The bay bridge airport, that is the runway the plane was headed for. They were that close to a safe landing. Now this happened around 12 45 this afternoon. Two people dead, a singleengine plane crash just over the bay bridge on the eastern shore. The plane came down hard in the field and then burst into flames. Here now from corporal davon parker with the maryland state police. Witnesses say that this aircraft actually exploded into flames upon making contact in the ground. This was not on fire in the air. It exploded once it made contact with the ground. Reporter people around who saw what happened rushed into that field to try to save people onboard, but that was not to be. Coming up at 5 00, we will hear from those wouldbe rescuers and ill see you back at 5 00. Pat, now back to you. Pat collins, thank you, pat. Family and friends of fallen firefighter John Ulmshneider are gathering in his hometown to pay their respects. Thats in the town of hollywood in st. Marys county. It marks the start of two days of remembrances with ulmshneider who was shot and killed on friday. Prince georges county bureau chief, Tracee Wilkins is outside the church right now. Tracie . Were watching the family as they begin to make their arrival. The police are helping to usher their family here. The casket entered a little while ago and this is st. Johns parish in st. Marys county. The casket into the church. John ulmshneider was shot and killed in the line of duty. Another firefighter, 19yearold kevin swain was shot and inju d injured. Believing the homeowner was in medical distress. The homeowner opened fire shooting the two firefighters and his own brother who was with them at the time. Our family is everybody from the ulmshneiders to the swains to our own people. Our number two focus is to continue to take care of the citizens of Prince Georges County who need us. Thanks to the neighboring departments from as far away as baltimore city, and Arlington County and theyre covering our stations this afternoon as well as volunteers from the county and onduty folks who said i really didnt know john, so im going to let the people that did go to the viewing. Thinking all of the firefighters from around the area who have helped to back fill those departments so that the prince Georges Fire Department could take part in the ulmshneider family is arriving now. John ulmshneider was a 13year member of the Prince Georges County fire department. He leaves behind his wife and 2yearold daughter from 4 00 to 5 00 p. M. That will be the private viewing for family and close colleagues. At 5 00 p. M. The public viewing begins. Reporting live, im Tracee Wilkins. Back to you all in the studio, chris. Thank you, tracee. Right now, voters in new york are testing ballots that could push both frontrunners further ahead of their respective races. Republican donald trump will come out on top in the empire state. Hes been dealing with shakeups and the fallout from last nights gaffe where he was talking about the 9 11 attacks and he said 7 11, but trump momentum. Its just an honor and my whole reason for doing this is to make America Great again. Were a country with tremendous problems and we are going to make America Great again. Hillary clinton also expects to win the states primary. Shes leading bernie by 11 points and an average of recent polls clirpt cast her own ballot early this morning and came down to the washington hilton to speak to north americas Building Trades union. Clinton and sanders will both be in new york tonight to watch the results come in. Senator ted cruz is looking ahead to next tuesday. Hes going to spend the night in philadelphia trying to sway voters before next weeks pennsylvania primary. Ohio Governor John Kasich is taking the longview. Tonight hes holding a town hall in annapolis followed by a watch party in bethesda. The Maryland Party is also next tuesday and coming up in the next half hour, well get the latest from new york and area. Late developments in the search for a missing firefighter in the Shenandoah National park. This afternoon an Emotional Message from her husband. Its been six days since anyone has seen Nicole Mittendorff of woodbridge. Her car was discovered in Madison County at the entrance of the White Oak Canyon trail. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey has the latest on the search. Reporter 100 searchers, some of them from the state police and others with k9s back in the Shenandoah National park searching for missing firefighter, paramedic Nicole Mittendorff. Her fire chief and her husband make a public plea for help in locating her. Nicole mittendorff hasnt been seen since last wednesday. Her mini cooper vehicle discovered saturday night at the Oak Creek Canyon parking lot. Today her husband, a Virginia StatePolice Sergeant asked for the publics help and spoke directly to his the face of a worried has or family members, but that you focus broadcasting her picture and tell her story so that someone who has not yet seen the coverage will. Ill tell you about a special event planned to bring firefighters and the Community Together to pray for a positive outcome. In the Shenandoah National park, im julie carey, news 4. Thanks, julie. From sunny skies to smoke and flames. First at 4 00, the new challenge for firefighters thats also making it hard for travelers. And were looking for cloud cover. A cold front moving on in and were in the 80s right now, but that will not be the case tomorrow. Your forecast in just a couple of minutes. Pulled from their homes as floodwaters rise and this could be just the b eg right now, two huge brushfires that have hampered traffic near manhattan are finally dying down. The fire started just after noon near secaucus and new jersey. The secaucus blaze burned about 200 acres and smoke from both fires could be seen over manhattan for much of the afternoon and it caused Amtrak Service to be while between newark and manhattan. There is now a red flag warning there because of high winds and the dry conditions. Right now, american aid is headed to ecuador to help victims of saturdays deadly and powerful earthquake that left at least 433 people dead. The u. S. Is deploying Disaster Relief experts to help evaluate the situation and provide immediate humanitarian need and then sending 100,000 in medical and other supplies. Today ecuadors president said it could cost as much as 3 billion to rebuild the country. Police have charged a man with reckless driving after he stopped on some train tracks in virginia and got hit by a train carrying circus animals and equipment. The ringling brothers and barnum and bailey train was going through chesterfield not far from Virginia State university and it hit the mans car and pushed it a half mile down the track before stopping. None of the animals or people onboard the train were empty fire extinguishers block exits. First at 4 00, how metro says its addressing a scathing new report on safety. And when this former beatle will be coming back to the at giant, shoppers low prices by the thousands, plus a thousand more that just dropped. All these low prices what are you trying to do, get me to feed the whole neighborhood . No. Just trying to save you a whole lot of bread. [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags, thousands of low prices. My giant. A right now. The Transit Agency has been ordered to make immediate fixes after federal inspectors discovered a new batch of safety problems. Everything from empty fire extinguishers to debris blocking the emergency exits. These issues are having a troubling impact on First Responders in our area. Transportation reporter adam tuss is outside now of the department of transportation. Tell us more about the safety blitz that has been conducted at metro by the federal Transit Administration. Reporter just for context here, pat. The federal Transit Administration has taken over direct oversight of metro rail safety. That basically means that theyre going in and checking to make sure that safety issues are being dealt with properly. Over the last couple of weeks they launched this safety blitz and basically were going all throughout the system looking for problems. They turned up some of the issues that you guys were just talking about over the last fire extinguishers that werent there. The high voltage third rail covers that were missing. Telephones down in the tunnels that were supposed to be a critical communication link to people that just werent working. Trains going too fast near track workers and just a host of issues. Smaller issues, but still safety issues and that really presents a problem. The fda sent a letter to metros general manager yesterday telling him that he needs to fix these issues fast. Adam, when something goes wrong its First Responders who have to go down in those tunnels and get folks out safely. What are they saying about this report . Exactly right, chris. Thats why i wanted to talk to some of them today. I talked to the president of the d. C. Firefighters association and he said quite frankly there was anxiety owe a good day when First Responders would go into metro. Now with all of these continuing safety issues it just raises the anxiety level with them when theyre facing a life or death situation. Lets hear from ed smith. All these little, little safety issues end up building up into one tragic moment is perhaps. Its troubling. And yes, you heard him right there. It could just build and build and firefighters now and First Responders are worried about their lives being at risk because metro is not dealing with its own safety, guys. He has a new Safety Officer. Hell have to tackle all of this. Whats he saying. He comes from new york city and he was hired last week by the general manager. This new chief Safety Officer has two decades of experience inside tunnels and that was a telling comment that he had because the general manager hoped this was coming from the fta and he has to tackle the bigger issues. Adam was tweeting this last night as this information was coming out. If you want to we have a copy of the ftas letter on the washington app. Just open it up and search metro. In two weeks federal investigators will announce the probable cause of the smoke incident. A woman was killed and more than 90 others injured when they got stuck on a train in a tunnel filled with smoke. They expect to know the cause of the meeting and that comes on may 3rd. We are still watching the Severe Weather taking place in texas where all of that rain, the threat of more rain and more serious flooding still looms around houston. At least 240 billion gallons of rain has inundated areas since sunday and the water rose so quickly that some people woke up to find crews carrying out emergency evacuation. About 3 00 this morning, i thought who in the heck is this and i realized my floor is soaking wet and it rose. Its its up to my knees in my apartment right now. Update on the damage and how much longer texas residents would have to endure coming up in the next half hour. All of that to the south and west of us. Any of that making its way to us . No. Thats very good news, obviously. We dont need to see anything like that and we are tracking some changes that are starting to move right now and you walk outside and we do have some clouds making their way across our region and temperatures got into the low to mid80s. Right now were at 83 degrees and winds out of the west at 15 Miles Per Hour and were still very, very warm for this time of year. Notice the temperatures to the north. 85 down toward the quantico area. The allergies and trees are very, very high and we see a l that will play out until friday until we see shower activity. High fire danger as kro the entire area because of the fact that we have been so dry and we do need to see some rain and this is a red flag warning and fires can spread very, very quickly with conditions like this. Very dry conditions like this and no rain to talk about on the radar and were not seeing anything at all across our region. What we are looking at is the cloud cover and as i widen this out, you can really see where this cold front is and you can see it spinning here south of boston and thats got a trailing cold front and you can see the cold front and the clearing to the north. Behind this cold front, it is cooler, not colder, but cooler. Its right now 70 and 63 in wilkes bury, pennsylvania. This is the area that well see tomorrow. Say goodbye for the 80s and well be back in the upper 60s to 70s. So starting off cool tomorrow and 49 in the cityh and low 40s in most of the cooler suburbs so it will be chilly. Tomorrow afternoon nice and mild, plenty of sunshine with a high around 72 and well be ten degrees cooler and this warm at 10 00s cooler does not mean a whole lot and 72 is a nice day and 68 up toward the area 70 over kull pepper and around 68 degrees and what to wear tomorrow . Its the short sleeves and the sunglasses and the shorts. You can do all of that as you make your way out and about and those kids will be excited and recess has been beautiful. 78 degrees on thursday and we will track our next cold front and that moves through on friday and right now a high of 72 and it does look like well see shower activity on friday and take the umbrella with you and that front moves on through and this weekend starts off pretty nice and veronica has the rest of the weekend forecast for you coming up at 4 45. Thank you, doug. Cake controversy, why a laughing matter. Safety or privacy . The renewed debate in washington over whether the government can access your smartphone. Should Tech Companies have to turn over your cell phone date at if ordered by court . Its our nbc washington survey this afternoon. Call or text the number on your screen. You can also ve on theot kids he came here from rocky married 27 years. Raised 6 kids. Including 5 boys. He had grandpa move in with us. Glenn we loved having him as part of the family. Its what you do. Kids in congress, dad will protect president obamas legacy. Hell fight for jobs and protect Social Security and medicare. Glenn ivey will never quit on you; and we should know, were his kids. Glenn im glenn ivey and i approve this message. Ill take on the republicans for all of us. Paul mccartney sets a date with washington and donald trump says oops. Just some of the stories were talking with hot 99. 5s cane. Donald trump was giving a speech yesterday and he seemed to have cigarettes and slurpees on his mind. As a professional, when you are taught in school and you make a mistake, do you just keep going or do you correct yourself . Heres what donald trump said yesterday. He actually mentioned 7eleven rather than 9 11 in a speech. I was down there and i watched our police and fire mern down at 7eleven at the World Trade Center right after it came down. Ill tell you, there are a number of comments that y imagine how that went over especially considering hes in new york tonight watching the results. Yes. Yes. You know, i always say, too. These guys give so many speeches. Im always of the mind to cut him a little slack because youre talking nonstop and youll have a mistake. And theres an apology especially if you have Something Big going on. His problem with the store was the icing on the cake. This is a pastor out of texas and believe it or not, was there a wedding going on and he went to go get a cake from the wedding at whole foods. On the cake was written something, we cant show you the whole cake, but it was the saying love win, but it said a little bit more than that. Heres the controversy and he didnt notice until he left the store and at that point in time pastor jordan brown called the store and they said theyd fire the employee and it turns out they are standing never wrote other than love wins on the cake and the pastors put up a video on youtube that went viral and take a look at what he has to say and what people think about the kron tro versy and whole foods says the employee will stay, believe it or not. Okay. We dont have that, but basically it seems like it boils down to theyre saying, well, once the pastor got the cake, he must have done it or someone had access to the cake, but theyre saying it wasnt done at whole foods. If you watch the Youtube Video that he has, he has a sealed box with the cake inside with it written on top and you can see the actual sticker keeping the box sealed. Thats pretty good evidence. Washington, Paul Mccartney is coming back to town. Just so you know, bring back the pickles or something toea and snack on. Trust me, this is going to be huge. This is the first time that Paul Mccartney has been back since 2013 was his last time here and the Verizon Center is when the concert will happen. Ticket goes on sale monday 24th at 10 00 a. M. , live nation. Com and are those the tickets youre giving away tomorrow and were in miami for our i heart radio. And youll have a key world on the chilling hot 99. 5. And mccartney is a bucket list item. Oh, my gosh. Thanks, cain. Pat . All right. A Ground Breaking decision on whats become a hotbutton issue and how virginia weighed in on the d