Nearly 400 tips came in from texas to philadelphia. A lot of possible sightings, but nothing confirmed until today. I want to officially announce that the search for Steve Stephens has ended. A little after 11 00 today Pennsylvania StatePolice Officers received a tip that the vehicle that we were looking for, the white ford fusion informs a mcdonalds parking lot near erie, pennsylvania. Those officers responded. The vehicle fled from that area. There was a a short pursuit in which the vehicle was stopped. The officers approached that vehicle. Steve stephens took his ovwn life. The governor tweeted his thanks saying thank you to the brave police. Troopers for their lance in pursuing the facebook killer. No one in p. A. Was hurt. For now, erin coleman, nbc 10 news. Chopper 10 over breaking news. Within the last hour police are on the scene here of what is a barricade situation. We are being told that a man with a knife is sitting in a window. Reportedly threatening his girlfriend. We cannot see that from what we are looking at now, but we are being told. Police are not sure if hes still inside. A barricade situation in philadelphia. Well keep you updated. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a Philadelphia Police officer accused of shooting her husband in the groin. Heres the disturbing part. Police say the three children were inside during all this. Reporter three kids were inside the house. They were unharmed. The shooting happened in the the couples driveway in their home that they have been end renting for the last year. When they arrived they found the husband inside and spent the day talking to his wife. It wasnt until they heard choppers they knew something happened. We looked out and there was police cars and detectives. The shooting happened around 6 00 this morning. Police say a female off duty Police Officer shot her husband in the couples driveway. He was taken to the medical center. Its unknown when police will be able to talk with him. Investigators say the couples three children including a baby were inside the house at the time of the shooting. There were no injuries to them. They are now in the care of bucs county children and youth services. What happened here police are spending the day looking into. The couple according to neighbors moved here a year ago and is renting the house up for sale. They dont know much about the team, but havent seen any trouble at the house before today. Good neighbors, no noise, no problems, nothing like that. Very polite kids. The house still a crime scene. Police were here just a little while ago collecting clothe asking bags for the couples children. Items from inside the home. Were told that the husband is still hospitalized and police are not sure when they will be able to speak with him. As for the wife, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Mike pence arrived in japan today and assured them the u. S. Stands behind them in working to diffuse risks tr the nuclear program. It was scaled back from what he said in south korea. North korea should get the same treatment as seyria and afghanistan if it decided to advance its weapons program. President trump is sign iin off on executive order to help create jobs here in the u. S. The president announced his buy american high american order during a speech in wisconsin. President trump said this election the American People voted to end the, quote, theft of american prosperity. He also said the bill will send a powerful signal to the world and put america first. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a push to create more jobs in the philadelphia fire department. The Department Says more man power could have prevented the death more than two years ago. Lauren mayk is live outside city hall. The firefighters are speaking out a day after the federal report came out about craigs death. The fire commissioner is here at city hall asking for more money to hire more firefighters. He says that that will help them to respond to fires, but also to make time for training. Something that came up again and again in recommendations of how to prevent another tragedy. Fighting the fire on middleton stree street. That was a car warrior. Reporter now more than two years after lieutenant craigs death the department she leaves behind at a new fire commissioner who never met her are making changes. They are assessing what went wrong and responding to her call and fighting that fire. Were going to be doing a lot of work. The own review puts the primary blame for what happened on lieutenant craigs breathing hose that burned right through. The equipment has been a focus for david lang sm an attorney representing the state and family. So she could protect others failed. And endsed a a system of closing stations called brown outs. Still on the list, more training and additional firefighters that will make giving people time for training easier. To do the training that e we need to do, we need dedicated training staff, we need dollars. Reporter the fire commissioner is asking for money to hire an additional 30 firefighters and also four people dedicated to training. This today was all part of the citys budget hearings, but when it came town for Council Members to ask questions, talk turned to how to e prevent this kind of thing from happening again. Coming up in our next hour, well have more on that. Live in city hall, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. Turning to our weather, you can file today under the good day to work outside category. This landscaper enjoyed the sun as he cleans up along mill road. Taking a look down live broad street. Just a gorgeous day to take a walk through center city. It should stay nice at night as well. Maybe make some dinner plans tr outside. Enjoy the nice weather. A little birdie in the studio is saying were going to have to change our shoe choices. It was a nice day to work outside, but if you dont have to work, you can enjoy it. Take a lock at this. Beautiful weather across the entire area. This our live camera off to the east. A fantastic evening if if youre going to have a barbecue. That sounds nice. Lets check the temperatures in some of the neighborhoods. Lets go out to west bradford. 66 degrees. Elroy at 67. And fort washington, 67. Now lets take a look at whats going on right here in philadelphia. 69 at the airport. If youre flying out, very comfo comfortable. 71 at fort richmond. And 68 degrees, one more stop. Lets go over there to south jersey and check out whats going on. We have coil field at 59 degrees. Washington township at 67. And lets head up to hopewell where youre at 65 degrees. A beautiful day, beautiful conditions. We should be about 64 degrees for our daytime high today. So were exceeding those values nicely. This is where were going this evening. Winds out of the southeast. It is cooler along the shoreline out there. 69 degrees. Well drop off and go clearer overnight. 54 at 10 00. Youll wake up in the low 40s tomorrow morning. But before midnight, its going to be absolutely lovely. We do have changes on the way. They involve um brbrellas, anot 80 degree day and ugly hair. Well talk about that when i come back. To this now, a crash between an ambulance and several cars in cherry hill today. Sky force 10 was above the scene. It closed the road around 10 30 this morning. Jury selection began in the murder trial of a medicine accused of killing his 3yearold son and calling 911 to say the boy was missing. He killed him in 2015 because the child got in the way of his relationship with a teenage girlfriend. He says hes innocent. Hundreds of people are expected tonight at a forum for the seven Democratic Candidates who want to be philadelphias next district attorney. It takes place from 6 00 until 8 00 at the United Methodist church. The candidates will field questions about policies they say they will enact and support if elected. The Justice Department plans to crack down on violent street gangs. He singled out the gangs suspected in several recent killings. The group now has more than 10,000 members in 40 states. This afternoon theres a new medical initiative in south jersey to help military members and families at joint base. The hero Care Connect Program is a joint effort from debra heart ask hung center to give military families, retirees and veterans access to more than 75 medical services not available on base. Officials touted the new programs ease for its users. It takes just one call to our specially trained teem team to get the patients connected to the care that they need. The plan will also significantly cut down wait times for appointments and offer Services Much closer to veterans homes. Did you remember tax day is here . Returns have to be postmarked by today. If you need more time to prepare a lot of people do, your federal return, you may be able to get a sixmonth extension requesting an extension allows more time to file, not more time to pay. To drum up support for the meals on wheels program. He toured the facilities at the senior activity center. Its the largest meals on wheels distributor. Meals on wheels could be in jeopardy under the proposed budget, which includes a 35 cut in funding. Turkey hill wants to add beer to the list of things you can buy at one of its stores in North Hampton county. The company is one step closer. The board approved a Liquor License for the market in williams township. The next step is applying tr the go ahead from the control board. This is the latest in a trend of Convenient Stores starting to sell beer. The wawa added beer cool canners to the store. Its the first wawa in the philadelphia region to offer beer. Heres a live look at Philadelphia International airport today. And just for the next ten days, there will be a tsa precheck at the airport. Tsa precheck lets fliers leave their shoes on and the belts when they go through security. It makes it a lot faster. They also have their own security line to make the process go swifter. The Enrollment Center will be open until the 28th at terminal b. Then from 1 00. P. M. To 5 00. Closing arguments are set to begin tomorrow morning in the murder trial for eric frein. The accused cop kill canners defense didnt call a single witness. Randy gyllenhaal has more on the defense teams strategy here. Reporter the prosecution rested after ten days while eric freins defense team never called a single witness. Next up, closing arguments. The jury could have a verdict as soon as tomorrow afternoon. The family of Corporal Brian Dixon arrives on b this final day of testimony. Today the jury saw his autopsy photos including a close up of his wedding ring. A doctor testified he was killed by two bullets to the chest and shoulder. Eric frein quietly took notes. Theres a a lot of evidence. Were going to sum that all up together for their consideration. Reporter tomorrow closing arguments after an emotional day yesterday injured trooper alex douglas took the stand. But freins defense team never called a a single witness. They say they will try to avoid a death sentence if convicted. We hope the jury will understand that eric frein is a human being and displays the qualities of humanity at his core of good thans we all have. Here in milford, relief the trial is wrapping up. I hope hes convicted. Reporter but disagreement l on whether frein should face death if found guilty. Thats what this is all about. Whether hes going to get the Death Penalty or not. If anybody on this earth deserved it, its him. Reporter the jury should have the case tomorrow. If the verdict is guilty, they will spend the next couple days deciding whether to issue the Death Penalty. In milford, randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 will be in court as closing arguments get underway tomorrow and when the jury reaches its verdict, count ob breaking news updates. Want to take you to some breaking news out west. A high speed chis going on right now in los angeles. Right now not extremely high speed as you wash that gray car going through an intersection. This has been going on for several minute nous. We understand from authorities out west that a person in that car has evidence in a murder investigation. E we dont have control of the pictures so we cant ask the chopper to pull out wider, but we assume that authorities are in pursuit of the the car right there. Again, a chase going on out in las vegas. The person in that car with evidence in a murder probe. Back here now in philadelphia. Know before you go. That was the theme of a surviving college bottom camp today. 200 seniors are about to be the first in their families to attend college. They spent the day listening to motivational speeches, attending workshops and some want the supplies for their schools. Nbc 10 with the childrens Learning Institute on south 57th street. He sat on a french lesson and read a story to the kids. The city says this is the 7th school to improve its overall rating since philadelphia enacted the soda tax program to pay for prek. With the snip of a ribbon a boys and girls club opened on north sproous street. They used a grant to replace the floor, upgrade the pool and install airconditioning. We are nine day was from the 2017 nfl draft right here in philadelphia. Tonight phase two of the lane closures will start. Crews will shut down the inner lanes of the parkway both inb bound and outbound. This is the second of three phases around the parkway. The lanes wont reopen until may 2nd. Check it out. Were getting a new look at the nfl draft experience on the p k parkway. You can see what the main stage will look like along with other sections. The draft is expected to draw up to 200,000 fans at the parkway. Where do you go . Nbc 10 is the official eagles station. We have the draft covered for you beginning one week from tomorrow. Were live from the tgifridays. Right now, you cant see how pretty its going to be. You just see a lot of scaffolding and workers there. Its going to look better if the weather is nice. The sun is beaming. That would be good. I actually do have a decent forecast for the end of next week. Having been through the two previous nfl drafts, its an experience that you would never forget. Its going to be very exciting for all of philadelphia 69 in philly with clear skies. 65 in philadelphia. 6 in new jersey. Look at the beautiful sky. Delaware where you have a breeze on shore, 59 degrees and clear skies. More 80s ahead and a few storms and rain. Thunderstorms are possible thursday and friday. These are going to be isolated to widely scattered. This is not going to be a washout either day. At first it looked like that. Not going to happen. And both days its going to be very pleasant. Soggy and chilly and struggling to make 60 on sunday. You can see we have a storm system out to the west. Thats the first area of low pressure thats going to move in our direction bring iing us tha threat of rain. Perhaps an isolated storm on thursday and friday. A much better chance of widespread rain on sunday. We have the winds coming out of the east. Its still very mild across the area. Winds continue out of the east and cooler along the jersey shore. Look at this. Tomorrow evening we could see an isolated shower up toward Lehigh Valley and burks county. Look what happens. It gets out of here. Maybe we see some sunshine thursday afternoon. A chance of a thunderstorm on thursday and friday. The suburbs, 61. 62 in the Lehigh Valley. 76 on friday. Look at new jersey ask delaware. Both into the 60s tomorrow, but not the jersey shore. A little cooler because of those on shore winds. Well have your tenday forecast a little later on. The food scraps tr fans at Citizens Bank park. The philadelphia students getting credit for cleaning up the park and turning the trash into a teaching tool. Plus a bomb shell accusations in the delaware prison uprising. The concerns hostages claim were ignored for years. And joining forces. The Important Mission thats bringing lady gaga together with the future king of england. But first, heres a look at the closing bell on wall street. A down day all around on the markets. Congressman macarthur promised to protect our health care. But when rightwing politicians tried to pass a disastrous Health Care Repeal bill that raises costs and cuts coverage, macarthur wouldnt oppose them. Macarthur wouldnt protect us from a bill that raises premiums and causes 24 million to lose their insurance. Wouldnt oppose a massive age tax on people over 50. But supported a 600 billion tax break for the wealthy. Tell Tom Macarthur stop trying to repeal our health care. Welcome back. Prince william is stepping up an Awareness Campaign with the help of lady gaga. Overnight the royal family released this video with Prince William and lady gaga chatting about the benefits of speaking out about Mental Health issues. Gaga recently wrote in an open letter she suffers with post tr Traumatic Stress disorder. He praised the singer for opening up. Wake up and feeling sad and going on stage is something that is very hard to describe. Theres a lot of shame attached to mental ill neness. Prince harry said that he received help tr a therapist 20 years after the death of his mother. To this now, taking full responsibility. United airlines ceo says he will make things right after that passenger was dragged off a flight in chicago. Still ahead at 4 00, the ko consequences for the employees involved and whether this incident is affecting united ticket sales. Nbc 10 is following breaking news about what brought the facebook murder manhunt to an end in pennsylvania. How an order for chicken thoughts and french fries tipped off police. Thats next at 4 00. And coming up on nbc 10 news at 5 00, bringing shame at the nfl draft. How a philadelphia teacher plans to do that and who he wants to target. Back to the breaking news were following out of erie, pennsylvania. Steve stephen, the man accused of murdering a man ask posting it on facebook is dead after taking his own life. He was in a Mcdonalds Drivethru when employees recognize