the officer approached him and he stabbed him and took off in his cruiser. he was found a short time later in a playground a short distance from where the vehicle was abandoned. he is an escapee from the bucks county prison. we are looking to see if he was a work escape prisoner or on if he escaped from the prison. we are waiting to hear the information, and from what i'm told he is about to take the podium. this is fred haren, the public safety director of bensalem. >> is there another nbc guy here? >> we are in good shape.

>> fred haren from bensalem police department, we got an email from buck county prison to look for an individual wlanted for escape. matthew miller out of ben salem, 23 years of able, he walked away from work release from the prison. he was spotted near route 13, and another officer went to make a pedestrian stop on the suspect, at the time, the individual seemed to be complying and the officer when to put handcuffs be the individual lunged up with a knife and stabbed the officer in his stomach, the bruntd of stab was taken to the vest. the subject then gave chase and ran from the officer and jumped

into his police car and took off. the car was located from the philadelphia police department and bensalem officers and pennsylvania state police on fair hill road in philadelphia. then the police saw the individual running through rush elementary school in philadelphia and he was apprehended by philadelphia pd, and the suspect has been retaken into custody and will be arraigned this evening on a various amount of charges that i don't have at this time. the officer is okay. a 6-year veteran of the philadelphia police department. this is another great story where the bulletproof vest, not from a bullet but a knife this time, saved his life. the officer was on the roadway faced with a serious criminal wanted for escape.

hopefully he will not see the light of day and this guy won't get out and hopefully the probation officer will not get out. >> this go was in the work release program. he was in for a variety of charges, you are listening to officials in buck county, talking about the dramatic prison escape this morning. we learn that matthew miller is the man that walked away from work release after getting out of the bucks county prison and the officer tried to stop him in a pedestrian stop and that is when miller stabbed him in the stomach but the stab wound was stopped by the officer's bulletproof vest. >> he will be just fine. and we are following this story for you at 6abc.com. walter perez is also listening into this press conference and will bring you the latest as we get more information. we are also following breaking news in oregon, where

one student is dead after a shooting at a high school. police just gave us an update. alicia vitarelli is live in the satellite center with the very latest. >> a very tragedy day in troutdale, oregon, panic and fear across the school, one student as you mentioned is dead, police are updating us on the situation and telling us that the gunman is dead as well. >> i was really scared, like this is happening, this is real. jada is a sophomore and walked in as the gunman fired. >> heard gunshots and someone finally let me in and i am going get down on the ground, the suspected shooter entered the school at 8:00 a.m. while the school was in session, one student is dead and so is the lone gunman, they are still in

the process of notifying next of kin, the weapon used was a rifle. and in edition, one teacher was injured. with non-life-threatening injuries. the teacher was treated at the xoon. >> parents received text mess ables from their children inside while the school was in lockdown. >> he said dad there is a shoot can at the school, my first response was i am on my way. >> wanted to get here as fast as i could. we didn't know what the casualticasualt casualties were and who had been shot. >> students were broad out with their hands over their head to reunite students with their parntz. >> it was really scary, you think about are they going to be safe, what kind of danger are they in. >> troutdale mayor says students

recently received training drills. >> i think the dry run a few months ago helped and the school police officers help aid lot. >> this is a very tragic day, one that i had hoped would never ever be part of my experience. >> the school will also be closed they say, they will have grief counselors there as the students continue to mourn. the police say that a gun was found on another person as they evacuated the school. they don't believe that was part of this incidents and the gun is c conexcited and the student in custody. >> thank you alicia. more developing news in west philadelphia, a first grade girl brought what appears to be what appears to be heroin to school

today. the gill had 10 bags of the powder and two dozen students came into contact with it. and the girl and those students all went to chop as a precaution and there is no indication that any of them took anything. police are test that powder to see if it is, in fact, heroin. she will have a live report coming up at 5:00. time for a look at the accuweather forecast. >> lets go to meteorologist, adam joseph, is he live at the big board. >> hi adam. >> a bad case of deja vu with the pop-up downpours and thunderstorms, most of us are dry right now and there is a cluster of storms over gloucester county, new jersey, and southwest philadelphia. light showers near delaware county and media and wilmington and the main action is on either side of glassboro and hammonton, they are releasing two to two

and a half inches of rain, about 40 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes, near barnes bro and an inclusiver near swededboro near the turnpike. they are releasing a lot amount of water in a short amount of time. flash flood warnings are issued in newark up to 2.5 inches of rain have fall and and anywhere from salem to woods town to mullica hill and gloucester county all within the flash flood warning as the area roadways take on the excess water that can't drain down the drains because it is coming down so quickly. what to expect this evening, scattered downpours around the region are slow moving, 1 toe 2 inches of rain per hour with these particular downpours, they are causing localized flooding. we'll see if they move at all to

the east or fall apart a little. we'll look at that and talk about another round of storms coming up. >> thank you adam. a delaware teenager is recovering today of he was attacked by a shark. it happened last night at the state park and today the beaches there reopened but lifeguards are on alert. chad pradelli is live there now with more on what they are doing to keep swimmers safe. >> reporter: hey shirleen, the lifeguards are keeping an eye on the water, the attack happened behind me and the water is reopen for several hours, nobody is in it at this point because we had severe weather over the past couple of hours. we have seen shark attacks off the coast of new jersey and other areas but delaware officials can't rule a shark attack here. >> beach goers could only watch the chilly atlantic water from

ashore. wildlife officials checked it from above checking for anymore sharks. >> it's scary, we were here yesterday, we left before it happened, we left at 3:00 and it might have been around 5:00, we are not sure. >> it happened at 5:00 yesterday. >> he was transported by ambulance to bba medical center and receive aid fair amount of sutures and cuts on his forearms. >> i believe it was a juvenile sand bar shark, they are in the area having their young and a good many of the young ones out there now. >> the teen was released and according to social media, resting comfortably at home. and the sand bar sharks are common but attacks are extremely rare. i am talking to staff that are around 15 to 20 years they can't

remember the last one. >> the ban was lifted and beach goers were allowed back in the water, some went head first and others are leery. >> yes, it's pretty cold too. >> officials stress the water is safe, are there sharks? yes, can someone get bit? yes, but a teenager in the wrong place at the wrong time. vance was released from the hospital and he is recovering nicely at home. i'm live in lewes, delaware, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." police are looking for the to men that broke into a woman's home while she slept and tied her up in olney. police say that the woman was sleeping upstairs when two men broke in and tied her to a chair with an electrical cord and they ransacked the apartment, a weapon, $10 and the woman's i.d. before they ran off.

now, to the "action news" traffic report. >> lets get you to autumn marissa in the traffic center. >> we are have dry roadways and some that have had heavy downpours. this is mcdade boulevard heading to the airport and these lanes southbound towards delaware, the rain is coming down and sitting on the roadway, it's slick use extra caution and down 95 towards newcastle, church man's road is flooding. moving on to the big picture, speeds on the schuylkill expressway, 10 miles per hour on the schuylkill, and moving along up into ben salem, the police activity has cleared in upper bristol pike, they are doing an investigation because of

stabbing. you can make your way to byberry road no problem. route 3 at washington street extension, we have all lanes blocked because of an accident. the alternate is philadelphia pike. 54th street and landsdowne avenue, we have an accident there, causing problems for septa, the route 10 trolley, keep that in mind we have delays on that line as well. in south philadelphia, swanson street and wolf street, we have caution there as well. back to you shirleen. >> thank you autumn. voters in trenton are choosing a new mayor today in a special runoff election, the action cam was in trenton as voters kastd their ballots, the race is between paul perez and john jackson, they are in a runoff to see who will replace tony mack, after he was convicted of

federal corruption charges. walking across the stage to get your diploma is synonymous with graduation day, and that trip was something to celebrate indeed. rick williams is live with the details. >> hi, quite an inspiring story, jared brown suffers from cerebral palsy and has been in a wheelchair since he was 14 years old and took his first steps in three years in front of his gladiatoring class, coming up at 5:00 we'll show you the amazing moment and the reaction from his classmates. >> and quite a story from these two brothers, they were born weeks apart. >> ali gorman will explain this one. those stories and more at 5:00. >> thank you rick. the barnes in center city is giving visitor a rare opportunity to view the work of

cezanne. it's the exhibition the world is an apple. the still life of paul -- >> one grown space has the students happy. ♪ clap along -- >> the action cam was at the william dick elementary school in north philadelphia for the greened up school yard. all right now to the latest on those clouds outside, we seem to be stuck with this this week, lets go to adam joseph with the latest from accuweather. we have to get used to it, they will be our so-called best friend and stick to our side for

the remaineder of the week, with the dark clouds it's releasing downpours and a few thunderstorms especially in interior southern new jersey in gloucester county, we had this cluster releasing one to two inches of rain per hour. we are pushing into the atlanticic county and 53 lightning strikes with this particular storm, and why is this one particular area? we are throwing on extreme lines on double scan live, this is surface winds, they come in out of the northeast here, and it comes out of the east-northeast here. from the easterly direction, all the winds are converging from southern new jersey than bumps the air at the surface and lift its to the atmosphere and we have the cluster of storms in southern new jersey now and that is the main focusing mechanism

and putting southeastern pennsylvania on the back burner so to speak here this evening. flash flood warnings there is a vast amount of them from wilmington to baird and newark from mullica hill and franklin, up to 2.5 inches of rain, with these storms near wilmington as it passes to the east, can you expect that amount of rain near glassboro as these storms slowly drift to the east. if you head to the phillies game it's warm and cloudy and the thunderstorm threat, but again wtd streamlines converging south and east of the philadelphia, most of the game should be dry with temperatures by the ninth inning down to 75 degrees, 77 in wilmington and cooler there, and muggy because of the rain, dry in dover, and dry in reading with the temperature coming in at 80, early showers through chester and burlington county and we caught a break and they are popping east of the

philadelphia, and future tracker showing we get deeper into the early morning hours, it starts to subside in the region and an easterly wind takes over tomorrow and with the easterly wind it's a stab lieder for our at atmosphere. and we should have a void in the downpours and thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon as we catch a one-day break as they return thursday and friday. for tonight the isolates downpours are warm and muggy and temperatures dropping into the upper 60s, your four day at 4:00, a mainly dry day, catch a break at 80 degrees, the winds are back out of the south-southeast, and more pop-ups come back at 82 degrees, many downpours with a cold front on friday, the most active day of 80 and pushes everything off the coast here and as it drys out the sun returns and drops at

82 degrees, a great start to the weekend and we continue that trend into su second day filling in for ginger zee, she will be back tomorrow. then she passed the baton to adam who finishes out the week, tweet them both with the #~ 6 abc gma. >> people that are there are showing off their philly pride. if are you in new york city you may want to stop by as well. >> great way to start the day. still here today, the latest on completean, tracy morgan as he finishes his recover. and we'll show you the ad that will air tonight trying to force the washington red skins to change their name. >> and every big cell phone

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police are working to determine what sparked another deadly school shooting this time in oregon. just after 8:00 this morning a lone gunman stormed reynolds high school, in troutdale, shooting a student and a teacher. at last check police had not released the name of the suspect or victim pending family notification, stay tuned for developments at 6abc.com. drivers will probably not want to hear, it could be nearly three months before interstate 495 bridge reopens. david henry is gathering details out of the delaware newsroom today. he joins us with an update. >> reporter: hey brian, work is going on around the clock every day since the bridge was closed last monday, but there is still

a lot of work to be done and this bridge will be closed all summer and perhaps even longer. >> the expertise and the equipment and material to get this bridge reopen said on their way to delaware right now. >> the southbound lanes could be open by labor day with northbound opening a month later. the plan is to build entirely new foundations for the four tilting towers, it will replace existing steel pilings now bent. the new reinforced foundations. temporary support towers. to get traffic on the bridge as quickly as possible. >> if that fails it's on to plan b. >> we'll have to completely tear down this section of the bridge and build a new section. if that is the case, we'll be looking at later this year or

early next year before you see traffic there. >> not good for drivers suffering through long delays and other routes. a passing motorist that is crossing the bridge for 29 years called 911 and the bridge deck appears to have shifted about a foot and del/dot is investigating the response to that call. four support towers shifted 4 degrees appearing to be caused by 50,000 tons of dirt dumps next to the bridge by a contractor and now that is removed and it's starting to rebound but the damage is done. >> we'll experience big city traffic on 95 for the summer. >> long long time before this bridge reopens, del/dot is urging travelers to time their route during off peak hours and

download the del/dot app for traffic conditions, david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you. can you get a handle on the traffic before you get on the car on your smart phone, in edition to "action news" updates on the closures can you use the 6 abc news app to see how long the delays are, it's free for your apple and android devices. >> we are learning more about a delaware coin man that opened fire on his wife before turning the gun on himself. 66-year-old richard patrolee shot his wife and took his own life. carol ann was rushed to the hospital and remains in critical condition and her husband was pronounced dead at the scene, there is no word on what sparked the murder-suicide attempt. a camera captured a clear image of a man that rob aid

fruit market in point breeze, the suspect had a hood around his head and can you see his face, he pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded cash, if you recognize this man, please call philadelphia police. >> another robbery, this one out of a 7-eleven juniata park on east luzerne street. the man pointed a gun at the worker behind the counter and got away with an unknown amount of cash but nobody was hurt. a high school teacher is arrested on drug charges, rib harris is taken into custody, police conducted a sweep of the school and parking lots with drug sniffing dogs, is he charged with possession in a school zone. >> the philadelphia 76ers are one step closer to building a mammoth practice facility along

the waterfront, the authority unanimously giving the team $82 million in tax credits to help subsidize the move, it's a pretty large parking lot right now and the deal delivers the tax credits and allows the team to stay in the city for 15 years, the team practices at the college of osteo pathic medicine and the new facility will not be ready until 2016. adam joseph is joining us with our new best friend, the gray skies. >> and torrential downpours, some areas not a drop of rain and others are like please stop. this is double scan live, most of the pennsylvania is dry with the exception of delaware county. it's interior southern knowledge getting hammered it's now

bumping into camden county and you can see the white spikes through the actual radar and they are flashing on the ground, 54 in the last 15 minutes with torrential rain in that section of new jersey, in fact we have flash flood warnings from newark to wilmington. where 1 to 2.5 inches fell and pockets from swedesboro and glassboro and berlin, 2 to 2.5 inches of rain, they are slow moving downpours, along 95, and we'll look at double scan coming up and let you know when the stubborn pattern will break. >> thank you. if living for a century wasn't reason enough to celebrate, imagine living beyond that. that is why today is deemed centenarian celebration day, mayor nutter hosted the day, more than 170 people were

invited. han han hanna henderson was invited. the event featured an appropriate birthday cake and a whole lot of dancing and shimmying and good times. you know what they still dress well, stylish folk there's. >> still ahead, cell phone savings, does ditching your contract really save you money. plus, dozens of names featured except for one, the powerful message one group is trying to send the nfl. and outrageous and embarrassing. how parentses of one california school is describing what their kids were asked to do in sex education class. and meteorologist, adam joseph back with the full accuweather forecast.

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a truly terrifying scene was caught on camera as an elevator sped out of control in chile, the door opened and races sky word 75 floors and it crashed into the roof. that man was seriously hurt with injuries to his leg and head, that building was only constructed eight monthed ago. >> frightening. >> a woman in arizona was saved by a fellow gamer. >> robbers burst into the

woman's temp apartment while her webcam was streaming live and people around the world watched as the crime unfolded in one of her past gaming episodes, a man showed off a gun she had and that gown is what the robbers went for so police believe the woman was targeted. a view in europe was the first to call 911 to get the woman help. >> i need to report a possible robbery. >> this is the police department, anybody inside come out with your hands up. >> police and an s.w.a.t. team surrounded the apartment and was able to catch one of the two suspects and the search continues for the other robber. a doctor in seattle washington is off the job today for allegely sexting during surgery, health departments say he sent dozens and dozens of graphic text messages, including

c-sections, not only were they sexually charged and some of them were disrespectful and racist about the patients under his care. the doctor is accused of having a sexual relationship with a patient and his license has now been suspended. >> over here at the big board, with the big talkers. tune into the nba finals tonight, you'll see another battle view broouing, the ad called proud to be, an anti-red skins commercial trying to get them to change their name. it says they call themselves many things, sioux apache, father, mother, patriot and chief. >> the one thing they don't -- >> very powerful mess able there, they don't call themselves what's you see on the

helmet. daniel snider says the team name is a badge of honor and vows never to change it. >> there is sex education and then this, a lesson on dating, in a health and life class took an embarrassing turn in san marcos, keel, they asked eighth grade students to stand under signs to show how far they would go on a date, from smile to kiss to go all the way. >> i was furious because my daughter was embarrassed. >> they say that parents signed a curriculum for this class and could have looked to see what it included. >> finally, move over aerial and darryl hanna, there is an

another life under the city, she swims with the sharks but says that humans are the real threat. her late of the protest in the bahamas you see her locked in led boots with no air and baiting sharks as big as boats, to be the first human to kiss one. she says they are misportrayed as man eaters. and it's called tears of a mermaid, this woman has major guts. >> are we sure she is not a mermaid. >> this close to kissing one. >> alicia thank you. lets get a check of the roads today. autumn marisa is in for matt pellman. >> westbound we have delays all day long and now a disabled vehicles at montgomery and it's causing problems, slowing things down even more. as you approach belmont there is an accident off to the side of

the road there, causing us some more slow-downs, however that is in the eastbound lanes, speeds 17 miles per hour along the schuylkill again, nice and slow the whole stretch, 95 we are slow from the vine street expressway to woodhaven, as we go down to the southbound lanes towards the airport and ridley park area, it's raining so watch your speed there's on those roadways as well. lower merion, we have a traffic light outages due to power outages, that is intermittent along lancaster avenue. and airport road is closed because of flooding, use 273 address your alternate. woe have the phillies game, we have three sports express trains. we'll keep an eye on that and bring you an up date in the 5:00 hour. >> thank you hoping the rain is not an issue tonight as we look live right now, you know it's a wet one out there.

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joseph, pour pop-ups around the region, and they mean business, with etch extremely heavy rain, we look at double scan live across the region and locally south of philadelphia and so the south and west of cherry hill and parts of delaware county and media, near i-95 and the philadelphia international airport, we have heavy downpours and no lightning with these particular storms but slow going heading south of philadelphia towards wilmington and a cluster in glassboro and elmer, east of the berlin near the atlantic city expressways this is slowly drifting the last 20 minutes to an hour, to turnersville, 26 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes but the rain is the big deal with these particular downpours that are slowly drifting to the east, that particular storm, and parts of gloucester county, we can take double scan live and slice it into vertical here and see how

stacked the storm is, it's only 25 to 30,000 feet and it's decent and this thunderstorm if it were too be severe there could be a corwith hail and strong winds but now the storm is in the severe but releasing a lot of water, some 2 to 2.5 inches of rain in a short amount of time, we got this picture in to my facebook page, from jen, in pitman, new jersey, her backyard is pretty much a pond at this point. right now temperature wise it's rain cooled in wilmington and rain an hour ago 72 degrees, 77 in allentown and 80 right now in dover, it's extremely muggy no matter where you are. the pop-ups are mainly south and east of philadelphia, it's north and west as we have convergence in the at most for, this comes together to supply the storms in

philadelphia. and then atlanta and the tennessee valley, a main upper level low is in that part of the country. and a stabilizing wind and clouds and limited sunshine and the warm front comes in on thursday as more showers and thoms pop up as the humidity increases and a temperature of 83 degrees, we get a one-day break before the action is back in spots on thursday. tonight spotty downpours and again they will pour where they do pop, warm and muggy for everyone else, 67 to 69 degrees for the overnight low, and it's exclusive accuweather forecast, a one day break for tomorrow mainly dry and clouds and humid and 80 degrees, humid on thursday, and the pop-ups are back in the afternoon at 83, downpours here are active friday as i cold front. for the weekend, looking great,

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan and rick williams, and monica malpass.eteorologist, a drug investigation is underway at a west philadelphia elementary school. narcoticsing detectives combed the school today after a student brought a substance into class that might be heroin. the big story is the drug scare at a philadelphia elementary school after a third grader brought in several packets of a white powdery substance. it happened here in philadelphia and there is a large police presence for several hours. sara bloomquist is live outside of the school with more details.

>> reporter: right now philadelphia police are getting ready to interview the mother of the little girl that brought this suspected heroin into her classroom this morning. mom is over at the detective bureau right now, a team of detectives are at childrens hospital interviewing all the kids at the hospital when the discovery was made this afternoon. >> third graders filed on to a school bus to go to childrens hospital this afternoon. at noon today a teacher noticed a student, a 6-year-old girl sucking on what was believed to be a small packet of heroin. >> the child had the product and was playing with it and luckily an alert teacher discovered the kid with the narcotic. >> they found 10 packets with the white powdery substance, two had been opened and the contents