Multiple scandals have rocked the agencys credibility. Many lawmakers had urged pierson to step down and today president obama joined that call. Serious questions arose about the secret Services Ability to protect the first family. Nbcs Steve Handelsman has the latest from washington. Reporter secret Service DirectorJulia Pierson resigned after disclosure of the atlanta incident. She believed it was in the best interest of the agency to which she had dedicated her career. Reporter a man with a gun allowed close to president obama. Republicans like jason chaffits and Elijah Cummings urged her to leave. Omar gonzalez made it inside the white house, breaching security. Thats correct. Reporter as gonzalez pleaded not guilty came details of a scare three days before he jumped the fence. Secret Service Allowed in anc elevator with the president a security contractor with a pistol and a record of arrest for assault. That sounds terrible. Reporter former secret Service Agent says the good news is the man with the gun had his hands in sight. Hes making a video. He had his hand on the phone. Why dont they say we dont know who you are, get out. Thats what they should have done. Reporter a meeting with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu, he sent a message of support through the rank and file. These are men and women, professionals, prepared to put their life on the line to protect the president and the first family. Reporter it was agents and officers who leaked the damaging stories that forced their boss to quit. Pierson took the top job at secret service just last year after a series of scandals. Now a former top agent comes back as interim director while secret service tries to get back on its feet. From washington, im Steve Handelsman, nbc 10 news. Nbc nightly news with Brian Williams will continue to follow the latest developments and analysis on this breaking story. Thats coming up right here on nbc 10 at 6 30. In the mean tame, medical specialists are working around the clock to treat the first patient diagnosed with the deadly ebola virus in the United States. A team from the centers for Disease Control was on the ground going door to door in the apartment complex in dallas where the patient spent several days with his family. Theyre trying to identify more than a dozen people who may now be at risk for infection, including and, this is according to Texas Governor rick perry, a group of schoolaged children. They have no symptoms but are being monitored. Coming up at 5 45, well look at how new jersey hospitals are preparing for ebola. Were learning new details about the shooting of a toddler in delaware. And about the Good Samaritan who sprung into action after that shot was fired. Nbc 10s Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong is live at ai Dupont Hospital in wilmington. Reporter that little boys name is a. J. , jacqueline. Hes here at ai Dupont Hospital. Hes lucky people got to him quickly. We saw his mom and dad walk past a short while ago. We learned the laws in delaware about this stuff, not all that tough. Reporter zack happened to be working in the valley run complex when he heard a woman screaming that her son shot himself. 29yearold is expected to survive but his injuries are very serious. The most important thing is, he seems to be on the road to recovery. Reporter while the crime tape is now gone, the questions linger. How did a. J. Get his hands on the gun, whose gun was it and was it legally registered . His mom rushed away when we tried to get answers. This is a tragedy that should never have happened in the first place. Reporter jennifer spoke with us via face time today. Shes stud did up on delaware laws related to this incident. Delaware laws could be stronger for sure. Reporter you see the word misdemeanor a lot in the laws about leaving weapons where kids can get them. The punishments arent too stiff either. That being said, some states dont have any laws with regard to leaving weapons laying a around. These cases are 100 preventible with Safety Measures and common sense. Too often in the media we hear these things referred to as tragic accidents. We dont want to hold people accountable. We feel theyve suffered enough. We really need to change the culture. Reporter no charges filed yet. Not many states even keep track of this kind of incident i learned today in my search. If the fear of your kid getting shot isnt scary enough for you, maybe the fear of prison time might be. Live in wilmington, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Pennsylvania state police are remembering one of their own today after what has been called a tragic accident. 26yearold trooper david kedra died after being shot in the chest last night. According to Law Enforcement sources. He was accidentally shot by another trooper during a Training Exercise at a firing range in conshohocken. Governor tom corbett ordered state flags to fly at halfstaff to remember the rookie trooper based in skippack township. Trooper david kedra was an extremely enthusiastic trooper. He was highly motivated. You could tell every single day he walked in. He was extremely proud to be a Pennsylvania State trooper and he showed it. State police are not talking about circumstances that led up to the fatal shooting. They will only say theyre investigating along with Montgomery County authorities. The manhunt for suspected cop killer eric frein in the poconos has forced a ban now on hurnting in the search zone. Deer bow hunting season was going to start this weekend. State game officials suspend all sports hunting and tracking in eastern monroe and western pike counties until further notice. Just worried that somebody might spot me out there and say, thats him and blow me out. The ground search focused on a cave hidden behind water walls in price township where searchers reported finding evidence of a recent camp fire. The manhunt has been in overdrive since the discovery of pipe bombs yesterday at a campsite where Police Believe frein was staying. Now to decision 2014. Today pennsylvania governor tom corbett unveils a new interactive tool to help you find a new job. Nbc 10 in Spring Garden where governor corbett announced the launch of virtual job shadow. You can find it through pennsylvanias job gateway website. Its a collection of more than 900 short videos that give you an inside look at a day in the life of professionals. Its all part of corbetts jobs first p. A. Initiative. Meanwhile, democratic challenger tom wolf says pennsylvania has fallen from 7th to 41st in job creation. The number of unemployed in the state is approaching 500,000. Running for governor in November Wolf has promised to rebuild the states Manufacturing Sector and push for Clean Technology to create more jobs. A robbery suspect caught on tape pulling a gun on a cashier at a subway restaurant. It happened on glove avenue in cobbs creek neighborhood. He pretended to ask a question and then whipped out a gun and demanded money from the cash register. He took the employees ear phones before walking out of the store. A county doctor goes in front of a judge today. 36yearold Quinton Parker of levittown confessed to downloading and viewing 58 images and videos of 9 to 13yearold girls engaged in sex acts. Parker worked at three local hospitals, including aria health and honnemin hospital. c the two men torched the se in retaliation for a contractor not hiring union workers. 28yearold james admitted to his role in a series of similar incident. Two other Union Members pleaded guilty to similar charges yesterday. An update now to a story from our Delaware Bureau. A hear had to be delayed for the driver charged in a deadly tour bus crash, thats after the commissioner discovered he spoke little english. The driver also showed up without a lawyer and couldnt answer simple questions. Two people died when the tour bus crashed getting off route 1 last month. Dozens of others were injured. The drivers hearing has been rescheduled for november. Practice today for drexel Universitys Department of Public Safety. They performed a mass casual exercise to assess the universitys police and emergency medical response to a hazmat situation. How about this, unexpected danger high above a world famous attraction. Police and medics rush to new yorks times square. What came crashing down to the sidewalk and why . And progress after more than a decade. Changes are soon coming to the sprawling 176acre former home of the franklin mint. Now we go to more breaking news. This time in philadelphias nicetown neighborhood where a child became trapped under a car. Lets go right to nbc 10s Denise Nakano live on the scene at north 15th street. Have they been able to rescue the child. Reporter we know now at this point this is a deadly accident, all happening here in a busy area. Were being told a child, a boy age 6 or 7 years old walked out between two parked cars and became trapped under this car that you see right here on 15th street. Investigators have been out here. This appears to be a tragic accident but the boy was walking home from school at the time of the crash. The driver, again, is at headquarters talking to police, telling them he was driving at a normal speed and could not stop in time when this boy came out from two parked cars trying to cross in the middle of this block. The tragic accident involving a 6 and 7yearold boy who was coming home from school and walked in front of a moving vehicle, coming out between two parked cars and right now that driver is cooperating. There does not appear to be any alcohol, any drugs in this case. Apparently no speeding involved but they are now calling this a tragic accident. Reporting live in nicetown, im Denise Nakano, nbc 10 news. Two people in new york city were hurt when a tenfoot long piece of metal fell from the sky. The two men were walking in times square when they were hit this morning. Investigators say that contractors were working on a building sign when the piece of metal fell 15 stories. We were supposed to have sounded from that gentleman. Well try to get it a bit later. We do know the victims were okay. Testimony is over and a bid by lawyers for Aaron Hernandez to have evidence from his cell phone tossed. The judge did not issue an immediate ruling today. Hes accused of the 2013 shooting both of odin lloyd, a semipro Football Player from boston. Attorneys asked the judge to throw out evidence from his cell phone because they say his phone was wrongfully taken. Prosecutors insist they had a warn the. Hernandez pleaded not guilty to the charges. The u. S. Department of justice held its second residents only town hall meeting in ferguson, missouri. The goal is to improve citytocitizen communication. Protesters outside of the church where the meeting was held wanted to be heard, too. Those who attended say this second in a series of meeting with the department of justice was civil. But opinions were mixed on what they saw when they stepped outside. These are i would probably say further than the race dialogue. The dialogue is great but the actions with the dialogue is what were trying to get to. These meetings began after a Police Officer shot and killed 18yearold michael brown. The incident caused riots and protests. A grand jury is now hearing evidence in the shooting. Ohio police were called out when a 6yearold pulled a toy gun and started pointing it at other children. The School Bus Driver told policec she saw the child poin gun at another child and threaten to shoot. No one was hurt but police say the rest of the kids were pretty shaken up. Here in our area, theres a push to ban toy guns. Atlantic city recently approved a new gun ban law. Kenyatta johnson announced a plan to do the same thing in philadelphia. Dozens of former members of nazi mobile death squads may still be alive. And International HumanRights Organization says they have a list of 76 men and 4 women who served in the ssi group death squad. Time is running out. Every day that passes without these people being brought to justice brings these murders a day closer to eluding justice. All 80 would be very old if still alive with birth dates between 1920 and 1924. 20 people are dead and 45 others injured after an accident in southern algeria. A mini bus and coach bus collided as they were traveling down a road in opposite directions. Of the 45 people hurt, seven have severe injuries. Police are trying to determine the cause of the crash. I want you to take a look at this, the biggest tire factory in asia caught fire overnight in south korea. Employees of more than 1,000 nearby residents had to evacuate the area. At times the flames shot more than 100 feet in the air. Firefighters tried to contain the blaze. It quickly engulfed the warehouse setting. 183,000 tires on fire. It even threatened to damage a railway bridge. An artist for the Boston Herald is apologizing for a cartoon of president obama that some say is racist. The cartoon shows last Weeks White House intruder with president obama and a Speech Bubble that reads, have you tried the new watermelon toothpaste . Its in reference to the stereotype that africanamericans enjoy that fruit. Many readers took to the internet to call his words offensive and racist. Jolbert has since apologized. He says he just has a soft spot for that flavoring. Marie antoinette said let them eat cake. An official in ukraine might think differently. Why . Pranksters threw cake at him during a News Conference in kiev today. The aides of the president quickly under his desk and then, as if nothing happened, continued on with his comments. His jacket, as you can see there, took the brunt of the cake. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Well, a cooler day today. We still have the cloud cover with us. Heres a live look out at center city from the adventure aquarium. Still have the clouds in the area. Its going to be another cool night tonight. Temperatures will be on the cool side. Open your windows again as we go into the weekend, though, just keep in mind we have rain moving in. This will be actually starting off your weekend. But behind the rain we have football weather moving in. Cooler temperatures. A lot cooler in about the mid60s in time for the eagles game. Ill show you the forecast in a second. Temperatures around 70 degrees in philadelphia, 71 northeast philly. Millville coming in at 69 degrees. Atlantic city only in the mid60s, same thing in mt. Holly. 71 in dover through the Lehigh Valley, temperatures just about the low 70s. We have the cloud cover around an onshore wind, especially for those areas along the shore, cooler. But the clouds arec staying wi us. Its what were watching back off to the west. This will be moving in in time for your weekend. A line of storms approaching chicago. Its all part of a cold front. That will sweep through as we start off your weekend. Heres future weather. We could see a few sprinkles but thats about it. By tomorrow afternoon were dry and cool again. Then friday were also dry. Through a majority of the day, it will be nice to end out the week. Very late, well start to see showers approaching into early saturday morning. So by about noon saturday we should have a line of showers through the area. Some of that could be thunderstorms but behind it, well have cooler air setting up for later in the day saturday, especially as we go into sunday. This is what we would call football weather. Temperatures just in time for the eagles game. By 1 00 p. M. , upper 50s, by 4 00 p. M. , temperatures in the mid60s. For tonight, mostly cloudy, temperatures staying in the 50s. So cool night. Tomorrow mix of clouds and sun. Temperatures in the low 70s. Then as we go into friday, mid70s. Pretty nice day. Early saturday, theres the rain. We are breezy and much cooler behind it. There you see the mid60s and dry for sunday. Sheena, thanks. New details about the former home with the franklin mint. The 176 acre property is located just off Baltimore Pike at route 452. For now the old mint still sits on the property but in a few years, Middletown Commons as it will be called will include 300,000 feet of office and retail space, 350 homes and a hotel. The development is receiving offers from National Grocery chains, hotels and restaurants. Construction begins in early 2016. Whats in a name . Perhaps a fine. The reason broadcasters could soon be penalized for even uttering the name of the washington nfl team. And its regarded for its unsurpassed Natural Beauty but longwood garden isnt just known for flowers and trees. Why the Chester County landmark is in the running for top honors in a very much behind the scenes category, well say. How can i avoid maintenance fees . Why would you want to avoid them . Because i dont want to. You know what . 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