Traffic Around White House Shut Down

ABC’s Ann Compton reports all car and pedestrian traffic has been stopped for several blocks in a perimeter around the White House this morning as law enforcement inspects a dump truck there.

The Secret Service tells ABC News that a canine team ?alerted? while inspecting a dump truck that was scheduled to come into the construction complex on the White House north lawn. The north lawn has been under construction for nearly a year ? and any vehicle or person doing work there is inspected at each entrance.

No reporters are being allowed access to the White House?s north lawn during this inspection. Usually television reporters at the White House keep their cameras on the north lawn and report live from there throughout the day.

The closing extends along H Street, from 7th to 15th Street and includes Lafayette Park across the street from the White House, an unusually wide berth for this situation.