suspects pry open the door to the united gun shop and use crowbars to smash through three glass cases. this surveillance video shows the men quickly grabbing as many guns as they can and tossing them into a black bag. police say these criminals stole about 30 guns, including seven long firearms before walking out. while crews cleaned up and repaired the front door, montgomery county police searched for clues. >> it's not a good thing. a lot of desperate people out there. >> reporter: atf agents were also on scene, spending hours inside the shop trying to determine which guns were stolen. >> not good that they're on the street with the wrong people. >> reporter: that's the concern for law enforcement as well, which is why they're hoping this video will somehow help them track down these suspects. now, police believe those suspects took off in a four-door

light-colored sedan. they're offering up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. we'll tell you what police want people to pay close attention to in that video that will help them try and catch these guys. we've been telling you about that dry weather. now to a developing story near the d.c./maryland line where firefighters are working to contain a brush fire along the capital crescent trail near the reservoir. you can see the smoke from our tower cam. we're told this is deep in the woods near mcarthur boulevard where up to ten acres have burned. there is no threat to any property. >> let's head over to doug kammerer with more on the conditions leading to this and the big changes that are heading our way tomorrow. >> huge changes moving in across our region over the next 12 hours or so. but the extremely dry air, relative humidity way

we've been so dry that it's very easy once these things catch fire to continue to move on. something else completely moving on in. >> we're talking about some rain and wet snow showers tomorrow morning and then feeling like teens saturday morning. >> it is just ridiculous the kind of change we're about to see here. 74 the high temperature today. 73 in quantico. it's been warm. i mentioned how dry it's been. look at the winds gusting anywhere between 20-30 miles an hour this afternoon. these winds out of the west today will move out of the north tomorrow. that means much colder air. look at this. by around 6:00 a.m. tomorrow rain and snow in parts of the area. just amazing that we're going to be getting this on the legheels 70 degree temperatures. >> then the cold air really starts to move in during the afternoon

tomorrow night. tomorrow night feeling like temperatures in the 70s with blustery winds. extremely cold saturday morning. anywhere from about 5-15 degrees across the area. we are watching a winter storm. all computer models do have some snow for our area. this forecast can and will change. but doug's going to have the latest on the outlook for tuesday coming up. your trips on metro are likely to get longer and more expensive. today the transit agency's board gave preliminary approval to a plan that raises fares and cuts service. >> reporter: you know, with all that's been going on with safe track, it's hard to believe you're going to be asked to pa

more. but this is all but a done deal. metro fare hikes and service t cuts get preliminary approval. >> no one wants to raise fares but really fares are part of the cost of what we do. >> reporter: this didn't come without debate. some board members worried that more riders won't come back to metro. >> at a time when we're seeing this decrease in ridership -- >> reporter: he pleaded this is not the way to turn the struggling agency around. >> we should do so by encouraging more ridership and not discouraging and planning for such a dramatic decrease in the number of people who are going to ride this system. >> reporter: nonetheless metro does have a $300 million budget gap to close. you'd be paying 25 cents more for the bus, 10 cents

off peak rail service and 10 cents more for daily parking. there would be an increase in the time you wait for a train. and metro will eliminate some of its least efficient bus service. some board members from around the region stepped in to save bus routes from getting cut. general manager shaking off questions that metro is in a crisis. >> far, far from a crisis. >> reporter: a final decision comes in two weeks. if approved by the full board, the changes will take effect at the beginning of july. coming up next hour, i'm going to let you know why metro actually believes they'll be able to win riders back after all of this. meanwhile the virginia railway express is also considering are

3%, which would increase the cost of a monthly pass by about 10 bucks. the cost of transfers to amtrak would also be going up. there is a public hearing 7:00 tonight at the manassas city hall. republicans are putting on a full court press to repeal and replace the affordable care act. both president trump and vice president pence are set to hit the road to promote the plan. they're still facing strong resistance. >> reporter: president trump today continuing his role as salesman in chief, seen here with small bank ceos. behind the scenes personally courting conservatives to get on board with the health care plan. >> we're welcoming ideas and thoughts. >> reporter: today the president tweeted the health care plan is going great, despite what you hear in the press, adding it will end in a beautiful picture. >> we do still have some cons

house speaker paul ryan pulled out a power point presentation to make his case. >> the goal of health care reform is people get access to affordable coverage. >> this committee stands adjourned. >> reporter: one house committee pushed through a marathon hearing on the bill. 27 hours spent discussing and changing. >> we go up to the budget committee. >> reporter: making a push of his own, the vice president promised to hear conservatives who want lower costs, speaking on a local radio show. >> that will more immediately address that issue than we've committed to do it. it's early in the process. >> reporter: this as the president and republican leadership face resistance from their own party. today the president's campaign website revealed nashville as the president's first stop on his health care road tour. as the trump administration looks for ways

president's proposed boost to defense and security spending, one agency that could feel the brunt is housing and urban development. the "washington post" obtained documents that suggest the administration is considering more than 6 billion in cuts to hud. a hud spokesperson tells the post the budget is still in the early stages and called it a work in progress. big cuts to hud could put a tight squeeze on public housing and community development programs across the nation. taking a look at the department, its mission first and foremost is, quote, to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. but according to the post, the proposal would eliminate all funding for the community development block grant program. that helps fund a wide range of things. that includes affordable housing, anti-poverty programs and infrastructure development. that could have a b

last year the district received nearly $14 million from that program. we added up maryland's state program, almost 21 million. and in virginia, the state and d.c., their area programs together had more than 27 million in awards from hud. wikileaks says it's going to start helping technology companies protect themselves against cia hacks. julian assange says someone gave them more than 8,000 classified documents and he's prepared to share those documents with companies like apple, microsoft, samsung and google so they can prevent their products from being hacked. the white house says exposing how they listen to terrorist is dangerous. >> reporter: this is the cork wine bar in washington, d.c. its owners are

some call it politically motivated. ahead, we'll hear from the owners who tell us why they are suing the president and what they hope to achieve. it may be the latest diet fad, but gluten free may also come with a risk. why doctors say it may inkreez one's chance of getting diabetes. their plane skidded off a runway as they prepared to travel to d.c. for a basketball tournament. now they're talking about that experience.

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unfair, it's a word that president trump uses pretty often. now a pair of local restaurant owners are using that word against him in a lawsuit claiming his hotel and restaurant in the district has an unfair and even illegal advantage. they claim it's hurting other neighborhood restaurants in the process. news4's chris gordon is outside trump hotel with the details. >> reporter: the cork wine bar is locates abod about a mile an half north of 14th street from the trump international hotel. the cuouple that owns it are suing trump saying his hotel is costing them business. they cou they're asking a court to stop him. the cork wine bar on 14th street in northwest washington

by khalid pitts and his wife diane gross. they filed a lawsuit against donald j. trump individually and trump old post office llc claiming the work wine bar has lost business because of unfair competition from the trump international hotel. >> stories have come out daily about how lobbyists, government officials, those seeking to influence the government continually flock to the trump hotel and its eating and drinking establishments with their business. >> reporter: i asked the owners of the cork wine bar if their lawsuit is politically motivated. they say their politics are i irrelevant. >> i'm a democrat. i've worked in the past in local issues and such. >> i'm a registered independent. if you google, you'll find out a ran for city council as an indepent

independent. >> reporter: a statement from a trump lawyer says it's a wild publicity stunt. lawyers for the cork wine bar say the lawsuit seeks no money damages. >> there's three primary options that would resolve the lawsuit. the president could resign. >> reporter: resign from? >> resign from the presidency is an option. he could divest from the restaurant hotel or the hotel restaurant could stop functioning. >> reporter: ahead at 6:00, are people in this community convinced these claims against donald trump are legitimate? the son of the late boxing legend muhammad ali says he wants lawmakers to, quote, step into the ring and stand up against racial profiling. ali says when he and his mother returned to florida

last month he was detained for more than an hour and a half. during that time officers asked him about his name and religion. >> i felt that my human rights were abused. i i felt like an immigrant. i felt like i felt at my father's funeral. i didn't know what to think. >> wow. today hawaii became the first state to officially challenge the president's new immigration order. there was a pretty big event going on in gins vainesville to. first let's take you back to what happened two years ago. the final structure of the cold concrete plant was demolished. and this is what happened there today. cabela's opened its only sporting goods store in northern virginia at the

shopping center. thousands of customers came out to help the store celebrate. cabela's says their store stands out because their employees live an outdoor lifestyle and know all the best local spots to go hunting and fishing. gas fumes in his face, seeing his players and the cheerleaders jump onto the wings of a plane after the plane skidded off a runway. these guys then had to play a basketball game after all that. >> can you imagine? how did they do that? that question almost as much as this one. how on earth did they get back on a plane this morning? the michigan wolverines basketball team saying they're blessed to be alive and get the w. >> the engine's still running. there's gas fumes comingou

>> i heard a big noise that astonished everyone. we were like what's going on. i'm looking at it like is this real. >> it was chaotic. definitely an event i'll never forget. >> after the whole accident, we weren't really even focused on basketball at all. we didn't do anything afterwards. we tried to regroup as much as we could. >> as soon as we touched down here and got on the bus, we knew that we had a basketball game to play. the coach game and told us that we got to put what happened behind us and use it as motivation. and we did so. >> after a tough time, it's nice to see. >> i never talked about this with any athletes before. >> yeah. i never thought i'd be in the situation. i'm just happy everyone was okay and safe and we were able to come out and get a win. >> i was not emotional at all in this game until the end.

circumstances could have been very different in those few minutes. i think we'll find out exactly what happened. but there's a lot of brave people involved to allow us to be here today. >> this definitely putting the game into perspective. i'm tearing up again listening. >> you made him cry. >> i know. >> and he's like you're crying. i started tearing up. he hadn't seen his daughter yesterday until today. >> she wasn't on the plane. >> his wife was on the plane yesterday, did not come today. they don't have their luggage. the faa keeps it on the plane. >> for the investigation. >> for the investigation. >> they wore their practice jerseys. they're probably going to have to wear them all weekend. the coach goes, i have to go to the drugstore and get a toothbrush and tooth paste. >> they killed

points. >> we'll have highlights later. >> thank you, carol. a maryland man thought he was done with his car when he traded it in. so why did he get a $1500 impound bill? and button up your over coat. winter is coming back big time. is it going to doom the cherry

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it's going to be a shock to the system. >> it really is. you know, a lot of people may have put the coats away. by saturday morning it could feel 60 degrees colder. >> are we talking snow? >> and we're talking snow. >> not flurries. >> tuesday's storm could be a significant storm. that's one we're really going to be watching out there. we really do have probably the biggest shot of winter we've seen all winter long. we haven't seen much december, january, february. this one going to be a big shot. right now, this is just amazing right now. beautiful conditions. temperatures in the 70s. current temperature,

miles per hour. 68 leesburg, 71 in fredericksburg. it's warm with that southwest wind. annapolis coming in at 71 degrees. winds still gusting 22 miles an hour camp springs. the wind's been an issue. that's why we've seen all the brush fires over the last couple of days. extremely dry, windy conditions. take a look at the satellite and radar. clear skies here. but look what's just to our north. look at this line developing. that's the cold front, rain changing to snow. look how fast that transition goes, rain right over to snow. that's what's going to be in here for us during the day tomorrow. temperatures have been falling all day above this line. that cold air will be here tomorrow morning. let's time it out

3:00 a.m., still on the mild side. we're still in the mid to upper 40s at this time. here comes the cold. look at 6:00. rain around the d.c. metro area. most of this will be lighter. we could see some snow coming down pretty hard around frederick, back towards martinsburg and winchester. this is a very quick-hitting system, but it comes during the morning rush. roads, just wet. after temperatures in the 70s, there's no chance for any problems on the roads. they will be wet, though. w quick coating on the grass. once it stops, it melts very very quickly. this is not going to stick around for a long time at all. but it could be impact full becau because of the timing tomorrow. we're calling tomorrow a weather alert day because of the fact we've got that snow early and then the big change. saturday and sunday, very cold, temperatures in the 30s. look at all the 20s here. this is going to have

blossoms. tuesday, a chance of rain and snow in parts of the area. significant snow is possible. but still as with many of our other systems, lots of time to watch this. of course we're going to continue to do so. ameelia draper will have the latest on what you can expect for the cherry blossoms and just how cold it will get. chipotle still dealing with the fallout over that food safety question following that norovirus out break two years ago. >> today the owners finally got some good news. >> reporter: i'm julie carey in western fairfax county where a dog walker in this area is in big trouble after she was arr t arrested for taking packages from mailboxes on her route. >> reporter: coming up on news4, do you remember the day marion barry was shot. i'm mark

we'll take you back to that day.

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for her neighbors, but turns out she was walking out with more. >> she owns a dog walking business in fairfax county. she is in trouble tonight after being accused of stealing packages in the neighborhood where she worked. julie carey joins us live. >> reporter: well, some of her clients praise her as a dog whisperer. but tonight fairfax county police are charging her as a thief, these mailboxes one of her targets. she runs a dog walking and training company call eed subli canine. these are the photos of elisha wallace. she was allegedly stealing packages along her rout

residents have all heard what happened one afternoon next week when aalert neighbor looked out his window and saw someone steal a package from near the mailbox. >> she stopped the car, picked up the package and left. >> reporter: the witness got a look at the vanity license plate. dg boss or dog boss. he called fairfax county police. they tracked the suv to her parents' vienna home. inside that vehicle police could see packages and mail with names other than wallman's. one of those packages the one missing from this mailbox. police also tracked an envelope back to a man who mailed three checks that never arrived at their destination. the u.s. postal inspector's office is also investigating a complaint t

check and changed name on it to hers. this page lists just some of the charges she's faced in the past, everything from having an unlicensed dog to larceny ato drug possession. just a few minutes ago i got off the phone with the suspect. she tells me she has never taken anything from any of her dog walking clients. she tells me she's being treated for a mental health disorder. we also spoke to the neighbor who witnessed that package theft. what he has to say when i join you at 6:00. new york law enforcement has thwarted a gun trafficking ring that was operating out of virginia. they charged 24 people including 22 from virginia, one from the district. they're accused of trafficking hundreds of guns

virginia to be sold on the streets of brooklyn. traffickers were caught on wiretaps, bragging about their ability to buy guns for resale, mocking virginia's weak gun laws. >> the ease with which guns are finding their way into the hands of criminals is making our communities less safe and it's putting law enforcement officers at even greater risk. and it's not just that guns are being exported out of state. if they're being trafficked out of state, they're also get into the hands of criminals here in virginia. >> under a cover officer in new york brought the 217 assault weapons. officials say it was the largest gun bust in brooklyn's history. a teenager is hoping by the time he graduated he will have won a court ruling. he's fighting for the right to use the boy's bathroom at his school. the

grim's case back. he's hoping a court will hear arguments in may and come up with a decision before he graduated on june 10th. the school board is opposing his motion. 40 years ago today a group of heavily armed hanafi muslims took hostages in three buildings in the district. a reporter from whur radio was killed. former mayor marion barry shot. tonight several of the people who were impacted by that siege will be gathering for a panel discussion at the wilson building, one of the sites of that historic standoff. news4's mark segraves is there live to tell us the story. >> reporter: the building behind me is today snoknown as the joh. wilson building. 40 years ago it was known as the district building. this was the site of the

two-danger siege. >> when they went in the district building, they went in with guns blaze. >> reporter: maurice was chief of police 40 years ago. he recalls just how violent the men were who had taken the hostages. >> the place that was the s scariest, they beat people up, they gagged them, they tied them up, they laid them face down. >> reporter: march 9th, 1977, terror struck the nation's capital. they took 149 hostages at three locations in northwest d.c. the b'nai brit offices, the islamic center and the district center on pennsylvania avenue. that's where marion barry was shot in the chest. reporter maurice williams was shot and killed. and security guard mack cantrell was also shot and

later of a heart attack. the siege lasted nearly two days until a peaceful surrender was reached. >> i'm jim vance. we're on the air right now because it is over. >> reporter: mark tuny prosecuted khalid and his men. he said it could have been much worse. >> if he had given the word to his men during the siege or during the trial, people would have been killed. like on the spot. and so he had real control over his men. they would have died for him. that was made very very clear. >> reporter: hamas abdul kalis died in prison in 2003. this historic photograph is one of the many archive es that wil be on display at the wilson building if you come down to the panel discussion at 6:00. you see firefighters and police officers wen

rescue marion barry on the fifth floor, who had been shot. they held a press conference on the other side of this building at the same time to distract the press and the terrorists who were inside, because they were also watching live tv and getting updates that way on what police activity was going on outside. in order to distract them, they had this press conference on the other side of the building while police snuck up that ladder on the other side of the building rescuing marion barry. our own pat collins will lead this panel discussion. it's open to the public. they have a lot of historic artifacts that will be on display. >> it was a real precursor to a lot of the violence that we've seen in the decades that follow. >> it was really something. wow. gluten free diets are becoming more and more popular. >> but there may be a downside. up next, why doctors say it's linked to a higher risk of

>> reporter: i'm tom sherwood in the old clock tower at the trump hotel on pennsylvania avenue. this place is run by the u.s. park service. it has some of the best views in

today a judge dismissed a lawsuit that claimed

defrauded its investors about its ability to get rid of food borne outbreaks. it's closing all 15 locations of shop house asian kitchen next friday. if you avoid foods with gluten, you may be at a higher risk of getting two ii diabetes. gluten is in wheat, roye and barley. those who steer clear of gluten may be missing out on beneficial cereal fiber. a maryland man traded in his car for a newer model but

done with it. how nbc 4 responds helped him avoid a $1500 bill. if a brokan infrastructure card gives the nation a big fat d. the challenges for a local utility that's an example of what's gone wrong. rain and wet snow showers tomorrow morning. i'll have the latest timing coming up. take a look at how cold it's going to feel by saturday morning. single digits in many areas with the winds.

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a fire destroyed a church in west virginia overnight. multiple departments responding to the green valley church. this is in st. albans. only one person was in side and got out safely. there's an investigation to figure out how this started. a new report says our nation's infrastructure is failing. even though president trump plans to invest a lot of money in our aging roads, bridges and dams, it's just not enough. >> reporter: behind me is the ducket dam here in laurel. on the other side 5.5 billion gallons of patuxent river water. the maryland department of environment says it needs to be upgraded for the worst case scenario. that's

what's happening here is indicative of utilities all over the country, especially when you're talking about the infrastructure and the infrastructure as it pertains to water. this is infrastructure, comes right up to your door. it's as close as your kitchen or your bathbathroom. it's quite literally one of life's necessities, water. to hear that the nation's leading engineers give the nation a grade of d-plus for the nation's water systems is troubling. for suburban washington the outlook may be a little bit better. >> i think it's probably in better shape than the nation. >> reporter: karla reed is general manager of the sanitary commission. they serve 1.8 million people in our area. last year there were 1,51 wssc water main breaks. in the worst years that number approached 2000. new technology that lis

helped. >> that helps us to avoid several major breaks, several as in four over the last year. >> reporter: one of them was a 96-inch main. this is what a 66-inch main did to river road a few years ago when it ruptured. the technology is paying off. >> we've been very aggressive with our water main replacement program, with introducing innovative materials to our infrastructure and our system. >> reporter: here at this facility in laurel, about a quarter of suburban washington's water is treated and distributed. they're in the midst of a $64 million upgrade expected to be finished sometime next year. coming up, what wssc is doing to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to the troubled and

fairfax county could be making it easier to get to the vre by walking or even riding your bike. the department of transportation is sharing plans for a proposed pedestrian and bike connection from nearby neighborhoods. the improvements would add trails through nearby woods. how many times have you been caught by speed, red light or stop sign camera in the district? last year nearly 3 million tickets were issued to drivers, which is an all-time high for d.c. more than a million of those were speed camera tickets which aaa calls unparalleled. all those tickets totalled some $300 million in revenue, up 40 million from last year. by the way, nearly three quarters of a million of those citations went unpaid, causing the district to miss out on more than $125 million in fines.

imagine trading in your car. then years later you get a bill in the mail for nearly $1500 in impound fees. >> that is exactly what happened to a man from maryland. he tried sorting it out on his own but wasn't getting anywhere. >> consumer reporter susan hogan was able to get the results that he could not. >> bill peterson did what most people would do when trading over the car. he handed over the keys and the title and never looked back. a lesson learned the hard way. >> traded my bmw 2014 to a college park dealer. >> 2 1/2 years later a shocker in the mail. the car had been abandoned and impounded in baltimore. the city wanted $1500 from bill peterson. bill says he tried calling the number at the bottom of the letter but kept hitting roadblocks. he reached out to nbc 4 responds. >> within two days i got all kinds of phone calls from the

>> we helped bill track down all the of the paperwork to prove he did indeed trade it in for this honda. >> we got the clear title. we got the clear bill of sale. took them to baltimore. everything was taken care of. and if it wasn't for patti and channel 4 it would have never happened. they wouldn't talk to me. >> why bill's name was still associated with the bmw remains a mystery. we ran a vehicle history report and found it was sold at auction two months after he traded it in. it was then titled in d.c. >> once in the district with inspections and emissions with my name on it, i don't understand how or why. >> bill's advice to others, follow up with the dealership to confirm the title on the trade-in vehicle gets processed correctly. >> you never know where it's going to end up. >> that is for sure. by the time we helped bill resolve the case, the car had been auctioned by the city of baltimore and

liable for about $387. but we were able to help him walk away without owing a dime. and if you have a consumer problem you need help solving contact us on our nbc website at nbcwashington.com/responds. anything changed in the last half hour, amelia? >> no. >> here's the thing. we do have new computer models coming in. they're still saying we have a good shot at some snow on tuesday. i want to stress it's five days away. the system can and will change. here's a look at your planner for tomorrow. there will be some snow showers as early as 1:00 to 3:00 a.m. for most of us, this is a rain event or some of that snow that makes it look like a snow globe out there for a little bit of time. it's not sticking

lunchtime. it is windy. gusts about 30-40 miles an hour. we'll have a mix of clouds and sun for the second half of the day but also a chance for scattered showers during the mid to late afternoon hours. from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. we kind of hang out in the 40s. by 7:00 in the even wing we're the 30s and windchills in the 20s. it will be a brutally cold start on saturday morning. the weather will have an a moderate impact on your friday. that's why tomorrow will be a weather alert day. for the morning commute, just wet roads. recess for the kids may be indoors. kpexercise tomorrow, stay insid the gym. for the evening commute, thankfully for the most part the weather looking to cooperate. here's an update on the cherry blossoms. this was taken yesterday at the tidal basin. they're already in

six. there are only six stages. the national park service still forecasting the peak bloom between the 19th and the 22nd. you can see that here. we're going to have unfortunately major impacts on the blossoms over the weekend and even on into next week. damage is likely to the blooms starting friday night into saturday. monday we're talking at least about 10% loss in blooms and potentially a little bit more. you can see the temperature friday night into saturday morning around 26. if it gets colder, we could see more bloom damage. we're going to keep a really close eye on that. it's breezy on saturday, 36. with those winds, if you're running in the rock 'n' roll marathon, windchills around 10. 9:00 a.m., windchills around 15. we will have a mix of sun and clouds throughout the day on saturday and sunday. monday it's dry. tuesday 37 for a high. some rain and snow in the forecast ri

winter storm system. by wednesday, we're windy. it's mostly cloudy and it's still cold, a high of only 35 degrees. at this point we're in mid march. after that it looks to kind of stay on the cold side. the new trump hotel of course is an attraction and curiosity on its own. did you know it has one of the best views in town, especially if you're missing the shingtonwa

you want to impress your friends and family when they come in from out of town? take them to one of the highest views in washington. >> it's not the washington monument. but tom sherwood takes us on what may be an even better tour with spectacular views. >> the lincoln memorial, the smithsonian castle and of course the capitol dome. >> this is one of the coolest places in washington. >> reporter: the tower dates back to 1899 and is part of the old post office building that's now the trump hotel. but the tower is still operated by the park service. it was closed while the hotel was built and quietly reopened be an entrance off of 12th street. the tourists like this los angeles couple, who are lucky

super impressed. how did you hear about the post office tower? >> a friend of mine who used to live here recommended coming up to the tower. >> it's absolutely beautiful from any view. it's such a beautiful place. >> reporter: the tower has 360 degree views of the city. the washington monument is closed for repairs until 2019. >> i heard of the highest point in washington you can go right now. >> reporter: how did you know about this? >> my dad knew about it. >> reporter: fathers know everything. >> he does, though. >> reporter: would you recommend this? >> yeah. it's really cool. >> reporter: right now it's only open thursdays through sundays. >> no tickets required. no reservations. >> reporter: mike first worked here as a ranger back in 1984. >> it's a spot that's a little bit near and dear to

news4 at 6:00 starts now. a dramatic heist that only took two minutes. burglars stole high paw epowere weapons from a gunshot in rockville. >> meagan fitzgerald joins us live with the developments. >> reporter: as soon as those suspects entered through the front door behind me here, the alarm system went off. that wasn't enough to defer the -- deter these guys. >> i guess it's a little scary. >> reporter: scary and unsettling to think that two criminals got away with 30 guns. it happened in less than two minutes. after prying open the door to the united gun shop, they used crowbars tosh

glass cases. this surveillance video shows the men quickly grabbing as many guns as they can and tossing them into a black bag. while crews cleaned up and repaired the front door, montgomery county police searched for clues. >> it's not a good thing. a lot of desperate people out there. >> reporter: atf agents were also on scene, spending hours inside the shop trying to determine which guns were stolen. >> not good they're on the street with the wrong people. >> reporter: that's the concern for law enforcement as well, which is why they're hoping the public can help them identify the suspects buy paying close attention to their voices. >> let's go. >> reporter: police believe this could be key in helping them identify these criminals. and police think the suspects took off in a light colored four-door sedan. they are asking anyone with information to contact the department right away. they're offering up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to an