cherry hill superintendent. it's over a history teacher who was suspended for making remarks about safety here in the wake of the school shooting that happened earlier this month. quite a few students have since come to his defense. yesterday morning, some of them gathered in the school auditorium to ask that the teacher be reinstated. followed up with a petition of about 500 signatures and here's one of the students that organized that petition. >> i absolutely thought something needed to be done in support of my history teacher. like i said, this man just meant too much for me to sit down and watch this injustice happen. >> reporter: students say they were threatened with suspension. and the cancellation of prom and a senior trip if they go through with a planned walkout this morning. we're also told that there's another walkout planned for mid-march. the day after the parkland shooting, the superintendent said that the concern was the primary focus of responsibility. and anyone, students, teachers, parents who have any concerns should address them with the principal or the superintendent directly. for now, i'm live here in cherry hill, matt deluca, nbc10 news. dozens of students are told it will not help their chance of getting in. in philadelphia, a 15-year-old student caught with a loaded gun in school faces charges. the student attempted to pass through a metal detector. police say that the student confessed to stealing the gun. no one was hurt. students at the florida high school rocked by this month's massacre will return to class tomorrow. teachers at marjory stoneman douglas high school returned yesterday. and under difficult conditions a symbol of hope appeared in the sky. take a look at this. this rainbow greeted the faculty and staff in parkland. you can see the colorful arch through the palm trees. above the police cars parked outside, the school in less than two weeks since a gunman opened fire inside the school killing two dozen people and injuring others. the school guard outside the school is giving an explanation plus president trump is saying what he would have done if he were in the officer's shoes. and an amtrak crash near the full kraft station near philadelphia. crews shut down the train to get passengers off the train safely. a crash sent three people to the hospital last night. first responders got the call just before 9:45, we're working to find out the condition of the people in those cars. and we're learning more about two people, including a philadelphia police officer found dead in a home in port richmond. police responded to the home yesterday. after the officer didn't show up for her shift. police also found a man's body in her house. neighbors tell us they can't believe something like this happened on their block. >> it's all owful. she's just a really nice person. >> i wanted to know what happened. it's a bit of a shock. >> police say the officer was a 14-year veteran of the force. the department has not released the victims' names. mayor pulaski with his defense wrapped up the cross-examination. the case will likely go to the jury tomorrow. it's 4:04, u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is expected to deliver a new trade policy. and josh shapiro will be one of the state prosecutors joining him. you can tap our app when the live streaming when it starts at 1:30 this afternoon. in delaware, the state fight against opioids. other portion of the money will replenish supplies of narcan at boys pand girl s and girls acr. the ntsb expects to finish its investigation in the lehigh southbound side of the tunnel system that has electrical piping directly above drivers instead of in a parallel tunnel. businesses and workers are feeling the financial burn from a fire that destroyed a building in old city more than a week ago. it would be two months before the little lion is up and running again. the restaurant is closed and waiting for the city to demolish neighboring buildings where the fire started. for now, people are out of a job. >> have you ever been not working for this long? >> no, no, not at all. it's hard. >> the restaurant has launched a gofundme page to help its staff and planning a fund-raiser for sunday afternoon. leaders want the public's health in redesigning a group of west side parks, woodland park, cool springs park and tillman park up for investigation. the focus on wood lawn. that start at 4:30 in wood lawn library. a report shows investments in parks and recreation for children. >> just good for their health but absolutely necessary. the philadelphia school district is a step closer to having a new nine-member board. the educational nominating panel voted 27 candidates to mayor jim kenney to make the final decision. we have the list of names on the nbc10 app. mayor kenney has until march 18th to make those appointments. 37 degrees outside. i don't know about you, but i had frost on my windshield. >> yes, 10, 15 degrees cooler today than yesterday. let's check in with bill henley for the details, bill? >> yeah, it's cold outside with a frost. clear skies and a chilly morning with the temperatures dropping. it's dry from a live view of the kimmel center in center city. the temperatures are well into the 50s this afternoon. clear and cool this evening. it will be back down to the 40s this evening. look at the 20s this morning. lehigh valley and the suburbs and don't let that 34 fool you in south jersey. there are a few neighborhoods that dropped into the 20s. swedesboro and you'll have to bundle up more this morning than yesterday. but we've got a nice sunny start to the day. and sunshine is going to be around for the day. 30s for allentown, quakertown, atlantic city. middle 30s for philadelphia and wilmington. we'll all see sunshine to start with. you can count on that through the day. this is doppler radar and satellite. we're in the clear. not only this morning, there's nothing lining up to the west. no sign of wet weather, so the forecast is calling for a considerable warmup from the 30s to the 40s. here come the 50s for the afternoon. from philadelphia to the suburbs to lehigh valley, no sign any of clouds. bright sunshine and light wind today. a really beautiful look to the second to the last day of february. 30s to start with for delaware. and south jersey will be in the 50s with bright sunshine this afternoon. even the shore up to 50 degrees. so you'll need your sunglasses to get through the day today. but before the week out, you'll need your rain gear once again. umbrella, going up on thursday and friday. we've got a storm system that's going to bring a good deal of rain to the area. and hopefully strong winds as well. look at that, arrival of that storm when i come back that ten minutes. thank you, bill, nine minutes past 4:00 a.m. on this tuesday. let's get a check of route 442. >> right around route 41 through the deptford area. not seeing any problems. it's a little early for that. northbound side is moving nicely through 95. and the turnpike looks good. drive times, westbound and eastbound from route 1 at valley forge. a 20-minute trip there. just checking with mass transit to see if there are any delays yet. not yet. so far, so good for septa, new jersey, patco. and capturing a confrontation. new video show an officer appearing to knock down and punch a man. we'll tell you what led up to the violent encounter around why the alleged victim said he did nothing wrong. new eyes on the road. the septa surveillance plan could make you think twice about where you park. and the philly sleeve. the new process that could try to get lebron james to complete the process. 4:12 right now. complete the process. philly wanted lebron. that's the bold message these billboards in cleveland are displaying right now. >> fans in chester county placed these billboards close to the cavaliers arena apparently to persuade the superstar lebron james to sign with the sixers this season. they already love seeing the king play. in the home game against the cavs in apple triples any price for any opponent that month. and nbc10 asked the fans about the lebron idea. >> it's pretty fun, you know, all about going out and letting people know you're welcome to come here. >> if they need to win a championship here, definitely. you open up the game, be a game. >> the 76ers who have won seven of their last eight, they play in cleveland thursday night. that should be interesting. and they're also surging, the winning streak now at six games. >> better yet this morning, they're on top of their division. the flyers latest victory came in montz treel lareal. it came to a shoot-out. now you like shoot-outs, right? >> i like them when we win. flyers jumped over pittsburgh, now first place in the metropolitan division. like it when we win. ♪ 4:14 right now, the competition in south korea, team usa olympians returned home yesterday to a champions welcome. >> check out this raucous crowd that met members of the u.s. men's curling team in minnesota. and that's also members of the women's curling team on it. in wisconsin, team member matt hamilton was more subdued but no less appreciated. teams also arrived in chicago. adam rippon was among the athletes who first arrived on the west coast. we talked to them about the secret of their success at this year's winter games. >> so, i hoped when i went to this olympics, i felt totally like myself. i think that's why i made the changes and was so successful at these games was, you know, i just kind of got out of my own way. >> this year was rippon's olympic debut until a dazzling performance helped the u.s. win bronze in figure skating. and a golden moment for team usa women. the u.s. women's hockey team honored lat night before the golden knights took on the kings. team captain meghan duggan delivered a ceremonial puck drop in south korea. the u.s. squad gave united states the second gold medal in women's he's hockey with a 3-2 shoot-out over canada. again, back to that shoot-out. >> it worked in our favor. >> later on today, ellen welcomes the women's hockey team to the show. and the focus on the fight for quality between men and women's sports. >> you know, we've seen things, experienced things that kind of enough was enough. we put our world championship on the line and said we wouldn't attend if we didn't see major cultural differences in our program with regards to women, if we weren't treated with a little more more respect. >> you can see that this afternoon at 3:00. and you can relive the best moments on the nbc10 app. you can see the closing ceremony of the winter games and all of the performances. a quarter past 4:00 a.m. on this tuesday. cool enough to have -- maybe play hockey outside right now. it's that cold. >> bill henley, let's talk about the warmup. >> we can get the hose out back and start laying the ice down this morning. but it won't last. it's going to be a warm day today. even though it's cold right now, it's a different day than yesterday. look how clear it is in the east. yesterday, it was socked in with fog. dry air has moved in and allowed the temperatures to come down. looking at 30s for delaware, south jersey above freezing. but lehigh valley and several other colder neighborhoods. kennett square, 38 degrees. look at sfriepring city in collegeville. warrington 38 degrees. and definitely have to bundle up more this morning than you did yesterday. but you'll also need your sunglasses. it's going to be bright sunshine all day. look at the temperatures taking off in the middle 50s. it's going to feel like the low 60s with the bright sunshine and very light wind. radar satellite shows we're clear at trenton, philadelphia, wilmington. nothing nearby. the next storm system that's going to come our way is out of texas. it's pretty clear but watch what happens the next couple days. wet weather starts to migrate our way. this is actually wednesday night at 11:00, you can see some showers to our south and southwest. by this time thursday morning. the showers are coming at us. and will start the day thursday. the rain will be moving in and then a rainy afternoon. and the rain continues through most of friday. that's going to bring our temperatures down. we'll have nice couple dry mild days before any wet weather moves in. thursday, the rain arrives with temperatures coming down and chilly rain falling on friday. but we'll be clearing out and driving out for the weekend. just stays cool for the first weekend in march. a closer look at that with 10 day on 10 in the next half hour. >> i'm glad that bill can sneak until a look at the weekend. it's 4:18, we're getting out the door and we've got some help. >> jessica boyington is looking at the lehigh valley. >> yeah, guys it looks good. cameras around lehigh street. we're doing well. you can see we're not seeing any backup or delay. good to go out and watching no backup on the schuylkill expressway. headed up through the ninth street expressway through 30th street. watching that. typically clears around 5:00. but again, it's not budging any traffic or doing anything major in that process. just watching a slowdown in that lane restriction. and also another lane restriction, right lane is closed on the northbound side between the county tolls and the right lane blocked there. credit card apology, why you could be receiving a refund from one company. and drilling deputispute. a heatup over that and why it could be dangerous. plus this -- >> i really believe i'd run in even if i didn't have a weapon. >> criticizing the response that president trump said officers should have done during the florida school shooting. all new at 5:00. starting opioid addiction before it starts. hear about new efforts in our area to educate children early in life, before they encounter the drug danger. 4:22. decisions by the supreme court has young immigrants breathing a sigh of relief. >> in a decision considered a blow to the trump administration the high court decided to decline an appeal on the daca program. that means the government has to keep the daca program going that also means congress needs more time to come up with a more permanent solution. daca allows young undocumented immigrants brought here by their parents to go to school or work without fear of deportation. about 700,000 people are currently enrolled. one senator said the supreme court decision gives lawmakers more time to work on the legislation, vai. education secretary betsy devos is sending a team of investigator to washington state university to examine how the examinations were handled by dr. larry nassar. michigan state faces dozens of lawsuit that claimed that it ignored report and warning signs about nassar as far back as 1997. the trump administration plan which could lead to offshore drilling in the atlantic ocean faces a fight from people at the jersey shore. >> community leaders spoke out against the program yesterday. the administration's policeman would allow for drilling of oil and gas off the coast. critics fear a spill like the deep water horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico would be catastrophic for the environment and new jersey's tourism and fishing industries. >> if people couldn't go to the beach, they wouldn't come to ocean city. it would be a disaster. >> organizers wanted to get their message out before march 9th which is the end of the period in which the public can comment on the proposal. citigroup will refund hundreds of millions of dollars after admitting it over charged them for interest. citi promised to pay back more than 2 million credit card holders. the average refund will be $190. the bank said it failed to reduce the dollars over a three-year period. citi said it will now notify cardholders with a check in the mail. it's 4:24. right now, parking crackdown, how bus drivers could soon have more power behind the wheel. and heartbreak for the cosby family. what the comedian is now saying about the loss of his daughter. clear skies this morning giving us a great view of the moon. on its way to being full and on its way to setting this morning. we're going to see moon shine to start with, and bright sunshine all day long. a pretty nice day shaping up. i'll tell you what it does to temperatures, a considerable warmup when i come back in a few minutes. but first jessica boyington is bringing you "first alert" traffic on a tuesday morning. jessica. >> it's still early, we're not really seeing anything, right, so that's a good thing. cherry hill around kings highway. so far, so good. i'll check in with the roads and the boulevards when we come back. watching the roads. the new way septa buses could soon help enforce parking violations in philadelphia. sidewalk confrontation, an officer appears to push and repeatedly push a man in the head. nbc10 is talking to the victim. and new defense for the deputy who stood outside the florida massacre and what president trump says he would have done. >> announcer: nbc10 news starts now. 4:28 right now. good morning, this is "nbc 10 news today." the first look at 4:00. i'm tracy davidson. >> and i'm vai sikahema. let's get to bill henley, the "first alert" most accurate forecast in town. bill. >> yeah, the temperatures are still coming down, our skies are clear. that includes wilmington. there's a little bit of a breeze to make it colder. feels like at the freezing point in philadelphia. below freezing for millville and wilmingt wilmington. there's not going to be a lot of wind during the day but we will see a lot of sunshine. so the temperatures in 30s right now will have no problem warming into the 50s this afternoon. 56 in the suburbs, in philadelphia. the jersey shore a little cooler. up to 50 degrees. and the lehigh valley will be 55 degrees. for delaware, nice clear skies and look at the warmup that begins this morning at 6:00, 33. by 9:00 this afternoon, 43 degrees. when i'm back in ten minutes i'll break down your day hour by hour and show you how quickly the temperatures will climb in your neighborhood. but first, jessica boyington is watching your "first alert" traffic. >> thanks, bill. we're starting out around the roosevelt boulevard. cameras around 17th street it actually looks pretty good. and northbound and southbound side no problems or delays and no construction either. watching 95 moving through delaware. 11 minutes on the northbound side that's going to take from you 295 to 495, with speeds almost in the 60s. down here with this construction, p.a. turnpike. northbound side to midcounty tolls to about lansdale, watch for the construction project, vai and tracy. cameras mounted to septa buss could help the city crack down to illegal parking in bus zone. it's a growing problem according to septa and the philadelphia parking authority. nbc10's katy zachry is live for us in center city. katy, is this a big problem. >> reporter: well, vai, market street are lined with bus stops still it turns out people are not being deterred by signs like this that say no stopping, bus only. now despite this problem the city's parking authority is considering teaming up with septa. the idea is to get cameras already mounted to the front of septa