force on the metro in maryland, the stops targeted and the message officers have for riders. it has happened again, another air traffic controller sleeping on the job. plus the patdown that has america talking. good evening. thanks for joining us on the 10. i'm will thomas. >> i'm laura evans. we begin with a developing story out of fairfax county, police searching for a killer after a man opened fire inside a barbershop on belle view boulevard. one man is dead, another injured. police say they know who the suspected gunman is but the motive is still unclear. for the latest, we turn to fox 5 bob barnard on the scene. >> reporter: fairfax police say this was a targeted killing. over what we still don't know. the barbershop is right behind me. police are still inside investigating this murder. they say after opening fire the killer ran from this shopping have and still hasn't been caught. nearly six hours after the deadly shooting the murdered barber's body was removed from the crime scene identified by police as 39-year-old le hoang of alexander ya shot dead by a man -- alexandria shot dead by a man police say was a former worker. >> she's just trying to hold on. i'm trying to help her relax. >> reporter: christopher's mother was apparently not a target of the killer, but a second employee was shot and wounded in the attack. he's a 38-year-old man police have not identified. >> no motive, no reason, no grudges that i know of at least. >> reporter: he walked right past your mother to shoot these two guys? >> yeah. because my mom had good relations with him. we were close friends. he came by our house often. >> reporter: fairfax county police say they know who they're looking for. launching an intense search of the area chasing down a number of leads. >> he is an armed suspect. he was armed in the shop. we still consider him armed and our homicide detectives and canine helicopter, we've reached out to local other jurisdictions to help us find this guy and track him down so we can put him in jail. >> reporter: this happened around 2:00 at the belle view shopping center on belle view boulevard just outside the beltway on alexandria. the strip mall was busy. even the barbershop had customers. >> it's pretty shocking. it's sad. it's scary. >> reporter: its loyal customers having a hard time accepting what happened inside this family-owned shop. >> i get my hair cut there. i've been there ever since i was young. it's always been there, so it's hard to believe. >> reporter: again looking live you see crime scene investigators inside the barbershop eight hours after the killing. the second victim was apparently wounded in the leg and will be okay. fairfax county police say if they fail to capture this killer soon, they'll release his name and a picture to help get him off the street. montgomery county police believe they may have caught main responsible for a rape 30 years -- a man responsible for a rape 30 years ago. after starting their investigation in 2009 last week police tracked down christopher chamblin in florida. he was a teenager at the time of the alleged attack. a woman said he raped her several times when she was 6 or 7. police continue their search for other possible victims. fox 5 continues to monitor metro. tonight a show of force by dozens of police officers at a number of metro stops in maryland, all of them in prince george's county county, three of those stations there the most targeted by criminals. fox 5's roz plater is following this one for us. she's live tonight at the chevrolet metro stop. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, will. police are calling this operation blue tide, an exercise originally intended as a deterrent to terrorism tonight also used as a deterrent to crime. police say metro riders are far more likely to be a victim. >> targeted training. >> reporter: roll call right at the start of rush hour. dozens of prince george's county police officers side by side with metro transit officers hoping to send metro riders a message. >> law enforcement community here in prince george's county is unified in its effort to bring down crime. >> reporter: it is the first time the two agencies have rolled out operation blue tide here. tide standing for terrorism identification and deterrent efforts. this time, though, the focus is crime prevention. officers are both on the platform scanning the station and checking out the trains. the heavy police presence took most passengers by surprise. >> good to see them, though. >> reporter: why is that? >> well, a sense of security. >> i think it's a good idea. i do. if people know that they're around, then it might prohibit certain things from happening. >> reporter: 15 metrorail stations are in prince george's county including some with the highest crime rates in the whole system. >> just taking information. >> thank you. >> reporter: police say most are property crimes, but there have been assaults. back in february this good samaritan was attacked by a group of teens as he tried to phone police for help at the suitland metro station. police here were passing out flyers urging riders that if they see something, say something and warned them not to become a target for a snatch and grab robber. >> police officers can'twhere at one time and that's not an excuse -- can't be everywhere at one time and that's not an excuse but we can do whatever we can to prevent crime from happening and get that person under arrest. >> reporter: when we asked police why so many property crimes are occurring here in prince george's county, they told me they believe it's because of many more parking lots and parking garages. >> i guess we all have to remember that police line. if you see something, say something. roz merit, thank you. escalator issues at -- roz plater, thank you. escalator issues at the dupont circle metro station, every single escalator was out earlier. it was a mechanical problem with the comb plate. that is the safety plate at the very top of the escalators with the teeth on it. that plate popped out of place and had to be fixed. remember fox 5 is monitoring metro 24/7 for you. if you see something you want us to investigate, shoot us an e-mail at fox5metro at gmail.com. we have an update on a fox 5 investigation that tisha thompson broke. this involves ddc's president and a question over travel expenses. >> that's right. it's been going on since february and now d.c. city council got involved with a budget oversight meeting today and we found out udc will not make final decision about those travel expenses we first told you about at really nice hotels all over the world, they won't make a decision about what to do about it for at least 30 days. that is because they just got a draft of an audit. we'll tell you what's this n that audit. first the audit found -- in that audit. first the audit found udc does not have a policy regarding travel. the president's office did not submit a travel budget, nor did he get approval by the board of trustees who are supposed to be approving his travel. the auditor said original receipts are missing and udc did pay for personal expenses like family travel. we have reported on a lot of ha in our original investigation -- that in our original investigation. another thing that we and the auditor noticed is there seemed to be a lot of inconsistencies or missing documentation, particularly when it came to things like travel authorization forms. udc just gave us even more of these forms and we found even more inning consistencies. for instance, it now looks like president sessoms got a suite when he marked a regular hotel room on an authorization form when he went to a reunion at his alma mater yale university. udc paid for that. there's a$1,000 amtrak ticket. we don't know where that ticket went to and why it needed to be $1,000 then we found a -- i have to look at it -- $6,300 ticket to austria. it looks like udc actually bought two of those tickets. so we're talking to udc trying find out what's going on, but what's interesting is the travel authorization form says that ticket to austria, $6,300, was a regular fare ticket. we know he's been taking first class tickets. he admits he takes first class tickets. so there are a lot of questions. as a result, d.c.'s city council had this budget hearing today and the audit came up in the hearing and we heard that they are not going to make 9al decisions, as i said -- final decisions, as i said, for 30 days. this is what the chairman of the board told d.c. city council. >> the final report that the board will review and the findings will likely come with recommendations as to how to improve the process. we will wrap up all the things related to the internal audit. what we will do from there is again we'd need guidelines likely to be nut place through regulations through the process so that -- put in place through regulations through the process so that everybody is very clear on what the process is. >> great job on this story, as always. >> thanks. the push for d.c.'s autonomy is picking up steam after the mayor and council members were arrested two days ago. now students are organizing a peaceful demonstration for friday to protest d.c.'s taxation without representation. they're beginning the demonstration at the styred mott house in northeast and -- at the stewart mott house in northeast and meet there at 10:30. the demonstration is scheduled to last until 1:30. one thing the city is getting control of, online gambling, the district the first place in the country to make it legal. you can place bets later this summer, but you have to be physically in the district to do so. the d.c. lottery will run the legalized site which city leaders believe will bring in $13 million over the next three years. >> we also have people playing poker every day here already and have been for the last couple years. we just can't regulate them and we can't get fees. now we can regulate them and we can get fees. >> there may be some money generated for the local tax coffers as a quick fix, but to build a long lasting healthy economy? >> to start they will only be available in special locations. a heartbreaking story that has people asking one question tonight, why? a mother drives her minivan into the river with her children inside. how one of them survived this unthinkable tragedy coming your way in a moment. plus the prime suspect in natalee holloway's disappearance accused of committing a violent crime behind bars coming up. another air traffic controller falls asleep on the job. and a young girl is subjected to a tsa patdown. next an expert weighs in as questions are raised. hi, sue. >> hey, will, with have been dodging showers the last couple days. get ready -- we have been dodging showers the last couple days. get ready. it's payback time. we'll talk about the weekend forecast and more when i join you a bit later on fox 5 news at 10:00. n first reagan national, now nevada, the faa under fire after another air traffic controller falls asleep on the job. >> at no time was safety compromised. >> and is the tsa going too far? a video goes viral after a 6- year-old girl is subjected to a patdown. tonight we go in depth as more questions are raised about the controversial policy. let's bring in a retired american airlines pilot who now works with the spectrum group, captain mark weiss. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> let's tackle some of the new headlines we just mentioned. an air traffic controller at the reno-tahoe airport out of communication i understand 16 minutes and now suspended for falling asleep on the job. what's your take on this one? >> well, you know, let's be honest. this isn't the first time it's happened. we just talked about it happening a number of times over the last few months. it's been happening for quite a while. it's a systemic issue. when you leave somebody alone overnight working that type of a shift, this is going to happen. the question really becomes why hasn't this been addressed and changed policy before this time? >> perhaps now the faa is starting to address it to finish up on your point, this was actually the fifth time this year by our count that a controller apparently slept while on duty. as you mentioned, it happened last month at reagan national. the faa added a second overnight controller at 26 airports across the country. do you think that's enough? >> we'll certainly find out. you make the analogy with air traffic controller, this is a critical o pilots and an airlin were playing with their laptops, they were fired for doing just negligence on the job. i mean something has to be done. you need to have steps and protocols in place to make this a design so that it doesn't happen again. >> perhaps the suspensions aren't enough in your opinion? >> well, i think it's a place to start. >> let's move to the tsa and the patdown of a 6-year-old girl in new orleans. youtube video, we showed some of it as we introduced you. here it is again. we blocked her face for the family's privacy, but it shows a tsa agent rubbing the girl's in are thighs and running her fingers inside the top of her blue jeans. parents and a lot of folks, as you can imagine, outraged. is this necessary in your opinion? >> let's be honest. it is an outrageous situation. 10 years beyond 9/11 and this is the best we can do? there are other ways of dealing with situations to try and get people through security. i certainly understand the need and the desire to make sure that we secure the aviation arena for everybody. that's paramount. that's not in dispute, but the way we go about doing it is archaic. we don't need to do it that way. the other parts of the world are much better at doing this than we seem to be. >> well, it's certainly an argument we hear time and time again, especially when you see video like that. i want to say the tsa says that officer followed current proper screening procedures but added they're exploring additional ways to focus their resources. can the tsa make exceptions for kids because one will assume terrorists will learn there's a gap in our system? >> it's a balancing act. let's be honest. one of the things we need to look at is maybe the way we do business in the security arena with perhaps including behavioral training, not just for the behavioral training offices that the tsa has, but to expand upon that and have that as a forced multiplier for other people at the airport, such as airport employees, and agree to use canines to be able to walk a security line. we use the term dogs are man's best friend and yet we don't really allow that to happen. we have opportunities to expand and offer higher levels of protection with just thinking a little bit outside the box. >> you're certainly not the only one raising some of these questions, good insight from a former airline pilot captain mark weiss. again thanks for coming in tonight. following a heartbreaking story out of new york, a mother intentionally drove her minivan into the hudson river killing herself and her three children inside. investigators say lashonda armstrong was upset at the father of her children. her oldest child, taken-year- old, escaped by lowering the windows and swimming -- a 10- year-old, escaped by lowering the windows and swimming to shore. a stranger found him and took him to a fire station. >> if that child had not escaped and reported this incident, this could still be a missing persons incident. we could not be able to see that car from the shore. >> we put firefighters in cold water rescue suits, launched our boat and at that point what we believed was a rescue attempt. >> they could not save the rest of the family, though. the children ranged in age from 11 months to 5 years. how long will barry bonds spend in prison? the baseball slugger now awaiting sentencing after a a jury reaches a -- a jury reaches a verdict in a perjury trial. vander absolute linked to more charges behind bars -- van der sloot linked to more charges behind bars. details next. weome. and happy baconalia! baconalia? mm-hmm. why, it's the sacred festival of bacon. a celebration of baconian delight. come celebrate baconalia! we're open to 7 new ways to enjoy bacon. denny's. america's diner is always open. baseball slugger barry bonds guilty of be on struck of justice. bonds -- obstruction of justice. bonds faced four counts back in 2003 about whether he took steroids. late today the jury reached the verdict on the obstruction charge but they were deadlocked on the more serious charge of perjury. the maximum sentence for obstruction of justice is 10 years of prison but under federal guidelines bonds could face between 15 to 21 months in prison. more trouble for the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway. according to a dutch newspaper, joran van der sloot is accused of stabbing three fellow inmates inside a peruvian jail. he's he been in custody since june -- he's been in custody since june of last year. van der sloot is accused of killing 21-year-old stephany flores inside a lima hotel room last may. the president lays out his plan to cut the nation's $14 trillion debt. why republicans say a amounts to nothing more than an assault on the wealthy. and brac impact, congress is setting aside millions of dollars to make traffic improvements, why some say it's too little too late. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. republicans wasted no time blasting president obama's plan to cut the deficit. they lashed out against it even before the president gave his speech today. mr. obama wants to cut $4 trillion over 12 years. republicans say he wants to do it by raising taxes. fox 5's tom fitzgerald explains who the white house wants to give more to. >> reporter: speaking at george washington university, president obama pledged to end the bush era tax cuts for couples earning more than $250,000 a year. >> there's nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars for millionaires and billionaires. >> reporter: republicans say their plan cuts $6 billion keeps the bush tax cuts. the president says the rich need to pay more taxes. >> in the last decade the average income of the bottom 90% of all working americans actually declined. meanwhile the top 1% saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each. that's who need to pay less taxes? >> reporter: the president's deficit plan calls for lowering domestic spending, finding savings in the defense budget, reducing healthcare spending and reforming the tax code. >> the only concrete proposal in the president's plan that he'll roll out today is his plan to raise taxes. >> reporter: republicans quickly rejected the president's plan saying the deficit grew because spending was too high, not because taxes are too low. >> we don't believe lack of revenue is a part of the problem and so we will not be discussing raising taxes. >> reporter: scattered about the president's audience, though, remember prominent business leaders likely to see higher taxes under his proposal. robert tantenbalm is an owner of the washington nationals. >> everyone will have to compromise on things they hold dear because the larger goal is more important to everyone one. >> reporter: while both sides gear up for a fight over their competing plans, the head of the bipartisan deficit commission says he's pleased they are at le