audrey barnes has the latest on their search. >> reporter: name is sassafras. she is a four-year-old beagle who got away from a dog walker near the national zoo in april and her family has been looking for her ever since. >> we are not sure exactly what happened but we know that she got off the leash. it wasn't clipped correctly or came unclipped. >> reporter: beth and her husband have plastered the area with more than 7,000 flyers and handed out 4,000 business cards. they've set up a sassafras tip line and even called in a pet detective of sorts, a search and rescue dog. >> we had a tracker coming down to check out sightings for us

audrey barnes there now live with detape. >> reporter: this is hooting actually happened on 6 -- with details. >> reporter: this shooting actually happened on 16th street at constitution. it was a shooting between two vehicles police say. one of those vehicles ended up here on that 23rd and constitution right outside ironically the institute of peace. now i did walk up the ramp outside the building and i did see that vehicle facing in the wrong direction on the up ramp. the doors are open. there is no sign of the driver. police fanned out across the city looking for both drivers of both vehicles and so far they are still on the loose at this hour. now we did get some video of one of those searches at virginia avenue at the boathouse. we saw police officers with weapons drawn searching that property looking for one of the drivers involved in the shooting. we're also hearing that police are searching the area 15th and constitution and also 17th and constitution looking for the two gunmen involved in this shooting. as far as we can tell this shooting did not happen on roosevelt bridge. i

audrey barnes is live in mclean to start us o. >> reporter: maureen, the parking lot outside this neiman marcus was crowded with shoppers this afternoon. a woman says as she was pulling in about 1:30 a young white female in her 20s approached her, said she needed help that she had run out of gas so the good samaritan offers her a ride to the station. as they were headed to that gas station this woman pulls a knife on the victim, then forces her out of her vehicle at old courthouse road at route 123, then she takes off. i just got off the phone with fairfax county police. this is what they told me about that carjacker. they don't have a good description, but they say she's a white female, between 20 to 25, she has a medium build, and that's about all they know about her. but this is some key information that could help police find this carjacker. they have the plate number of the victim's car. i want to give that to you now. she is driving the victim's silver four-door 2003 acura, virginia plate number xek-8095. if you do see that vehicle, you are asked to call fairfax county police. they

audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >> metro has 237 elevators. only 10% working on wednesday. sick were scheduled for maintenance. >>> to sports now, way flurry of activity ends the game between caps and predators. troy browner gave washington the 1-0 lead with under five minutes to go but nashville would answer back with three goals. caps lose 3-1. >>> we still have plenty ahead, your weather, traffic and all of your top stories. fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts now. ow. >>> it is 4:30 on this wednesday. we made it halfway through the week, folks. you can see there is a little bit of fog hanging around this morning. it is kind of wet out there. you may have heard the rain coming down. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. welcome to fox 5 morning news. let's check in with tucker barnes for another look at the weather. i could hear it this morning. >> generally speaking, we have enough to wet the roadways. slower commute is what that means. >> and the leaves are down. >> yes, we are wait (indicatining rain showers breaking out across parts of the area, particularly north and west

awed are you barnes has more. -- audrey barnes has more. >> reporter: this is home video of a mission to africa. mount cavalry baptist church in lanham was there providing desperately needed medical care to people in a primitive village but a conversation with the doctor changed pastor charles cato's focus entirely. >> one of the things that the doctors pointed out to us is that we just kind of put in a bandage over gangrene because they are drinking the water. >> reporter: there are no wells here the only water these villagers have access to is filled with parasites and disease is rampant. reverend walton field of the southern friendship missionary baptist church, also on the trip, saw the need firsthand. >> to seat people living in the conditions that they're living in -- to see the people living in the conditions that they're living in, it just touched my heart. >> reporter: the scene of >> reporter: the next step was clear. >> we have got to get a well here. >> i don't need a lot of money. i just need you to do a shoe drive. shoes proride water. >> reporter: that is how the mounta

audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >>> taking the edge to d.c. now. an abandoned school has been occupied. local activists inspired by the occupy d.c. movement stormed the old franklin building on 13th street, northwest, trying to get the city to restore it as a homeless shelter. some of the banners unfurled read, public building occupied by the community. the cost so far for occupy d.c. has been $900,000. this week's key bridge rocked up more than $4000 for traffic control. >>> in libya, there are celebrations in the street after the capture of muammar qaddafi's son. people honked horns and fired into the air to celebrate the capture. prosecutors say that the younger qaddafi will be tried in libya if the country's leaders can guarantee him a fair trial >>> in egypt, at least one person is dead after pro democracy protests turned violent. police fired tear gasses to try to disperse demonstrator at tahrir square. >>> scary moments after a new york-bounds plane strikes a plane. a bird strike in panama city caused the pilot to lose power. the pilot managed to shut daunte en gin and returned s

fox 5s audrey barnes is learning more about what happened and the brothers gone too soon they hit the field -- >> they hit the field. the 11-year-old anthony and his two-year-old brother were killed in a fiery crash on route 50. they were passengers in their mom's car when it was rear ended and ignited, trapping and killing them. >> reporter: can't think of a day in the life the last six months to see them and to think that i will never see them again is difficult. >> reporter: like they do any time a player is injured, he took a knee to honor him and to pray for his mother who was also a team -- teen mom. >> they hear every day and my heart goes out to her. the great mother like that and you cape explain to you. >> the accident began after lori ran into the back of another vehicle. and as she and the other driver got out to exchange information, a third vehicle slammed into both of their cars. the fourth pushed the car into the median where it burst into flames. >> she was like why did that happen? >> reporter: the coach said that gloria has burns on her hands and face from trying to

audrey barnes starts off tonight. good evening. >> reporter: well, 11-year-old anthony was a star play or the pg chargers football team. his mother the team mom. even though their opponents didn't show up, the chargers held practice anyway in anthony's honor. they say that is what he would want them to do that had the the -- they hit the field without number 55. the 11-year-old anthony and his two-year-old brother were killed in a fiery crash on route 50. they were passengers in their mom's car when it was rear ended spec nighted. trapping and killing then. >> i can't think of a day in the last six months i didn't see them. to think they would never see them again is extremely difficult. >> reporter: like they do any time a player is injured, anthony's teammates took a knee to honor him and to pray for his mother who was also a teen mom. >> they heard her every day. my heart goes out to her. a great mother like that to lose both of her kids in an accident. i can't explain to you how she facility this morning. she didn

audrey barnes is learning more about what happened and the brothers gone too soon. >> reporter: the pd chargers hit the field without number 55, 11-year-old anthony and his 2-year-old brother were killed in a fiery crash on route 50. they were passengers in their mom's car, when it was rear ended and ignited. trapping and killing them. >> i can't think of a day in the last 6 months i didn't see them. to think i will never see them again is extremely difficult. >> reporter: like they do any time a player is injured anthony's teammates took a knee to honor him and pray for his mother also a team mom. >> her and her whole family was here every day our heart goes out to miss gloria, a great mother like that to lose both her kids i can't explain to you how she feels this morning in the hospital she just didn't know. >> reporter: the incident began after noryeah reason into the back of another vehicle -- gloria got into the back of another vehicle. as she and the driver got out to exchange information, another driver hit her car. >> just feel why do they i have to happen. >> reporter: gloria

audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >>> one of those reminders no matter what is going on in your life, there's always a reason to give thanks. >> absolutely. it's all the frat gratitude. >> thankful it's not snow. >> there you go. that's a good way to say it. the temperature in d.c. is 61. in winchester it's 46. 15-degree spread. it can only be one thing. warm front coming on through. hasn't gone to everyone yet. temperatures are going to be mild. we have quite the combination around the area. we have fog as you can see here, as we look live at the capital. we have drizzly spots and beginning to pick up on a few spots where more moderate showers are developing and later tonight, our big finale. thunderstorms between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning. you can see that we are mostly talking about more significant rain just to the north and west across montgomery county. this is going to be moving across 270 and also here in the leesburg area or north of it in loudoun county. as we put this in motion over the last hour. you can see this develops quickly and moving from south to north. so we're going t

audrey barnes has the latest on their search. >> reporter: name is sassafras. she is a four-year-old beagle who got away from a dog walker near the national zoo in april and her family has been looking for her ever since. >> we are not sure exactly what happened but we know that she got off the leash. it wasn't clipped correctly or came unclipped. >> reporter: beth and her husband have plastered the area with more than 7,000 flyers and handed out 4,000 business cards. they've set up a sassafras tip line and even called in a pet detective of sorts, a search and rescue dog. >> we had a tracker coming down to check out sightings for us and one night, suddenly, we got a hit. >> reporter: there have been 12 confirmed sightings in the last seven months including a 30- minute chase near the columbia country club in chevy chase on october 20th. >> so she is around the neighborhoods and she is going into yards but we have not caught that lucky break for somebody to just close their fence or close their door and keep her there for a while until we could get there. >> rep

you have to put trust back into the trust fund. >> reporter: audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >>> legislators will likely take up the gas tax proposal any special session early next year. >>> should cameras be put in high school cafeterias and other places around high schools? that is the issue later that the fairfax county school board is taking up later on today. and it seems most fairfax parents like the idea. surveillance cameras in cafeteria could cut down on food fights and principals say students have reported drug deals in crowded cafeterias. fairfax and arlington are the only school systems in the metro region that do not allow cameras. >>> problems for the redskin and not just on the field either i'm troubling report about two players. >>> stacy is following another big story for us this morning. >> reporter: herman cain's wife gloria speaks exclusively to fox news. i'm have a preview of exactly what she said coming up after the break. [ screaming ] [ zapping ] there goes dwayne's car. oh, man. there goes dwayne's house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not li

audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >> that is some good news. metro has 237 elevators. only 10 were not working today. six were scheduled for maintenance. remember you can help us monitor metro. if you follow the a safety concern, see trouble on the tracks or on a bus or problems with the metrobus, e-mail us your story, pictures or video to fox 5 metro at g mail.com. >>> we are down here in the web center with the fox 5 news alert for facebook users. have you noticed unusual activity in your news feed these days? like perhaps pornographic images or violent images, links and postings, scenes sort of like it's familiar but not really? it's spam. facebook knows it. they're investigating trying to figure out where this stuff came from. they released a statement saying in part today we are always working to improve our systems to isolate or remove material that violates our terms. protecting the people who use facebook is a top priority for us. we asked you guys if this has happened to you. got a lot of responses on our facebook page at my fox d.c. richard says these are not

fox 5's audrey barnes live at the scene with an update. audrey, what do you know? reporter: the victim has been identified as 27-year-old anthony washington of landover, maryland. he was shot multiple times in the parking lot here at the penn forest shopping center. witnesses say a woman with him was shot in the arm. she has now been taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. so far police have not released a motive for the shooting, but neighbors say they've been complaining about loitering and crime in this shopping center for months. one man said that at times there are 200 people in this park being lot making it almost impossible -- parking lot making it almost impossible for him and his family who live in a quiet townhouse community near here to even get to the dry cleaner's or the nail salon. as for anthony washington, i spoke with his first cousin whose name is gene. they remember raised together not too far from here -- they were raised together not too far from here in landover. he tells me this neighborhood was anthony's downfall. anthony wa

fox 5's audrey barnes just got an update. what are police telling you? >> reporter: brian, u.s. park police responded to reports of shots fired at 9:30 tonight at 16th and constitution. that is basically right behind the white house. they located one of the vehicles they believe was involved on the ramp to the roosevelt bridge. they believed all along that vehicle was involved in the incident. they have video of officers going over that car. they looked through it every inch and found exactly what they were looking for. just seconds ago u.s. park police spokesman sergeant dave smith confirmed to us a rifle was found inside the vehicle here on the ramp to the teddy roosevelt bridge. he also said they are looking at other locations for possibly a second vehicle that they think might have been involved in this incident as well. >> i think probably the thing that makes this of interest is simply the location, a bit like real estate, the fact this occurred outside the white house year. at this point we don't see any link to the white house as far as this incident is concerned. >> rep

audrey barnes joins us now. >> the national restaurant association agreed to let the woman release a statement about her complaint which she settled for an undisclosed amount. attorney joel bennett said she still stands by the complaint and just wants to move on with her husband of 26 years. bennett says his client has decided not to release any details about the encounters which etch says took place over a month or -- he says took place over a month or so. she would not tell how much money she took to settle the matter. analysts say the week long scandal hasn't hurt cain in the polls and he may survive it if the other women don't talk either. >> she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now, nor in discussing the matter any further publicly or privately. in fact, it would be extremely may of to do so. >> i'm told there's a face -- extremelyy-- >> this controversy has added fuel to that fire. if more women come out defense cain, analysts say he'll lose the soccer mom for sure and other women who make a huge difference in november elections. >>> more than two months a

fox 5's audrey barnes with the details. how does this district resident ring up this huge bill? >> d.c. tax officials say this claim is from back taxes from 2002 to 2009 including interest and penalties. we talked with morrow wits off camera on his -- morowitz at his home on military road tonight. he told us he's a self- -employed trader, a former lawyer and worked for the securities and exchange commission. he would not say how he racked up such a huge bill. his neighbor is outraged. now the city has taken legal action seizing his interest in the military roadhouse assessed at $778,000, nowhere near what he owes of 17.8 million. >>> we are following breaking news from georgetown where police are on the scene of a shooting. it happened a short time ago. a man han shot near the four seasons hotel. we have a reporter headed to the scene and will bring you the very latest. >>> complaints of an iphone glitch, we have the fix still ahead. >>> plus a new report shows there's no evidence linking d.c.'s mayor to a pay for play scheme, but there are questions. we'll explain that later. >

. >> that was audrey barnes reporting. results of those tests are not expected back until next week. >>> tragedy strikes a major league baseball team. coming up next, a professional ball player found stabbed to death. we'll have details of who is being questioned in this plus an unusual court battle over what one couple can and cannot name their children. we're checking more headlines on the other side.  >>> a major league baseball player is dead this morning and his younger brother has been arrested. 24-year-old greg halman played outfield for the seattle mariners. he was found stabbed to death inside his home in the netherlands monday morning. his brother was taken in but so far, he has not been charged. >>> the new jersey parents who gave their children nazi inspired names are fighting to get their newborn back. a child welfare took custody of the boy right after he was born. fox's brenda flanagan has the story. >> reporter: deborah campbell left the courthouse in tears denied a chance to even visit her bab

fox 5's audrey barnes has more. >>> tropical storm lee really did a number on the holly acres mobile home park on september 8th, filling the trailer to within inches of the ceiling with foul water and destroying everything inside. >> we didn't save anything. everything was torn down a couple of weeks ago so we don't have anything. >> the flood split up the tight knit community sending some residents to shelters, others to stay with relatives. they hadn't seen each other until tonight. >> you guys need anything. >> reporter: the salvation army and a number of businesses and groups decided to throw a thanksgiving dinner at harborview to let the families know they weren't forgotten. >> these people have been separated because of flooding and we just wanted to give them a chance to get back together and to have a good time to thanksgiving. >> reporter: for the vitella family, this is one night to take their minds off the troubles to come. >> my the sister had her appendix removed and she wasn't insured and my dad is facing this like thousand dollar fine. we are able to get back together

audrey barnes is in the studio with more on the search for the cookie bandits. >> police have released some video photos of the two suspects who detectives say teamed up to rob troop 2310 outside the wal-mart on crane highway. as that search continues, so do cookie sales. >> would you like to buy girl scout cookies? >> reporter: these scouts are from odenton, just like the troop last week robbed. their leader has been ordered to keep a close eye on the cash box. >> girl scouts of central maryland sends out an e-mail letting us know the incident happened, didn't give details, but gave us tips how to keep the girls safe. >> reporter: police say a man asked one of the girl scouts how much the cookies were. before they could answer, he grabbed the cash box and took off running. >> thank you. >> enjoy. >> reporter: a witness sees the thief grab the box and head towards the woods behind wal- mart and she chases them. a man says she'll catch him and he backs off. he wasn't a good samaritan after all, and both of those men head off into the woods with all the money. >> i was a brownie and a gi

gathe thief, another woman who h stillo on the loose.loos audrey barnes picks it it up frm there. >> reporter: the victim just pupped you will in the parkinge lot by nieman marcus -- just pulled up in the parking lot at nieman marcus with a woman wasws approached by another. >> the victim was not injured.r. >>> she certainly is upset, distraught. she's trying to do the right thing and be kind to somebody sowho said they needed help.ded >> reporter: the suspect is described at white female,, between 20-25, about 5'5", with a medium build, she has blue eyes and brown hair. at the time of the car jacking, she was wearing a black hoody and light colored sweat pants. >> the young woman was nondescript, there was nothing unusual about her, no particulat accent. she looked just like anyone else. didn't appear to have any problems or issues. was calm. >> reporter: the car jacker forced the woman out of her vehicle at old courthouse cutr and route 23. she is now gaving her silver 2003 acura with virginia platept number xex8095.8095 this is a rare occurrence, weur don't rehave things like this

audrey barnes has more. >> gary, gary, can you meese come out to the service desk. >> reporter: to boost holiday sales, a lot of companies plan to open at midnight or earlier on thanksgiving. some target employees would have to report at 11:00 p.m. on thanksgiving for their 10- hour shift. partner ago tendant anthony hardwick was so upset about that, he started a petition on change.org asking the company to save thanksgiving. we spoke to hardwick by telephone in omaha about the online petition that nearly 190,000 people have signed in just two weeks. >> the petition is not about me. it is about everybody that i work with, everybody that work in retail. this is just an opportunity for us, all of us, to stand up and say no, come organization leave us one day to spend with our families. >> reporter: a sentiment shared by this target employee in rockville. >> to come out at 11:00 at knit on thanksgiving. i would rather be home with the family. >> reporter: plenty of shoppers outside the rockville store said they support hardwake's petition. >> people expect to have thanksgiving day off. i th

audrey barnes got quite an earful. i imagine you found people on both sides of thisissue. >> that's right. the one thing the women i talked to had in common was about the lie detector test. he says he would be willing to take. >> well, i think he should take a lie detector test. if he thinks that's going to help him, then sure, go ahead. take a lie detector test. >> if that's his position, then we should let him take the test and see what the results show. >> that's where the common ground ended. of the women said there's more to the story. others said cain's critics are grasping at straws. >> i don't know if it's true. it could be conspiracy. i don't know. i'm just like really? i think we should focus more on other issues. >> it may be the end of his campaign. i don't think the american people are as forgiving as the senate was. everybody has a pass. that means clinton had a big scandal and he survived that and is popular with people today based on the work he does and his, you know, extracurricular activities were ju

fox 5's audrey barnes is in the newsroom now. >> the fire is called a tragedy of epic proportions, three members of one family wiped out, deaths that might have been prevented if there had been at least one working smoke detector in the house on griffin street. >> i lost everything. reporter: 62-year-old merle monroe is the only one of four family members to survive the inferno inside this house on griffin street. she woke up just before 4:00 in the morning sunday and managed to get outside and then spent the next frantic moments trying to save her sister, daughter and grandson all trapped inside. >> i knocked on my daughter's bedroom window and she answered me. i said get out. the house is on fire. reporter: but she never made it. >> but she never made it out of. reporter: so she raced to the back bedroom to try and waken her sister. >> i was almost inside, but the heat was too much for me. reporter: firefighters pulled the lifeless body of 6-year-old amare noel from the fire and he died a short time later. his mother simone monroe and aunt janet athing clung to life more than a day and

fox 5's audrey barnes here with more. >> the woman's attorney has spent much of the last week trying to get the national restaurant association to lift the confidentiality agreement that kept his client from speaking out. today the organization agreed she could give a statement. that statement left many of the most pressing questions still unanswered. >> my client stands by the client she made. >> reporter: with a swarm of reporters looking on attorney joel bennett read statement from his client who hired him in 1999 to address what he says were several instances of inappropriate behavior and unwanted advances by then ceo herman cain. >> those complaints were resolved in an agreement with her acceptance of a monetary settlement. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now, nor in discussing the matter any further publicly or privately. >> reporter: bennett says beyond that his client who has a successful career with the federal government is done talking about it. >> she has decided not to relive the specifics of the incident, so i cannot give any further details.

fox 5's audrey barnes joins us with the story. >> that mysterious odor has raised concern among some residents who have wondered for years if the cancer in their families is related to what's buried in area b. >> we lost actually two family members within three years. >> reporter: randy white used to live near fort detrick. he lost his 30-year-old daughter kristen and her mom to cancer. he started the christian renee foundation to investigate a possible link to the site known as area b. contaminants were buried there when fort detrick's biological weapons program ended in the 1970s. doctors treating the families' cancer said it wasn't genetic. >> it was environmental. >> reporter: so to hear that workers drilling at the site smelled a mysterious odor coming from it has raised his fears all over again. >> this is not a coincidence, but this is a wake-up call and it's certainly in my opinion is a time for fort detrick to have full disclosure to the community. >> reporter: geological scientist john bean brought in by the foundation to look into the matter agrees. >> this thing about nox

. >> reporter: audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >> as for the dog walker, she's been fired from her job with the doggy daycare center. we're putting a link link to the sassafras tip line and the website on our website www.myfoxdc.com. >> another beautiful day today. >> it sure was. >> and the sun is still warm. it's surprising. you get out of win and sit there, it's nice. >> today the temperature really -- wind and sit there it's nice. >> today the temperature actually cooperated. that's above normal. normal is 61 degrees. it's getting cold already. the nights are cold and here's the best news of all. we can do this again tomorrow. take a look outside right now, getting chilly around the region. our temperatures are falling already into the 30s in some places. if you had an early morning commute, you know we had a problem and that was fog. the national weather service is keeping an eye on conditions. it is possible there will be more fog tomorrow morning, especially in those deeper valleys. so prepare for it. if you had fog this morning, you'll likely have some problems with it. it was very

fox 5's audrey barnes is in the newsroom with more. i know a lot of folks not happy about this one. >> that's right. the numbers are mind boggling. the average family is currently paying about $334 a month on gas. maryland legislators want to tack on another 15 cents a gallon in the next three years for reside projects and many say the timing couldn't be worse. -- for road project says and many say the -- projects and many say the timing couldn't be worse. you drive through maryland, you know some of the roads here aren't the best. a blue ribbon committee has recommended a 15-cent per gallon gas tax to pay for road and bridge improvements. some motorists say it's long overdue. >> you can lose a front end on some of these potholes. so the necessity of fixing that is probably pushing the gas tax i'd say. >> reporter: the tax would be phased in five cents a year for the next three years thrusting maryland into the top tier of gas prices nationwide. >> americans in maryland are paying the highest price they've ever paid for gasoline and we

audrey barnes, thank you. >>> new tonight, a paramedic with the d.c. fire department is on paid administrative leave right now after allegedly refusing to accompany a patient to the hospital. that patient later died. officials are now trying to determine if the five-year veteran ignored standard protocols or made a bad decision in assessing the condition of the 87-year-old woman who he was asked to help. fox 5s paul wagner was here with more on that story. paul. >> reporter: the fire chief declined to confirm the bask facts of the story today. our -- basic facts of the story today. our report is coming through sources. the paramedic assigned to engine 11 allegedly examined an 87-year-old woman and determined her condition was not serious. when asked to stay with the patient on the ride to the hospital with the e.m.t.s, the paramedic allegedly refused. since the fire department is not releasing the facts in the allegation, the patient's name and address or her medical condition, there is much we don't know; however, this much is clear: the 87-year-old w

fox 5's audrey barnes live on the scene tonight. reporter: the penn forest shopping center is at the 3300 block of walters lane at chavez in forestville. one person is dead. his mother is here and she's very upset. a second person has been shot and is now on the way to the hospital. this is a very active crime scene. police are now looking for a suspect. joining us live to kind of help us sort through this situation is corporal evan baxter from the prince george's county police department. do we know what happened? what sparked this shooting? >> it's still very early in the investigation. we are working to piece that all together. we're talking to witnesses, looking over the camera footage from the stores that are here, still trying to figure out exactly why this happened. reporter: this was 8:00. this parking lot was packed with people and the victim we can see still lying on the sidewalk there. so they were shot on the sidewalk? >> right out here in the parking lot, yes. reporter: so what happened to the suspect? did they flee on

fox 5's audrey barnes spoke with him at his home tonight in northwest. reporter: the first question i asked barry moore as we stood on the porch of his house on military road is how could he rake up an $18 million tax bill. off camera he said he'll have plenty to say when the time is right. his neighbor like many in the district is outraged. >> i looked over there one day at barry's. i saw five cops coming upstairs and i'm thinking there's something really big going on hemp. reporter: mark barr said he stood and watched as d.c. police swarmed his neighbor's house. the city's tax office says barry moore was its known 1 on the district's list of 18 -- no. 1 on the district's list of delinquent taxpayers. >> i think everybody in the district should so be up in barmes this. it is unbelievable and i'm -- arms about this. it is unbelievable. reporter: tax office director steven fordy said they were recently made aware of not case and they've wasted no time moving in to try and collect the back taxes. >> we seized the property the taxpayer owes more than $17 mi

fox 5's audrey barnes talked to a number of cain supporters going into a fundraiser for him tonight in mcclain, virginia, now in the newsroom with the latest. >> the timing of these new allegations couldn't have been worse for organizers o

fox 5's audrey barnes is here with the latest. >> an arlington police department spokesman says officers investigating a failed operations report at 11 a.m. friday stopped oscar ortega in north arlington. wasn't searched but they took his picture -- he wasn't searched but they took his picture and 10 hours later police believe ortega may have fired a shot at constitution avenue and 16th street. they want to question him to find it out why. >> reporter: this is the scene on the ramp of the theodore roosevelt bridge friday night minutes after a shooting near the white house. u.s. park police found an abandoned vehicle there. inside it was an assault rifle. the weapon and other evidence focused the search on oscar ortega. >> right now we've impounded his car, so he doesn't have a car. doesn't have any identification with him and we're not certain about how much funding he has but don't believe he has a lot of money with him now of the? >> reporter: u.s. park police believe ortega arrived in the d.c. area a few weeks ago. he's had run-ins with the law in several states including utah, texas

we get more from audrey barnes. >> can you please come down the service desk. >> reporter: to boost holiday sales, a lot of companies plan to open at midnight or earlier on thanksgiving. some target employees would have to report at 11:00 on thanksgiving for their 10- hour shift. parking attendant anthony hardwake was soup set about that, he started a petition on change.org asking the company to save thanksgiving. we spoke to hardwick by telephone in omaha about the online petition that nearly 190,000 people have signed in just two weeks. >> the petition is not about me, you know. it is about everybody that i work with, everybody that works in retail, this is just an opportunity for us, all of us to stand up and say come o leave us one day to spend with our families. >> reporter: a sentiment shared by this target employee in rockville. >> i would be kind of upset if i had to come out at 11:00 at night on thanksgiving. i would rather be home with the family. >> reporter: plenty of shoppers outside the rockville store said they support hardwick's petition. >> people expect to have thanksgivin

audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >>> we checked according to metro's website that elevator is working now at brook land station but one esculator is still out of service. >>> 21 minutes past the hour, more big box stores coming to the district more on that when we come back. >> a little later, live at verizon center where cirque du soleil's new show gets under way today. holly morris has a preview. maybe she will be in the show. stay with us  >>> 7:25 a.m., slot machines banned from coming to prince georges county for now t county council on tuesday tabled a bill that would have banned slots the owners are pushing hard for slots to be approved there as a way to save the fie man shaly strap -- financially strapped race track. they called on the maryland legislature to come up with slots in the county. >>> wal-mart is making its arrival in district of columbia official today and discount giant is announcing plans to open six stores in dc two more than the original proposal wal- mart extending presence east of the anacostia where there are not many shopping opportunities and