Essentially the process is starting from scratch. If channessian is charged, it would be for brandishing a firearm, which is a misdemeanor. He would be able to keep his weapon. Fairfax police want to know who fired a shot into a house in herndon. This happened last night in the 2100 block of monohan drive. A 9yearold girl in the house complained about a loud noise. When she went to the window, she felt something in her arm, possibly grass fragments. A search of her bedroom turned up a bell let lodged in her mattress. A group of retirees were robbed at gunpoint playing tennis. It happened at the hillcrest tennis courts. Delia goncalves joins us live. Why did these men return to the courts again today. Reporter the majority of these men have been playing at hillcrest for decades. They range in ages from 83 to 59. Some of them are former d. C. Police officers and all of them consider this court their home turf and they say they are returning because its their right. It was quite frightening. As close as i have been to a gun in my life. Just take what you want and leave. Dont hurt anybody. Reporter they play tennis today with the memory of last wednesdays midday robbery still haunting them. I didnt have any money in my pockets. When he saw the money in my wallet, he said i should shoot you for lying to me. I got scared. I said, oh, know. No one was hurt. Four men with ski masks robbed the retirees of money, credit cards and jewelry. We were scared that the particular point of course because its life or death but, you know, we know that thats a fact of life. It can happen to anybody at any time. You feel like you have been violated. You lost guys. Some of my not coming any more. Can you blame them . Not really. Reporter these men are back at the hill crest courts that they called home for decades. We felt reasonably safe. We dont feel as though we should be run away from a public park. Its the principle and police presence. We dont want it to happen again. If it does, i probably wont play out here any more. Reporter neighbors and police are concerned about the activity there. Now, the men we talked to today play monday, wednesday and friday. We were there, an 80yearold woman from the Senior Center was checking on police presence. She is part of a tennis club that plays at the same Court Tuesday days and thursdays police say as long as they continue to play, police will patrol the courts. They should be able to use them when they want the suspects. Anyone with information should give them a call. The u. S. Department of justice is opening a civil rights investigation into the shooting death of a black man in baton rouge. Cell phone Video Shows Police officers surroundings alton sterling. Someone said he has a gun. Shots were fired and sterling is dead. Sterlings son broke down as his mother talked about what they lost. One of the greatest things seeing your child hurt and nothing you can do about it. The video is disturbing to say the least. The shooting sparked protests across baton rouge. The autopsy shows sterling died of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back. The two officers involved are on administrative leave. Story on our wusa9 facebook page. James writes i support the police but this is unnecessary force. If the details are correct, its murder. And another says my thoughts and prayers go out to the family. This has got to stop. No one deserves to die for selling cds or dvds. Join the conversation on our facebook page. Tracking metro, thousands of commuters are heading home to virginia and right now metro is making them take buses instead of trains. Its part of the safety shut down on the blue and yellow lines. Wusa9 9s transportation reporter pete mountain is live for us. How is it going . Reporter this is where the blue and yellow lines hit a roadblock. Going south they have to get on a free shuttle. The heat is rising and so are frustrations. Diana and heryearold son are just trying to get do alexandria is starting out as a bus. You have to hold your stroller to get on, no support. Its to the point its unsafe. Reporter part of the blue and yellow lines are closed. There is national airport. There is braddock t. Metro cut off the tracks in between for a week. That means no trains for 43,000 riders a day. These free shuttles bypass three miles of closed track. I found out that the station, the metro station but the diagram wasnt clear. People were helpful, station managers and stuff handing out fliers but that was about it. Reporter workers tried to help charlene. She is visiting from miami with her mom and little boys. Upset with the shut down, she called an uber. This advertise the example we are showing to the nation and our ability to move people by mass transit, this is the example we are setting, its reporter metro has new data. It saw a 68 drop in morning riders. Now the question is, will they stay away. Metro needs a 70 drop for this system to work. Diana says its the only way for now. If you dont have a car, its almost impossible to get around. Reporter metro cannot say how many people are taking these shuttles. This shut down ends on monday. Live in pentagon city, pete mountain, wusa9. Another option metro is urging folks to use is to go to virginia by taking vre to and from laenfant plaza. Metro is releasing new details on phase 2 maintenance work. Paul wiedefeld said the work included replacing 500 wooden cross ties, renewal of 233 rail insulators and repair of look for up to the minute metro information on our wusa9 app and every day on wake up washington at 4 25 a. M. If you spent any time outside today, you know that you have to quickly get back inside. Its a steam another. D. C. Activated the heat emergency plan that includes neighborhood cooling kerns for anyone that needs to get centers for anyone that needs to get out of the heat. Topper shutt is back for more on day 2 of the ever increasing heat wave. We have been lucky so far, adam. Now we pay the piper. Record high downtown is 103 set in 1999. 105 in baltimore set in 2010. How are we doing now in terms of temperatures . We are hot but not in the triple digits. We are at 94 downtown. 91 leesburg. 92 Silver Spring. 92 bowie and 93 fairfax. A hot remember average high is 88. Heat wave is three consecutive days of 90 or higher. This is day two. You have to Pay Attention to the heat index. It feels like its 99. Feels like 100 in waldorf and 100 in fredricksburg. Dont exercise in the evening. Eat light meals, drink lots of water. Seek a. C. , keep the pets indoors and check their paws. The feelslike temperature by 10 00, its 88. This is the forecast. It feels like 88 degrees at 10 00 tonight. Thats why we say exercize in the morning. We will come back and talk about when the heat breaks and the humidity breaks. They are not at the same time. Republicans are not through with Hillary Clintons emails. Fbi director james comey will travel to capitol hill to explain his decision not to recommend charges against the former secretary of state. Comey of the emails was car less but not criminal cairless but not criminal careless but not criminal. We have seen nothing but stonewalling. There are a lot more questions that need to be answered. There are pieces to the puzzle missing. We want to hear more about how this was handled. Hillary clinton has not mentioned the email scandal since yesterdays announcement. Loretta lynch is expected to testify before Congress Next week. We are learning about the deadly july 4th shooting that happened in northeast washington. Metro Transit Police was investigating a large crowd setting off fireworks near the dean wood metro stop in northeast. A suspect in the crowd had a gun and fired it several times at officers. One of them returned fire and struck 21yearold sydney Washington Junior of southeast washington. He died at the hospital. The fbi believes the robbery of a bank church was not a first for the suspect. Surveillance pictures captured the heist at the td bank. Here is the suspect described as man 50 to 60 years old with gray hair. Yesterdays incident shut down traffic in the area over concerns the ecsuspt left behind an explosive device. Investigators believe he may have robbed a bb t bank on arlington last month. The fbi is offering a 5,000 reward for information leading to the suspects arrest. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. President Northern Virginia man charged with trying to help isis bought a gun before he was arrested. We are live with new details from the gun store. A powerful senator taking himself out of the donald trump veep stakes. President obama announces that thousands of u. S. Troops will stay in afghanistan for longer than expected. 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I think im going to drive it through that wall and take it. During the chevy 20 sales event, get cash back for 20 of the msrp on many chevy models. Thats over 10,000 cash back on this chevy silverado. For the best selection, get to your chevy dealer now to Prince George county, new photos were released by the family of an ice cream vendor shot nine times monday in an ac bush robbery in an ambush robbery. Police are searching for the predators that did it. Scott broom is in Prince George county where other vendors, scott, got the first chance to look at the bullet riddled truck. Reporter yes. When you get a look at that truck im about to show you, its hard to imagine how he survived the ambush attack here apparently by a couple of predators who were trying to steal his cash after y selling ice cream july 4th. These are the bullet holes left in ice cream vendors truck. The truck was released by police today. To see Something Like this, its dangerous. No one is safe. We wish they can catch the bad guy. Reporter the family released these photos of him today, a man just married, expecting his first child, an immigrant working two jobs to support his family here and mother and cousins in west africa. The Ice Cream Truck that he owns, the smallest of small businesses, a way to get ahead. What the people did is wrong. Reporter his brother. Crying. I cry a lot. Reporter he was attacked on the 4th of july as he returned to the parking enclosure where a large group of vendors pay rent to good the robbery, an apparent ambush by two predators knowing the vendors carry cash. Other vendors complain parts of the lot are covered by video but not the front gate. Police have no solid description of the robbers or their vehicle. The place is not safe. Reporter who would come in and shoot a guy nine times over ice cream money. Multimillion dollar question. No one can answer. We have to find out who did it and why they do it. Reporter you can expect the vendors to start pressing the landlord to put up video coverage at the front gate. The alley, according to his brother survived surgery but is unable to speak. They set up a go fund me page as he recovers from this incredible attack. Reporting live in edmondson, Prince George county, scott broom, wusa9. These other vendors are going in day in and day out with that weighing heavil investigators in this case, you can remain anonymous. Call crime solvers. Ment. President obama announced today that thousands of u. S. Troops will remain in afghanistan long ever than expected. The president had planned to significantly reduce the american presence. He now says the threat from the taliban is too great to bring them all home. Instead of going down to 5500 troops by the end of this year, the United States will maintain approximately 8400 troops in afghanistan into next year through the end of my administration. The president said the u. S. And its allies made significant progress in afghanistan but he says the country still needs our support. Senator bob core kerr tells our Editorial Partners he will not be Donald Trumps vice president. There newt gingrich, governor Chris Christie and independent governor mike pence. Topper is back. We are talking the threedegree guarantee when we have triple digit weather. We will try to keep it below 100. The hottest it has been this summer. We arent used to it. Here is the threedegree guarantee. A high of 93 today. Average high is 88. I think we are in good shape with that number. We are on a bit of a roll, too. Live look outside. Its our live michael and son weather cam. Its 94. Dew point below 70. Its not super uncomfortable but uncomfortable outside earlier this afternoon. Humidity 44 . Winds out of the north, northeast at 3. It has to be less humid in order to reach over 100 degrees. You cant do both. Heat wave, here we go. Forecasting a of 95. Heat index of 102. 94 friday. Heat index of 102. Saturday hot, 93 but negligible heat index then back in the 80s sunday and monday. Two more tough days, thursday, friday, with the heat and humidity, then on saturday it will be the heat. Humidity will be in check. Average high 88 this time of year. So, what can you do . Exercise in the morning or indoors. When we say morning, we are talking 6 00 to 9 00 a. M. A small window before the heat indices get to the upper 80s and near 90. Keep your shades and curtains closed on the east side in the morning, west side in the afternoon. Wear white colored clothes and check on the elderly. Hot and muggy evening will equal a muggy night. Temperatures in the 70s across the board. Heat wave through saturday. Friday possible weather alert. We are talking about that because of the possibility of more widespread shower and thunderstorm less humidity on saturday. So, saturday will feel better. We will do the futurecast concentrating on heat indices. 10 00 tonight, 88 degrees downtown. Even in Silver Spring and places liken sing ton and fairfax, temperatures are in the mid80s. Thats the heat indy see that you feel. Why do we say that . At 6 00 a. M. It feels like the 70s. Not great, granted but its more comfortable. Your body can handle that. Feels like 75 in laplata at 6 00 a. M. And 77 in Silver Spring and buoy. By 9 00 it feels like the 80s. By 1 00 walking to lunch, maybe not. Feels like 100 in leesburg. Feels like 97 in laplata. 91 in fredricksburg. By 6 00, essentially 24 hours from now feels like the upper 90s and low 100s. Thats what you have to think work outside. 83 at 9 00. Boom, 91 by 1 00 p. M. Next seven days, 94 on friday. 93 saturday. Then we are okay. 88, upper 80s sunday. Upper 80s monday. Near 90 tuesday. Near 90 wednesday, isolated thunderstorm on wednesday. Topper, thank you. Oscar pistorius received a sixyear sentence for the murder of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. He embraced his aunt and sister before being lead a way to prison. He thought steenkamp was an intruder. Tony blair is defending his handling of the iraq war following a critical report. He concedes that the decision to go to war in 2003 was based on flawed intelligence but the world is a better place without saddam hussein. Your dreams of cain still alive. There were no winners last night. One of the richest in president games history. The next drawing, friday night. Straight ahead, why former fox news woman Gretchen Carlson is suing her old boss and the network. Also, right after the break, half a million hover boards are recalled over fire c but how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis. Vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were. No vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can. Lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor about. All the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing behaviors. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Ask your doctor about trumenba. In tonights consumer alert, Ten Companies are recalling more than half a million hover boards. This one made by swagway is among them. Safety advocates say the batteries inside can lead to dangerous fires. Hover board fires like this one at a houston mall in december sparked a major recall. If you own a hover board, please stop using it immediately. Reporter elliott kay, chairman of the Consumer ProductSafety Commission said half a million are being recalled. The agency received dozens of reports of batteries catching fire or exploding. Its still here. Horns son was charging his board when it started a fire that burned through the house. Before i turned to see the house was on fire reporter Ten Companies are recalling the devices. They were sold between june 2015 and may 2016. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission says all of the recalled hover boards were made with fundamental design problems. This video from the Ul Firefighter Safety Research institute shows how lithium batteries can explode. Check and demand to have proof of ul certification, especially if its not on the recall list. If they cannot provide proof demand a refund. Reporter many