Security changes. Last september, Omar Gonzalez armed with a knife was able to make it over the fence and into the white house. A month later, another man climbed the north fence and was immediately taken into custody by secret service and k9 units. Theyre going to get over and put on a show. So no i dont think theres any deterrent there. Brianne during a portion of the afternoon today, visitors were kept across the street. Hes visiting from u. K. And says she understands the security but says it still needs to be accessible. I dont feel it will be a house anymore much the idea of the house is a home where the president lives and hes in town with all of the americans and all of the tourists. Everyone feels welcoming here. Brianne this proposal still isnt a done deal. Expected to be another meeting with the National Capital Planning Commission on may 9th when they take up the vote. No timeline on the temporary changes or the permanent one. National park service and secret service are st
Justice department. Announcer now abc 7 news at 11 00 on your side. Just coming in from Prince Georges County a 1yearold is recovering after being pulled from a burning apartment in langley park. The child is in Good Condition tonight. Firefighters rescued five other people trapped in the building. No one else was hurt. Hours of delays and finally traffic is moving again on the bay bridge. This is what it looks like right now. But earlier today the overturned tractortrailer tied up drivers for hours. We have more on what went wrong and the thousands of headaches that this caused. Reporter some six hours after the crash the debris is finally cleaned up and the span reopened. Take a look at the traffic. This is the eastbound backup. It is five miles long to the bridge. The westbound backup is seven miles long. Weve been sitting in it for hours and it has been one big mess. This was route 50 eastbound heading to the bay bridge hours after the crash. Backed up for miles, bumpertobumper, a
But getting stronger. You see the bottom right hahan corner the circulation. About 250 to 300 miles eastsoutheast of ocean city and moving north. So it wont come up the Chesapeake Bay and that is good news. We were concerned about that a couple of days ago but it looks like it will come onshore in new jersey. We could see heavy rain on the Eastern Shore counties right now with lighter rain in the with respect suburbs. At the airport you see winds are not terrible around baltimore. North wind eight up to about 20 miles an hour gusting. They will pick up this morning and this afternoon. The worse part of the storm will be this afternoon and this evening. By the time we get there the rain will be much heavier, wind gusts 30 to 40 miles an hour by this evening 40 to 60 miles an hour as the storm comes onshore in new jersey. Cold comes in tomorrow. Snow is likely in parts of maryland. Blizzard warnings are in effect in gerarrett county. We will talk more about there and i will take you step
Republicansa chance could come back with one final, offer today with or without strings attached. A lastditch effort to keep 800,000 federal employees at work. 40 of the federal workforce. Military pay for nearly 1. 5 million who would have to stay on the job is also on the table. Tracie potts, wbaltv 11 news. The fire shut down westbound lanes of the bay bridge on sunday. The fire was contained to a construction site under the bridge. The bridge was declared structurally safe. A suspect is dead after a barricade situation and did in police gunfire. This happened saturday afternoon. Officers say austin jones barricaded himself inside an apartment. He eventually released a victim unharmed. With a a quick gesture black object. He was pronounced dead at the scene. There was a successful fundraising event on saturday for the family of jason schneider. The proceeds went to his children. He was called the bravest and most dedicated among them. 51 degrees at the airport. A minister murdered i
Could affect you, head to wbaltv. Com. More at 5 30 p. M. Are following breaking news out of tennessee. A crash involving a tractor trailer, bus, and an suv has left eight people dead. This is an area east of knoxville. The bus crossed the median and struck the other vehicles after blowing a tire. The tractortrailer caught fire in the bus overturned. The accident shut down the interstate. We will keep a close eye on this one and bring you new information as it becomes available. More breaking news, this time in baltimore county. Police are searching for not one but three suspects. That is correct. B s is between hawthorne and grovethorne. We received a call of two people shot at a residence here. They found two victims who had been shot with a shotgun. We believe the injuries not to be lifethreatening. What police are being told is masks,o suspects wearing one with a shotgun is involved in the shooting. They do not have a good description but the third suspect was the operator of a car