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His body is going to remain here overnight until the funeral. That is considered a high hopper in the catholic church. 37yearold John Ulmshneider was shot and killed in the line of duty. 19yearold kevin swain was shot and injured as the two forced entry into a temple hills home believing the homeowner was in medical distress. The homeowner opened fire, shooting two firefighters and his own brother who was with them at the time. The shooter has not been charged. He told police he thought someone was breaking into his home. What happened that night is still under investigation. Fire chief Mark Bayshore told me the grand tradition of the Fire Department will be a part of this firefighters services. When john leaves here and goes to the cemetery tomorrow, his engine, the engine where he was assigned will take him and theyll be followed by the paramedic unit a signed to that station and that is a highhonor tradition of the fire service to go to the final youll see a flyover tomorrow that will be part of the military honors and you will see the taps and all of the things that come along with that. You will see a lot of tears. Here at the st. Johns parish in hollywood, they just opened up the doors here and folks are beginning to make their way in for the public viewing. This will be going from 5 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. Tonight and firefighter up schniert will remain inside of the church for his Funeral Services expected to begin at 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow and for more on the services you can go to nbc washington and search firefighters funeral. Im Tracee Wilkins. Back to you all in the studio. An emotional plea from the husband of a missing Fairfax County firefighter. Its part of an effort to spread the word about her disappearance and hopes that the publicity will bring Nicole Mittendorff julie carey went to the Shenandoah National park to gather new details about the search. Reporter Nicole Mittendorffs husband and sister gathered at station 32 hoping to broaden word of her disappearance in hopes new tips will bring her home. We gather here today as brothers and sisters to place our 911 call to the general public and ask the media get the word out to everyone. If you see something about nicole, then please say something. Reporter mittendorffs husband steve, a Virginia State Police Sergeant added his voice to the plea tearfully thanking the many search teams and then he had these words for his wife. Sweetheart, i love you. I am praying for you. Im not sure where you are, but know we are all looking for you, and i look forward to your safe return. Reporter nicoles gear had her locker untouched for more than a week. She hasnt been seen since last wednesday. Her mini cooper found saturday night in the Shenandoah National park and thats where searchers focused their efforts on the ground and from the air. Trails in the area remain closed. These hikers had heard of mittendorffs disappearance on social media. It didnt raise flags because foul play was not suspected, but you always suspect it, i guess and that concerns me because i hike on these trails by myself all of the time. Reporter back at the fire station, mittendorffs fellow firefighters, relatives and friends will gather tomorrow night for a prayer vigil. Reporter when i join you at 6 00, more about Nicole Mittendorff and what the chief has to say about this young firefighter. In the Shenandoah National park im julie carey, news 4. A deadly plane crash in maryland just over the bay bridge. A plane hit the ground just short of the runway killing two people. News 4s pat collins has been talking to witnesses and he joins us live from the scene in stephensville. What are you learning . Jim, they came so, so close to a safe landing. The crash site over there in this field. Over here, the airport runway, about 200 yard away. They came so, so close. It crashed in a field just about 200 yards from the airport runway. A man and a woman trapped inside. Witnesses say they had no chance. Denny profit, he was here eating lunch in his truck nearby. He tried to save the people onboard. I saw the plane just above the tree line. A couple of seconds later i saw the smoke and i grabbed my fire extinguisher and went out to it and tried to put the flames out, but they were already gone. Reporter it happened around 12 45 this afternoon. Nearby, the bay bridge airport on ken island, on the eastern shore. A witness told me it looked like the plane just fell out of the sky. Mike mccullough, he was here. He saw the ball of fire. Reporter how intense was the fire . It was for the size of it it was good yellowblue flames coming out of it, it was fuel fed. It was an rv12. It looks similar to this model. A single engine side by side, twoseater thats often used as a trainer. The plane that crashed today is said to be associated with the Flight Training school nearby. A Man Associated with that school says there was no student onboard at the time of the crash. The ntsb is on the scene. Investigators say theyre looking at the man and theyre looking at the machine and the environment. More about the investigation coming up at 6 00. Jim, back to you. Thank you. A developing story tonight and swift reaction to a Landmark Legal decision for virginia that could have impacts for transjebbeder students in virginia and for neighboring states. A federal Appeals Court ruled that a Gloucester County Virginia School student who was born female, but identifies as male can use the boys bathroom. The ruling also applies to maryland and North Carolina where a bathroom bill is in place tonight. Fcps pride, a group that supports lgbt for students in Fairfax County praised the decision saying we are encouraged by the ruling and gratified by the hope and expectation that transgender students will not be segregated in their use for School Facilities including restrooms. This ruling sets a clear, judicial precedent for School Systems to take the lead to enact policies that a regardless of their gender identity, end quote. Next month the ntsb will reveal its findings from an investigation into that deadly smoke emergency on metros yellow line. A yellow line train with nearly 400 people onboard got stuck near la font plaza after smoke filled the tunnel and power to the third rail was lost. A woman carol glover died and another 91 passengers had to be treated a treated and most of them for smoke inhalation and there are metro concerns in the wake of that incidents. Tens of thousands restaurant workers could be getting a raise in pay. Right now it stands at 2. 77 an hour. Browsers plan would raise it to 7. 50 over the next six years. The mayor has already proposed, as you know, raising the regular minimum wage from 11. 50 to by 2020. Both plans put the district among leading jurisdictions in the nation addressing income inequality. Questions are being raised tonight about a fundraising request by d. C. Schools chancellor kaya henderson. The Associated Press henderson asked for the money for the recent salute to teachers. It went to the troubled cha chartwells corporation. It was accused of cheating the program out of 19 million. It is looking for a replacement for chartwells. A spokesperson for henderson says there is a fire wall between School Management and fundraising. Here at the live desk we are tracking a highspeed chase outside los angeles that may be coming to an end. Heavyduty white pickup has been leading officers on a chase on both side streets and freeways for nearly an couple of minutes ago. At this point its coming at 100 miles an hour. It failed to stop for police and two people are inside that truck and just a couple of minutes ago we saw it dip out of the freeway and get on to some side streets and into a parking lot and then get back on. Right now headed eastbound toward San Bernardino and well keep an eye on it as police try to resolve it peacefully. Thank you, chris. Now to the weather. We need some rain to wash away some of this pollen, doug kammerer. Going to get any . Not any time soon, but well get some. The best chance of rain coming during the day on friday and we do have three days of dry conditions and thats prompted us to not only see the pollen get high and also have enhanced fire danger. Thats Something Else that well be watching. One thing you notice out toward the restin camera, some sun and cloud cover. We do have some clouds moving on mostly cloudy skies right now. 81 in frederick and 81 d. C. And now down to 71 in frederick. Thats the cool air thats starting to wake its way in and look at cooler air to the north and 62 in wilkesbury and 71 in philly. That cooler air making its way across our region and not as warm tomorrow and rain definitely on the way and well talk about when that rain moves in and were tracking that weekend and will the rain stick around . Ive got your forecast in just a minute. Thank you, doug. When we come back at 5 00, new developments in ecuador and the new video into our newsroom right now which shows a number of rescues from saturdays earthquakes. What ikea and consumer experts are doing with a piece of furniture. How a d. C. Woman is doing everything she can to help homeless families get back on their feet. What makes this story so ifor all the wrong reasons. Gical you may be muddling through allergies. L allergy relief. And zyrtec® is different than claritin®. Because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. Try zyrtec®. Muddle no more®. In annapolis, she battled republicans joseline penamelnyk for congress. Yes and the nra to pass the toughest gun safety legislation in the country. Ill take on the tough fights to expand Social Security and keep the doors open to planned parenthood. My mom is so tough shes willing to fight anyone whos going to pay him more than us for doing the same job. Im joseline penamelnyk, and i approve this message. Amid all the rubble, rescue crews are still finding some survivors after that massive earthquake hit ecuador. Earlier today crews managed to free eight people woman from what was a shopping cart. Later on during their efforts to free another person they had to stop because of an aftershock. When they went back the pile of debris had shifted, killing that trapped person. The death toll has now climbed above 400 since the 7. 8 magnitude quake struck and heres cnns miguel almaguer. Reporter rescue crews pick away at a mountain of concrete. Witnesses say people are inside. Earlier, not far away, a man in the rubble signals rescue teams. Fragile, but alive two days after the quake. Tran , ecuadors president says there are still signs of life with children, pets rescued every day, hospitals are filling fast and so are cemeteries. The 7. 8 quake have left more than 400 dead, an american among those kill much loss and still some hope. Miguel almaguer, nbc news. Another toddlers death has been blamed on a piece of furniture tipping over. Its now the third death linked to an ikea dresser that wasnt anchored to the wall. The Consumer Product Safety Commission confirms it is looking into the death. It happened in february in minnesota. This follows the deaths of two other Young Children that prompted ikea last year to offer free wall anchoring repair kits for nearly 27 million chests and dressers. The Senate Passed a bill aimed at making air travel easier for children and having to pay extra fees if they need to pay to sit with their children and it ensures that young kids would not be separated from their parents during tsa screenings and it would give pregnant women the option to was their First Experience with homegrown terror. Two antigovernment militants bombed the federal govern in oklahoma city. Today visitors turned up to sing, pray and drop off flowers at the memorial. There was a Day Care Center at that building and 19 of the victims were children. Timothy mcveigh was executed 15 years ago and Terry Nichols is serving multiple life sentences. Some of arlingtons local heroes were honored today for their bravery in the line of duty. The chamber of commerce presented the 34th annual valor arc war award. They include fire and rescue workers who helped to save a man who had been hit by his own car. It was to charles bane to stop violence from drug abuse. Maryland is now Montgomery County schools to wave, because of the snow this winter. The last day of class will now officially be monday, june 20th, mark your calendars and thats just one day later than was previously scheduled. Montgomery county missed six days because of bad weather this winter and only four days were built into the school year for emergency weather. It had denied the countys request for a waiver. Thomas jefferson high for science and Technology High school for science and technology was given the award from u. S. News and world report. It was named the third best s. T. E. M. School in the nation. The top schools were considered the best for college and career preparation. For a link to the full list of rankings, open the nbc washington app and search best high schools. Why the frederick cou sheriff was called before a committee on capitol hill today. The revealing information he told them about gangs in the county. And we are just one game away from a sweep. What the caps are saying about last nights wild ending and the teams mindset heading into game four. And now your storm team 4 all right. Here we go. We are on a roll of incredibly Beautiful Day today. Doug, we just need to keep the roll going. It does look like the roll will be going, but it will get slower, you know what i mean . Temperatures in the low 80s and tomorrow were in the low 70s so still on a roll through the next couple of days. You notice the cloud cover and we have seen more in the way of clouds today. We see nothing, but sunshine for almost the last week and now we do have some cloud cover and those clouds, though, not affecting the temperatures all that much. 80 degrees and the current number and winds out of the north at 16 miles an hour and the northerly component is the bringing in cooler air and its already here to the north and frederick, maryland. Baltimore down to 74 and 72 in gaithersburg and we are seeing some cooler air trying to make its way down here and that will continue to do so as the cold front brings i because of the nice weather we have not seen much in the way of rain and the pollen is out in full force and tree pollen is very, very high. Im sure you noticed. The medicines out there and everyone is taking something now. Something else weve talked about because weve been so dry and highfire danger. A lot of moisture and fuel, rather, and the grass. The grass is very, very dry. So if a fire were to start it could quickly spread across the region. Thats why we have the highfire danger and theres an ongoing fire across parts of the Shenandoah Valley and this is something that well be watching over the next couple of days and limit any outdoor burning and not that most of us would do it anyway, but just limit that. On the radar nothing to she you, really. We do have a boundary moving from east to west here and thats a breeze from northern fauquier. Here is the cold front and lots of cloud cover and look to the north. Up toward new york and pennsylvania. Rain back toward chicago. From and notice where the temperatures are. Right now in the 60s just to our north and it will be cooler to start off the day tomorrow and your bus stop forecast 49 degrees and it will be cooler to start the day especially in the suburbs to the low 40s and by afternoon were into the low 70s and temperatures will drop between today and tomorrow by 10 degrees. Thats normally pretty significant, but when were this warm it will stay quite nice during the day tomorrow. High temperatures, upper 60s in the north and low 70s around fredericksburg coming around 73 and its coming in around 71. So what to wear tomorrow. If you dont have to work or sending the kids out. Its the short sleeves and sunglasses and its the shorts. This little guy has the right idea for sure as we are going to see a pretty nice afternoon and the weather does continue on thursday. 78 degrees on thursday. Friday, 72 and a good chance of shower activity and were watching friday to see what kind of numbers we see, and most of a good idea to keep the umbrella handy and well see the numbers back to 73 degrees. So all in all, the weather is looking very good. Friday, hopefully we can wash some of this pollen out. I know both of you have dealt with that pollen from time to time. Were dealing with it right now. We can use that rain. Thank you, doug. Yeah. 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