Concerned. There was an ongoing domestic dispute between the couple. Apparently that dispute got pretty heated on saturday. When family members couldnt get ahold of them, they got concerned. They came to the house and thats when they made the grim discovery. The family of five dead inside their home here in culpeper, virginia. Now, they have been identified as shawna and clarence washington, both 35 years old, a married couple, and their three children. Their three girls, aged 13, 6 and 4. The Sheriffs Department says that this is now being investigated as a domestic murdersuicide. A little while ago i spoke to the cousin of shawna washington and she said that she never imagined that Something Like this would happen. My prayers, that was my sister, that was my heart, my best friend, my world. Reporter investigators did find a gun inside the house. They wont elaborate on what kind of a gun it was. As for the ongoing marital problems, the domestic dispute, the Sheriffs Department says that they never received any calls for help from the home. Reporting live in culpeper, megan mcgrath, news4. Barbara, back to you. And we will continue to follow this story and bring you any new developments that we get over the next hour. New today, about a dozen people were hurt in an Early Morning fire at this Apartment Building in frederick. This is along key parkway. Were told ten people were treated at that scene. At least four were taken to burn centers. Were told at least six apartments are destroyed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Now take a look at these pictures. You can see a man on the radio tower. See him up there . He climbed the tower overnight and climbed down before 7 00 this morning. Police were there when he reached the ground and he was quickly taken into custody. Turning the weather and some typical august heat and humidity out there to start our week, storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein joins us with his first forecast. Tom. Yeah, you can see a little bit of humidity hangs in the air around the metro area. Not sweltering humidity, but moderately so. Its a classic august summer morning under way. Heres a live view from the storm team 4 tower camera, some high clouds are drifting in from the westsouthwest. We had quite a bit of fog but that quickly dissipated and now that high sun angle is climbing up there. Very high ultraviolet index today. Definitely wear sun block as weve got strong august sun. Right now 80 at reagan national. Its near 80 right along 95 down toward fredericksburg and much of Southern Maryland, eastern shore, most locations in the upper 70s. Farther west were in the upper 70s and it is rather humid too still around the shenandoah valley. Theres still a little fog hanging over the Shenandoah River and thats dissipating. The air quality is diminishing because the air is stagnant, we have hardly any movement. Avoid strenuous activity outdoors. If you have a heart or respiratory ailment, just stay inside. Hurricane bertha, a look at the new track of this new hurricane. Thats coming up and a look at changes on the way for midweek in just a few minutes. Find out if bertha is coming through here. Thanks, tom. A man is fighting fethreatening injuries after being hit by a car in montgomery county. The crash was just before midnight last night. This happened on 1st street and maple avenue in rockville. Were working to find out what led to the accident. And right now closing arguments are going on in a deadly road rage trial in montgomery county. In 2013 a man and a woman were stabbed outside the Westfield Montgomery mall. Prosecutors say 24yearold David Goldberg attacked the couple after a fight about the right of way at a stop sign. Hes now facing two counts of attempted murder. D. C. Councilman marion barry is doing better after he crashed his car and was taken to the hospital. We caught up with him last night just hours he was released from the hospital. When it does that, you could die really if it got so low, but god is good to me and i got disoeriented and went on the wrong side of the street. You heard him right, barry had a diabetic attack and started driving the wrong way on pennsylvania avenue southeast. Sources tell news4 police cited barry for driving on the wrong side and for having expired tags. This morning the star witness for the prosecution is back on the stand in the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor bob mcdonnell. Jonnie williams is facing intense cross examination from mcdonnells lawyers. As he entered court this morning, mcdonnell said he is confident in his team. Theyre not only excellent, but they believe deeply in my innocence and they are personally committed to me. I really appreciate the fact ive got such great people working on this. Every day the truth comes out is a better day for us. So far williams has said he gave mcdonnell and his wife more than 150,000 in gifts because it was good for business. News4s julie carey is in that courtroom right now following the trials latest developments. To keep up with them, you can follow her on twitte twitter juliecareynbc. Veteran actor and d. C. Native an juan glover says hes doing well after being stabbed. You may remember glover when he portrayed slim charles in the wire. Last night he posted a statement reading in part im going to spread love. I am recovering and will be back soon. My flesh may be stabbed but my spirit is unbreakable. I want to thank all of my fans, followers and friends. Glover was stabbed at cafe asia on i street over the weekend. At least two people attacked glover on the second floor of that club. Richard jordan is following a develop story for us. Were just getting in foergts about a large data breach affecting a very popular restaurant chain, p. F. Changs china bistro. There are some locations in the area where the customers may have been affected. P. F. Changs saying someone took some information from credit cards and debit cards used at the restaurant. Talking about card numbers, the card holders names, the expiration date. One of the locations affected is in woodbridge, the town place location. The restaurant says anyone who used their card there from october 19th through june 11th, their information could be in jeopardy. Also the baltimore location on east pratt street from april 10th to june 11th. The company has set up Identity Protection services, offering that to any customers who feel that perhaps their information may be at risk. You can get more information by going to their website. Thats the latest from the live desk, barbara. Right now nearly 50 african heads of state are in washington for an unprecedented summit. Coming up, the politics behind the event. And the road closures in the district slowing down your commute because of it. Plus gas prices at a fouryear low. The only thing to keep them from new developments this morning in the israel gaza conflict. Right now the temporary sevenhour humanitarian truce is over. The ceasefire ended about an hour ago, although both sides accuse the other of violating the truce. Israel reportedly fired rockets into the gaza strip and hamas militants reportedly attacked an israeli bus in jerusalem. Since the fighting began on july 8th, more than 1800 palestinians and nearly 70 israelis have died. Lets check in again with Richard Jordan with Something Else at the live desk. Barbara, here in washington the u. S. Africa Leader summit is under way. One of the first people to speak was secretary of state john kerry. He talked about the important relationship between african countries and the u. S. Listen in. Africa is a new center of global growth. Since 2000, banking assets have more than doubled. The Telecommunications Market has doubled since 2004 alone. And we know that africa will have a larger workforce than india or china by 2040. Kerry went on to specifically talk about south africa and how that region is exporting engines to the ford motor company. That in turn, he says, has helped to create at least 800 new jobs in the kansas city area. Now here at the summit we have leaders from all across africa. The president s of sierra leone and liberia are not attending because theyre dealing with the Ebola Outbreak in their respective countries and to address the concern of ebola spreading here in the u. S. , president obama said anyone coming from an area where ebola is prevalent, where there has been that crisis that is under way now, they are being screened at their home airports before flying here to the u. S. All right, richard, thank you. Right now roads are closed all over d. C. For the summit. You may also see motorcades drivi around the main areas to avoid, the Mandarin Oriental hotel on main avenue southwest, the world bank building, the National Academy of sciences and of course the white house. For a list of all the closures, head to nbcwashington. Com. And for more on the summit, were joined by mark murray, nbcs senior political activity. Good morning, barbara. A lot of activity. Absolutely. Can you tell people who the purpose of the summit is . I think its just to bring attention to the continent of africa. So much focus has been on the middle east recently or even when it comes to asia, europe, of course the United States and the Obama Administration wanted to make that pivot to asia, but i think the administration wants to show africa is important too economically as well as on the security level. There have been outbreaks of terrorist groups in that continent and then of course it all comes with the outbreak of the ebola virus in western africa. Of course thats just a minor part but certainly a story were following here in the United States. Thats probably one of the main issues discussed. Anything else . We heard secretary of state john kerry mention this, a lot about the economy and really the untapped economic potential of africa. Congress left on friday. Not all, but most of them have gone home, i guess. President obama was left to deal with the flood of undocumented immigrants crossing the u. S. Into the u. S. From the mexican border. Why havent they done anything, congress that is, to send the president a bill . They just cant they fundamentally disagree. The house of representatives did end up passing legislation late on friday to provide some border relief. The issue there is that it was almost passed it was passed almost by republican votes and not one in which youre able to kind of reconcile anything or get democrats to come along with. The Democraticled Senate wasnt able to pass any legislation, that had to deal with a filibuster. You need 60 votes for passage there. Given that situation, the president will have to take some executive action on getting things done. Whats really amazing here is that the request the president sent i 4 billion and got whittled down to 2 billion. To viewers that might sound like a lot of money but when it comes to the normal appropriations process, thats just a drop in the bucket. So what is the president likely to do on the Border Crossing situation . Well, i think that he might end up taking some actions on what kind of resources he can deploy. But the thing that people need to understand is that congress has the power of the purse. What the president can end up doing with executive action is mainly when it comes to who gets deport aned and not get deporte. Theres a lot of discretion the president gets. Two years ago the president said qualified folks under the dream act, those undocumented young folks who either are pursuing a College Degree or serving in the military wont get deported and can get a work permit and become a legal citizen. The question is does that get expanded to a broader universe of undocumented immigrants. I think thats what everyone is trying to find out. And what is the u. S. Position, have you looked at it on this whole issue . What do most americans feel about these undocumented people crossing the border . Overall this hasnt made anyone look very good. They havent been happy with how democrats and republicans and i think the public in the polling ive seen certainly there is a concern about the undocumented children who are coming across the border for humanitarian reasons but also is our border secure enough. I think the one thing that gets missed is that the Border Patrol is there. These children arent getting any farther than u. S. Border. Its not like theyre coming to washington, d. C. Theyre essentially turning themselves over at the border. But that is the issue and why its continuing to become so polarizing. But nothing will be done just yet. Not on the congressional level. For more from mark and the rest of the nbc news political team, check out first read on nbcnews. Com. President obama turning 53 today. Happy birthday, mr. President. He turns he gets back to the white house today and will be celebrating with a light schedule, ooewe understand. The president spent the weekend at camp david. On the president s agenda will be a number of meetings at the white house. The white house didnt say if the president had anything else extra planned but maybe well see him out and about with his wife celebrating tonight. Theyll have good weather. I heard theyre heading out to Marthas Vineyard in the next week or so. How does going to be there . Well, there might be some big waves from bertha, which is now a hurricane. And today weve got our august classic summer weather of our dreams under way. There is capitol hill under a mostly sunny sky. Theres senate park and the fountain there in the foreground. It is a gorgeous summer day. Right now 80 at reagan national, dew point is at 65. Thats moderate humidity. And weve got a very light northwesterly breeze. And the temperatures elsewhere in the metro area, generally in the upper 70s northern virginia. Much of maryland in the mid to upper 70s. Right near the bay, mid70s. Beautiful day on the bay as well. As we look at the latest satellite and radar, we dont have any storms anywhere nearby, but hurricane bertha, there it is churning away east of the bahamas. Well east of the bahamas right now with winds of 80 miles an hour. And it is now a category 1 hurricane. Well stay that way through the day today and stay well off the atlantic seaboard. Well east of the outer banks during the day on tuesday into wednesday. A category 1 hurricane and east of our atlantic beaches and the eastern shore, maybe some heavy seas, could get some rip currents there along the beaches the next couple of days. Then it quickly really weakens a lot and just becomes a tropical depression and an area of low pressure by the time it gets off the canadian maritimes. I took this photo yesterday morning. I was hiking along the creek running pretty low. Most of this on instagram, facebook and twitter. Thats where you can share your photos and comments. You can connect with me there on instagram, facebook and twitter. And the sky looking off to the west, some drifting high clouds moving on through during the afternoon hovering in the mid to upper 80s. Lots of sunshine. And this evening the temperatures will drop back a bit under a partly cloudy sky and thats when the nats and the orioles are playing at nats park. This is the game they had to do a makeup of the big battle of the beltway game. One of them was rained out so first pitch at 7 05 tonight, mid80s. It will be in the upper 70s by the end of the game. Then well have some humidity changes moving in this week. Still rather humid on tuesday and again on wednesday, but after that, well get a nice drop in the humidity on thursday, friday and saturday, into the weekend on sunday too. Comfortably low humidity in place for a nice low moving in. If youre out and about away from your tv, you can keep up with the weather 24 7. Download it at google play or the itunes store. Its 90 on tuesday and near 90 on wednesday. A cold front will push in on wednesday afternoon and evening. That could trigger some thunderstorms. Some of those storms might be severe. Well keep a close eye on it for you. After that, thats when that low humidity moves in on thursday into friday, and the weekend is looking really nice. Saturday temperatures in the upper 80s, sunday also the upper 80s and low humidity. Just the perfect weather for the beaches and pools over the weekend. And that is the way it looks. And welcome back, barbara harrison. Good to have you back with us after a couple of weeks. Happy to be back. Here i missed the best week of washington weather ever in july, midsummer. Weve got another one coming up. I cant wait. Thanks a lot, tom. Does your child play video games . If so, it may be a good thing. Coming up, the fine line between good and bad if your child is a gamer. Plus a warning about a pure form of caffeine being used by some teenagers. First, heres a look at whats hot on nbcwashington. Com. You may want to start thinking about a road trip for next weekend. Right now gas prices are at their lowest in four years, according to aaa. In d. C. Youre paying 3. 70 at the pump on average compared to nearly 4 last month. In maryland, gas is 3. 51 a gallon. In the commonwealth, youll pay about 3. 30. Thats some of the cheapest gas in the country right now. Out in west virginia, a gallon of gas will run you about 3. 58, so plan a trip. Walmart trying to win back customers from amazon. Com. The company is revamping its website to offer a more personalized shopping experience. Walmart is rolling out a new feature that will recommend purchases based on your previous purchases. The website will also start showing local weather and other events. Playing video games isnt so bad for your children. Thats what a new study is showing. It found playing video games for less than an hour had a positive impact on lifes satisfaction and promoted social behavior. Playing for more than three hours had the opposite effect. Video games used as part of a rich Life Experience among children can promote good Child Development as well as be harmful in the wrong circumstances. Outside experts say there may be a benefit to video games if they are incorporated with a variety of outdoor activities, books and family experiences. The university of oxford did this study. And its new information on when a second ebola patient will arrive in the United States and how the doctor already being treated in this country is doing today. Plus, getting ready for midweek changes in our weather. Were sending storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein outside with a look at how it feels right now and to look ahead to those changes that are coming. Well tell you all about it. And look at whats in chicken. Oh, wait until you see. The answer may not be as simple as you think, though. As you think,[ mom ]. When the nest gets too quiet. 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One of the doctors treating him talked to the today show this morning and said you shouldnt be worried about the virus spreading here. The key thing about this unit is it was designed 12 years ago to contain diseases far more infectious than ebola. We are going above and beyond whats necessary to contain this virus. Brantlys colleague, nancy writebol, is in liberia today, but she will be flown to atlanta to be treated there as well. She is expected to arrive tomorrow morning. An update on a story weve been following all weekend. Lets check in again with Richard Jordan at the live desk. This is about those water troubles in toledo, ohio. The mayor there now says the water is safe to drink and he is lifting the ban. About 400,000 residents in ohio and michigan were told to stop drinking the water, stop cooking with it, stop bathing with it because there was some toxins contaminating lake erie, possibly high levels of algae there, so several people throughout northwestern ohio and southeastern michigan were urged not to use the water coming out of their tap. The National Guard delivering bottled water instead and using purification systems. But were just learning from the mayor of toledo, ohio, that the water is safe. Its been tested. Apparently the test results are coming back clean, so it is safe and the ban has now been lifted. Thats the latest from the life desk. Barbara, back to you. Just to be safe, chicago city officials are retesting the water supply. Tests have not seen an increase in the toxin in the past two years. The spokesperson says they test for the full spectrum of algae components two or three times a week. A murder trial begins today for a Prince Georges County teen gunned down walking to school. Jury selection and Opening Statements are expected to. Marco ross was walking to Central High School in september of 2012 when prosecutors say 20yearold Trayvon Bennett shot and killed him. They were able to solve this case connecting a gun used in a robbery to the one used in ross murder. Right now police are asking for your help to help track down a Sexual Assault suspect. The first attack was yesterday morning along talbert terrace. If you know anything about the attack, please call police. The family of Alexis Murphy says they wont stop searching until they bring her home. Its been a year since the 17yearold disappeared from a gas station in central virginia. Randy taylor has been convicted in her abduction and murder, but her body was never been found. Last night friends and family held a vigil for her at Nelson County high school. The family says the communitys support has kept them moving forward. Its really been very humbling to know that people are so supportive and theyre willing to give of their time and of themselves in a way to help our family out. I just cant imagine going through Something Like this without that. Another event for alexis is being planned for later this month. The family is working with a group called help save the next girl which investigates missing persons cases across the country. Two young people diedrom suspected drug overdoses at a Music Festival in maryland. One of them was a 17yearold boy from woodbridge. It happened at the Mad Decent Block Party in columbia over the weekend. 20yearold tyler talks escardi died at the end on friday. The two didnt know each other. As many as 20 other concert goers had to go to the hospital. Police say most used a form of mdma, which is commonly known as ecstacy or molly. Watch out if youre driving around northwest as ddot is holding street car training. 28 new operators will be at the controls today and today is the first day of training as they ramp up to a full opening later this year. Make sure not to park in the street cars way because you could end up with a 100 fine. And well check in with tom kierein. Hes outside right now on the storm team 4 weather deck feeling that humidity out there, huh, tom . You know, itsot too bad. These are the summer days that students especially just cherish because they know classes will be starting before you know it. So savor this while you can. This is really great pool weather, great beach weather. There is the sky over washington. Now theres the washington monument, jefferson memorial. Lots of sunshine, just a few high clouds are drifting over. Now, the temperature is 80 degrees now at reagan national. Near 80 Southern Maryland and near the bay. Farther west and north, shenandoah valley, into the mountains, much of maryland and virginia upper 70s now. And later today it will be into the upper 80s during the afternoon with rather humid weather with us through the afternoon. Its going to be rather humid again tomorrow, highs around 90. And then on wednesday again up around 90 during the afternoon and some scattered storms are likely Late Wednesday afternoon into wednesday evening. Thats going to be ahead of a refreshing, Welcome Change moving in on thursday, friday and into the weekend with lower humidity coming back. Highs 80s each day with sunshine. Morning lows in the 60s. Barbara. All right, thank you, tom. Well, developing over in china right now, survivors are being pulled from the rubble following yesterdays 6. 1 earthquake. However, rain storms are expected to hamper Recovery Efforts in the coming days. At least 380 people were killed when the quake hit. 12,000 homes collapsed, trapping people under the debris. 1800 people were hurt. The u. S. Has offered its condolences and stands ready to assist china in any way it can. In southern california, one person has died after being trapped by floodwaters. Officials say a body was found inside a car in the San Bernardino mountains last night. The National Weather service said rain and thunderstorms dumped as much as 3. 5 inches of rain on that area. You can see some cars just totally buried in the mud there. Right now about 2500 San Bernardino county residents are trapped, while crews work to clear those roads out there. This story will change the way you buy cicken at the supermarket. What you may not have known is that ingredients may be added to raw chicken. Water, some salt and sometimes some phosphates and broth are injected into the poultry through a process called enhancement. Its done to improve the flavor and the tenderness. You can find it on the nutrition label marked as solution, and consumers with diet restrictions or even allergies need to be aware of whats going on with chicken. Salt is the second ingredient in that solution and were up to 480 milligrams of sodium per serving. For folks that are trying to control sodium in their diet, its really important that they pay attention. However its done, the ingredients must be listed on that label and information on the Nutrition Panel aswell. Right now theres a huge crowd in richmond for redskins training camp. Today the new England Patriots are training with the skins. The teams will hold joint practice tomorrow and wednesday, leading up to thursdays preseason game at fedex field. You can watch that game right here on nbc4. Well, its Vacation Time for many of us, and today we will run down the reasons that you should be taking some yoga during your time off. Kim weeks from jim weeks yoga joins us to explain. Who did you bring with us today . Nandidy. Welcome back. Good to see you. You say we should be doing something to help ourselves inside and out. Yes. Vacation obviously is necessary for good health because it changes your sensory input, it changes your perspective, it changes your stressors that happen in normal daily life, but yoga offers sort of a vacation for the inside. Whether you do it on vacation or not. So we thought wed show some vacation yoga poses. Lets see them. We thought it would be really fun to unfold al here. My daughter, whose favorite color is pink, asked me to bring this on. Our little sort of blanket here. Shell sit down simulating being on the beach and heres a book. And so what shes going to do is just lean forward. Take the book toward your shins. And that if she just leans over and reads and relaxes. The most important thing to do in yoga is relax. So people at home, you guys will find yourselves relaxing more doing a pose like this and probably doing it even better because youre not stressed out about it, so why not try this. Are you relaxed down there like that . Okay. She says she is. Why dont you just take a nap. Maybe put your head on your shins. Is that too much stretch on your thigh . For some people it is. Cross your legs. And what if she sat like this and leans toward on her elbows and reads a book. You know how the beach chairs kind of have an angle down, you sit on an angle up and lean forward, you can still get some release for your spine. What does this do for you inside . Wassy talked about inside, stand up if you dont mind and well move on while i answer this. It relaxes your digestive organs, it relaxes your breath and your muscle tissue because youre relaxing that part of you, your back, your hamstrings and stuff that gets so tight and stressed out in daily life. I certainly like that idea. Its not so easy to sit up straight when youre sitting on the beach. Whats next . You know sometimes we have a nice relaxing night and we wake up. And the most important thing to do when you get up, no matter when youre on vacation or not is to stretch your spine because it actually shrinks when you sleep. So shes going to take her arms up and over her head. Why dont you grab one wrist and stretch. What if you got up out of your vacation kingsize bed or at the beach house or whatever and just stretch your side body. Shes pulling her wrist for one thing. Exactly. That pulls down into her this side of her spine, go the other way, and she stretches the other side of her spine. So youre more relaxed and more aware of how your body feels on vacation. So why not and stretch the body . Is this it . Quickly. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Imagine this is the pool at home. This is the pool. Shes leaning up, lifting over, what if you just tried to lift up like this, get a little strength and, boom, fall right into the pool. No harm, no foul. That does look pretty good and fairly easy. Have a happy vacation. Were so happy to see you again. Come back and visit us. And we have some new information about the governments decision on whether or not to allow cell phones to be used in airplanes. Youll want to hear this. Plus were celebrating chocolate chips today and the most common use for them, the chocolate chip cookie. Wait until you see this recipe. Coming up, the baking 101. Stay with us, we it doesnt look like youll be able to make phone calls midflight any time soon. Government officials will likely vote against the plan that allows you to take a phone call during flight. The newspaper also says the department of transportation is pursuing a formal ban on inflight calls. Airlines want the final decision, though, left up to their discretion. Well, you want to stop what youre doing and take a look at the next story. After months of separation, a u. S. Marine and the dog that served with him are back together again. Take a look at this. Hi, how yactrol. Take a look at the texture of this dough. A lot of times mine gets too liquidy and flattens the cookie out. This is exactly what you want id to do. You want it to be nice and smooth. This was actually adapted from my Culinary School and we improved it to be a little bit more designed for what we would use in the restaurant. Better quality butter, vanilla beans, incredible chocolate chips. Its really something that you can replicate at home by making some adjustments like that. Wow, that looks fantastic. Whoa. How long do they cook . Butt these in the oven at 350, 375, bake them for four to six minutes, rotate it and another four minutes. Take them out and they are ready to roll. They sure do look good too. Can i take one . Go ahead, whats the other secret . While youre tasting one, please go ahead. What i wanted to say is you can actually scoop out tons of these cookies and put them in the freezer. Whatever you want to make that day, just pull out and throw respiratory ailment stay inside if you can. Later today in the upper 80s. This evening dropping back down into the upper 70s. Great weather for tonight os nats game. Near 90 tuesday, wednesday. Wednesday could get some storms afternoon and evening followed by lower humidity and nice thursday into the weekend. Have a good afternoon. You too, tom. Thank you. Thats news4 midday today. We thank you for being with us and invite you to tune in for news at 4 00, 5 00, 6 00 and 11 00. Well be right back here tomorrow. Plan to join us. Have a terrific day. Stay cool out there and well see you in the morning