News 4 Megan Mcgrath is live for us now. Reporter the candy is professionally wrapped and packaged. It looks innocent enough but is laced with marijuana. These still pictures were taken by police after they seized the candy. They say it came from colorado. There was tafy and banana walnut chocolate bars. Police say its the first time theyve seen potlaced candy in. They say the person who had it planned, they believe, to sell it, but theres no indication that person who had it had plans to sell it to children. But given the fact it is halloween and the children will be out trick or treating, they wanted parents to know about this sort of thing, that this sort of potlaced candy is out there. If you raid your kids halloween candy and pull out the peppermint patties or whatever you like and youre not paying any attention, you could easily a kid could easily open one of these up and eat it. If it were to get within the stream of candy, its relatively innocuous. And police want to remind par
Street near mount ol ivet boulevard. Can you tell us whats going on . Barbara, within the last half hour, they reopened south market street. The sidewalk here is still closed. Theres a lot of damage here. The fire started in number 327. The white rowhouse. It spread down the line. Im really lucky to be alive. Another fiveminute sleep and i would have been i would have been in it. Craig got out just minutes before his rowhouse went up in flames. He w as the fire spread from one home to the next. Slowly, it just engulfed mine, ran three houses down this way. So im just, you know, continued to spread. These photos, taken by the Frederick News post, show the intensity of the fire. The civil era rowhouses dont have sprinkler systems or modern fire walls. Investigators say the flames tookd in thcs and then spread along the rooftops. Ten houses were damaged. Six, like craigs, severely. My damage is bad. Its completely it will need to be completely gutted. Fortunately, everybody was able to ge
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 th
Midafternoon. Next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 11, Amelia Siegel live in georgetown. Lets take a look at traffic this friday morning. A couple of crashes. Alexis davies reported on that. Whats going on . No major crashes or incidents reported. Just volume. Elsewhere, we still have accident in maryland involving a fatality. Offramp of branch avenue is blocked due to the accident investigation. And westbound 50 before route 201, right lane blocked due to an accident. And John Marshall highway at beverly road. Use caution in these areas. Elsewhere on the roadways, phded phd traveling south on 270 looking good. Aaron and eun. Voters in scotland have spoken. Scotland will remain part of the united kingdomment scottish people turned out in unprecedenteded numbers for independence referendum. The first minister thanked the voters who backed independence saying they had change the face of british politics forever. The economy is responding well to the news. British stocks are up in earl
Breakdown for the day ahead and this evening for trickortreating. Now lets check on the roads this morning. We have breaking news with melissa. Breaking news on the rails. Were talk about Mark Brunswick east 870, 41 minutes behind this morning. Very slow. Metro will honor tickets. You might want to do that instead. Prince georges county looking good. No major problems into and out of town. And moving to the west, 66, 95 in virginia looking smooth. Beltway at river road, rolling along. Seeing some volume here this morning. Taking a look up at maryland you can 95 in into and out of town. Im back in 10 minutes. See you at 6 11 withmelissa. Molette green is with police as they try to find a man who attacked a Police Officer with an axe. Reporter we are in the 1,000 block of perry street not far from michigan avenue. Just a few minutes ago, about five minutes ago, all the Police Officers left the scene here on perry. This is where they tell me kay nine units tracked a suspect who had earlie