caught napping three times in seattle, plus the infamous sleepers in knoxville and washington, d.c in knoxville, the controller had made a bed in the tower while on duty. >> no one's answering on 23-9. >> reporter: in washington, two passenger jets landed unassisted as the controller slept at regan national, just across the potomac from the white house. >> and the tower is apparently unmanned. >> i'm outraged, i'm disappointed, i'm disturbed. >> reporter: cbs news transportation safety analyst mark rosinger says that seven sleeping controllers is a sign the public is at risk. >> i believe with-- with no pun intend, this clearly is a wake-up call and the f.a.a. is going to do something about it, and, frankly, they're going to do something about it immediately. >> reporter: the administration did react immediately, ordering 27 new controllers to work the midnight shift. >> immediately putting two controllers in 27 towers that don't have two controllers in them from 12 midnight until early-morning hours. >> reporter: the f.a.a. also says it will investigate the own training and scheduling practices, which is a clear suggestion there may be management issues here that go beyond these seven sleeping controllers. katie. >> couric: wyatt andrews. wyatt, thank you. meanwhile there's breaking news tonight from san francisco. a federal jury has found home run king barry bonds guilty of one count of obstruction of justice in the investigation of steroid use by major league players. but the jury couldn't reach a verdict on the main charge, perjury. been tracy is at the courthouse tonight. and, ben, the jury seemed to have a lot of trouble with this case. >> reporter: they sure did, katie. this jury of eight men and four women took four days to reach their verdict, and now we know why. as you mentioned, they did find barry bonds guilty on the charge of obstruction of justice. basically saying he attempted to mislead a grand jury back in 2003 when asked about his steroid use. but on those three count of false declaration or what we commonly know as personal, the jury was deadlocked. they couldn't agree and that perhaps could be because the government prosecutors faced many hurdles in their case. for years now, barry bonds has lived under the suspicion that his home run records got a big assist from steroids. but the government had to prove something else-- that bonds anyhow he was taking steroids and lied about it to a grand jury in 2003. bond's lawyers argue he told the truth. he admitted using two substances called the cream and the clear which he says his trainer told him remember flackseed oil and arthritis cream. prosecutors faced one big hurdle-- bond's trainer, greg anderson, refused to testify. anderson previously pleaded guilty to distributing steroids but never named the players he supplied, so the prosecution's case came dun to three former friends, including bond's long-sometime girlfriend, kimberly bell. she testified bond told her he used steroids and she said he saw emotional and physical changes consistent with steroid use. the defense said bell was simply angry with bonds and looking to get even. when barry bonds and his lawyers left the courthouse here about a half hour ago, his lawyers briefly spoke to the media but bonds did not. he is facing some jail time. the felony charge could carry a 10-year sentence but most experts say barry bonds will see far less than that, somewhere between 15-20 months and that could be simply as home. >> couric: a superstar was hit with a huge fine today. the nba told kobe bryant he had to pay $1,000 for shouting a slur at a referee last night. the nba's commissioner called it offensive and inexcusable. and now to a tragic story here inspect new york state. the police in newburgh, 60 miles north of new york city, say a young mother drove a minivan with her fourth children on board into the hudson river. elaine quijano reports, only the oldest, a 10-year-old boy, managed to escape with his life. >> why would she drive her car down there? >> reporter: was an emotional trip to the water's edge for angela gilliam, who came to grieve with heroines, 25-year-old lashanda armstrong, died, along with three of her four children. >> she was a good mother. she was going through this stuff. >> reporter: police say around 8:00 last night, armstrong loa loaded her four children into a miniminivan and drove it into a frigid hudson river. armstrong and her three young children, ages, five, two, 11 months died but the the then-year-old, escaped. >> he magged to open up one of the windows and climbed out of the vehicle before the vehicle sunk. >> reporter: a passer by saw the traumatized, soaky wet boy, and took him to a nearby fire station. >> he was having difficulty speaking, of course, and just was repeating about the car being in the water with his mom and siblings. >> reporter: less than an hour before the car went into the river, lashanda's aunt had called police, worried that her niece was involved in a domestic dispute with the father of the three youngest children. but when officers arrived at lashanda's home, no one was there. about 20 minute later, the 10-year-old appeared at the fired house. neighbors can't believe it. >> i'm at a loss of words. i mean, i'm in shock because she would never let anything bad happen to her babies. >> reporter: a similar case happened just south of this community in 2006 when a distraught moth drove her kids off a 300-foot cliff. she died but her two daughters miraculously survived. her husband, who got out of the car just before it went over the cliff, was charged with child endangerment. and the case is reminiscent of south carolina's susan smith who in 1994 drove her two children to their deaths in a pond. she's serving a life sentence. >> for psychotic mothers who have lost touch with reality, oftentimes they are suffering so severely they are doing what they think is in the best interest of their children. >> reporter: now, here in newburgh, police have questioned the father of the three children who have died. plus also say there was no history of domestic violence at lashanda armstrong's address. icate. >> couric: in washington, democrats and republicans are staking out their positions for the next battle over the budget. today, it was president obama's turn, role out his plan for cutting $4 trillion from the deficit over 12 years. chip reid is at the white house tonight. and, chip, the president said the two parties have come together before, and they can do it again. but along with that olive branch he was carrying a baseball bat. >> reporter: he was, katie. the president's purpose today was to lay out his plan on reining in deficits, but first he began way harsh attack on the republican plan. >> this vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in america. >> reporter: the president accused republicans of abandoning seniors by seeking to transform medicare from government insurance to avoucher program. >> and if that voucher isn't worth enough to buy the insurance that's available in the open marketed place, well, tough luck. you're on your own. >> reporter: he described the house republican plan as deeply pessimistic, a plan that would slash medicare, medicaid, and education to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. >> that's not right. it's not going to happen as long as i'm president. >> reporter: turning to his own vision on reigning in deficits, he promised $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 12 years. that include $750 billion in domestic spending, $400 billion from defense, and $480 billion in medicare and medicaid cuts but he gave little in the way of details and those cuts are long-term. in the short term, he said government needs to keep spending to keep the economic recovery on track. >> we will invest in medical research. we will invest in clean energy technology. we will invest in new roads and airports and broadband access. >> reporter: in another shot at republicans, he defiantly insisted that the bush tax cuts for upper incomes will expire next year. >> we can't afford it. and i refuse to renew them again. >> i'm very disappointed in the president. >> reporter: congressman paul rian, who authored the house republican plan, says the president's speech was nothing but a political broadside from the campaigner in chief. >> what we got was a speech that was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate, and hopelessly inadequate to addressing our country's pressing fiscal challenges. >> reporter: rian said instead of billion bridges today, the president was poisoning wells. so anyone who thought that this speech of going to be a step in the direction of compromise, well, it was really a big step in the opposite direction. katie. >> couric: chip reid. chip, thank you. and coming up next here on the cbs evening news, the battle for libya. turns out u.s. warplanes are playing a bigger role than we thought. and later a boy in need receives a huge outpouring of the american spirit. >> couric: libyan rebels have been pleading with nato to step up its attacks on muammar qaddafi's military and today, it did, with new airstrikes in four cities, including tripoli, where an ammunition bunker was hit. also today, representatives from 16 western and middle eastern countries met in cudder. all agreed to support the rebels and said qaddafi must go. we have two correspondents covering libya tonight. elizabeth palmer is in tripoli, and david martin at the pentagon. david, the u.s. says it's operating only in support of nato, but we're doing a lot more than we thought, aren't we? >> reporter: well, the pentagon revealed today that despite assurances the u.s. was no longer striking targets on the ground, american jets have, in fact, attacked libyan air defense sites three times in the last 10 days. add in aerial refueling, reconnaissance, and electronic jamming missions, and the u.s. is flying 35% of all the nato missions. >> couric: so why are the europeans and the rebels complaining that americans aren't doing enough? >> reporter: well, they want the u.s. not to just attack qaddafi's air defenses. they want the u.s. to attack his ground forces. and specifically, they want to bring in the a.c.-130 gunships. here's the problem-- this is a video of a british jet dropping a bomb on a libyan tank. it destroys the tank, but then look what happens. all the libyan soldiers that were operating with that tank flee in pickup trucks. it's hard to bomb a pickup truck, but you can hit it with an ac-130 gunship. >> couric: is the u.s. likely to give into european demand and send in ac-1 titerth 30s? >> reporter: the gunships have been placed on alert so they're ready to go when a navy military commandir, as opposed to a diplomat, asks for them. >> couric: meanwhile, liz, what signs do you see in tripoli that the nato airstrikes economic sanctions are weakening qaddafi's government? >> reporter: the government is, obviously, weaker. for a start it's lost two million foreign workers but things are remarkably stable. there is no food short annuals yet. there are gasoline short annuals. libya doesn't refine enough so every gas station has lineups a mile long outside and the government may be forced to consider rationing. but the bottom line is how long before the qaddafi government runs out of money? i well, i spoke to the finance minister just a few minutes ago, and he said they have a war chest of about $40 billion. so they're going to be solvent, he said, for some months yet. >> couric: and is there any progress whatsoever, liz, on the diplomat front? >> reporter: very little, and that's because there are conflicting objectives. the rebels and their international backers say they want two thingses-- on the one hand a cease-fire, on the other hand, qaddafi out of power. but if they were to declare a cease-fire now, qaddafi would clearly remain in power. in order to get him out, say most analysts, you have to do the opposite of a cease-fire. you have to actually scale up the military operation. >> couric: liz palmer in tripoli tonight, david martin at the pentagon. thank you, both. and coming up next, cutting prison costs by helping former inmates avoid return trips. >> couric: the u.s. has the world's largest prison population, more than two million people behind bars. and a pew study out today says it's costing states more than $50 billion a year. about four in 10 offenders end up back behind bars within three years of their release. national correspondent jim axelrod looks at what's being done to break a cycle that's both vicious and costly 3. >> reporter: the men in green know where they want to be and it's not this room. >> i just pray that-- that this will be the last time i gotta come through these walls. >> reporter: though they may have a lead on some answered prayers. >> i believe by me coming into this program, saved my life. >> reporter: watching over these 20 inmates at a jail in new jersey is retired judge barnett hoffman, who is no softy on crime but who came up with the only licensed drug treatment program in a new jersey jail. >> it's an incredibly expensive to lock somebody up. >> reporter: in 21 years on the bench, hoffman sentenced hundreds of criminals to hard time, including handing down three dozen life sentences. he says tough on crime is not always smart on crime. >> one size does not fit all. everybody in there is coming out. so we have to do something to try to figure out a way that they don't go back again after they come out. >> reporter: hoffman's goal is to keep nonviolent inmates from ever coming back once they've served their time. >> i plan on leaving tomorrow, and so i'm really looking forward to applying stuff i've learned in here out there. >> reporter: but the pew study suggests eight of these 20 will return within three years after committing more crime and creating more victims. >> the philosophy has been that we should just kick these guys out the prison gate with nothing more than a bus ticket and the clothes on their back and that just hasn't worked very well for public safety. >> reporter: while the debate between incarceration and rehabilitation is usually a matter of politics, great recession has added a new element-- economics. treating some criminals is simply cheaper than locking them up. cutting the number of inmates horeturn to prison by 10% would save states $635 million a year. drug treatment and g.e.d. programs, plus help transitioning back into society, have cut recidivism rates up to 32% in states like oregon, kansas, and utah. >> there are more effect and i have less expensive strategies that improve public safety. >> reporter: how many of you think you're coming back. judge hoffman said the recidivism rate for his is 17% below the national average. this morning, 5 57-year-old roxanne jones walked out of jail, believe he is beat the national odds. >> couric: we have an update now on our investigation of an adoption scam. rox ann jones offered her babies to would-be parents if they paid some of her living expenses but now prosecutors say she admitses she wasn't even pregnant. jones was arrested after being confront by our chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian. today, she was hit with 12 federal charges of fraud. and coming up next, it's chip's nation but it's filled with the american spirit. 7 >> couric: and finally tonigh tonight, america isn't just a nation. it's also a family. and like a family, when one member is in need, the others come to help as they did for a boy named chip. mark strassmann has tonight's "american spirit." >> reporter: on this church soccer field outside atlanta, you're watching a nation rise up. chip's nation. an army of hundreds rallying around chip madren and his family. last august, the 14-year-old was suddenly in crise. leah and ken madren's son had aggressive stage four brain cancer. >> that is devastating. we fell down in the street and-- >> screaming yelling. >> and rolled in the street. >> reporter: right away chip had two brain surgeries. but this homecoming stunned his family. so many wanted to help, not just close friends, complete strangers. >> they say, "what can i do for you? i'll do anything. what can i do for you?" >> reporter: now volunteers do it all-- cook the family's meals, do their laundry, the shopping, the cleaning-- everything. every day. >> thanks for lunch. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: when did you guys get here? >> well, really the day that he was diagnosed we were in the hospital. >> reporter: neighbors jen martel and sarah alverez watched ship's chip's nation grow. >> within days there was a care calendar for meals. >> reporter: and grow. volunteers line up to sign up on the family's web site. no open slots through the end of may. >> we're just doing what we hope someone would do for us if we were in that position. >> reporñef: leaving chip's family with only one focus, chip's recovery. >> ready, go. >> reporter: they're optimistic he'll get better, but his rehabilitation, like relearning how to walk and talk, will take time. >> i miss him. he hasn't spoken from eight months. >> got him? >> there we go. >> reporter: but he knows all about chip's nation. >> chip! what's up, buddy! >> what's up, chip? >> >> chip, chip, chip! >> reporter: at this camp-out, they raised $12,000. other than hospital visits, it was chip's first outing in eight months. >> here's the nation. chip. >> reporter: he saw what his family already sensed-- his nation, chip's nation, has become a movement. >> this mesh has just woven more closely with ever person that we meet. it's a terrible disease, but communities can really impact disease like this, and disease like this in the future. that's the story. that's chip's nation. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> couric: and good luck to you, chip. that's the cbs 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