Over, starts punching me. An nbc 10 exclusive. A School Police officer caught on camera being beat up is only speaking to nbc 10. Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. If you planned a Cinco De Mayo party outs on the deck, just move it on outside. You might not notice the sprinkles. Outside its just going to be chilly. Mostly cloudy skies. Were not seeing any rainfall in our area right now. Not a big chance of it during the day. Look at the temperatures. A few sprinkles at philadelphia international. 51 degrees and cloudy at 8 00. A degree warmer at 11 00 this morning. Not a big warmup. Like yesterday, were seeing 40s in south jersey. Delaware, pennsylvania suburbs, and Lehigh Valley. In philadelphia, there are some 40s to be found. Clouds listen streaming into the area. Its this motion that will bring us a chance of skom scattered light showers today. The heavy stuff, that holds off until tomorrow. Back in ten minutes with a look at futurecast to take you through the day hour by hour. Right now Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. A quick update on 95 headed southbound around 320. We had an earlier accident with massive delays behind that because all lanes were blocked off. That accident has cleared. You can see the gaper delay on the northbound side and southbound side starting to move again. Earlier i was giving you an alternate of taking 291 right underneath the scene, especially if youre coming out of southwest philadelphia and headed southbound. For right now, you can see we are starting to lighten up here. Just a few moments ago the strip of red was about this wide. As you can see, really starting to lighten up. From our cameras view, you can see all traffic was moving along nicely. Just a little bit of volume headed past the blue route area. For right now, you can still take 291, but if youre heading out the door in the next couple minutes, you should be fine for the most part once you get out the door. If youre down the shore, the Atlantic City brigantine connector is dealing with some construction. Thats scheduled until the 12th. Developing now, seven Different Police agencies are on an allout man hunt for this man. Escaped inmate Arthur Buckel. The search has been going on since tuesday. In a couple hours, schools in barnegat will open, but with officers at every school for the entire school day. Last night police warned neighbors to stay inside, keep their doors and windows locked. Buckel was serving a sentence for aggravated assault at bayside state prison. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne is live outside the Police Station in barnegat. You were telling us more officers are starting to show up. Reporter thats right, vai. Just within the past five minutes, a group of Police Officers walked in the front of the Barnegat Township police department. This morning Police Officers are preparing to position themselves at schools throughout the area as they try to track down that escaped inmate. This is why that search is happening here. This is brand new video of the white Chevy Silverado that Police Believe buckel stole from hammondton, new jersey, after he escaped. Hes 59, 180 pounds. He has a tattoo under his left eye and also some at tattoos ons wrist. Court documents show he would have been eligible for parole in just 18 days had he not escaped. Surveillance imannals show buckel walking into a cvs store in Barnegat Township yesterday. Thats where police say they found that stolen pickup truck he was driving. Corrections officers noticed he was missing when some guards did an inmate count around 6 00 a. M. Again, schools will be open today, but they will have an officer on patrol at each school. Vai, tracy . Before you go, just quickly, have police given you any advice we may share with our viewers, that we can give people who are in the area . Reporter its been very simple. To make sure your vehicles are secured, make sure the doors and windows s at your home are lock. If you believe you see the suspects, call 911 right away. Do not attempt to approach or intercept. Just give police a heads up as soon as you can. Pamela osborne live in barnegat this morning for us. Stand by and well come back to you in the next half hour. We appreciate it. A reminder, just download the nbc 10 app. As soon as we have new information about buckel, well send out a push alert. But you have to have the app in order to get those alerts. 6 05, 50 degrees outside. New this morning, a woman is recovering from burns after a house fire in the ogontz neighborhood of philadelphia. The fire started on the second floor around 12 30 on north 17th street. Fire officials are looking for a cause. Happening today, a woman accused odd of kidnapping a baby is scheduled to appear in court. Police say she abducted a 7monthold from the food court in march. Shes the daughter of Republican Party of pennsylvania deputy chair remay amore. The debate over philadelphias proposed tax on sugary drinks brought out protesters to city hall. Soda trucks moved into center city before a public hearing on the tax that would add 3 cents per ounce to the price of sugary drinks. The money from the attention would go toward universal prek, park improvements, and community schools. Opponents believe it could put them out of a job. Im a sole provider for my home. I work 60 to 80 hours per week. This soda tax goes through, myself along with 2,000 other people with families will lose their jobs. What were seeing with this program is we can reduce poverty for the long term and end poverty in our city. Another public hearing is planned on the sugary tax proposal. City council will vote on the measure next month. The time is 6 07. Now to an nbc 10 exclusive. Were hearing from one of the two School Security officers beaten by three men earlier this week. Cell phone video shows the men attacking the two officers outside Northeast High School on monday afternoon. One officer suffered a broken jaw. The second officer, lorenzo tatum, spoke to nbc 10. He says he and his partner were trying to break up a fight when one of the men tackled him from behind. Another buy it i didnt even see comes over, starts punching me. The first suspect, he punches my coworker again, breaking his jaw. Its just a matter of time. Youre going to get caught. So you might as well turn yourself in now. Police released these aim im of the three men. If you recognize any of the men, Philadelphia Police want to hear from you. Eight minutes after 6 00. We are starting off with cloudy skies. Live view from wilmington. Dreary conditions, cool temperatures. No sign of rain right now. Clouds are moving inland. Just a few sprinkles here and there. Northern camden county, most of the area is completely dry. Futurecast shows itll be dry at 9 30 this morning. Im watching showers offshore. Expect some of those to start streaming inland right around noontime and into early this afternoon. Thats 1 30 this afternoon. Those scattered showers will keep moving inland. Well get breaks during the Late Afternoon and evening hours. Theres still a chance of showers into the evening. Later in the evening well be drying out. Thats today. With temperatures staying cool, plenty of clouds. 57 degrees in philadelphia. Thats by 5 00 this afternoon. A cloudy day in the suburbs. 50 to start with. A chance of a shower around midday. Youll see that in the Lehigh Valley too. 55 degrees and cloudy at 5 00 later today. 50s for delaware. New jersey starting off a little cooler at 49 degrees with mostly cloudy skies and a chance of an afternoon shower. The jersey shore, that chance of a shower coming with northeasterly winds. Making weekend plans . Well, weve got wet weather into the weekend. The rainiest day will be tomorrow. Look at the temperatures holding in the 50s. The heavier downpours in the morning, tapering off later in the afternoon. Come saturday, a chance of some scattered showers. Late in the afternoon, thats when well get breaks of sunshine. Thats a good warmup compared to where we have been. Its a trend that continues for mothers day. Sunday, into the 70s for most of the area. Pennsylvania suburbs and Lehigh Valley a little cooler. What you wont see is any rainfall. The last showers should end early on sunday morning. Now, the warming trend, thats going to continue. Ive got your tenday outlook when i come back in ten minutes. A warming trend. That sounds good. Warming and drying trend. We had a problem on 95 and 320. Thats been resolved. Now we turn to 76. Jessica boyington is watching the skchuylkill for your ride t work this morning. The schuylkill expressway around the boulevard, no problems or delays. Looking a little light right now. A 13minute drive time headed eastbound. Into center city, no real problems. Speeds in the high 50s. The same headed westbound. Still a disabled vehicle in philadelphia on 95 southbound around columbus boulevard. No delays by the scene right now. He is over into the righthand shoulder. There was Police Activity there earlier this morning around the 4 00 hour. Hes since left the scene. That vehicle still remains. Now, again, that accident scene is still clear on 95 headed southbound around 320. I wanted to show you an update right here. No more delays. All traffic moving by the scene. Vai . Thank you, jessie. A chaotic scene outside a diner during the lunchtime rush. It scared me to death. I thought the whole building was going to blow. I thought he was going to run those people over. A driver rams his suv into this diner not once but three times, turning it into this ball of flames. Where this happened and the local connection. And getting out of the classroom and into nature. Its more than just recess. Coming up, the unique teaching approach one Delaware County school is taking with its students. 6 15. All week its been rainy, cloudy, cold. Maybe not the weather you want your preschoolers spending a lot of time outside in. Maybe, maybe not. But theres a school in haverford thats taking a different approach to learning. 80 of the students time is spent outside, rain or shine. Katy zachry is live on the schools campus to show us why this works. Reporter i brought my rain jacket today. Vai and tracy, this program doesnt just work, but kids here love it. Its getting a lot of attention from parents and schools outside of this community who want to the start something similar. Welcome to forest edge nursery school, where most of learning happens outside. Its all natural. Anything you can do inside, you can do outside. Reporter that was the thinking of teachers and administrators at Friends School haverford when they made the eye opening decision this year to teach their youngest students outdoors for 80 of the day. We really only come inside for lunch and rest. Even lunch is outside lots of times. So were outside no matter what. Im making pizza. Reporter these toddlers come bundled for the cold and with boots for the rain. We have a mud kitchen. We have the chicken coop, the pond, the puddle. We take a one to twomile hike a couple times a weekend. Reporter parents send extra outfits for messy days. She loves the idea and sees a difference in her son brandon. Hes certainly been very curious. It comes across in the way we talk about things at home. Hes constantly asking questions. I think noticing things, cause and effect. Reporter as you can imagine, kids just eat up this curriculum. Im told its been so successful this year. Its the first year they started it. Toddlers beginning the class next year will have the same Outdoor Learning experience. Katy zachry, nbc 10 news. Katy, thanks for that. 6 17. Weve had a couple issues on the roads. Now we have an issue just into the system on 422 around trooper. Jessica, fill us in. Tell us whats happening. Well, we are seeing some delays by an accident scene on 422. These are our cameras from trooper road headed eastbound. You can see one lane getting by right here. A few vehicles off to the shoulder. These look like theyre for ongoing construction. This right here, that looks like another vehicle that was involved. This is over into the leftland lane. Completely blocking off the lane. Pendot crews on the scene. No Police Activity has arrived yet. We can still expect that to cause some more delays headed eastbound by the scene. If youre headed towards the schuylkill expressway on 422 this morning, you may see some delays. Out in Washington Township in new jersey, theres a set of traffic lights malfunctioning around Washington Township on route 47 at lambs road. Use caution there. No sign of sunshine here. No sunshine. Lets check the nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather forecast. The sun is coming. I know it is. It may be spritzing some places, dry in others, and a downpour some place else. Bill . Or it all looks like. Were all stuck in the same cloudy muck weve had for days. The clouds are going to stay with us. Cloudy, misty, and a little cool this morning. Any showers will be this afternoon and into the early evening hours. But most of the day, its just going to be gray skies and chilly temperatures. Winds increase at the shore this evening. Theres a potential for minor coastal flooding. The greatest chance is after 6 00 this evening, between 6 00 and midnight. A little later in the back bay. Some minor street flooding it possible. The winds keeping the clouds with us through the day. The winds will be a little stronger at the shore. Well feel it inland at 14 miles an hour. The showers are offshore. These are the showers well be watching for later today. This weather to the west, thats coming at us tomorrow. In fact, thats when well see heavier rainfall. Today, mainly just cloudy. You wont need your sunglasses today. Summerton, 58 degrees this afternoon. The pennsylvania suburbs might see a sprinkle. Some scattered showers are possible in bethlehem and easton. Clouds across south jersey, an occasional light shower developing this afternoon. At the shore, mainly cloudy. Could see a shower during the later afternoon hours. In fact, even in the early afternoon. Most of the day is just going to be cloudy and cool. Wilmington, 58 degrees. Might see a few brief showers in delaware, up to 57 degrees. No sign of the warming trend thats in store for us this weekend. No sign also of the heavier, steadier rainfall that were going to get tomorrow morning. This is the futurecast. 8 30 tomorrow morning. Look at the rain across delaware and south jersey. This will be streaming inland. The potential for some heavy downpours during the late morning and early afternoon hours. Then it starts to taper off as we go into the afternoon hours. By evening, were looking at mostly cloudy skies. Over the weekend, the clouds will be hanging in there. A chance of scattered showers on saturday. Dreary weather today. Steadier rain and heavier rainfall tomorrow morning and early tomorrow afternoon. A chance of scattered showers on saturday. Late in the day on saturday, we will get some breaks in the clouds and see a little bit of sunshine. Look at the warmup. Up tenning d degrees. Mothers day will turn out just fine. Sunshine and warmer for sunday and monday. Look at this. A potential that well warm into the 80s for tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. Still a chance of some scattered showers. It just wont be the steady rainfall im expecting for tomorrow. Friday and saturday into the 70s. Saturday afternoon, 71 degrees. Thats right on target normal for this time of year. An allout search for an escaped inmate in ocean county this morning. Well tell you where he was last seen. Plus, what police are planning to do today to keep schools safe. And new video from canada, where fierce wildfires are burning and entire communities are being forced to evacuate. What one local fire chief is saying about the fire. Good morning, everyone. Jessica boyington checking on your first alert traffic. Right now were watchi inin ini approaching the ramp to 223 with a multivehicle accident on the scene headed eastbound. Some big delays there as you can see the left lane is completely blocked. One lane squeezing by. Even some problems getting off the ramp there as well. Well have updates for you on this scene when i come back. Also, theres a water main break in southwest philadelphia. Ill touch on that as well. For now, lets get a check on todays forecast with meteorologist bill henley. If you love clouds, today is your day. In fact, all week. Love them. Its still with us. The clouds, the dreary conditions, and those northeasterly winds, which are keeping the clouds in place. Right now 50 degrees at 6 26. All right. Developing right now, a search for an escaped inmate in ocean county. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne is live at the Police Station in barnegat. Pamela . Reporter vai, that search getting ready to intensify. Take a look. Weve seen officers reporting here for duty this morning. Theyre headed out. Theyre going to be guarding those schools today. Well have much more information coming up on the other side of the break. Plus, an nbc 10 exclusive. Philadelphia Police Officer jest sea hartnett sits down with nbc 10 for the First Time Since being shot in the line of duty. [ soft music ] e. T. Phone home. When you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. Change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. Right now searching for an escaped inmate. Schools are open in ocean county with increased police presence. We are live at the Police Station in barnegat, asking questions. Plus did it keep me alive . I would say yes. An nbc 10 skooexclusive. We sat down with Jesse Hartnett for the First Time Since he was shot in the line of duty. Hear what he says saved his life. A state of emergency in parts of canada this morning as this wildfire swallows up entire cities. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im vai sikahema. And im tracy davidson