on nbc 10 news at 11 00 this morning. Right now, the cdc is investigating 14 new cases of zika that may have been spread through sex. The infections involve women who have not travelled to areas where there were zika outbreaks. Their only risk factor is having sex with a man who have travelled there. Two of the infected women are pregnant. The mosquitoborne virus is said to cause birth defects in babies. February is black history month. Were hearing from a woman who made a Philadelphia Dance Company an international sensation. Philananco founder wanted to be the first black africanamerican ballerina. She came up with a Dance Company that would showcase the talents of young people of color. I would start school, she showed some black youngsters would get the opportunity to be ballet dancers. I ended up teaching pretty much everything. In to 12, brown received the nations highest civic honor for excellence, the National Medal of arts. Theyre picking up the pieces in the south after deadly tornadoes and theyre bracing for another round of Severe Weather. Three people are dead after at least 11 tornadoes hit louisiana, mississippi and alabama yesterday. A twister crossed the highway near prairieville, louisiana. Further west, you can see the path of destruction as dozens of homes were leveled. Then at another location, the strong winds tossed this 18wheeler on its side. Tornadoes hit florida. This is how it looked last night at a hotel nearby an airport in pensacola. Property damage and some injuries are reported there. The governors of louisiana, mississippi declared states of emergency. Itsc hard to see but ther are actually three waterspouts in this video from louisiana. Possible tornadoes caused three waterspouts to form at the same time. To each other like this. To this is all from the same system headed our way, right . Yes, the potential of Severe Weather will come our way late this afternoon and evening. Were seeing light on and off rain, dreary, a little bit of a breeze. 42 degrees in philadelphia. At the shore, the rain has been on and off. Its only rain for cape may and the rest of the area as well. Even north and west where the temperatures are cooler in the 30s. Its raw this morning, the rain coming down, the strong gusty winds were expecting this afternoon, theyll wait into the afternoon and evening hours. Right now, 37 degrees in chalfont. The rain has been moving through a line of showers, extends from berks county into lehigh county. Most of montgomery and bucks county getting that light rain, doylestown seeing rain, northeast philadelphia, youve got it and that line extends into moorestown and burlington county. Evesham, light rain in tabernacle. Steadier rain during the day and that line, right through the atlanta area is what well be watching for the potential for Severe Weather late this afternoon. 11 00 in the morning, that line is on the move. By late this afternoon and this evening, this is what it develops into. Look at the heavy downpours for allentown and reading and into delaware and south jersey. Heavy downpours for 9 00 hour in philadelphia. Extending into delaware and south jersey and sweeping through the area. Most of the area will see it done by 11 00. Those last few showers out of here overnight. Before they get here or when they get here, theres a potential for Severe Weather. This shaded area is the potential for thunderstorms, just to the south in maryland, delaware and south jersey, a slight risk of Severe Weather with winds gusting more than 50 miles an hour, damaging winds. That risk is higher farther to the south. It bears watching through this afternoon and this evening, thats why weve issued a first alert trl to keep you safe. Wet and windy to start with, thunderstorms late this afternoon, riding in on the winds, 60s for today. It will not last. Tomorrow, the win will still be here but the 60s will be gone. 51 degrees in the morning and the afternoon. Scattered light shower is possible on thursday. Friday, sunshine, gusty winds friday will bring in colder air sunday morning. Look at that, 26 degrees saturday morning. Look at the turnaround, on sunday, a big warmup, bright, sunny skies, just a few scattered clouds. 58 degrees. Breezy on sunday. That will be a nice breeze, 58 the High Temperature into the low 60s on monday. This morning driving into work as most of us do this early hour, the windshield wipers intermittently. The afternoon crews were coming in this afternoon, this evening. Lots of rain. Steady rain. Well see good showers during the morning and into the early afternoon hour. The bigggs threat is late thi afternoon, especially this evening. Okay. Great, thanks, bill. Now lets check your drive to work this morning, again, better this morning than perhaps this afternoon. Jessica boyington looking at the schuylkill. Yes, the schuylkill right now. Were still doing okay. Were about a half hour away from big rush hour hit. 202, the eastbound side, if youre heading to center city right now this spot on the schuylkill expressway, no problem, 13 minutes eastbound from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Average speeds still are up there. No problems heading westbound as well. We have one day of this ramp closure, 95 southbound at exit 7a at route 52. Northbound southbound from 295 to 49512minute trip there. Horsham, road obstruction reported with Police Activity west county line road and Meeting House road. Ill be back in the next ten minutes or so in the 6 00 hour with another check of your morning drive. Thank you, jessica. Can the keys to your next car be in your hands . Well show you the new technology thats combining two of your daily essentials into one. Life in the city. Hear where philadelphia now stacks up against other major cities in the world when it comes to quality life. This nbc 10 first alert Winter Weather update is brought to you by buckmans, your cold weather experts. We built our factories here because of a huge natural resource. Not the land. The water. Or power sources. Its the people. American workers. They build worldclass products. And that builds communities. And a better future. For all of us. Because making something in america means so much, to so many. Weathertech. Proudly made in america. Good morning, everyone. Its Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Right now were watching millville, new jersey on route 55 around route 49. Conditions looking better, not a lot of cars in the area, no problems heading north or south. 422 still in the green with those drive times. Eastbound where we typically see the delay from 29 to the schuylkill, only a nineminute trip. More drive times in the 6 00 hour. A new development is expected to change the face of north broad street in center city. Ground breaking happens this morning on the hanover north broad project. Two parking lots at broad and callowhill will become a mix of apartment and retail space along with parking spots. An artists rendering shows what the project will look like when its done. There will, two new sixstory apartment buildings and thousands of feet of retail space for specialty shops. Local students are helping feed the less fortunate. Fifth graders donated more than 1,000 pounds of Peanut Butter and jelly to philabundance. A National Survey found philadelphia and quality of life is among the best in the country and the world in fact. The Mercer Survey found philadelphia was the tenth best place to live in the country and the 57th best city in the entire planet. The ratings factors in crime rate, economic status, education and health care. Vienna ranked number one. One reason were so good is our sports teams. The phillies squad through their first workout of spring training. Howard is taking battingc practice here in clearwater. Phils manager pete mccannen said if his batting average continues, hell bench howard. The slug ares reaction . Do i think its fair . Me personally, probably not. But i mean, it is what it is. I mean, the situation is the situation. You just go out there and go play. Howard and the phils open up exhibition play on sunday against the university of tampa. Dont forget, nbc 10 is your home for the phillies home opener. Weve got you covered on monday, april 11th with our welcome home phillies special. First pitch at 3 00 p. M. Right here on nbc 10. The Democratic National convention is expected to bring money to philadelphia but neighboring Montgomery County is hoping to get an economic boost as well. Donkeys from the Elmwood Park Zoo were there yesterday. The dnc is expected to bring more than 11 million to philadelphias economy. Philadelphia will host the convention july 25th through the 28th at wells fargo center. Multiple fires, philadelphias firefighters have been hard at work this morning. Next at 6 00, two fires broke out just blocks apart in north philadelphia. Well tell you what we know about the causes here. And securing second place. We have new numbers just in from nevada where weve been keeping a close eye on the caucus results. So, what moves me . Its the journey. The feeling of doing. Its making choices for a healthier me, a healthier us. Im on my path and i love it. The path to a healthier you starts with natures path pumpkin flax granola. Crunchy clusters of delicious organic oats, flax and pumpkin seeds, with all the goodness to nourish you and your family. Natures path granola. Enjoy your path. Nbc 10 first alert weather breaking news. We have issued a first alert weather day. Were getting you prepare for the potential of Severe Weather later today. First alert meteorologist bill henley is tracking wind and rain. If you listen to the pundits we werent expected to win too much. Now were winning, winning, winning the country. Another win for donald trump, this time in nevada. For the second time in a week, were showing you someone being saved by the narcan antidote. This time it happened on a public bus. This is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. Its a first alert weather day. Lets get to nbc 10 first alert meol