I95 in south philadelphia. Definitely building as we get closer and closer to this Holiday Weekend. The delaware beaches will be a popular destination this weekend. Lets check in with nbc 10s Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong. Have you noticed more drivers on the roads . Reporter i have. [ no audio ] this is when you know its holiday time. Everyone comes out. Reporter its a threeday Holiday Weekend starting a day early for many people. The trip advisor survey says 36 of philly area residents plan to travel for the holiday, 24 plan to take extra time and some of those are leaving today. Looks like many already have. It started to pick up a lot more than it was. Despite the rain and the overcast its been steady so far. Reporter in delaware almost 70,000 drivers will pass through the tolls on state route 1, the main road to the beaches. That number is up from last year. Why . Cheaper gas could be one answer. Aaa says the statewide average is 2. 67 per gallon the lowest since 2010 and a
I95 in south philadelphia. Definitely building as we get closer and closer to this Holiday Weekend. The delaware beaches will be a popular destination this weekend. Lets check in with nbc 10s Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong. Have you noticed more drivers on the roads . Reporter i have. [ no audio ] this is when you know its holiday time. Everyone comes out. Reporter its a threeday Holiday Weekend starting a day early for many people. The trip advisor survey says 36 of philly area residents plan to travel for the holiday, 24 plan to take extra time and some of those are leaving today. Looks like many already have. It started to pick up a lot more than it was. Despite the rain and the overcast its been steady so far. Reporter in delaware almost 70,000 drivers will pass through the tolls on state route 1, the main road to the beaches. That number is up from last year. Why . Cheaper gas could be one answer. Aaa says the statewide average is 2. 67 per gallon the lowest since 2010 and a
Normalcy this afternoon but there are counsellors and chaplins on hand counseling those people who need help who were emotionally upset by seeing police here, relieving the nightmare of the horror of the shootings of two years ago. [ sirens ] the emergency call came in at 7 29 a. M. , prompting this immediate response. Heavily armed local and federal law officers converging on the navy yard, which was put on lockdown. Employees sheltering in place. The initial call came from someone inside the navy yard who said they thought they heard gunshots. We did take every call seriously and when we heard a call go out for a potential active shooter we brought the resources. Reporter the report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The two and a halfhour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Off
This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from los angeles. Good evening. Amid warnings about threat of attacks over the july 4th weekend, the images we saw plastered across the tv screens from washington this morning were exactly the kind we feared most. Ambulances and police cars racing to reports about a shooter on the rampage. Of course by now we all know that what happened at the Washington Navy yard this morning was a false alarm, but the sheer size of the Police Response not only at the navy yard but across the Nations Capital spoke volumes about the disturbing and very Real Security climate we all find ourselves in this Holiday Weekend. We start tonight with Peter Alexander and a nation on edge. [ sirens ] reporter this morning fears of another mass shooting sparked a massive response in a city already on edge. The 911 call came after 7 00 a. M. A woman inside a Washington Navy yard building reported hearing possible gunshots workers scrambled for cover. I hea
Normalcy this afternoon but there are counsellors and chaplins on hand counseling those people who need help who were emotionally upset by seeing police here, relieving the nightmare of the horror of the shootings of two years ago. [ sirens ] the emergency call came in at 7 29 a. M. , prompting this immediate response. Heavily armed local and federal law officers converging on the navy yard, which was put on lockdown. Employees sheltering in place. The initial call came from someone inside the navy yard who said they thought they heard gunshots. We did take every call seriously and when we heard a call go out for a potential active shooter we brought the resources. Reporter the report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The two and a halfhour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Off