It began at Chester County Justice Center with a man attacking a sheriff deputy with a knife. It ended, with that man, dying from a gunshot wound. It turns out we have heard of this attacker before, when he jumped the fence at the white house. It is tuesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is 34 yearold curtis smith, gunned down by a Deputy Sheriff inside of the courthouse, in west chester. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at the Justice Center tonight, dann, what is the latest on this. Reporter jim, people here in west chester tonight still reeling over alarming incident at Chester County Justice Center but Sheriff Deputies being credited for reacting quickly before the apparently deranged man could harm anyone else. Authorities have identified the assailant as 34 yearold curtis smith of coatsville, the same man who made International Headlines earlier this year. Curtis smith appears to be the same individual, who jumped the white house fence, in march of this
Satellite6 and action radar just a few clouds up above. You can see the bulk of the cloud cover out to our west. Well see nothing but sunshine out here today. Were staying dry, were staying clear. How about the numbers . Only 59 in quakertown. 58 in saint davids. Were at 70 right now in center city. Nice and comfortable. 61 in browns mills but only 59 in hammonton and 59 degrees in dover, delaware. How does it feel . Humidity is way down. So, nice and comfortable. Not just today but tomorrow as well. Looking at a good work week. Nice and bright. Low humidity. 84 degrees for your high. Temperatures feeling just right. We also have a light breeze out of the northwest, six to 12 miles an hour. So, a pretty much perfect day. Well see if we can keep it coming in accuweather forecast, matt. Please do, unfortunately far from perfect as we start things off on this wednesday morning on the traffic front. An awful accident in burlington new jersey blocking the northbound lanes at 130 on dolphin
The dewpoints are in the low 50s so really nice and comfortable. Not just today but staying that way tomorrow. Temperatures right around average, too. So 84 degrees for you high. Lots of sunshine. By 9 00 a. M. , still some clouds around with the sun, 73. By noon, bright and sunny and 80 degrees. By 3 00 p. M. , 84 with sunshine. And by 6 00 p. M. , 82 degrees. Looking good today but really heating up for the weekend. How hot will we get . Details on that coming up, matt. It is still summer. It is. Good morning to you karen. Good morning, everybody. Were starting the morning with a big problem in Burlington County. Northbound lanes of 130 are still shut down at beverly road. Thats right there by the dolphin diner. Because of a horrible overnight crash. Matt and tam well have more details on that coming up in just a minute but from a traffic perspective to get around 130 northbound stick with salem road, maybe 541 or 295. Dont forget as youre detouring you dont want you to use rancocas
Across that parking lot. Well hold here and show you just how far that other piece traveled. Its next to a store right now. A horrible nasty and violent crash. Now, the action cam was on the scene right after the wreck occurred at around 3 a. M. Well get to that video in a moment but this certainly is a horrible crash that left one person dead and another person injured. And indeed route 103 very heavily trafficked road in the morning. Thats why well start with matt pelman giving you the latest on traffic and then karen will have latest in accuweather. Good morning. Yeah, and those northbound lanes of 130 do remain closed on this wednesday morning, guys, here in Burlington County because of this horrible accident. What startling pictures were seeing from chopper 6hd this morning. This is all unfolding in the northbound lanes by beverly road. So thats right by the enterprise car rental as you saw as well as the dolphin did i knower. If you normally pass that headed northbound on 130 you
Evasive, not answering their questions and later he said he admitted he knew what he was doing was illegal. The d. A. Says there is no motivation behind the crime but their evidence shows it has been going on at least since 2013. He also says the case is not over yet, that investigators are still continuing to look at files on his computer including a spreadsheet with information leading them to websites. 1,000 websites they say he tried to uncover, discover or keep the information from being uncovered by encrypting the file. There are calls for him to resign. So far it has not happened. Reporting live, deanna durante, nbc10 news. Developing now, an historic decision from the boy scouts of america. Girls will now be allowed to join the boy scouts. The younger cub scouts will be in single gender dense a and th Older Program for coed kids. Were getting reaction new on nbc10 news at 5 00. To breaking news. A crash that caused traffic headaches this morning is still a problem for the drive