Firing at them t. Neighborhood the on lockdown, people spent the night out of their homes in the area. That barricade is happening in middle town about 15 miles away from the wawa, where it all started around noon yesterday. 32yearold Steven Ballard died when the suspect opened fire on him in the parking lot. We have live team coverage, corporeal ballard would have reported to work t. Scene begins, just on new information, katie, what did you learn . Tracy the latest news from Delaware State Police is that the suspect recently fired shots at Police Outside his home again. This happened around 4 00 a. M. They followed up with explosive devices, at this time the suspect remained barricaded in his home. Can you see this road behind me is this police are not allowing traffic to get close to that neighborhood. Here is the suspects home investigators tracked him here after witnesses saw corporeal Steve Ballard found multiple times in a parking lot. Since police have surrounded the suspects home, no one has been allowed in or out of the neighborhood. Those who are afraid of whats happening, he stays inside. I would have propagation now and then they didnt get along, things like that. Again, back out here live in middletown, this barricade is, its about a mile away from where the suspect is. As we bring you around this Shopping Complex parking lot, there are a handful of neighbors here who live in that neighborhood who are not allowed to go back into the neighborhood until this situation is resolved. Most are at local hotels, where police have negotiated some room for them. For those who couldnt get in a hotel, they are staying at a local fire station. Coming up, we are a street away from where this is all happening. You will hear in her words how she is dealing with the chaos outside her home. Lets take a close look at how the situation unfolded. Corporeal ballard walked up to a suspicious car with two people inside. The witness told us there was a struggle and she we heard shots. The guy just took two steps forward. Pop. Pop. Two more times. They say they performed cpr. Corporeal ballard, Police Arrested one suspect t. Another ran off and thats the man barricaded in that home right now in middletown. Hundreds of officers paid their respect it was taken to the medical Examiners Office in wilmington. Now a live look corporeal ballard would have reported to work this morning t. Governor declared the flags to be flown at halfstaff in memory of corporeal ballard, an eightyear veteran of the state police force. We will have more coming up at 6 30. You can count on nbc 10 in the ongoing scandal on air and our nbc 10 app. The jury said the shooting and killing of one straight trooper. The bell atop the Pike County Court haase rang last night. They have been sentenced to die by lethal injection. A jury deliberated with its decision. It was the same that killed corporeal brian dixon. Corporeal dixon will always remain in the heart of all members of the Pennsylvania State police forever. Every defendant i ever had, they design the trial has thought he or she had an ability to when. Free had no reaction when the sentence was announced. Nbc 10 was the first to bring you breaking news as it happened sign up to have ealerts sent to your phone, the final countdown is on a. Live look now along the Ben Frank Len parkway, which will soon be packed. Action begins at 8 00 in the draft. The fans at noon. Until then, there is work being done at this hour. Crews continues to put up hundreds of fencing. That comes in an area roughly the size of 25 football fields up to the stage. When the gates open at noon, football fans will feel like they are a part of the nfl experien experience. From is a zip line, a hall of fame bus. Ryan cunningham, donovan mcnabb, two grates are coming to town, if you plan to go, make sure you pack light. Security will be tight along the parkway. A small bag you bring could be searched. All fulfilling the area will have to go through that metal director inside the gate. John just aorski will announce the picks. We will bring you behind the scenes for all the action. They are live tonight at 7 00. We wrap up all the highlights for you on sunday night. Its officially begins at 10 00 a. M. T. Reaction will soon start. Bill henley has the accurate forecast. It looks like a good day. For all the events, the penn relay, the draft. Its quiet. You will see sunshine. Low clouds and light fog. That will not last a warm morning. With a southeast wind, we the clouds break up. This afternoon, stronger in wilmington, just enough to provide a nice warmup. Heres your hour by hour forecast of this morning lunchtime 72 degrees. A few scattered clouds in the city, the draft forecast continues to be nice this afternoon. 77 degrees the wind at 11 miles per hour. You head into the evening, you will see clouds at 9 00. Stays dry as those hours. The next chance of showers wont come in until late tonight and early tomorrow morning. A nice warmup t. Disturbs, into the 60s and 70s this afternoon. Clouds linger. For delaware, 60s this morning, low 70s this afternoon, partly sunny skies, new jersey into the 70s today, a little cooler, winds come off the ocean at the shore you see sunshine there, too. We will get sunshine, too. The weekend forecast when i come back in 10. Ten minutes past 6 00. That area, 295. 42, northbound, they come to philadelphia. Its congested. Wait until today. Jessica boyington shows you whats happening. This will act a lot of people in an area where it sort of will affect people headed towards philadelphia. Towards trenton or philly from really all angles. You will see this start to jam up. Right here we are watching overtop of belmar, right here is the 42 freeway, headed northbound towards philadelphia. Right before we get to that 76 and 676 split. Now, all of this traffic typically splits in half. It goes this way, rate right now, not allowing it to happen. We see a massive delay on the 42 freeway. Now all of the traffic, be every that split is being pretty much forced off towards the philadelphia area. So a lot of these people will have to get off as well. Once they get up past that point, they will have to experience huge delays off the offramp there as well. The 42 freeway is really backed up. Additionally, 295, theyre allowing one car still at a time on that offramp. We are not seeing the massive delay as well on the 42 freeway. Getting you around that will be the issue here. Just avoid residual delays. Right now, that traffic in this direction. That will take you a long time. You want to bypass. Getting to the Walt Pitt Whitman will be difficult. Still ahead, how the state is taking a tougher stance. Plus, United Airlines using sweeping policy changes overnight in response to the incident where that happened where a guy was dragged off a plan plane. The suspect barricaded the state troopner his home. We are bringing you continuing coverage straight ahead. Its a quarter past 6 00 on this thursday morning. We continue to follow breaking news, with a man shot and killed a state trooper is in a standoff with police. This has been the last few hours the man shot at police. He threw an explosive device in middletown, right now they are still trying to persuade him to surrender no negotiating nearby homes have been evacuated overnight. Those people are still being kept away. Police believe they shot at corporeal Steven Ballard outside a wawa in bear. New overnight, United Airlines plans to offer to pea out for customers that give up their seats. The new limit payouts will be 10,000. The airline is making changes, including working to cut down on overbooking seats on its flight. United employees are getting additional charges, following the removal of a passenger earlier this month. Yesterday, United Airlines announced it was using Law Enforcement officers on planes and would work on creative ways of dealing with passengers who are denied boarding. Lester hold talked with United Airlines ceo for an exclusive interview. You can see that later this morning. Lets check back in. On 295. We are watching that. Fortunately, we have this viewpoint. Either way, i can show you whats going on, just fine. The northbound ramp is actually moving from it. We can see that a little better. Its diverted away. So all of the traffic trying to get to 295 northbound cant get to afternoon area. Everybody thats originally trying to get to friday and trenton is all going in the same direction. We are seeing huge delays. Just in itself, you will hit some of this traffic. All this 295 traffic. Moving in that direction you can find the direction. Jessica, thanks for that. Take a live look outside. Everyone is gearing up for the nfl draft. List find out how warm it will get. Its the end of april. Clouds are still over and around this morning you see the skies clear. Sunshine, its looking really nice. 75 degrees, into the upper 70s improving conditions, most areas reporting five miles visibility in between, millvale has light fog. The temperatures will be climbing. Any fog will disappear. Vits and low 60s right now n. Delaware, newark, 57, along with harmony hills. Closer to 60 degrees and into the 50s, starting in the 50s, but you can count on a pretty good warmup t. Trends for philadelphia has us into the upper 70s by 3 00 this afternoon the temperatures accelerate, dropping down into the low 70s by 7 00. It will be dry all day. We have clouds around this morning. So sign of wet weather for today. Tonightsh though, late tonight, early tomorrow morning we could see late night thunderstorm. During the day by noon we will be in the 70s and a warm start a chance of showers, otherwise, clouds and sunshine for philadelphia. Into the 80s on saturday turning cooler on sunday. Tracy. See you then, thank you. 20 minutes past 6 00. Septa is changing how passengers create rides. The time line for selling medical marijuana in pennsylvania. When the drugs could be available. Officials in pennsylvania say the medical Marijuana Program is on track to be up and running by may of next year. The state Health Secretary says her agency received more than 500 applications for people to grow, dispense drugs, next for 39 available permits. She says they hope to issue permits by the end of june. And today we learn plans about repairs. That follows the derailment in problems over the next month after the electrical problem, amtrak said the work would cause near delays and cancellations. Starting first, septa will end sales of weekly and monthly transpasses and one Day Convenience passes. You can reload online or at their ki of course. Now they will continued to sell tokens. Good morning, everyone, Jessica Boyington with breaking news, overtop of the scene of 295 out in belmar. He had a truck spill a load of orange juice on the northbound side. We are seeing big delays that. Ramp is closed. Ill have details for you on everything and how to get around it when i come bats at 6 30. We continue to follow breaking news in delaware, where a suspect wanted for killing a state trooper is barricaded inside his home. Also a daunting task, a father accused of killing his son, up next. The field trip. Breaking news, a standoff in delaware. Nbc 10 have a man suspected of killing a state trooper surrounded. Steven ballard died in the parking lot yesterday. Good morning, this is nbc news today. Im tracy davidson. With eget your first alert forecast in a few minutes. The man has fired shots at police from his home in middletown this morning. Police have a second suspect in custody, they arrested at the shooting scene. We have live team coverage. The barricade situation is still happening right now katy, bring us up to speed there. You can sigh behind me, there is a road block here. The road, we are a mile away from the suspects home. Police have blocked the road. We know from Delaware State Police about two hours ago, police say the suspect fired shots from inside his home and police also used force, they say, by exploding some windows. At this hour, though the suspect remains barricaded inside his home. Investigators say they are trying to get him to surrender. Take a look at video we got from a neighbor close to a scene. This is from the brick mills farm neighborhood. This is the suspects home. A neighbor took this video of police rushing towards it yesterday afternoon, investigators tracked him here after witnesses saw corporeal Steven Ballard stopped multiple times in a wawa parking lot. No one has been allowed in or out of the neighborhood. Those who remain in their home tell me they are afraid. One woman minutes ago described for me over the phone how violent it has been. Can you san, are you seeing gunfire . Yes, there was definitely shots fired. It seemed i could hear them. I couldnt make out what they were saying. I we heard the bullhorn and then it was two three minutes after that is when we we heard the explosion. Right after that gun fire. Well, people who are not able to be in their homes, some are here in this shopping small to show you this group gathered here. Some are talking to police that stopped by. The people are trying to get as many updates as they can. Some are staying at a local hotel. A local Fire Department opened up its space. Some people have to remain outside the naked. Katy zachary, nbc 10 news. That barricade in middle town is about 15 minutes away from wawa and bear. It started about noon. Corporeal ballard walked up to a suspicious car a. Witness told us there was a struggle. And she we heard shock. That witnesses and three others performed cpr on the trooper. Now the troopers death. Its been a bad day for us. We actually see the troopers family. Hundreds of officers paid their respect to corporeal ballard last season. They acompanied his body as it was taken from the way yesterday. The flag draped casket is carried into wilmington. Flags are pouring at halfstaff across delaware. Thats where nbc 10 Pamela Osbourne is with more on the fallen trooper. Reporter tracy, this is where corporeal Stephen Ballard would be reporting for work. You see a visual marker of the sites throughout delaware. Corporeal ballard, a husband and father, he was gunned down. State police say he had approached a suspicious vehicle with two suspects inside, thats when one suspect pulled out a gunfireing several times at corporeal ball art. Witnesses say it happened quick. So quick, when they rushed to the fallen troopers gun, they saw it still in his holster. That man tried to protect people. Thats somebody else trying to shoot you for no reason. He shot him right in the head. I mean, its sad. You find out they didnt make it. Hour thoughts and prayers going out to corporeal ballards family as well as his state troopers not out of palms way. And count on nbc 10 for all the latest developments in the still ongoing stauffer. And now we have been staying on top of eric free has been sentenced to death for killing a state trooper. A bell rang last night. It signaled the death sentence. A jury deliberated for almost five hours before coming back with this decision. Today jurors in camden country toy will visit the spot where investigators found a threeyearold boys body. He was found dead in 2015 at cooper river park. D. Zwrch d. J was charged with killing his young son. They found the boys body discovered. It was taken 36 hours before the child disappeared. If glocester county, a gymnastics coach remains behind bars for allegedly assaulting two young girls he assaulted one in october of 2016. It happened as the coach where he worked. They have charged a Philadelphia Police officer with nap slaughter. Nbc 10 has this exclusive video surrendering yesterday. Le slammed into dimitri in january. Dimitri died at the 16. He was my brother r. Authorities sigh a second officer was in a second car involved in the incident. He has been fired but not charged. Just hours after he was saying that he would draft an executive order to withdraw from nafta, President Trump has changed his mind. The president told leaders of mexico and canada, he would not pull out of the trade agreement. He was ready to start renegotiateing nafta. The white house is pushing a sweeping thanks plan yesterday. It cut income tax brackets to three. It covered a standard deduction. It cut the Corporate Tax rate to 15 . Critics say the plan will raise the deficit. The white house says Economic Growth will cover the costs. 6 38. 51 degrees outside. Lets take a live look at the parkway, everyone is getting excited. Fans can enjoy the nfl experience around noon today t. Draft begins at 8 00. Its a big deal. I think the weather is cooperating. We will find out more from bill henley. Its starting off warm. You can see the clouds from the nbc 10 studios. The wind will be shifting. 61 degrees right now. Not much wind. Just five miles an hour. Southeasterly winds develop. Thats a shift from yesterday when we had the northerly winds 70s by noontime. Friday starts with the suburbs. Look at sunshine breaking through this morning but by 10 00. 55 degrees. Look at the 70s this afternoon. 76 at 2 00. Clouds will be lingering. Cloudy skies atle 00. Some breaks of sunshine this morning. There will be clouds into the afternoon. Enough sunshine, upper 70s for the Lehigh Valley this afternoon. 60s this morning, into the 70s, warmer at 2 00 and 4 00 the winds is coming up, you will start to get that ocean influence. That will drop the temperature late in the afternoon. At the store, it will cope temperatures cooler in the 60s. Nice sunshine, 55 degrees, 56 degrees at 8 00. Lots of sunshine this afternoon in delaware, yes, its cloudy right now. Thats a live view, 59 degrees, warm in delaware. Look at that warmup. Through the 60s, sunshine, noontime, into the middle 70s this afternoon, there is warmer weather for the rest of the workweek into the weekend. We are back in ten minutes. Hmm, warmer weather. All right. Usually its in this case, orange juice. Is creating the headaches. We are seeing big delays out in belmar a. Truck, what they mean by