Notified. If theres a fire we cant wait to turn off the electricity. Reporter in addition to the commissioner and fellow firefighters, the families of the two men rushed to the hospital to be by their side. Both have fiancees and one has a daughter. Were just okay theyre okay. Were also glad theyre okay. Reporter both firefighters are expected to make a full recovery. In fact, one of them will leave the hospital later on today. The other, the one who suffered the thirddegree burns, will stay overnight for observation. Reporting live outside of Temple University hospital im rosemary connors, nbc10 news. Philadelphia police are looking for the person responsible for a shooting that sent three people to the hospital. Skyforce10 over ingersoll street in brewerytown. Officers carried one man out of their police car. Another arrived in a mini van and was rushed inside. All three victims are in stable condition. Officers recovered a gun at the scene. We checked and no one has been arrested. A man is in Critical Condition after he was hit by a truck while riding a bicycle. Nbc10 on east lehigh avenue in kensington before 1 00 this afternoon. Police say its possible the victim drifted into oncoming traffic. No word if any charges will be filed. Secretly videotaping his own students inside his classroom for two years, what prosecutors say 37yearold teacher adam mayer did at the Gloucester County institute of technology in sowell. Investigators say at least nine students were victimized and there could be more. The alleged crimes were uncovered when a female student suspected something was wrong last thursday. We certainly want to make the public aware that this individuals no longer teaching in the school. There will be no further victimization. Not knowing youre getting your picture taken, thats pretty ward. Mayer is charged with official misconduct invasion of privacy and child endangerment. Is he on paid leave from school. New at 5 00 another call for change as crude oil train derailments become more common. Today u. S. Senator bob casey joined several local leaders and Emergency Responders at Philadelphia City hall. He wants congress to pass the response act, which would establish a subcommittee under femas National Advisory council. That would address the training of First Responders to handle these types of derailments. We have to make sure that when trains come through a community, if there is a derailment, that theres an action plan ready to deal with a derailment. Just last week Philadelphia CityCouncil Passed a resolution asking the federal government to force Rail Companies to build safer tankers. There have been two crude Oil Derailments in philadelphia since last year. Today new Flood Insurance regulations went into effect in bucks county as part of the regulations, fema has created new flood maps. If you live in an area thats at risk of flooding, according to the map, you will be required to buy Flood Insurance because flood losses are not covered by homeowners insurance. Despite a mostly cloudy day, we warmed into the 50s today. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here now with the very latest. I was thinking that the snow would be over, glenn. No we get snow in march in philadelphia. Weve even had it in april. Its not that unusual to have it in the forecast but this may be more than just flurries or a couple of snow showers youll see a little later. In the meantime we have pretty nice weather out there now. Its going to get even warmer as we go into tomorrow. Its 55 degrees now. Temperatures keep going up as we see more and more sunshine. 50 in allentown at the moment. And 58 degrees in georgetown delaware. That is the warm spot. These are the clouds coming down from the northwest. Were seeing patches of sunshine. The clouds will be increasing again tonight. That will help keep the temperature up. 52 degrees at 8 00. So its not going to be that cold when you get up in the morning. And the forecast highlights yeah, tomorrow thats going to be known for wind. Then we have multiple cold blasts coming in the sevenday. Yeah, snow just as we start spring officially. More on the timing of that with the seven day in a few minutes. Developing news concerning cliff lee. The Team Announced a short time ago theyre placing lee on the 60day disabled list. Lee has a tendon tear in the elbow of his throwing arm. Hell attempt to rehab that injury instead of having surgery. The same injury caused lee to miss most of last season. The phillies say theyre hopeful he can return to pitch this season. Villanova University Students erupted into cheers and hugs as news broke about the teams basketball dream. The wildcats become one of the top ranked teams as they head into the tournament. Tim furlong is live in villanova villanova. What a buzz this is creating on campus. I just got a text from villanova officials. They tell me tomorrow at 10 30 on this spot in front of the pavilion, there will be a sendoff rally as wildcats leave for pittsburgh to get the tournament start. They now have a target on their back and a ton of pressure on their shoulders. Villanova students know what theyll be doing thursday night. Ill be hunkered down with my friends watching game. Where theyll be watching the game is still up in the air. Last night when villanova found out they were a top seed playing in pittsburgh a lot started plotting out their road trip. Worth cutting classes if a big if if they can get tickets. I like that were in pittsburgh. I like our fans can get out there. Its an old big east town. We met a nova mom who road tripped down from connecticut to see her daughter which turned into a pretourney shopping trip. Do you count on your mom to buy your swag . Maybe. They werent alone. Weve been prepping 3 1 2 weeks ago for this exact moment. They have new tourney gear rolling in tomorrow. They knew this team with more wins than any other in School History would have their fans excited which means people are spending their green on anything thats nova blue. Win or lose villanova pride, it will show through in the tournament this year. Reporter and i didnt go to villanova but i bought some stuff, too. Im psyched for these guys. Tomorrow we should know more about ticketing procedure and the number of tickets theyll get for the thursday night game. The school will have to come up with a lottery system. Theres talk if enough kids can go, does the school want to sponsor buses to caravan to pittsburgh. All that information, the sendoff rally and all the gear at the school store will happen tomorrow. Live on villanova campus, tim furlong, nbc10 news. And learning last night they will face villanova lafayette, a 16th seed and also a local team. Lafayettes campus is in easton. Now, lafayette will take on nova thursday night in pittsburgh. Snult news wasnt as good for temple owls. They were shut out of the ncaa tournament. They settle for a number one seed in the nic playing bucknell at home on wednesday. When the final four teams arrive in indianapolis, theyll be able to see their names from afar because of this giant banner hanging outside of a hotel. They plan to update it after every round. The banner is more than 216 feet wide and 165 feet tall. The future of Big Brothers Big Sisters in southeastern pennsylvania is changing. My big sister and i have a close bond. Shes been to every play every meeting, anything important to me is important to her. A young woman who says Big Brothers Big Sisters changed her life. Today snoor pat toomey mayor nutter unveil aid Mentorship Partnership and resource center. They will partner with 135 nonprofits that focus on youth monitor ingday mentoring. Institute city of camden is receiving federal aid to revitalize run down areas. Senator menendez and expected to transform camdens from choice neighborhood into a mixed use community of many income levels. From hbo to a jail cell. A real estate heir is arrested for murder but long before robert durst became the subject of a cable tv drama, he had ties to our area. How his arrest in the Lehigh Valley thrust him into the national headlines. Overgrown but far from forgotten. Tracks that once led to Reading Terminal are about to come back to life as walkable open space. And wearing the green. A delaware mom is using them to raise money and awareness about a rare disease. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those minivan . We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life state farm is there. A real estate heir will go to california to face murder charges. Robert durst, the subject of the hbo documentary the jinx was arrested in new orleans over the weekend, now accused of the 2000 murder of 4iz friend susan berman. As Chris Pallone explains this isnt the first time hes been suspected of murder. Reporter 71yearold robert durst sat in new Orleans Criminal Court at times with his eyes closed facing extradition to california for the murder of his longtime friend susan berman in 2000. He looked frail as he rose to speak to the judge, indicating he did sign the waiver which will send him to los angeles for trial. Bob durst didnt kill susan berman. Hes ready to end all the rumor and speculation and have a trial. Reporter durst has been the subject of the hbo documentary series the jinx which takes a look at the disappearance of dursts wife kathy, for which he was acquitted claiming the killing was selfdefense. And the murder he was arrested for late saturday. The shows finale aired sunday night, hours after Police Arrested durst in a new orleans hotel. The shows producers uncovered a letter durst addressed to berman and confronted it with him. The handwriting and spellings looks similar to the presumed killer sent to police. Durst goes into the bath room and starts talking to himself. I killed them all, of course. Reporter former Westchester County new york da investigated durst in 2000. Susan berman was killed because she knew too much about kathleen durst. I believe he murdered her to prevent her from talking to us. Reporter dursts lawyers advised him not to take part in the jinx and saying his desire to talk might be what prosecutors have been looking for all along. Chris pallone, nbc news. Lehigh Valley University grad was arrested in our area 14 years ago. Durst was picked up for shoplifting a hoagie in november 2001. Police say he was a small, quiet man who gave his really name but when they ran a check, they discovered he was wanted for murder in texas. He had so much cash on him, thousands and thousands of dollars of cash and yet he wouldnt pay for a hoagie which resulted in his apprehension. You know, hes a bizarre guy. Durst was extradited from the Lehigh Valley to texas and was acquitted in the dismemberment case. Jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial they visited the boat where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured by police. There was heavy security at the pier in boston while jurors walked along the outside of the boat. The boat has more than 100 holes after the shootout with police. Inside the boat was a bloodsaned letter from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev denouncing the u. S. For wars in muslim countries. Dzhokhar tsarnaev could face the Death Penalty if convicted. Today Vice President joe biden was at Maryland State PoliceForensic Science laboratory to address the growing backlog of rape investigation. He talked about the need for funding to help address the problem. The case is one example of this backlog. She was raped at gunpoint in manhattan in 1993. Her rape kit sat on a shelf for 9 1 2 years. Her kit was finally tested in 2003. Thats whats daunting and scary. Certainly in my case a kit sitting and collecting dust for 9 1 2 years is really bad and unfortunate. And the fact of this happening today is actually a little disrespectful. In 2007 police found a match to her rape kit. The case went to trial and the suspect was convicted. A search is under way to find the cause of this fire at an Industrial Park in milwaukee. Just before 8 00 this morning, firefighters say a few propane tanks exploded at acme galvanizing company. Neighbors nearby say they could feel the explosion. Felted like a cannon. It went boom boom. It shoot those windows over there. All of the employees inside the Building Made it out safely. No one was hurt. The Obama Administration is delaying the removal of 10,000 u. S. Troops from afghanistan until at least next year. Top u. S. Commanders say with the talibans new strength more forces are needed in taliban. Ed ined in afghanistan. Nuclear weapons in neighboring iran raises concerns as the u. S. Approaching a deadline for reaching a nuclear deal with iran. We absolutely do believe there is a responsibility for congress after iran has demonstrated the same compliance with the agreement to weigh in and make a decision about removing those pensions. That deadline is just two weeks away. Tonight some senior u. S. Officials say theyre not sure a deal will be reached. Desperately needed aid is flowing into South Pacific island as the country struggles to recover from a devastating cyclone. The capital city storm victims started to repair their homes today after cyclone pam destroyed or damaged 90 of the homes and businesses. The category 5 packing winds of 180 miles an hour and literally wiping many villages completely off the island. Hitting the building trees. Just sat under the bed. Destroyed by the wind. Destroyed by the wind she said. Six people are confirmed dead. That number is expected to climb. Theres been a lot of tropical systems in that part of the world recently. Some of them incredibly strong. This one, unfortunately, right over those islands. Tomorrow well have a windy day. Temperature will get into the 60s. At least in parts of the area. But its not going to stay that way. We have a cold blast coming. A cold blast on wednesday and another cold blast over the weekend. We have snow in the forecast for at least parts of the area. Not much wind out there now but it sure was windy yesterday and going to be windy tomorrow. We just have oneday break today. Winds only 9 miles an hour with 10 degrees warmer than we were at this time yesterday. So, that much warmer plus less wind. Its feeling pretty nice out there. Temperatures in the 50s and most of the area. A little cooler right at the shore. You can see stone harbor at 42 degrees is the cold spot. Even colder than the poconos right now. Now, lets look at the wind gusts as we go into tomorrow. 30 to 40 miles an hour. Were going to be windy all day long. Thats a northwest wind bringing in colder air. The northwest wind at higher levels bringing in clouds later today. Much of the country is fairly dry, but this is what were looking at. Creating all sorts of moisture coming up into mexico. That whole storm is going to be moving across the country. As you can see with the future cast it obviously comes toward us as rain but its moving into that really cold air mass thats coming in here wednesday and thursday. Eventually it moves in and well get snow. More coming up later. Tonight mostly cloudy not as cold as last night. 44 for the low in philadelphia. 38 north and west. Not much wind at all. Winds will pick up tomorrow. 20 to 30 gusts to 40 miles an hour. Now, theres going to be a big temperature contrast. 55 for the high in the Lehigh Valley, frampl ranging to mid60s in central delaware. Everyone gets warmer tomorrow and everyone gets warmer on wednesday. Look at the low temperatures on wednesday, setting us up for a storm on friday. It looks like a storm. It does not look like its going to bring up a whole lot of warm air. At the very least, a mixture of snow and rain across the area. And one fairly calm day on saturday before another big cold blast comes in. Gas prices dropped over the weekend after 40 Straight Days it increases. According to aaa midatlantic gas is down two cents from a week ago. Still much cheap are than 2. 50 we were paying this time last year. In the fivecounty philadelphia area people are paying an average of 2. 59 a gallon. Youll find the cheapest in south jersey at 2. 21 a gallon. Tax season is here. Time to get all of your earnings investments and those expenses in order. But before you work on getting this years refund the irs says about a Million People still have not claimed money from past years tax returns. Also whether you prefer a cup of homemade brew or a stop at starbucks or Dunkin Donuts you may be part of a dwindling breed. Not as many people prefer a daily cup of coffee these days. Authorities say theyre competent they can bring a criminal case against hackers who stole data from Jpmorgan Chase last summer. They accessed email addresses and phone numbers that longed to 83 million customers and small businesses. The New York Times reports that officials believe several suspects are gettable, meaning, theyre in countries that have extradition treaties with the u. S. About 1 million taxpayers every year are not claiming money thats rightfully theirs according to the irs. The reason . Taxpayers arent filling out the paperwork needed to claim their refund. The irs says half of the potential refundses are worth about 700 or more. Fimers have one more month to claim any possible refunds on their 2011 returns. You might do it every day or at least you know someone who does grabbing a cup of coffee heading to work is actually becoming a thing of the past. According to National Coffee association, the number of americans Drinking Coffee daily have declined for the Third Straight year. 59 of americans drink a cup a day. Thats down from 61 from last year. For those still Drinking Coffee the number of daily cups has dropped to its lowest point since 2010. Your favorite episodes of the popular 90s sitcom 90s could soon be available with a click of the mouse. Hulu amazon are bidding to own sign field. The company chosen could end up paying more than 500,000 per episode. A warm dry day like today means idea weather to attack the army of potholes. There are a lot out there. Patching roads is only part of the ongoing battle. Next we take to you Montgomery County to break down the cost of hitting potholes. And offline. Crews shut down a south Jersey Nuclear power plant reactor. Next, learn the reason salem 1 is currently out of service. Right now at 5 30, the unending bang as car after car hits pothole after pothole. A warmer dry weather like weve had today is ideal for road crews. Deanna durante is live in Montgomery County where repairs are under way on a lot of cars that are becoming victims. Reporter here in collegeville they replace more than 300 tires. This tire here a victim of one of the many potholes. This is tristan, he just got to work here but his coworkers have been busy all day. Well probably do around 350 today. Between 350 to 400 today. Reporter some require a little patch. I owe them about 200 for two tires. Reporter and some major work. Oh my god my daughters 17 and i thought, other, forgot it after pothole season. Reporter they say potholes are everywhere. These people waiting for their cars to be fixed, theyve had no problem finding them. It was full of water. You cant see. Just looks like a puddle. Reporter penndot urges you to report potholes to them. Montgomery county is working to match holes on their roads. Some are using a cold patch temporary fix, while others are making permanent hot asphalt repairs. Not that thats helping anyone here. I was here a few weeks ago and then a month ago, so three times. This is my third time. Reporter especially thoughs who are repeat customers. This is not something we were anticipating. They came out of the clear blue started last week and has not stopped since then. Weve probably done about 100 cars today already. Before lunch . Yes, before lunchtime. Reporter and you take a look at the parking lot here all of these cars all of them waiting for repairs. This tire repair shop open until 7 00 tonight. We talked about those temporary patches. Were told road crews cant use the permanent hot patch until the weather warms up. Were told that with this spring weather weve got now that crews, including the state, are just starting to use that hot asphalt to make those temporary patch jobs more permanent. Reporting live in Collegeville Deanna durante, nbc10 news. Spring like temperatures continue today. Comfortable conditions in Montgomery County brought these folks out for some fresh air. But big changes are coming. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking wind and warmer weather tomorrow. And then much colder air after that so we are not into this springtime warmth for very long. We see some sunshine out there. Probably more sunshine than weve seen all day. That helped the temperature go up. 55 degrees right now in philadelphia. 56 in northeast philly. 55 in wilmington. 58 in georgetown, delaware. 40s right at the shore with the wind coming off that cooler ocean. There have been lots of clouds today but were seeing more and more patches of sunshine. And that has allowed the temperature to go up. Its not going to go down a whole lot. A combination of a lot of clouds and a southwest wind. It will be mild when you get up in the morning. It will be mild all day tomorrow. But then things change big time. First very cold and then the threat of some snow. More with the sevenday coming up in a few minutes. From our south jersey burrowburrow bureau salem 1 is offline as crews make repairs. Theyre working on a cooling unit inside a containment building, salem county. We can tell you the reactor was taken offline sunday afternoon. That happened after the plant missed a deadline to make the repairs. No word yet just how long it will be before the reactor is back up and running again. The companys other two reactors are still operating. A delaware mom is taking on a rare disease one shamrock shirt at a time. Jennifer randolph began her campaign a couple years ago. Her son jack has one of just 1200 diagnosed cases of feelen mcdermott syndrome a rare autismrelated condition. A couple years ago she made up the shirts to raise money to fight for the disease and make people aware of it. Your kid is like this and its such a long period of time people dont know how to help. This was a great way for people. Yes, its something that i can do to help. Its easy. Its fun. Shes now raised 27,000 and has shirts in all 50 states and even in some foreign countries. From the busy streets of center city to the avenues across philadelphias neighborhoods, you can never be too careful. Pedestrians, bus is turning. Thats why septa is calling an audible. Whats behind its newest safety feature. It hasnt seen a train since the mid80s but new life will return to the longforgotten area. How this and other City Property is being transformed into new park space. Tradingin or selling your car truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, book an appointment. And three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com new at 5 30. Briefing new life into two spots. Gardners basin. Ted greenberg is live in Atlantic City. These are rather grand plans. Reporter they are. I just came down a few minutes ago from a meeting happening here at city hall where those ideas are being shown off for the first time. The mayor first called the expansion of Gardners BasinAtlantic Citys city to harbor. We got a look at conceptual plans for the northeast inlet. They include the addition of a new retail village, a waterfront restaurant, new entrance drive and parking lot and an expansion of the existing Atlantic City aquarium. As for the much anticipated redevelopment of bader field, mostly empty airport spread out over 140 acres, City Planners believe the improvements should come in phases starting with the installation of baseball and soccer fields to breathe some life into bader. In the years and decades ahead, they envision the construction of a Community Center with indoor recreation facilities a waterfront prominade and eventually some athletic fields could be replaced with an office complex. Baderfield is currently a vacant property. Probably one of the most valuable on all of the east coast because its surrounded by water. How realistic these plans will come to fruition. Well, that was the approach we took. Lets try and propose something that is real. Tonight were going to take very seriously concerns and issues and suggestions that residents and businesses have and make sure thats what we use as we build our new city. Reporter again, these are just concepts envisioned by the city. Right now they are sew lit soliciting proposals. Ted greenberg, nbc10 news. Keeping pedestrians safe that is the idea behind a new Pilot Program unveiled today by septa. Pedestrians, bus is turning. Septa provided us with this video demonstrating their safe turn alert system. Its designed to audibly warn pedestrians, especially those engrossed in their phone calls, Text Messages and music to let them know the bus is turning. The safe turn Alert Systems have been installed in 12 septa buses for the Pilot Program. Cape may county view is mourning the death of snow leopard b. J. After dying from complications of kidney disease. New workers say he and his mate were one of the most successful pair of Snow Leopards in the world. They had seven cubs helping to boost the endangered snow leopard population. He was 16 years old. Im nbc10 Vince Lattanzio with this digital story. This house collapse in kensington injured the owner, killed a cat and dog and killed another pup, or so was thought. Today bruno came walking out of the debris alive. Find out how he was found plus how bruno, his owner and other pets are doing in this digital exclusive story youll only find on the nbc10 app. Thanks vince. Plan on having company . If you plan to fly the friendly skies, brand new information was just released today about how many people are expected to fly over the next 20 years. Where that compares to current air travel rates. Right now, im tracking wind and temperatures in the 60s. Just in time for the arrival of spring. This thing is going to give us another chance for snow. Coming up on nbc10 news at 6 00 an Allentown Police officer on the wrong side of the law. The charges that got him kicked off the job. A quick glance at top stories. Philadelphia are investigating a stabbing at la salle university. Officers are looking for the man who stabbed a Delivery Driver in a dining hall bathroom this afternoon. The driver is in stable condition. The university put the campus on lockdown for 45 minutes while police investigated. Two firefighters are recovering after being shocked fighting a fire. They were carrying a metal ladder when it hit a electrical wire. One is in stable condition at the hospital the other is already at home. Robert durst will be extradited to california to face murder charges days after being arrested. He was also arrested at a Northampton County store for shoplifting 15 years ago, when police learned he was wanted for murder in texas. He was later acquitted in that case. If you think planes are too crowded whenever you fly these days, think again. The federal Aviation Administration has revealed its forecast for the next 20 years in Airline Passenger growth. It projects a number of people flying to grow by 2 every year. That would be equal to about 1 billion passengers in 2029. And 1. 14 billion passengers by 2035. U. S. Airlines estimates they had 756 million passengers this past year. Things have calmed down today after all that rain on saturday and all that wind on sunday. We finally have a day without a lot of wind and it will pick up tomorrow. It will be warmer pushing temperatures into the 60s. Then we have cold wins coming back. And then that catches up for the next storm, which looks like it should have at least some snow with it. Were seeing more and more sunshine out there but were not seeing more and more wind. That flags not really moving out there. Outside our studios on city avenue. 55 degrees. The wind only 9 miles an hour with 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. You can see the clouds coming down from the northwest and now were seeing more and more holes in those clouds allowing for that sunshine. But theres more moisture coming back and i expect those clouds to return during the night tonight. Temperatures in the 50s everywhere at the shore. Take a look at the temperatures here. 55 in philadelphia. Cincinnati . 75. Its even 70 in chicago. Its gotten up to 90 degrees in parts of the central plains. Some places that have never been 90 degrees before in the wintertime. But to the north its still plenty cold zero in central canada in the middle of the afternoon. A huge clash of air masses. And that helps to produce a stronger storm. The clouds have been around us now but not much precipitation. Were quiet across the country, as a matter of fact. This is a lot of moisture coming in from the tropical pacific. Thats coming into the next storm. Heres the futurecast. You can see all that moisture. This is the european model, the most accurate overall in the world and High Pressure keeps us dry for a while. Eventually it will have enough cold air so when the moisture goes into the cold air, snow will develop. The storm looks like it will stay far enough south and also looks like theres going to be some snow. Especially north and west. Thats where the greatest amount will be. But there is the potential even in the philadelphia area for snow. Mostly cloudy not as cold tonight. 44 for the low in the city. 38 north and west. Tomorrow big temperature contrast from north to south. A lot warmer in delaware and south jersey. Look at that wind. 20 to 30, gusting to 40 miles an hour. Then it gets colder on wednesday. The average high is 53. Well be way below that wednesday. Plus woindz top of that. Thursdays cold too. That sets us up for the beginning of spring. 6 45 friday and may very well be snowing in parts of the area right at that time. More on that coming up at 11 00 tonight. Fairly quiet on friday. New information about the man accused of shooting two officers during a protest at the Ferguson PoliceDepartment Last week. Jeffcy williams has reportedly admitted to firing the shots but says he wasnt targeting police or the protesters. Nbcs jay gray explains. Reporter we are learning more about Jeffrey Williams the man police say shot two officers outside the Ferguson Police department. He showed a lot of remorse. He was sorry. Reporter Bishop Derrick robinson said he talked with him inside the city jail. He said he was upset. Reacting out of frustration and anger. Reporter they say williams has admitted to firing the shots but said it was an altercation and wasnt targeting police. The evidence is developed at this point in part on his statement, that he may have had a dispute with some other individuals or felt some dispute. Were not sure we completely buy that part of it. In that event, its possible he was firing at some other people. But investigators also point out williams was a part of the protest earlier that night. He is a demonstrator. He was out there earlier as part of the demonstration. Reporter but Bishop Robinson says he was not marching. He had not been a protester. He was actually coming out that afternoon just to see what was going on. But he had never protested it before. Reporter protests that have continued since the shooting without incident despite renewed tension and anger here. Regardless of williams intent when he pulled the trigger, he hes charged with to counts of aggravated assault in the first degree which is punishable by life in prison. Jay gray nbc news ferguson. Be sure to tune into nbc nightly news for the latest on the investigation into the shooting of those Ferguson Police officers. A rally to promote service and love in philadelphia after the africanamerican fraternities and sororities gathered at love park to promote positivity. They were encouraged to wear greek colors, come with an open heart and positive spirit. It all stems from this video, which showed a group of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members at the university of oklahoma chanting racial slurs and referring to lynchings. People at todays rally in philadelphia say they want to help dispel myths about greek organizations. Although were part of different organizations, were united and we wanted to make change in our community to get rid of the sigma of racism going on in our country. Bringing new life to philadelphias miles of green open space. They are getting a multimillion dollar infusion of cash. One of the projects plans to turn old, overgrown and forgotten tracks that once led to Reading Terminal into the park of the future. It can happen anywhere at any time. New fears over natural gas leaks after three explosions in one county. Thats coming up on nbc10 news at 6 00. Ride away by roy orbison begins to play i ride the highway. Im going my way. I leave a story untold. He just keeps sending more pictures. If youre a freerange chicken you roam free. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Two wheels a turnin. Making Fairmount Park better is what two neighborhood groups are trying to do. The goal is twofold. Turn unused places into green spaces and get people out and into current parks that just right now arent very popular. Heres nbc10 matt delucia. This is a wonderful area but a hidden treasure. Reporter hidden or just unknown. Some who live by the 9,000 plus acres that make up Fairmount Park say they would like to see more people on the grass and under the trees. Were hoping that this will also stimulate interest in the neighborhood itself. Reporter the Fairmount Park conservancy is one park on tap for revitalization. There will be a spray area so a water feature for kids. Some amazing natural walkways. Reporter five big projects in all, totaling 11 million, funded by two foundations. Greater connectivity between the city between neighborhoods and neighborhoods, and people and places. Fairmount is one of the largest parks in the world but it is disconnected. Theres a great amount of inequity in our park system. Reporter while downtown parks thrive neighborhood groups say for the longest time these huge spaces and landmarks were used mostly for field trips, holiday parties and barbecues. I grew up in this area and i remember playing in these very areas. They looked different. And different activity going on in the park. This is a great opportunity for the entire area. Reporter matt delucia, nbc10 news. Another part of the plan is to transform a section of the tracks of the longabandoned Reading Railroad into an elevated park. They carry trains from the suburbs into the city for nearly a century. But the city and advocates want to turn it into a walkable hangout that would be similar to the highline in new york city. Coming up next on nbc10 news at 6 00 an Allentown Police officer off the force. More on the allegations he assaulted two people while on the job. Plus, students secretly videotaped in their own classroom . The south jersey teacher whos now under arrest and how police say he pulled off his crimes for years. Plus springs just a few days away but dont expect the cold weather to disappear just yet. The roller coaster ride of temperatures and the chance for snow next in my first alert forecast. We begin with breaking news from i676 in kam camden where accident is shutting down the walt whitman bridge. It involves two tractortrailers, also another car, so all lanes are shut down near the bridge itself. Skyforce10 just arriving at the scene right now, making its way there. Bringing us these live pictures as you look at the crash and the backup thats going to be behind it. Again, the southbound lanes, all lanes shut down near the walt whitman bridge after an accident involving two tractortrailers and a car. Its going to be a rough ride home for a lot of people there at skyforce10 wow, pulses out. Also new at 6 00 an Allentown Police officer kicked off the force. The Department Says he assaulted two people while on the job. Nbc10s doug shimell is joining us in allentown. This officer is also facing criminal charges . Reporter he is. Allentowns police chief fitzgerald says this officer is not typical of the rest of his force. In fact, it was his officers colleagues that turned him in. Lehigh Valley District attorney jim martin says ryan alice was fired last friday after two cases of excessive use of force in subduing suspects. The most extreme valved the alleged pursuit of an Armed Robbery suspect. He told investigators he was tased by officer alice at least three times. He also said after he was tased, officer alice kicked him one time in the left