final in new orleans, but closer to home pandemonium on the streets of baltimore and our very own audrey barnes who happened to wear the purple and black tonight. i think she had a feeling pandemonium would ensue is live there now. take it away, audrey. >> reporter: okay. it's a little crazy as you can see. i'm right outside camden yards. there's a lot of sports bars around here, sliders bar and grill and the streets are filled with people celebrating the ravens win. let me show you what's going on out here. surprisingly orderly. there's a lot of people on the street, but it's surprisingly orderly. they just want to celebrate this win. they've been yelling and screaming since about the end of the 4th quarter. then when they knew that the ravens had that win wrapped up, things really got crazy. we've actually seen people climbing the statue of brooks robertson outside camden yards. they've been stopping cars on the street and celebrating this ravens win. a lot of these fans said they felt like the underdogs and that's why this celebration will continue for quite some time. they said nobody thoug

reporting live in baltimore outside pickle's pub, audrey barnes, fox 5 news.ack to you in the studio. >> very smart, audrey. say out of that mess. >> i'm scared for her. she's losing her voice, too but great to see those fans celebrating a tremendous win tonight. >>> let's toss it over to gwen. >> hard to compete with. you see that poor dog probably doesn't know what is going on. we've got clouds and a little light snow moving in the area through the the course of tonight, but tomorrow another cold day and one more clipper system, very light in nature, a few flurries here and there. 35 degrees our high today at national, 33 dulles, 34 bwi thurgood marshall. a cold night tonight, doesn't seem that cold in baltimore with everybody outside. it's 32 degrees there now, 34 at d.c., 28 gaithersburg, 31 dulles, 28 martinsburg. the cold air will stick around another day, ridge of high pressure building in tomorrow, but we've got another system heading through. that's going to set us up for more passing snow flurries and light snow into the course of tomorrow afternoon

audrey barnes is live in the newsroom now. audrey. >> brian, nearly 40 officers from several different agencies were involved in the show of force at the station. police call it a hike, what is high intensity target enforcement. the people who use the station call it peace of mind. >> it doesn't take long to find people who were touched by crime, or witnessed it. >> my son got jumped here. >> it is getting ridiculous. >> as soon as the doors open, the dude grabbed the headphones, man, that's crazy. nobody is doing stuff like that. >> metro transit police released this photo of a person of interest in connection with a robbery on a metro bus this morning. the w6 that leaves from the anacostia station. witnesses said the man in the hoody pulled a handgun on a woman passenger and fled with her purse. >> how are you doing? >> all right. >> hours after that incident, metro transit police teamed up with mpd and the federal protective service for a height. that stands for high intensity targeted enforcement effort. >> today's height i

audrey barnes breaks down the measure. >>> it's being called the most significant package for virginia since 1986 when lawmakers agree to raise the gas tax. they replace the per gallon gas tax with a 3.5% tax on gas at the wholesale level and 6% wholesale tax on diesel fuel. the state tax will increase from 5% to 5.3% and the motor vehicle sales tax will rise from 3% to 4.3%. >> it's a major step forward. obviously to really deal with the problem that has built up over the last 27 years we will have to continue to address the issue. >> reporter: in a statement governor bob mcdonald calls this a historic day. we have worked together across party lines to find common ground and pass the first sustainable long-term transportation funding in 27 years mcdonald says. when it's fully phased in, the reform bill will raise more than $500 million to erase the maintenance budget deficit and fund new roads and mass transit and provide more money for hampton roads and northern virginia. >> there is a whole wide range of products. the key is though they have to reduce congestion and they have to be

brian. >> audrey barnes tonight. following a developing story where an explosion at a sandwich shop sent one man to the hospital, left a local community in shock tonight. police say they are looking for a suspect seen running from the scene. fox 5's karen gray houston with that story. >> police say the man who was injured is suffering from nonlife threatening burns. outside, his sandwich shop has been boarded up, inside, it's in shambled. it's not the first time his place has been targeted. customers say this used to be a popular spot. now everything inside is black and melted with broken glass all over the floor. police have been combing the shop for clues. they say one man was seen running from the scene and there may possibly be a second suspect. police are not identifying the victim, but neighbors say he was a friendly person. they can't understand who would want to hurt him. but they also say this sandwich shop was burned down once before. that man's son told me that fire in 2010 was an accident. the result of t

audrey barnes has the latest. >> reporter: 14-year-old jonathan is charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of his seven-month-old sister larissa. and police say the 31-year-old left her 14-year-old son in charge of her unfant daughter when she went to work at 1030 tombd this night. when she tried to wake the 7- year-old the next morning to feed her, she was unresponsive. someone called paramedics and police. >> before we could get there, the child was transported by fire rescue to holy cross hospital where she was pronounced dead. an investigation determined she did have injuries on her body and detectives and medical personnel determined that she could not have inflicted the injuries on herself. >> reporter: and investigators question the child's 49-year- old brother, the last person to see her alive. >> he admitted that he had beaten her and that also -- then also put his hands over her, over her nose and mouth when she began to cry. >> reporter: he's charged as an adult with first-degree murder and because he's being charged, does that mean that investigators believe

audrey barnes is live with our story. audrey. >> reporter: this woodbridge neighborhood is in shock tonight after the shooting death of a retired agent from the alcohol bureau and firearms bureau, the atf. the 55-year-old greg holly senior was walking his dog at 9:40 last night. a suspect shot him to death and then robbed him, ran away with his property. and an offduty prince william county sheriff's deputy spotted the man and, after a brief struggle, he was taken into custody. the people who live along worth drive are, obviously, worried about their safety after such a senseless act of violence. >> i think it's a rarity. for the most part, for us to have the one murder and longer than i can remember and i won't say the special too concerned but this is unusual. luckily the suspect was apprehended quickly and is? in jail. >> reporter: the 25-year-old eric alexander smith of woodbridge is in custody and being held without bond and is facing first-degree murder charges. police say that they did recover some of his property o

audrey barnes has more. >> reporter: the sandy hook shooter kicked his way into the school and began shooting rampage. one of the first questions asked at this community forum was what measures were being considered to secure the classrooms. putting a chain lock on the door arab bar on the door so a teacher can make that door secure. >> and in a panic, that starts happening that. extra implement you put in that door, they're in the going to get it off. i have aseep scratch marks dug in doors where people in a panic can't find the door knob of an open door. that is our methodology behind why we don't do that. >> reporter: jim mclean says fairfax county schools have started testing electronic access doors at county high schools. some middle and elementary schools already have them. as far as chaining and barricaded classroom doors, he says locks are best. >> the case study has been folks not going through locked doors. >> reporter: mclean says every classroom has an emergency safety guide for teachers and substitutes to follow in an emergency. there are even vests inside, orange for te

audrey barnes has more from the newsroom. >> reporter: that videova house approved a transportation bill friday by a vote of 60-40. now the senate has followed suit. the entire package goes to the governor for his signature. >> reporter: it's called the most significant funding package for transportation in virginia since no one 86, when law-- 1986, when lawmakers agreed to raise the gas tax. it raises the per-gallon gas tax with a 3.5% tax on gas at the wholesale level and a 6% wholesale tax on diesel fuel. the state sales tax will increase from 5% to 5.3%. and the motor vehicle sales tax will rise from 3% to 4.3%. >> it's a major step forward. it -- obviously to deal with the problem that has built up over the last 27 years. we're going have to continue to address the issue. >> reporter: in a statement, governor mcdonnell called this a historic day. we have worked together across party lines to find common ground. and pass the first sustainable long-term transportation funding in 27 years, he said. when it's fully phased in, the reform bill will raise more than $500 million to erase th

audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >>> another big story tonight, an american hero dead, his suspected killer in custody. authorities say former navy seal chris kyle was gunned down along with another man at a gun range in texas. >> reporter: former navy seal chris kyle hoping a day at a shooting range would bring some relief to a fellow soldier suffering from the wounds of war shot and killed saturday with his close friend and neighbor chat littlefield. the three went to the range together. 25-year-old eddie ray ruth is now facing murder charges. police say the former marine turned his weapon on kyle and littlefield before using kyle's pickup truck as his get-away car. >> the suspect left and drove to mid loathian where he went to his sister's home and told them what had he done. >> reporter: back at the lodge a sprawling range about 50 miles southwest of fort worth a hunting guide found the two bodies. >> it's believed the victims were shot around 3:30 p.m. approximately 5:21 p.m. there was 911 call. >> reporter: police tracked ruth down, but he led them on a brief high speed chase, cops fo

audrey barnes has the story. >> reporter: you see it all the time.ith cracked iphone screens. to harrison balm, those shattered screens were the start of his new business. on-campus repair. >> you can get your phone back within an hour and have it good as new for the cheapest rates around. >> reporter: he taught himself how to make the repairs, started ordering parts and is now repairing 50 to 70 a month for about $70 each, working on the phone of college students can be challenging. >> it's 37 step, and sometimes people owe estimates it might take a little longer because people will spear beer in their phone, and like i will open it and leverage be stuck together. people try to like fix it themselves. they mess everything up and it takes me twice as long. >> on-campus repairs just launched last spring and business is booming. >> mostly what i do, 90% of the time is screen repair. i not only repair them for other people but i guess the other half of my business is buying used and cracked ones, fixing them up, unlocking them, and selling them overseas

audrey barnes has this story now. >> the victim is 55-year-old greg holley sr. he lives behind a wife and four boys, ages 18 to 25, and a church community that can't believe they'll never see his infectious smile or hear his laugh again. investigators say holley had just left a class at the new life anointed ministries church where he is chief financial is of. police say a suspect ambush -- officer. police say a suspect ambushed him while he was walking his dog and shot him during a robbery attempt. witnesses pointed out the man to an off duty prince william county police officer who took him into custody after a brief struggle. 25-year-old aric alexander smith is facing robbery and first degree murder charges. >> i would say this is kind of unusual, but luckily the suspect was apprehended quickly and is in jail. >> if i could sum it up in one sentence, great citizen, devoted father of four, four young men, married, wonderful wife, just a really, really great guy. >> the holley family has released a statement that says greg's life work was all about fighting cri

audrey barns tonight. >>> one of the victims on board columbia was island ramone, israel's first astronaut. he carried with him a tora scroll, hidden during the holocaust. local filmmaker directed a film about the diverse crew of columbia. >> one thing he brought was a shining example of what diversity brings to the world, and what can happen when we all work together for the greater good. >> the documentary airs next week on maryland public television. on. . >>> now to a story you saw first on fox 5 tonight. three local high school boys under arrest, charged in child sploittation raid. their victims, teenage girls who they allegedly got drunk and taped having sex, sometimes after the girls had passed out. >> reporter: police say the case came to light in late november, after resource officer at west springfield high school got wind of sex tapes being passed around. a police investigation ended with three student athletes being arrested on january 11th. all of them are boys. one is 15 years old, the other two 16 years old. fairfax county police say the teens victimized six local high schoo

audrey barnes has more in the newsroom. >> it happens far too often, bus drivers cussed at and spit on, it happened more than 72 times last year. police are helping bus cam video will help identify the suspect who sprayed that driver in the face. >> every day, more than two dozen armed metro police officers in plain clothes ride the busses, to try and keep drivers and passengers safe, but they can't be everywhere. early this morning, two teens took their frustrations out on an unsuspecting driver on the b 2 bus, just trying to do his job. >> they wanted to get off the bus and they got into an altercation with the bus operator. they weren't very happy with that, and when they exited the bus, the bus operator pulled over at the next stop. one of the two sprayed the operator in the head with pepper spray. >> they ran off northbound on pennsylvania avenue. the driver was treated by medics at the scene. the passengers were put on another bus to continue their trip while police looked for the suspects. >> they conducted a canvas of the area with negative results. we have cameras on the bus,

. >> that was audrey barnes reporting. we still have plenty ahead. more weather, traffic and all your top stories. >> fox 5 morning news continues right now. >>> it is 5:00 right now on this monday, february 18th, 2013. taking a live look right now over at reagan national airport. winds are still a little bit high. not quite as bad as yesterday. you will feetle cold out there this morning. good morning. i'm sarah simmons i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. time now to talk to tucker barnes. >> it is cold outside. no doubt about it. temperatures in the teens and low 20s. a cold start to your day. wind won't be nearly as bad. right now, about five to 10. there is still a wind chill i saw a trash can doing the rolling down the street thing yesterday. that is how strong the winds were. it is 24 at reagan national. 20 at bwi marshall and out at dulles and lots of teens here. the reason why, clear skies and in the wake of that big storm system that cranked up saturday afternoon that brought another round of snow to new england, we actually ha

audrey barnes is live now on main street in laurel with the story. >> reporter: people are being allowed to return home just off main street in downtown laurel after an anxious day of watching the water rise and lap at their backdoors. jose norris never expected to see anything quite like this behind the river view apartments. have you been watching the water rise and rise? >> yeah, i've been watching it rise. it actually covered up the playground over there. it covered up the trail as well. so yeah, it's been amazing to watch. hopefully everybody is safe. >> reporter: by 4 p.m. the playground and park were submerged. >> looks more like a pond or a swimming pool now. i've never seen it like this before. i was at work in upper marlboro when i saw it and i'm like okay, i need to go. i don't know what's going on. >> reporter: the apartment's managers posted signs urging resident to leave voluntarily if they felt unsafe. >> it's not mandatory yet? >> reporter: once they close main street. the community center was opened as a temporary shelter. for some the decision to stay or go was made as

fox 5's audrey barnes is in the newsroom with the latest. audrey. >> jack and his eight-year-old daughter, morgan, are still hospitalized. his wife, and seven month old were treated and released. fire investigators don't know what caused the fast moving blaze that destroyed the family's home. it left a gaping hole in the hearts of everyone who knew and loved them. now trying to deal with the death of two children, described as bright life with so much to live for. >> on a snowy hillside in meyersville, the charged shell of the family home. neighbors have been stopping by, leaving teddy bears and balloons to honor the two sisters who died here. six-year-old sophie and madigan. the family just posed for these family photos on monday and now four days later, two of them are gone. >> great family, unfortunately. tragic, tragic. >> angela willard, start add photography blog of her own, called eyes of a child, filled with sweet images of her kids. when her youngest was four, she wrote i want to remember everything about every moment. but not this o

audrey barnes has more. >> reporter: this incident happened on the b-2 bus at minnesota avenue and pennsylvania avenue at 12:45 this morning and there were several passengers on the bus when two teenagers got into a confrontation with the bus driver. >> there were two juvenile -- and who we believe are juveniles aboard the bus. they wanted to get off of the bus and the bus operator advised them he could stop the bus only at designated bus stops. they were not happy with that and when they finally exited the bus, the bus operator pulled over at the next stop. one of the two sprayed the operator in the head with mace. with pepper spray. >> reporter: now, the suspect fled northbound on to pennsylvania avenue after spraying the bus driver. we got a description of them. two black males, 16- to 19 years old. they had tattoos you were their eyes. witnesses said they were both wearing rolled-up skull caps. one had on a blue coat, the other was wearing a black coat. this was the crime that metro would like to get a handle on. 74 bus drivers were assaulted last year and that crime continues. the driver t

audrey barnes has more. >> reporter: the mozart apartments seem secure.to be buzzed in and there are security cameras but it wasn't enough to protect 68- year-old howard venable, junior junior. a relative found him on the floor inside his apartment saturday. police say he had been stabbed to death. >> it is not the first time that something happened around here so -- but i was very shocked that it happened in this building. they even have cameras in this building. >> reporter: neighbors say venable had lived in the building for more than 15 years, first with his wife until she died and more recently he had been taking care of his young granddaughter walking her to the school next door. >> he was a good guy. treat us good and that was it. >> reporter: venable is quoted in the apartment's news later about how happy he was to live in the mozart apartments. god blessed me when i left home, coming here where i didn't know a soul and giving me a job and a place for stay right away. the resident he talked with said they always considered this a very safe buildin

audrey barnes here with the story. i hear he's even buying cashmere capes. >> yeah. mink ones, too.nly is jesse jackson jr. facing charges, but so is his wife sandy and both are pleading guilty to the charges which could place the former congressman behind bars for years. prosecutors say jesse jackson jr. and his wife is an were involved in an elaborate -- sandy were involved in an elaborate scheme to use campaign money for personal expenses. the items purchased included more than $20,000 of michael jackson memorabilia including a star, more than $5,000 of mink and cashmere cages, $10,000 of bruce lee memorabilia, nearly $10,000 on children's furniture and a $43,000 men's rolex watch. most of the items came from antiquities of nevada. a clerk reached by phone today had no comment. the former representative isn't talking but has released a statement. "i offer no excuses for my actions and i fully accept my responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes very made," jackson says. sandy jackson is charged with one tax count for allegedly filing one false tax return. the son of j

audrey barnes joins us live from the web center with more on what you're saying tonight. >> one of our viewers beth powell allen says she just returned from her 14th cruise and has no. 15th booked on royal caribbean. she never travels on carnival. we also heard from alonna mcneil who said this ship has sailed for her. she'd never take a cruise, but if you have one booked, there are some things you can do so you aren't swamped with disappointment. jamie cortez has had a bad experience of her own on a carnival cruise to mexico. >> my fiance and i tried to get a refund and they totally ignored us because we went on the cruise and it ended up being a booze cruise for a whole college campus basically and it was just horrible. >> the images now surfaces from those stranded passengers will keep her on dry land for her next get-away. >> i was going to probably do a cruise this summer, but i'm not going to do it anymore, especially with that cruise line for sure. >> the president of west end travel, vivian pomeii says you have to know before you go on any cruise now more than ever. >> there def

audrey barnes is in the newsroom. >> greg holley retired from the atf in 2009 after assignments in atlanta, chicago and detroit where he was the special agent in charge. holley was focusing on his church and family, a wife and four sons. tonight the community and those who knew and loved greg holley cannot believe he's gone. >> absolutely senseless. senseless is the word i could say. >> pastor ronald jones took a class with greg holley at the new life anointed ministry church in woodbridge last night. minutes after it ended holley was dead. >> we left the class probably about 8:30, quarter to 9:00 and said he was going to go walk the dog, go home, do the homework that we had got assigned and i got word. >> word that greg holley, a retired atf agent and army reserve officer, a father with four boys, had been gunned down during a robbery steps from his home. >> what a tremendous loss. i mean the family is, of course, his wife is grieving. the boys just hurt because he was such a great man, such a great man. what a loss. >> an off-duty prince william county police officer spotted a man runnin

fox 5's audrey barnes has the story. >> reporter: you see it all the time.ple walking around with cracked iphone screens. to university of maryland economics major harrison balm, those shattered screens were the start of his new business. on campus repairs. >> can you have your phone back in an hour and have it good as new for the cheapest rates around. >> reporter: he taught himself how to make the repairs. he is now repairing 50 to 70 phones a for for about $70 each. working on the phones of clonal students within challenging. >> it is 37 steps. sometimes it might take a little longer because people spill beer in their phone and i'll open it and everything will be stuck together and people try to fix it themselves and mess everything up and it takes me twice as long. >> reporter: on-campus repairs just launched last spring and business is booming. >> mostly what i do is screen repair. and i not only repair them for other people but i guess the other half of my business is buying used and cracked ones, fixing them up and unlocking them and selling them over

audrey barnes has more. >> reporter: because they're charging him as an adult, the police released the suspect's name. it's jonathan aguillac and is being hill without bond in the death of his little sister larissa. the police say the 39-year-old gloria left her 14-year-old son in charge of her infant daughter when she went to work at 10:30 thursday night. when she tried to wake 7-month- old larissa at 6 the next morning to feed her, she was unresponsive. someone called paramedics and police. >> before we could get there, the child was transported by fire rescue to holy cross hospital where she was pronounced dead. and an investigation determined she had injuries on her body and detectives and medical personnel determined she could not have inflicted those injuries on herself. >> reporter: investigators question the child's 14-year- old brother, jonathan aguillac, the last person to see her alive. >> he admitted that he had beaten her and then also put his hands over her nose and mouth when she began to cry. >> reporter: the 14-year-old is charged as an adult with first- degree murder.

audrey barnes talked with him tonight and joins us now. >> lawrence reese is one of the nicest people you would ever have the pleasure to meet. if you're hungry and don't have money, he'll feed you. he waves hello and good-bye of time he sees you, not just some of the time. all those good deeds couldn't ward off the danger that nearly took his life. fairfax county police and fire investigators say the blaze that damaged this lorton sub shop was intentionally set. >> 3rd, 4th degree burns. >> reporter: the owner barely made it out alive. >> all i remember is this big hail of fire hitting me. i thought it was coming from the bathroom. >> reporter: witnesses at the thrift store next to reese's shop said a man asked to use the bathroom and was denied. some think he may have slipped into the sub shop and the set it on fire possibly with a molotov cocktail that backfired. reese says he never saw anyone, but clearly wasn't alone in the shop. >> either somebody stepped on me running in this blaze of fire or dragged me to the doorway. >> reporter: not before he was severely burned. >> now you

audrey barnes has this story from the newsroom. >> pastor tom williamson says rather than be mad or sad about the thefts he wants the community to take a different approach and he's chosen a unique way to get the word out. the marquee outside the gloria day church on college parkway and arnold says it all. pray for those who stole our heat pumps. >> one of the units was here. >> reporter: three huge 7 1/2 ton units and a 2 1/2 ton unit vanished last week. >> here is the heat pump that they didn't get to. >> reporter: replacing them won't be cheap. >> the estimate we've had so far is close to $80,000 president of we still haven't heard from -- $80,000. we still haven't heard from our insurance company what kind of part of that they may reimburse us, but it's a financial hit either way. >> reporter: the temperature in the church classroom used by community groups like girl scout troop 1808 is now 60 degrees. other parts of the church are even colder. the temperature here in the fellowship hall is just 55 degrees. community groups are still using this room, but they're wearing their coats