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 Director Julia 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 ne
Everybodys seeing the cloud cover, including boathouse row, which is dry at this time. But check out the radar. You can see some scattered showers that are moving through south philadelphia into Camden County and a few rain drops in the newark area this morning, but the steadier showers are farther to the north. The reading area has seen some brief periods of heavy downpours west of the city. Now its starting to taper off. And the showers, well, theyre not going to last all day. A problem this morning, but not so much this afternoon, as we will get some breaks in the clouds. Right now if youre heading out the door, 64 degrees in philadelphia. We will be in the lower 70s later today. Well go through hour by hour when i come back. First, jillian mele has your traffic. Good morning. Good morning, bill. Were starting off with one accident this morning, out of new jersey, especially in clementon, white horse avenue between white horse pike and road. This is 95. Once again, we have construct
Between the blue route and the Commodore Barry bridge. You can see all of the cones that are set up. We still have some active construction. And you can see this is the one lane of traffic thats getting by on the actual highway itself, on 95. You can see drivers trying to make their way on to the highway. But take a look at what this is doing to the commute right now. At 6 00 this morning, you can see that line of red lights out there. Thats drivers crawling along just basically past the airport. Thats where this delay starts, and it continues down to the Commodore Barry bridge, again, because of this construction still out there. So, that is something we will stay on top of for you. An accident in berlin, cross keys road at watson town new freedom road. All lanes are blocked. Take taunton road as an alternate. Weve also been following an accident out of clementon over the last few hours. Ill have details in a few minutes. Vai. We continue to stay on top of breaking news out of Atlanti
On nbc 10 news at 4 00. And tonight weve spoken to the mother of the 7yearold who actually saw the crash happen. Nbc 10s Denise Nakano has more live from north philadelphia. Denise . Reporter well, jacqueline and jim, she tells me she was standing across the street just steps away from her son when he was struck. Investigators believe this was a tragic accident. She believes the driver is partially to blame. He was a fun loving person. He was always happy. Reporter patricia stone says the final moments of her sons life flashed in front of her as she witnessed the accident that killed him. He was running to me, the car hit him twice. He was stuck under the car. Reporter the 7yearold was on his way home from school, walking steps behind his sisters just after 4 00. He was struck by a car on north 15th street near erie avenue as he walked from between two parked cars. Choking back tears, a witness who asked not to be identified said he tried to help but it was too late. I heard the tire s
Reporter triple a midatlantic say you plan too. If you are looking at route 13 to run south, or north to get to delaware beaches or maybe to the new jersey shore that is fine. It will go east through new jersey throughout the delaware memorial bridge. It will take 202 to route 41, and down to the route 13. Reporter following governor markells trip, u. S. Senator chris kuhn offered his sport moving forward. Much more will be needed in federal resources. Im committed to working with the rest of the delaware congressional delegation to make sure they are available. Reporter but moving forward will be slow going. This pile of dirties still being removed and a exact cause of this problem, still undetermined. We need to fully understand the Ground Movement before we can get all of the possible solutions, work out. Reporter and again, it could be weeks or even months, before a solution is in place. Here in the meantime engineers are also busy inspecting bridges similar to this one. We are tol