[000 00 59;00] investigators so far believing this is aer thal mistake. Though all the facts will be presented to a grand jury. We dont operate as a department on circumstantial evidence. When we have the facts we will make decisions on those facts. Brad tonight the fire chief is anding it be his people. We charge the people with the responsibility to make decision in crisis on the fly. They did that. Brad but promising a new look at how they handle a routine and a common call. We will have a process that more clearly identify what is the folks should do. Brad back live at the Landover HillsFire Department it has been sad here this afternoon. Watching firefighters prepare for the funeral of the colleague. The truck you are looking at there is stripped of the hoses. Cassette carrier put on top to prepare for the funeral procession which will take place wednesday. Now, as for this man who we are referring to as the shooter, he will be before a grand jury tomorrow to answer questions about what went on in his home. Landover hills, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Meanwhile a surprise guilty plea today in the Deadly Police involved shooting that forced changes for Fairfax County police. Former Police Officer adam torres pleaded guilty to charges that he shot john geer during a standoff in 2013. Geer was unarmed. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg covered this case from the beginning. How is geers family reacting tonight . Jeff mixed reaction. John geers father saying that the sentence is not harsh enough but he can accept the deal. John geers mother vehemently opposes the agreement. The plea deal came together late yesterday afternoon. The attorney representing john geers longtime partner saying she wanted to avoid a trial while Defense Attorneys for adam torres proposing the guilty plea of Involuntary Manslaughter with a year in jail. Prosecution saying its not perfect but it is acceptable. Not long after torres pleaded guilty the shooting and killing john geer, geers father don was asked whether the justice was done. I will never feel justice is done. But that is just a personal feeling of a father. August 29, 2013, geer, 46 was angry over marital problems with his longtime partner mara harrington with the 13 and the 17yearold daughters in the house geer who had been drinking was yelling and throwing furniture out of their springfield townhome. When harig called police harrington called police geer said, tell them im waiting with this. Pointing to a. R. 15 assault rifle. Standoff ensued. After 45 minutes of improving negotiations with geer standing in the doorway under armed hands and arms up, adam torres fired one shot at geers chest. Killing him almost immediately. In a situation like that, ten, adrenaline is flowing. Decide. Prosecutor ray morrow said he accepted it at the request of harrington who wanted to spare her daughter and herself from testifying. I weighed it all and this is my decision and i stand by it. 234 the hearing, adam torres voicing an apology. I am truly sorry for my actions. I am heartbroken for mr. Geers children. There are no words i can say to adequately express my remorse. I little late in coming. I would liked to see it a long time ago. Nothing on this has been done in a timely manner. Jeff it took Fairfax County police 17 months to release any details about this case. A huge source of anger and frustration for the geer family and the prosecution. Adam torres will be formally sentenced on jewel june 24. At that point torres will have already served ten months out of the 12month sentence. Live in fairfax, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 another local Police Department is a step closer to outfitting every officer with body cameras. The Police Department budget request includes funding for cameras for each of the 1,000 officers and the 50 members of the executive staff. The Montgomery County council began reviewing this budget request this afternoon. Leon we have new information tonight on the disturbing case of the child pornography at a Prince Georges County public school. Attorneys for the suspect council on americanislamic Deonte Carraway want key pieces of evidence thrown out. Jonathan elias has a look at the argument. What is the angle here . Jonathan they want the case thrown out. This comes whether Deonte Carraway was capable of understanding his rights. The defense says that carraway has an i. Q. Of 63. Meaning when he confessed he didnt understand his rights. In filings obtained by abc7, carraways defense team says that means that his confession should just be tossed out. They also want evidence that was seized from the cell phones to be offlimits. You may remember carraway from child pornography that was found on cell phones. They allege that he gave phones to children at judge Sylvania Woods Elementary School and instructed them to take videotape of sex acts. Carraway is accused of shooting some of the vdeo himself with more than 17 children now coming forward. Carraway is facing more than a dozen criminal charges in this case. I should say dozens of criminals charges. If convicted he could face more than 100 years in prison. Court date to rule on the filings has not been set. Were keeping a close eye on this case. Alison thank you. A man is in Critical Condition after a piece of a bulldozer that he was working on felon top of him. This is fell on top of him. This is in brandywine. We are working to get an update on his condition. He was rushed to the hospital. We are working to get more on how this accident leon a family is safe after an afternoon house fire. News chopper 7 flew over burtonsville. We are told that several family chickens were killed. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Alison to the weather now and it is beginning to feel like late spring outside. No rain in sight. But we will feel some changes overnight. Our chief meteorologist doug hill has a first look. This is gorgeous. Doug it is. I will take the late spring and up you one to midsummer in a couple of spots. Mid80ed today. Take a look at the numbers and the weather condition. Gorgeous as we look live on the campus of the high school in laurel. 82 there now. Crystal clear skies. Yet again this is day eight of the sunny afternoons. 86 in luray. 88 in charlottesville. That is hot. 84 in manassas and leesburg. 85 in fredericksburg. Closer to the bay cooler with a little air flowing over the bay. Cooling down the numbers to 75 in annapolis. Tonight we will a while. Maybe a few shreds of high clouds. Clear. 45 to 55 in suburban areas but it wouldnt surprised me if Downtown Washington stayed closer to 60 by early tomorrow morning because the High Pressure. Very friendly weather system with a big blue h denoting the center of it. As that moves off we see some changes. A cold front will slip through. No clouds, a bit of a braise. But still near 80 tomorrow. Beautiful weather. Average high up to 68. Well see the cooler weather later in the week. That is part of the sevenday outlook. I mention raindrops in the seven day. We havent seen that in a long time. Leon all right. Get back to you in a bit. In the meantime we are following a developing story out of Montgomery County where police call a weekend death a homicide. We have learned the victim was a transgender woman. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis just spoke with police. Kevin well, a maid at the Red Roof Inn Motel around shaddy rock road found the transgender woman noon on saturday. We are told the victim had multiple stab wounds to her upper body. Late this afternoon, Police Identified the murder victim as 23yearold blakeny of northeast d. C. Rawlingsblake was likely work blakeny was likely working as a prostitute friday night. They are following up on loads but they have a number of leads. They believe she may have been involved in prostitution at the red roof inn. The detectives have been and will continue to work around the clock. Kevin the police would not say what evidence they recovered from the motel room or if there was any Surveillance Video that is helping them i investigation. I can tell me Crime Stoppers is offering 10,000 reward for anyone to help them net the kill earl. At Police Headquarters in mon county im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Alison the war on terror is getting more help. The u. S. Has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to iraq. With eight apache helicopters. The u. S. Defense Officials Say this is the first major increase in u. S. Forces in a year. The purpose of the increase is to help the Iraqi Forces Retake mosul from the islamic state. Most of the troops will be army special forces. Rescue crews rush to the scene in jerusalem where a bus exploded injuring at least 15 people. A local rescue service says two of the victims have been seriously wounded. Its not clear how many people were on the bus at the top it exploded. But police are calling the bombing a terrorist att firefighter missing for days in a virginia forest. Where investigators are focusing their efforts. Alison plus a new medical study finds a type of hand dryer is like dropping a germ bomb in the bathroom. Why the company that makes the dryer says the study is flawed. Leon devastating flooding in texas. Heartstopping moment when a live tv news crew saw a car and the man inside sinking. Security parking garages in the district. Suddenly not that safe. Im stephen im Chris Van Hollen, and i approve this message. Narrator an attack ad from the campaign for donna eards. So untrue. So outrageous that president obama said, pull it down. Ad on Chris Van Hollen and the nra misleading. The sun says van hollen and president obama have the exact same position. The post praised van hollen as a leading champion on gun safety, and condemned the edwards ads that mislead voters. Donna edwards. Will she say anything to win an election . Alison indoor secure Parking Spaces are a hot commodity in the district. But theyre becoming a hot new target for vandals and thieves. Dozens of vehicles have been hit. Stephen tschida live with what is happening and how the companies behind the garages are fighting back. Stephen . Stephen alison, in d. C. Are paying tens of thousands of dollars. A lot of money to have a secure parking garage. Something that only opens when the owner of the parking space has Something Like this. A remote. Despite the secre somebody is getting into the garages and doing a lot of damage. A common sight on d. C. Streets but something you dont expect in a secure garage. Bashed in windows from smashandgrabs. Shattered glass is scattered across a lot of indoor Parking Spaces in d. C. The week after the first breakin the same thing happened again. Its very concerning. Someone is hitting the parking garages across dupont and local circles logan circles. Getting into condo buildings and then garages where they bust windows in dozens of vehicles sometimes in minutes and make off with whatever they can get. Surprising that someone can walk in the lobby and go straight down to the garage break in to peoples cars and steal all of that stuff. Its scary. We have been working the story all day. Checking in within doe buildings around the neighborhood. Surveillance cameras. We track down images of at least one of the suspects in this case. At 6 00, we are going to be bringing yu the images of that suspect. You want to stick around for that. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Leon in texas people are dealing with the catastrophic flooding. Schools are closed and thousands without power. In houston, the mayor said this is not the day to be on the road. Not everyone followed the advice. A news crew reported from a flooding road where a car was submerged. They sat and watched helplessly as another driver sped in and began to float away and sink. Cmere. Thank you. Yes, we are here i didnt see it. Yes. Hey. We can hear you. Are you okay, sir . Im okay. Youre okay . Im okay. Watch your step, sir. Watch your step. Did you just not think the water was that deep . That deep. The car is under. You have to leave the car. Leon can you believe that . At least two people drowned in the high waters there. All the result of what the forecasters are calling a stubborn weather system. Amazing. Alison my gosh. Leon we say it over and over again. Dont drive. Doug the National Weather service had a phrase for years and years and years. Turn around, dont drown. What part of that cant you understand . Leon i know. Doug it only takes that much running war to take the car away. Alison that was a lot more than that. Doug if that reporter wouldnt have coaxed him in there, blub, blub, blub. Not good. Alison talk about our issue. Pollen is an issue but its beautiful. Leon summer like. Doug normally steve we sent him out so we sent him up a back flight of steps here. Alison fa far away. Doug up to the roof. Good Vantage Point. Bright sunshine. Steve . Steve that is fantastic. A beautiful day. Hardly any clouds in the sky. 80s. If your allergies are bothering you, for good reason. Notice everything is starting to green up. The tree pollen in the high category right now. Not a problem for the grass pollen but you will probably feel it. And the mold that has been low. We havent had hardly any rain around here. Not for the past five what, seven days now . We do have rain in the forecast. It will come toward the end of the week. More what to expect and then in upcoming weekend. We will head back inside for doug hill in the climate controlled studio at 68 degrees. Doug a chill in here. But it is gorgeous. Wonderful. Nationals park. Beautiful scene all day long with the sunshine. 83 degrees. Perfect to me. Ballpark weather. In the sunshine and enjoy the breeze. Now through the day a continuation of the clear was that a cloud . Look at that we have clouds. Sunshine t the week we will notice a dramatic shift in terms of precipitation. 83 at the ballpark. The pollen count no surprise. Big numbers again. High level of the tree pollen. Oak is still the main offender. So if you are suffering from this, go by an oak tree. Give it to them. Tell the oak tree what you think about that. Lower level of grass. The weeds are absent. Low levels of the mold spores. Of course you know what happens this time of year . The tree pollen will pollinate out and then the grass will go crazy. Look at the deficit rainfall. This is interesting. Be low average at the Reagan National airport. Since march. Three inches below at reagan. Two and a half below at b. W. I. The next chance of rain wont come until friday. That is giving us a 30 to a 40 chance of scattered showers. Look at the summary numbers. 88 in charlottesville. 82 in baltimore. 84 at Reagan National. Bay water is 58 degrees. If you take warm air and even for a short period of time move it over th waters, it will cool it down. Annapolis is 75 at lexington park. Naval air station is 78. A lot of warm air in eastern part of the country. Things are changing out west. Active with the frontal systems. It will only change the wind direction. The High Pressure is giving us a glorious weather to move out. Front will sweep through. A couple of clouds will be breezy. Still warm. 80 degrees tomorrow. Sunny and cooler to wednesday and thursday. Another frontal system will bring us the first chance of rain in a while. That comes friday morning or friday afternoon. The forecast tomorrow is plen till of sunshine. Clouds in the afternoon. Becoming breezy. Highs to 80 degrees. 70 on thursday. Friday a chance of showers. Near 74. Nice looking weekend. Temperatures are settling down to the seasonal levels. How about if we had a stretch of normal weather . Leon then what would you have to do . Alison youd have to take a vacation. Doug that would be terrible. Alison still ahead at 5 00, we will tell you where the investigators are focusing the efforts in the search for a missing firefighter. 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