In john geers death. The news was broken on twitter before all of this. This is a change from the seconddegree murder charge and it carries a maximum ten years in prison. The agreement here is for a 12month sentence. Hes already been locked up for about eight months, but the judge does not have to go with that at sentencing, which is set for june 24th. The prosecutor said the agreement was just and right. Said the victims longtime partner, the mother of his children and his children did not want to have to go through a trial and testify and relive this incident all over again. The prosecutor pointed out as well in court that geers mother is highly opposed to this plea agreement. He then laid out the details of that night at geers home when torres shot the 46yearold revealing that the bullet hit his heart and his lungs. And he probably would not have survived had he been given medical treatment right away. Investigators say the 33yearold admitted to having an argument that night with his wife and that that incident was also on his mind at the time of the shooting. He thought geer was reaching for his gun, but there were other officers and other accounts at the scene that contradicted his account. Torres has sat in jail without bond, again, sentencing set for june 24th in this case. That is the latest live from fairfax outside the county courthouse, molette green, news 4. Later today our bureau chief is covering this story and well have a complete wrapup and updates of course throughout the day on our social media. Back to you. Thanks, molette. And as she mentioned julie carry did break the news of the plea deal on twitter. You can follow her at juliecarey. Nbc. Right now, search teams back out at national park. Teams are focusing the search area on that area near White Oak Canyon trail. Thats where her car was discovered saturday morning. Shes married to a Virginia StatePolice Officer. Police do not suspect foul play in her disappearance. If you were stuck waiting for a metro train this morning on the orange and blue lines, its all because of a small fire near the rosslyn station. Firefighters say it was an arcing insulator that started the fire. Trains were forced to single track for about an hour this morning which caused delays in both directions. And a Flash Flood Warning is in effect through tomorrow morning for most of southeast texas. Heavy rain and strong winds started last night. Some streets in houston have already flooded. Thousands of homes and businesses have lost power. That weathers practically the opposite of what were right here. Storm team 4 is outside on the weather deck right now. And, boy, is it gorgeous out there, melissa . Look at all of us in our sleeveless . I know. Weve been waiting for a while to get to this point. It is gorgeous, guys. Yeah, weve got sleeveless dresses on. Its sun dress time for a lot of the area. I know i saw a lot of girls in sun dresses over the weekend and the guys in the shorts. And maybe even some tank tops. Today definitely rocking some tank tops because were going to heat things up. Now, yesterday low to mid70s. Were already there right now. Low 70, 72 degrees is our temperature right now. You can see the dew point down. So were not talking about that humidity. Were talking about warming temperatures with all this sunshine. I got to tell you theres not a cloud in the sky outside the nbc 4 studios were only going to continue to take those temperatures up. Well be right around 80 degrees. I do believe some places will be in the mid80s today, but clear all throughout the evening. We do have some changes tomorrow as we will have a chance for so and its going to be a little breezy tomorrow, but still warm. And then those temperatures fall a little bit for wednesday. No rain at least for the next three days because we do need it. In fact, we need it to get rid of some of this pollen. But we will have some rain towards the end of the week, so were going to be talking about that when i come back inside, if i can come back inside. Hopefully i wont spend too much time in there. Its gorgeous out here, guys. It might actually be tough to get back in here. I know. Thank you, lauryn. The man fbi says planned to attack the capitol. Today, a federal judge will decide if the ohio man is competent to stand trial. The judge ordered the evaluation after his attorney suggested he may have a mental illness. Cornell was arrested in 2015 after buying two guns and allegedly sending Text Messages and putting messages on social media in support of Islamic State militants and violent attacks, barbara. Just days afte loss, Prince Georges County fire chief talking about how he and his department are coping after a firefighter was shot and killed. Moments ago we learned that there will be an update in the investigation this afternoon. 37yearold john omssnyder, the two forced their way into a temple hill home at the request of the homeowners brother. He was worried the man was having a medical emergency. But when they got inside police say the man started shooting. That homeowner was questioned and released with no charges filed. He told police he thought someone was breaking into his home at the time and that he was shooting in selfdefense. Cant even put the pit that was in my stomach into words. You just cant. As the department continues to mourn the loss, they tell news 4 changes will be made like this does never happen again. Funeral plans are already set now. Visitation is being held tomorrow at st. Johns parish in hollywood, maryland. That starts at 5 00 p. M. The funeral mass is wednesday at the same church. Hes known in the Fire Fighting community as skillet. He also leaves behind a wife and 2yearold daughter. Firefighters set up a you caring fund to help support his family. Right now if you would like to help you can open the nbc washington app and search firefighter fund. As for injured firefighter kevin swain, we are told he is showing signs of improvement. The volunteer is recovering after getting shot four times friday night. Hes now out of intensive care at baltimore shock trauma. Im Kristen Wright at the live desk where were watching whats going on at the supreme court. Immigration the big issue. Thousands of protesters are rallying right now. We have live you the heated debate is over president obamas 2014 executive action that would sheed more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. 26 states led by texas claim obamas use of power here is unconstitutional. The orders would allow undocumented parents of children who are citizens to stay if they meet certain residency requirements. And it would also expand a program to protect young people from deportation if they were brought to the u. S. Illegally as children. So we are watching what happens, and well keep you posted in the nbc washington app. Back to you. Well, president ial candidates battled for new york, ted cruzs campaign is turning its attention toward maryland. Cruz is in new york city, but his campaign has events scheduled in bethesda and towson. Cruz scheduled to gain ground on donald trump. The bottom line look at the po underestimated how we do in elections. Bernie sanders tells the today show hes hoping a big win in new york will help him catch up to hillary clinton. 291 democratic delegates are up for grabs. Polls show clinton leading by at least ten points. Sanders has been on a winning streak lately though. He is now trailing clinton by less than 700 delegates. And today well find out which democrats will become delegates in falk iier fauqur county. The caucus is tonight at the Fauquier CountyOffice Building in warrington. To ecuador and the race to find survivors after the countrys most powerful earthquake ever. And well check in with the live desk as well. Im adam live in Transit System in place . Ill tell y i dont believe that big money can buy votes not in our district. And i wont claim to have single handily passed just about every bill in annapolis. Not when our basic rights are being threatened by trump and cruz. Ill stand up to their bigotry and be a passionate voice for maryland women and families. In tv and in business, i built relationships. As a woman in the house, ill do the same to get things done. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. A lot of excitement in boston right now. Thats a live picture at the official marathon live stream. Thats where were taking it from. The marathon there in boston underway right now as you can see. So far the first wheelchair racers have crossed the finish line. A the halfway marker. This is the 120th boston marathon. Its been three years though since the attacks that killed three and wounded dozens of others. The citys Police Commissioner says all necessary measures are in place for the runners and the spectators today. Right now some big news out of iraq. U. S. Defense secretary ash carter is there right now meeting with several different leaders. You are looking at video from when he stepped off the plane a short time ago. Now, carter says the u. S. Will send about 200 more troops to iraq to help the fight against isis. We learned that news only about one hour ago now. Right now iraqi forces are working to free the city of mosul from the terrorists control. Now, in addition to more troops carter says the u. S. Is also considering air strikes and cyber attacks. On nbc nightly news tonight you can watch an exclusive interview with secretary carter between him and lester holt. Lester is in the middle east and hell anchor nightly news from there tonight. The show after news 4 at 6 00. American forces also have a presence in japan right now. Theyre delivering aid in response to those two earthquakes that hit there. At this point rescue crews say 42 people have died. Theyre looking for more survivors right now. Its an even more devastating story in ecuador right now. A giant 7. 2 magnitude earthquake. Were learning new information. News 4 at the live desk. The death toll in ecuador keeps going up. 350 dead now. The numbers just grow more and more grim as search and rescue teams try to get to people in time. Meanwhile, thousands of other people are injured. So now were hearing about americans who happen to be on vacation in ecuador. Reporter mike lowry talked to a couple that survived the massive quake. Theyre from california visiting ecuador on vacation, survived the reporter the powerful earthquake shook up a california couple. Alice and bill were on vacation in the tiny seaside town of san clemente. A lot of the buildings here are made of cement. And the side walls had crumbled down. Bricks had crumbled down on the side. Reporter rescuers are searching desperately now for survivors. Were from the bay area. We feel earthquakes, but this was pretty intense. More than anything we felt in the bay area. And we were really kind of scared because there was a tsunami alert. We didnt know how serious that was. We had no way to get out. We had no place to go. We had to go back to get our stuff. So if a tsunami would have happened, i dont think we would have made it out. Reporter but there was no sue namtsunam tsunami. And the earthquake. I am informed of has disappeared from earth. Reporter in california relief efforts are under way to help the people of ecuador. We have done this for other countries and so happen that this time it has touched our country and our families. Reporter like many who hail from ecuador, jose is closely monitoring the damage from his native land. People are reporting to us specific needs. And thats how the association is going to be doing. That was mike lowry from our partner station in sacramento reporting. This is an ongoing developing situation there in ecuador. And well be monitoring it all day long. Youre watching a little snipit from the trailer of sweet smell of spring. Just one of the featured films atth this year marks the 30th anniversary of washington signature Film Festival. This year there are 75 films from 45 countries playing on six different screens for 11 days. Joining us today, founder and director of the Washington InternationalFilm Festival. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Weve been talking about this for a lot of years now. Its been 30 years now. And were very so happy to be here. This is something you dreamed up 30 years ago, right . Myself and a number of friends, but washington was quite different than it is now. There was no internet, there was no netflix. And we thought wed bring Wonderful Films to watch. But you still get people coming out. Oh, by the thousands. You say that youve got something for everybody in this Film Festival. Youve got thrillers, youve got come comedy. Tell us about that. Well, washington is a very diverse audience, so we try to bring films that we think will be interesting to them. So we have these thrillers, these International Thrillers and comedies from france and from italy and germany and africa. T are they dubbed . No, no, they have subtitles. And what are we looking at now . This is another film that we have coming in that is from france. Its a wonderful comedy. This is also a film that was shot in cuba. Its a musical film that is about the music of cuba and the people there and the musicians. How do you pick the films that are going to be shown here . Well, we get a lot of submissions. We get hundreds of submissions. We attend other Film Festivals. We have friends and colleagues who share ideas. It actually started on friday, right . The Film Festival. But it goes on until next sunday. It goes on until the 24th. We had a wonderful opening, just a great opening with catering and a wonderful film starring kate winslet. In between were showing scores of films for people to come and have a great time. People can go to your website and find out what films are still out there and still coming this week. All the film information is there, schedules, trailers, everything you want to know. But you have to have tickets, right . Well, you got to have tickets, of course were a Nonprofit Organization and we need all the support we can get to come back. Always great to see you. Always a pleasure too. You look great. You do too. And we love the fact that weve got a Film Festival here in washington still in spite of all the movies you can see on youtube. Thank you, again, the Film Festival runs through april 24th. Melissa. Sounds like fun, thank you. We are tracking the latest on a reported midair collision between a British Airways passenger jet and an unmanned drone. Now, the plane landed safely in london, but as nbcs tom costello reports, this scenario is exactly what aviation experts have feared. Reporter it happened near the Busiest Airport in europe. Just after noon sunday, a British Airways jet flying into london he throw from encounter with an unmanned drone. So close a report it collided in midair. The air bus a320 with 132 passengers and five crew on the board landed safely. Engineers found no damage to the plane and returned it to service. If confirmed it would be among the first known collisions involving a passenger plane and an unmanned drone. With so many drones now crowding the skies, its exactly what u. S. Aviation authorities have been warning about. This is a situation where you have zero tolerance for any kind of interaction between an Unmanned Aircraft and an airplane. Reporter last year alone the faa reported more than 1,400 close calls between drones and planes in the u. S. We just had something fly over. I dont know if it was a drone or a balloon. Reporter the fear, a drone could take out an engine just as a flock of geese forced a u. S. Airways jet into the hudson river seven years ago. At Virginia Tech uni researchers simulated an eightpound drone hitting an aircraft engine. The result, catastrophic failure that could destroy the engine and potentially bring down the plane. Drone operators in the u. S. Are required to register their drones with the faa. Its illegal to fly one within five miles of an airport or above 400 feet. America 190 use caution, a drone was reported on the rway 27 right. Im not picking up anything on radar. Reporter but the close calls keep coming. That was tom costello reporting. Ahead, a controversial take on student safety. Were going to take you to the school that wants to put guns in the hands of teachers. Them to carry a weapon is totally out of the the nra and its Campaign Cash are what stands between us and gun reform. Searing tragedy struck in a place parents felt their children were safe that would let the nra skirt a new Campaign Finance law and block gun control. But democrat Donna Edwards said no to the nra loophole and stood up to the gun lobby. And she would ban assault weapons. Democrat Donna Edwards, marylands next senator. Working for us pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. But sierra club chooses jamie raskin for congress they all talk about climate change. Because only raskin wrote laws to reduce our Carbon Footprint raskin im jamie raskin, and i approve this message. Ifor all the wrong reasons. 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