brandywine too at 53. potomac, partly at 52 degrees. bus stop, chilly, between 49 and 53. high clouds with us today. a great afternoon. it's going to be nice and warm. in fact, here we are halfway through april and i think it could be the fifth warmest day out of the month. we'll get up to the temperature of 68 or should i say down to 68 degrees by 5:00 today. so, some high clouds moving through. a nice northerly wind. but very dry and very nice. let's get a look at traffic now with jerry edwards. right. the good news is on the dry pavement, everything is moving on nicely. the better news is it's relatively quiet on the topside of the beltway. the inner loop and the outer loop between the interchanges in green belt to silver spring. both ways moving along without delay. an increase in volume. that's it. that's okay. 95 northbound to triangle. headed to dumfries and points beyond, everything is okay. the accident at the prince william parkway quickly cleared and no lingering delays because of that. 66 in the beltway at glebe road, that construction still in place. westbound, only one travel lane is getting by. out to the rails we go, metro, vre, marc starting off with no delays. joe? following breaking news out of fairfax county. the man police say walked into a barbershop and shot two people killing one of them is now in custody. he opened fire at the bellevue shopping center in alexandria, the alexandria section of fairfax county. we find news 4's tracy wilkins. she joins us with the latest. the man who turned himself in lived in the annandale area and was a former employee of the barbershop here. they say he turned himself in in the sully station and is cooperating with police. they have charged him with murder. this is after an extensive search for this man yesterday. let me show you what they were trying to do yesterday as they were trying to find him. they searched neighborhoods through the bellevue area. they entered a home with a blood hound and searched this vehicle in the strip mall parking lot. this began shortly after 2:00 p.m. yesterday. the former employee, the man who they say turned himself in walked inside the barbershop and was there for a few minutes before opening fire and killing hanl lee and another employee wo is expected to survive from his injuries. the suspect was last seen running from the scene. at 11:00 p.m. last night, he turned himself in to the sully station and is now cooperating with police. he's been charged with murder. he's not been charged yet in the other shooting for the man who was injured. at this point, the police do have their man. i'm tracey wilkins live this morning in alex andalex andr -- alexandria. a fairfax county was accused of tying up and choking a first grader. jasmine rohrers says her daughter is afraid of going back to the school in chantilly. a boy wrapped a jump rope around her neck last week and tied her to a pole. friends found her crying on the playground and untied her. this is not the first time the boy has bullied her daughter. she won't send her back to school until she's safe. >> i'll do anything i can to make sure she's safe in the future. if this is what it takes to go to the media and get a response from the school, that's what i'm going to do. >> they say they have hired a lawyer. happening today -- the house and the senate are set to vote on the long overdue spending measure to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year. it calls for cuts of $38 billion from the $3.8 trillion budget. today's vote could be a sign that the lawmakers are willing to compromise in the future. president obama is laying out plans for next year's budget and he's detailing a larger plan to cut the nation's deficit by $4 trillion in the next 12 years. the president is recommending cuts in three main areas. the first is medicare and medica medicaid. the second is defense funds. those cuts will amount to $400 billion over the next 12 years. finally, the president called for an end to tax cuts for wealthy americans. the cuts put in place by president george w. bush apply to individuals making $200,000 or more a year and couples making more than $250,000. the president will kick off his re-election campaign today with some fundraisers in chicago. he'll attend two events of local restaraunts in the day and one more at the navy pier tonight. chicago bulls star derek rose is expected to be there to lend his support. president obama will spend the night in his chicago home before heading back to washington tomorrow. and it looks as if another republican is entering the race for the white house. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum announced he's funding a fundraising committee. this is usually the first step towards a presidential campaign. right now santorum is not polling very well but he said the committee will help him figure out whether he can raise enough money to be a serious contender in 2012. nato foreign ministers from 28 countries will meet in germany to discuss the situation in libya. leaders will talk about the effort to enforce a no-fly zone. three weeks of air strikes have not stopped muammar gadhafi's forces and france has said nato is not doing enough. this morning, we know that the u.s. is doing limited air strikes in libya even though nato took over mission control last week. 5:06 is the time. 49 degrees outside. kate middleton makes an important decision. what she's doing that is different from what most brides do on their wedding day. >> also, the playoffs start with a thriller. how the caps fare in overtime. >> deep in thought? henson, we're going to go over sales figures, complete this merger and present to the board. sink your teeth into some big n' toasty if you understand. good. you've got spunk. a big day calls for the new big n' toasty. wrap your hands around fried eggs, cherrywood-smoked bacon, and cheese on texas toast. america runs on dunkin'. i never wear the same thing twice. not together, anyway. i'm in t.j.maxx every week. i get this season's designer clothes and i still get to eat. fashion direct from designers. savings direct to you. t.j.maxx. let us make a maxxinista out of you. all those late-night budget talks have apparently been a little too much for vice president joe biden. he was caught on camera at president obama's speech yesterday with his eyes closed. the video quickly made its way around the web. they say the problem is usually getting him to relax. but apparently not this time. and you can see the guy right behind him looks like he's got his head down too. >> that person sort of careened over. >> eyes open. hello. it's hard -- maybe he was in deep thought. >> he was contemplating -- >> the next -- >> yeah. >> he knew what was going on. >> yeah. >> he like my dad would do sometimes. i'm trying to have a conversation with him on a sunday morning. i'm just closing my eyes. >> my producer, matt, said you think geithner should have given him a nudge saying, hey, i don't know if you're sleeping, wake up. pay attention. well, we're paying attention today. we're going to be paying attention to that big glow in the sky today. the sun, yeah, it's going to be back with us today. chilly start, though, until we warm. about ten degrees higher than where we were yesterday. 53, the temperature currently, berry farms, dc, capital heights too, greenville, maryland at 53. aspen hill at 51 and burke at 50 degrees currently across the area. a northerly wind too. a fairly light wind at the bus stop this morning. sunshine, a few high clouds, 49 to 53. so, indeed, jacket weather. sun's up today at 6:34. we will go up to a high of 70 degrees right in the district. 71 warrenton, 73 in fredericksburg. tomorrow, around 60. not too shabby. veronica, off we go. we start in virginia. 395, beltway, landmark, very nice rush hour. very light volume of traffic. so good news there. and one more stop quickly we'll check things out just west of the wood rrow wilson bridge. out to the rails we go. quick check, metro, vre, marc, no delays. thank you. >> it's now 5:11. 48 degrees, ahead on news 4 today, the capitals begin with an overtime thriller. >> the immediate action that led to two dozen airports including ronald reagan national. >> and the mother who drof into the hudson r 5:15 now. this morning, we learn a mother tried to reverse after driving into the hudson river with her four kids. 25-year-old lashondra armstrong put all four of her children in a minivan before driving down a boat ramp in new york. armstrong and three of her children died. her 12-year-old son escaped out of a window and ran for help. the mother told her son she made a mistake as she tried to reverse but it was too late. >> was waving his hands, frantically and was full of fear. he was saying, please help me. please help me. the frozen fear on his face was just i'll never forget it for the rest of my life. she went to the back seat and held them together and said if i'm going to die, you're going to die with me. >> the boy told the passerby his mother was upset that a stepfather was cheating on her. >> the fbi is getting involved in the investigation involving ten bodies found on a new york beach. the fbi will provide high-tech surveillance aircraft to authorities looking for evidence on jones beach on long island. police think it could be the dumping ground for a serial killer. police believe four of the victims were kill bid the same person. they were all female prostitutes who advertised on line. today a house subcommittee is set to grill leaders about the mistakes at arlington national cemetery. there are eight cases in which family members were buried at the same grave site but not all of their names were added to the headstones marking those graves. a concussion or any brain injury is serious, especially for students, of course. prince william county schools have set a care policy for students. under the new rule, students diagnosed with or appear to have a concussion will be given time to heal. the students will receive comprehensive support until they are symptom-free. the school board adopted that policy on a 6-0 vote last night. for the first time in more than a month, attorneys for the nfl and locked out players will meet face-to-face. the two sides will meet at the request of a federal judge in minnesota. this is the nfl's first work stoppage since 1987. a judge ordered both sides to keep details about this meeting confidential. despite the lockout, the league released the preseason schedule this week. attorneys for barry bonds say they will file an appeal after the jury found the slugger guilty of obstruction of justice. however, the jury deadlocked on the other three serious charges against him. he faced three perjury charges after he testified before a federal grand jury back in 2003 that he never knowingly used steroids or human growth hormones. bonds faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison for that obstruction of justice conviction. the capitals began their quest for the cup in dramatic fashion. alexander simon provided the fireworks with the overtime winner as the caps take a 1-0 series lead over the new york rangers. lindsay czarniak has more from the verizon center. >> oh the capitals stole the momentum last night winning game one in the first round of the playoffs against the rangers. it went to overtime. it wasn't pretty. but in the end, it feels alexander simon who made the difference. he was criticized for not scoring at all in the playoffs last season. with two minutes left, he nets it game winner. the capitals beat the rangers, 2 2-1, winning game one after the first series. e players talked about the things they did well. >> we did a lot of good things. a big relief when alex scored, you know, to tie it up. and i thought, we played pretty strong overtime. and just the turnover there and alex scores. so lw the first win of the series. >> i wouldn't say we proved anything. i think that it's something that we are -- our game needed to change, you know, to start the season and the game we played tonight is what we were preparing for all year. and it just paid off. they played a great game and it's just lucky we have alexander on our team to score. >> huge, good for my confidence. but it's just one game and it doesn't mean anything right now. you know? i got to be -- i've got to be here for friday and play better than tonight. >> if capitals' goaltender performs like he did last night, i would believe his teammates would be excited. game two, friday night against the new york rangers. from the verizon center, lindsay czarniak. back to you. >> great start. long way to go. great start. >> first one at home, makes a big difference. if we had lost that game, it would have been tough. we would have been crying our eyes out. >> hope he can keep it up. someone can keep it up. a difficult season for the wizards came to an end last night as washington fell to the cleveland cavaliers, 100-93. one of the lone bright spots, rookie john wall finished the season averaging 16 points and eight assists per game. washington concludes this game with a record of 29 23 and 59. ugh, that's the third straight season well below .500. it's actually three games worse than last year. so the moment it looks like you're going in the wrong direction. >> we're hoping to turn things around, though. i felt like the way we ended, we had momentum going there. >> well, maybe you have to sort of back up a little bit. >> yeah. >> i hope you're right. i hope you're right. >> next season, we've got to look ahead. >> the good luck charm. maybe that will help. >> yeah. >> maybe some of your fancy pens. >> i was thinking more like socks, you know, like different color socks. mismatch. >> there you go. >> very superstitious before their game anyway. >> i am. a lot of players. take a look and see what's going around the area this morning. chilly it is. we're in the upper 40s to low 50s right now. clinton, maryland, good morning to you. 53 is your temperature right now. inside the beltway too, we're at 53 degreeins. georgetown, bailey's, fairfax, 50. one of the cooler spots, manassas, warrenton, over to prince william and fauquier county at 48 degrees. bus stop, 49 to 50 degrees. sun's up. we'll see a high temperature today of 70 degrees. i'm expecting sunshine throughout the day with high pressure overhead. in fact, there's going to be a weak cold front coming through the area late today and the early part of the day tomorrow. that's going to bring down the temperature. no rain for us. 60 is the forecast. high now for friday. 64 on saturday. showers the start of the day and going right through to the afternoon and evening. in fact, some thunderstorms, too, for the afternoon and overnight on saturday. that rain is going to be gone by sunday morning, but 64, a high on saturday. 67 degrees on sunday. then as we take a look at the early part of next week, we'll see highs going from, yeah, upper 60s to around 80 degrees on friday. let's get a look at traffic now see what's going on if we've got any jam-ups. jer sfli. quiet morning. wisconsin avenue, george avenue, 16th street. everything including connecticut avenue moving along nicely. southbound, northbound, looking good. see if that's the case as we head on out to the american legion bridge. indeed, it is. the outer loop to tysons corner and the inner loop heading up nicely. the road work in tyson's has been locked up. metro, vre, and marc reporting no early delays. joe? it's 5:22. another air traffic controller falls asleep on the job. this after several other incidents around the country, including one right here in re gan national airplane in march. a live look right now. the federal aviation administration is beefing up staffing. effective immediately, the faa will place an additional controller in the overnight shift at more than two dozen airports. melissa mollet has the latest. good morning. >> good morning to you. reagan national airport has had an extra person on the job, of course, after last month when two planes landed without assistance because the controller in the tower was asleep. another 25 airports and a radar facility have extra air traffic controllers on staff after the faa found two more cases of controllers asleep on the job. the most recent incident happened wednesday morning in reno. a special medical flight carrying a sick passenger was trying to land at 2:00 a.m. when the pilot couldn't reach the tower. the pilot landed with the help of a controller in northern california. >> at no time, and i want to stress, at no time was safety compromised. the airport authority takes this matter very, very seriously. >> people expect to land at airports safely. i will not sleep until i can assure the flying public that our controllers are awake and alert and are able to control airplanes in and out of airpl e airports. >> that controller was asleep and out of touch for 16 minutes and has been suspended while the faa investigates. a seattle controller fell asleep in his early morning shift. he had fallen asleep two times before. two others in lubbock, texas were suspended when they couldn't be reached for a landing as well. if you're wondering with those with additional staffing, richmond, akron, ohio, and allegheny, pennsylvania. i'm melissa mollet in the newsroom. back to you. the airplane that had a giant hole ripped in its roof may be back in service. the 737 300 is patched up. it's flown to a facility before flying passengers again. the plane had taken off from phoenix where the five-foot hole develop in the fuselage forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. they've been a big talker on twitter. some of you have called us about them. drills in the sky over dc this morning. nowhere r norad held a series of training flights to test the groups, intercept and identification programs but it was all just a drill. >> charlie sheen wants the job back at cbs. he's been saying that while on his violent torpedo of truth tour. the star of "two and a half men" was fired last month. he told boston radio station he's 85% likely to return to the hit comedy in the fall. sheen is suing warner brothers and chuck lorie for $100 million. one of the people who are helping kate middleton get ready for her wedding has let a secret slip. uh-oh. middleton's hair stylist told the london mail she will wear her hair down. no stuffy up-dos for her. it was previously reported that she would have six hair stylists working with her on the wedding day. no official word on who has designed her dress. and our very own wendy rieger will be in london for the big event on april 29. watch for her live report on monday, april 25 here on news 4. not surprised, i think i've seen a lot more women, i think, young women wear their hair down. >> the secret came from one of the people who "was". >> was, right. >> was helping kate middleton get ready for her wedding. >> 5:26, coming uh, joran van der sloot accused of committing new crimes while behind bars. >> the arrest at a deadly shooting in a local barbershop. >> how metro is responding to a parking controversy involving its own employees. >> you know you parked here illegally? metro says all metro employees have to pa you're watching nbc 4, washington's news leader. now live on hd, this is news 4 today. breaking news right now. an arrest in a deadly shooting at a local barbershop. why police did not have to go very far to find the suspect. you think you should be exempt from paying? >> no. >> who problem is that? and parking controversy, how metro employees reacted when we asked about taking all of the good spots. good morning, i'm eun yang. >> good morning, i'm joe krebs. on this thursday, the 14th day of april. 47 degrees here in the nation's capit capital. we're starting the get clouds out here right now veronica? >> just a few.