In philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Now at 11 00 oclock, if your daily commute includes the 495 bridge in delaware, we have the news you have have been waiting that hear. Lanes of this busy bridge that have been closed are back open tonight. Good evening, im chris may. Im jessica dean. Its the site people waited weeks to see. Traffic flowing through southbound lanes. And while the relief from the closure is immediate for those headed south, the work is not done yet. Heres nat is a brown. Reporter welcomed sight as cars whiz by along the i495 bridge near wilmington. Southbound lanes are flowing smoothly nearly two months after traffic along the north and southbound lanes came to a screeching halt. Its been mess. 95 been backed up. Be late for work everything. Reporter bridge was closed on june 2nd officials noticed a span where columns were tilting. The 35 million repair project was set to end on labor day but 24 7 construction allowed southbound lanes to reopen sooner than ex
Stephanie because i heard Rush Limbaugh expound on healthcare yesterday and i thought you might have some thoughts on it. Does he want to know if oxycontin is covered . Stephanie i dont know if i have insurance or not. His thoughts are really someone who can afford their own healthcare out of pocket. Thats someone that really has a grip on exactly what the average person goes through. I think hes in touch with the common man. Stephanie exactly. All right. In the meantime, heres nurse jacki in the current news center. As expected, cory booker has won the democratic nomination land go up against republican steve for senate. The popular mayor of newark won about 60 of the vote with 90 of precincts voting. His closest opponent, Frank Pallone came away with 20. If booker wins the special election on october 16th as he is extremely likely to do, he will serve out the remaining 15 month of lautenbergs term then would have to run began in 2014. Egyptian Security Forces in cairo are cracking do
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside tamron hall who is in for natalie this morning. Well get to todays top story, the deadly mall attack in kenya where militants are Still Holding an unknown number of hostages in a twoday standoff that has already left at least 68 people dead. We go right to nbcs ron allen in nairobi with the lat est. Good morning, ron. What can you tell us . Good morning, savannah. Were behind security from the mall where you can see smoke billowing out of the building. The morning began with five or six loud explosions and sustained gun fire that went on for some time, and also firefight firefights spilling out outside of the mall, and you can see the kenyan soldiers firing at places around the mall. Unknown at this point is the fate of the hostages and the gunmen inside. And we believe
Good morning. Im dara brown. The Prime Minister of canada is calling it an act of terrorism. A masked gunman opened fire at the National War Memorial in ottawa killing soldiers standing guard. The suspect has been identified as 32yearold Michael Joseph hall. Hes been using the name michael zehafbibeau since converting to islam. He was shot and killed while firing his weapon. This is the Second Attack against soldiers in canada this week. Nbcs jay gray is live in ottawa this morning. Good morning, jay. Can you tell us what the latest is there . Reporter good morning, yeah. The lockdown is over here in the capital city, but it is still a city on edge. And a heavy Police Presence here right now in the downtown area has been throughout the night and will continue throughout the day, were told. It has been here since the shooting yesterday. There is a man with a rifle shooting at a bunch of people. Reporter as the first shots rang out pow. Pow. Reporter bystanders rushed to the side of a fa
In murrysville, pennsylvania. Hes has the latest. This happened in a particularly vulnerable time at the school. Just the beginning of the day. Students were not in the classrooms. They were in the hallways. There were many heros in all of this. Two assistant principals who subdued this young man. When they did, he said he wanteded to die. It has happened again. This time a 16yearold sophomore alex hribal harmed with two eight to teninch kitchen knives. Someone yelled, i got stabbed. Reporter stabbing in some cases, slashing classmates and even a School Police officer. Panic just after 7 00 a. M. I was seeing people getting shoved into lockers. Thats whenever the boy ran past me and i saw him tackle someone else. And thats when everyone just started screaming and running out of the door. Reporter police arriving within minutes, the fire alarm sounding. Cha chaos. A lot of evidence of blood on the floors in the hallway. We had students running about trying to get out of the area. Report