With. Heavier rain will develop later today. And a thunderstorm threat, a severe thunderstorm threat for this evening. Lots of lightning and gusty winds, potentially damaging winds coming through this evening. Weve issued a first alert as a result. This morning, though, this is what youll encounter, a few scattered showers in the area, light rain pushing past philadelphia. Some rainfall right now, its very light in upper Montgomery County and into camden and burlington counties in new jersey. A few more showers this morning, the steadier rain is to the south, the thunderstorm activity farther to the south, in georgia and into south carolina. Its going to be a rainy day as this comes up the east coast, potentially stormy. We take a look at the futurecast hour by hour when im back in ten minutes. Right now, Jessica Boyington has first alert traffic. Well, bill, we are watching berlin, new jersey around the white horse pike and cross keys road. Roadway is obviously wet in the ar area, not a lot of cars in sight. Heres the schuylkill expressway, just checked in with the drive times as well. No problems into center city right now. Either direction, eastbound is in here. Thats where youre heading towards center city. No backups or delays although the roadways may be damp and potentially slippery. We are in the green, eastbound from 29 to the schuylkill, in the 60s. Drive time is 28 minutes. A building fire, one of two just blocks apart. Katy zachry is live at the scene. What can you tell us . Tracy, it has been a busy morning for philadelphia firefighters so far. This is the most recent fire, the second one theyve dealt with in the last hour. As we push in to this structure in the middle of the block. This is a vacant structure. No one was inside. The fire broke out here on the first and second floor about 45 minutes ago. When firefighters got here, they then found the fire had transferred to a portion of the building to the left of it, also vacant, unoccupied, no one inside. Thats the good news. Now, as we pan off to the right, you can see this lit building here, that was occupied. People are currently living in there. They were evacuated just to be safe but fire fortunately did not transfer over to that structure. There have been no injuries reported from this fire along 5th and burke street. Firefighters have it under control. c they are just finishing putting out hot spots and plan on wrapping up the scene. A half hour, 45 minutes before this fire broke out, lets go to video of another fire that broke out at the Harrison Plaza apartments along north 10th street. That is a 12story building, as you can see, an Apartment Building and fire broke out on the third floor there. Everyone inside that Apartment Building had to be evacuated. They were outside in the cold, the wind and the rain this morning while firefighters put that fire out. Were still working to find out the cause of the fire there but fortunately, there were no injuries and everyone was let back inside the apartment within the last hour. Thats the latest we have for you live in philadelphia, north philadelphia, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. Katy, thanks. 4 04 and 42 degrees inside. Police in Delaware County are investigating a shooting involving an officer that happened on barker avenue, sharon hill. Medic took a man shot in the chest to the hospital. Were working to learn the victims condition. Prosecutors now have their first statement from former eagle lesean mccoy. His lawyer said mccoy did nothing wrong. Prosecutors are investigating a fight involving two offduty Police Officers and mccoy. Mccoy pointed the finger at the officers. Pictures we obtained show the injuries to Roland Butler and darnell jesse. It certainly doesnt surprise me that someone would make an effort to try to distance themselves from criminal conduct when theyre the target of a criminal investigation. The District Attorneys Office has not said if or when charges will be filed. This morning, Philadelphia Police are searching for a killer following the stabbing death of a transgender woman in frankfo frankford. Mya young was found on penn street saturday night. Someone stabbed young in the neck and chest. Last year, two transgender people were killed in philadelphia, 20 across the country. Youngs friends fear this may be an attack in a series of attacks fueled by zridiscrimination. Sometimes thats a part of what happens when you decide to be who you are and fight for that. Theres a long list of transgender people, especially transgender people of color, who have fought for their lives or lost their lives. 4 06. Now to decision 201. No surprise, donald trump takes first place in nevadas gop caucus. The battle for second place is still going on. Trump ran away with the contest, gotten 45 of the vote. In the past hour, marco rubio took over second place, 24 , ted cruz, 22 . These numbers are still changing. John kasich and ben carson managed only singlec digit support in the caution. Matt delucia join us with a breakdown of what the results mean for the gop race moving forward. Nbc news called this race for donald trump at the stroke of midnight, precisely when the caucus voting ended in nevada. Trump rolled to his Third Straight victory in the gop race for the white house. Nevada republicans poured into caucus precincts around the state with most throwing their support behind the billionaire businessman who own a luxury hotel in las vegas. The nevada win gives trump even more momentum heading into super tuesday, which is next week, that is when voters in nearly a dozen states go to the polls. Trump gave his victory speech just within the last few hours. Were going to be the smart people. Were not going to be the people that get pushed around all over the place. Were going to be the smart people. Youre going to be proud of your president and youre going to be even prouder of your country. Okay . Reporter trump thanked various groups of voters for their support, including people he called the poorly educated. The votes in nevada as we just mentioned, senator marco rubio the favorite of the republican establishment. Hes battling ted cruz for second place. Rubio held a rally in michigan during last nights caucus. He is still winless in this primary season. Ted cruz continued his downward slide in nevada, his third place showing as of right now follows a similar result in south carolina. The texas senator has a primary in his home state next tuesday. Observers say he needs a victory there to stay in the race. For the record, Ohio Governor john kasich and retired neurosurgeon ben carson remain in the president ial race but neither candidate was competitive in nevada. Last night, the democrats running for president answered questions at a town hall in south carolina. That states democratic primary comes up on saturday. Bernie sanders called for reforms in the criminal justice system. Hillary clinton talked about racial barriers in society. Back here at home, Electrical Workers Union boss John Dougherty is facing accusations of starting a street fight with a nonunion worker. Take a look at video taken in south philadelphia last month pears to show the worker, joshua keasey and dougherty walking along third street. Keaseys lawyer says his client is targeted because hes not with doughertys local 98 union. Dougherty approached him, hit him with a left, broke his nose, right that was partially blocked. The other men jumped in and pummeled him. A spokesperson for dougherty said the union boss acted in selfdefense. The state Attorney Generals Office will handle the case and investigate. Nbc 10 does employ some work her are members of the local 98 union. Happening today, Philadelphia Health officials will team up with nonprofit groups to get teenagers to stop smoking. They will urge teens to use peer pressure to get their friends to quit. Philadelphia currently has the highest Youth Smoking rate among thec ten largest u. S. Cities. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Tracking some rain showers this morning. Clouds are overhead and those clouds will be staying with us during the day today. And heavy rainfall, thats going to wait until this afternoon. What were seeing this morning are some scattered, light showers in the area. Thats a live view looking across the delaware from the adventure aquarium. 40 degrees, ten minutes after 4 00. We are watching the radar screen for showers this morning. Tracking some rain that will be steadier later this morning. This evening, there is a threat of Severe Weather, strong gusty winds and heavy downpours. The potential, strong gusty winds will develop ahead of those storms. We could see winds topping 50 miles an hour. Damaging winds are a possibility. Mt. Pocono getting freezing rain this morning. 31 degrees. But thats the only trouble spot at this hour. Trenton is 39, well above freezing for dover at 45 degrees with just a few rain drops. Thats just rain falling on 95 in south philadelphia. Here you can see the scattered shower activity thats just moving through right now. The steadier, very light rain into eastern berks county, upper Montgomery County, milford, youll seeing a few rain drops now, moving towards allentown. In new jersey, just heading towards trenton right now, burlington and mt. Laurel seeing that light rain, steadier rain is to the south. Thats where youll find thunderstorm activity as well in the deep south. Hour by hour futurecast, 7 00 this morning. Cloudy skies, not much in the way of rainfall. Later in the morning its back. Well see downpours come through. Its going to be on and off during the Morning Hours by 11 00, some lighter rain once again. Look at the heavy downpours in northeastern maryland. And into central delaware. Those will be sweeping through but thats not the heaviest yet. 3 00 this afternoon, you can see downpours just to the north of allentown. Then we go into the evening hours, this is 6 00 this evening, look at the heavy rain moving into lancaster and berks county and then sweeping into philadelphia during the evening hours. Its not just philadelphia, its also delaware into south jersey and lower montgomery and bucks counties. This is when we could see Severe Weather taking shape. We go through the extended future weather to find out when this moves out when im back in ten minutes. Thanks for that. Lets check your ride to work right now. Theres an accident in Montgomery County. Jessica boyington is watching that. Jessica . Thats right, tracy. An accident in skippack, collegeville road and lewisky road. Heres the vine street expressway. Right around 24th street, no problems in either direction. The roadways are definitely wet. Westbound, thats what those lanes are headed to the schuylkill expressway or 30th street station, youll be just fine. The rest the drive times okay, no problems on schuylkill or 95 and the blue route southbound to the schuylkill 95 still a 15minute trip. Tracy . An onboard overdose is caught on tape. Next, see how Police Officers saved him. Moment of cimpact. New security video shows a small plane crashing into several parked cars. Looking great and stepping out with confidence includes having beautiful feet. My newest beauty routine secret starts in the shower. Discover the latest innovation from amope. The new pedi perfect wet dry. Now get effortless hard skin removal on dry or wet skin. Plus, it has 2 speeds and its rechargeable. The easy way for touchably soft feet. Suits me and my new shoes. New amope pedi perfect wet dry. Available at walmart in the foot care aisle or near the registers. 4 15. Breaking news from nepal where searchers found the wreckage of a plane that went down yesterday. All 23 people on board are dead. Plane crashed in poor visibility, losing contact with air Traffic Controllers eight minutes after it took off. Upper darby police say they released video of a man overdosing on heroin on a crowded bus to show the power of narcan. Police departments facebook page. Minutes later you see officers administering narcan. c the man in the video was arrested for possession. Two weeks ago, a woman was lying in the street and the west Deptford Police officer helped revive her. The kalamazoo shooting rampage suspect in a gun store hours before the killings. These surveillance pictures show jason dalton in the store on saturday. Was laughing and joking, gave the manager a hug before he bought a jacket with an inside pocket designed for a handgun. He was in here three hours before that started, no indication at all. There are just some people that will never give you an indication that theyre about to do something horrible. The Gun Store Owner says dalton had been in the store a few times before but he never bought a gun there. Prosecutors say dalton confessed to the shooting rampage that left six dead in kalamazoo this past weekend. Authorities have charged him with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Police and prosecutors say they may never learn the motive. Now i want to show you new video from california of a plane crashing on to a street. This Surveillance Video shows the small plane making an Emergency Landing yesterday on a road near an airport. The crash damaged the plane and several parked cars. No one was hurt. Investigators say it appears the pilot was trying to return to the airport shortly after takeoff but theyre not sure why. Victims of the tornadoes and severe storms across the south will be surveying the damage this morning. 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 struck as dozens of homes were leveled. Then at another location, the strong winds tossed this 18wheeler on its side. Tornadoes also hit florida and this is how it looked last night at a hotel near the airport in pensacola. Property damage and injuries are reported. The governors of louisiana and mississippi declared states of emergency. Survivors are reliving the terrifying moments when the twisters hit. And all at once we heard a loud noise. W whoo the wind looked like it came down and went up. Funniest thing i ever saw. One of the most hardhit areas appeared to be an rv park in southern louisiana. Two people were killed there. Take a look at this video. Its hard to see. Look at your screen closely. There are three waterspouts in this video, possible tornadoes three waterspouts to form at the same time over that lake there. It is rare to have three next to each other like this. A bridge in the area was closed until the waterspouts disappeared. This is a system that weve been watching as it moves its way towards us. Thats why weve issued a first alert for what it may bring later today. Lets get details from first alert meteorologist bill henley. It does look like it will be later today, tracy, that will bc the greatest threat late this afternoon and more likely this evening to see thunderstorms develop. What were seeing right now, wet weather, dreary conditions. This is a live view from here at the nbc 10 studios. The rain is coming down, just a little bit of a breeze. A light wind right now out of the northeast at 9 miles an hour at philadelphia international. 42 degrees to start with. Everybodys above freezing, the exception, the pocono mountains where it is just below freezing. They have freezing rain. Slippery from ice or snow. Forecast today. The temperatures will see a huge warmup. There are chilly spots, low 40s, wilmington, northeast philadelphia and wrightstown, 30s north and west in Montgomery County. Down to 36 degrees in blue bell, Lafayette Hill is 38 degrees, in the upper 30s for collegeville and in eagleville and farther north and west, the temperatures are all nicely above freezing. So freeze threat isnt a problem. But winds later today will be. Its already gusting to 22 miles an hour in wilmington and close to 30 mileanhour winds in much stronger winds with the potential stormy evening as severe thunderstorm threat will be sweeping through our area. Just some scattered showers this morning but look to the south. This is a massive storm system, snow on the backside in the midwest. Its that line of thunderstorms moving through the Florida Panhandle into southern georgia is a threat for us. The futurecast shows this storm system sweeping in during the evening hours and then clearing out first thing early tomorrow morning. So this evening will keep a close eye on those storms taking shape. This morning, well start off with clouds and some scattered showers at 6 00. 43 degrees, up to 45. At 9 00. And in spite of the rain, well see a big warmup by lunch time. 53 and climbing. We may wind up in the 60s this afternoon. Show you how long that will last with the full sevenday forecast coming up in the next half hour. Tracy . Bill, thanks for that. 4 21 right now. Lets check your ride to work. Especially if you take the 42 freeway. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has that. Jessica . 42 in deptford right now, looks okay. We do have a little bit of wet Road Condition here headed northbound into the philadelphia area. You can see not a lot of volume or traffic in that direction. This drive time is still okay. Average speeds down there into the 50s right now but everything still moving along. Moving over to 95 throughout delaware, ramp closure, we have to look out for for the rest of the day. Its supposed to be cleaned up by tomorrow. 95 southbound to exit 7b, route 52, that is closed still for that ongoing construction. See the drive times are still okay, though, we are in the green north or southbound from 295 to 495. Still watching that accident scene in skip packin Montgomery County, collegeville road and lewisky road. New development is expected to change the face of north broad street in center city. Groundbreaking happens this morn