came third in his heat and is opening to win gold tomorrow night in that same event. also the new jersey fence r ibtihaj muhammad became the first american to win an olympic medal wearing a hijab. also tonight, team usa and men's basketball teams on venezuela. and we have a really interesting story about a powerhouse that's built right in our backyard. we're talking about the women's crew team for team usa. all of that cheering going on. the incredible rowers who train in princeton, new jersey, and they are almost unbeatable. we'll have their story and much more coming up in just a few minutes and now we'll send it

back to my co-workers. nbc 10 is learning more about the burks county family dead in the murder-suicide. today we're learning the wife was planning on leaving her husband. the couple and three children found dead saturday in their home and lauren mayk joins us with more on the shooting deaths. lauren, what did you find out? >> reporter: jim, today they performed an autopsy on the body of mark short, the husband and father and it is the only requested by the d.a.'s office as part of this investigation. now the coroner's office is referring questions about the results that up a back to the d.a.'s office and i've reached out to the them and we're waiting to hear back and this all some as mark short's family is trying to come to terms with what happened. >> the 8-year-old was going into third grade. the 5-year-old shared a name with his dad and little willow had already been through a heart transplant in her short life.

>> they loved them. i mean, it was family, family, family. >> something went horrifically wrong in the living room of their home on winding brook drive, the children and the mother and father all found shot dead and we talked to family members of mark short trying to come to grips with had a happened. >> always a calm, collected, always helped everybody and would do anything for everybody. so laid back and just said it was a really good guy and you wouldn't think he would do this kind of thing, you know, but in the same he's in right now, you know, you never could tell with people. >> short's family members confirm marital trouble between megan and mark. >> mark was really trying to make it work, and he took them to disney world in february to try to bond the family together and evidently it didn't work because she still wanted to get out of marriage. >> reporter: the district attorney's office has only requested an autopsy of mark short, not megan or the

children, but they have not confirmed who pulled the trigger or what was written in an apparent murder-suicide found at the home. family members say they don't know the details of the note either as they now try to come to terms with what they do know. >> it's just so devastating what has happened. we just don't understand it. >> reporter: now in addition to the autopsy performed here today, the d.a.'s office also said today that they are still doing some forensic analysis of some evidence taken from the short's home. live in reading, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. from our jersey shore bureau the search is on for the driver responsible for a deadly hit and run. police say a 61-year-old woman was out for a walk this morning in barnagat township. she was on the phone with her husband when she was hit by a large suv that took off. there were no witnesses to the crash, but investigators believe a chevy silverado, tahoe or suburban was involved. new at 6:00, a barber shot

in the face and his friends say it was all over a dispute over a haircut. it happened inside a southwest philadelphia barber shop this afternoon. so far no arrests. jury selection got under way today in the trifle pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane. heebs 10 was there this morning as kane arrived at the courthouse in norristown, month gomery county accused of leaking secret grand jury information and then lying under oath. her trial is expected to last about a week. >> route 70 in burlington county back open tonight after this deadly car crash. two people died in this accident in pemberton township late this afternoon. you see all the damage there from sky force 10. police are still investigating what caused the crash. disturbing new details revealed today in the attack on a delaware teenage their left her dead. a police detective revealed the teen had her fingernails ripped out. that came out today during a hearing to decide whether a 16-year-old charged in the case should be tried as an adult.

amy joyner francis was attacked in the bathroom in the howard high school of technology back in april. she had a pre-existing heart condition. the judge says he'll make a decision by next friday. a first alert traffic warning for drivers 676. the vine street expressway will close the next four nights from 11:00 at night until 5:00 in the morning. the vine will be closed in both directions between 76 and broad street because of bridge construction over the vine. crews have been work on various bridge projects for the past year, and it will take three more years to finish the entire $65 million project to replace seven bridges. in decision 2016 both major party presidential candidates are focusing on the economy this week out on the campaign trail. hillary clinton held a campaign event in st. petersburg, florida today. the democratic presidential nominee prompted more support for small businesses as she

toured a brewerer there. clinton brought the crowd to the feet when she touched on the difference between her tax plans and donald trump's. >> i've said throughout this campaign i'm not going to raise taxes on the middle class but with your help were going to raise it on the wealthy because that's where the money is. >> clinton plans to deliver her full economic plan this thursday in detroit and detroit is where donald trump laid out his economic plan today. he highlighted his new tax plan which includes three income brackets while offering a tax deduction on child care costs for middle and lower income families. >> the rich will pay their fair share but no one will pay so much that it destroys jobs or undermines our ability as a nation to compete. today's address there was interrupted 14 times by what appeared to be a coordinated protest effort. and an independent presidential candidate wants his name in the mix now. cia veteran and u.s. house gop

policy chief evan mcmullen announced a few hours ago he's running for president. >> back here live from rio, they are the most dominant olympic team here at the games. we're talking about the women's crew team and they are looking to continue dominance with search first-time olympians in that boat. ♪ >> dominant, driven and proven, that is the women's crew team that trains in princeton, new jersey, winning ten straight world or olympic titles. now in rio going for their 11th. >> we're all ready to go, and the race was just really solid. it was a lot of fun. >> team usa. >> reporter: this morning an easy victory rogue right into the finals after blowing the netherlands out of the water. >> we're excited, and, you know, get to race some really fast cruise on saturday. >> reporter: rogue greatness

created right in the backyard with the home base of rogue in princeton. the ceo of rogue says the history excellence is far from accide accidental. >> everyone has to stay on it every day, every stroke, every time they put the boat in the water they are thinking about what is the competition going to be like when we get to rio and how will we execute our plan and how will we stay ahead of the competition? >> easy favorites for the third consecutive gold and not taking anything for granted. >> they are considered the longest running dynasty in olympic sports and they hope to continue that string by getting another gold. while we were out there this morning, we also came across some other rowers who train in princeton, new jersey, and they talked to us about how the program there is simply unmatched. >> on top of the community and the support, all the other great rowers are there and so you want to be up next. you want to be training with the best of the best and so it does it. makes a difference to train in a

place like princeton. >> they either, you know, donate to u.s. rogue, our host families, so athletes live with the families. it's pretty amazing community, and we're very lucky to train there. >> the rowers we heard from earlier, well, they defeated netherlands, romania and australia. what that means is that they are advancing to the finals, and that lick toys saturday. now i want to tell you about something that's a little interesting. you may have seen it or you may have not but we want to give you a look at it. did you spot the red circle on olympic athletes bodies, even michael phelps has it. it's called cupping. it's not new and it's definitely not contained to the olympics. in a few minutes you'll hear from some students at the university of delaware doing it and whether my co-anchor jim rosenfield would consider it, cup. right now from rio de janiero, i'm jacqueline london. back to you, jim. >> not after i saw the look on tim furlong's face on the story he worked on on that story today, but we'll see what it's all about coming up in just a

little bit. >> i know. >> scary. see you soon. back here at home atlantic city is hoping margaritaville is just the tourism boost is needs with the taj mahal closing in a few months. jimmy buffet will perform this saturday for thousand of parrotheads in the first of a series of four big-name concerts on the beach over the next three weeks. all new at 6:00, as jackie just mentioned, cupping. have you seen the marks left on some olympic athletes backs and shoulders? nbc 10 looks into this therapy, and we found it in use right here in the delaware valley. plus no, more tackling before thursday's first game. the eagles coach pulls the plug next. got the sunshine going to be sticking around for a while, but it will also be bringing back some extreme heat. the neighborhood weather is next. >> and now here's a look at the current medal count. if you don't want to know, how is the time to look away.

>> reporter: i'm jacqueline london live in rio. michael phelps is back in the pool tonight, and he's one of the many athletes here who you'll see with red and blue and purple circles on their shoulders. apparently it is an ancient chinese healing practice. we wanted to learn more about it so we sent nbc 10's tim furlong to the university of delaware to check it out. >> reporter: we're all watching the u.s. relay team winning gold on sunday but hard not to be distracted by the big blemishes all over michael phelps' back. >> i knew exactly what it was. >> reporter: turns out it's a therapy called delaware. >> the university of delaware uses cupping on athletes mick meg an. >> reporter: does this feel good? >> no, it's a little painful, not terrible. >> reporter: cupping is a

centuries old technique. nicole uses a set of cups like this and puts them on an athlete's tight spots and sucks out the air which lifts the skin and stretches out the underlining tissue which improves blood flow. >> blood brings oxygen and good cells into the area that brings healing. >> reporter: it looks pretty hideous. the purplish marks last a while. >> reporter: nicole cupped my forearm. >> arm hair. >> reporter: sorry. i'm a scaredy cat and get squeamish and the pain wasn't as bad as i expected and the arm bubbles were. >> i'm not going to lie. it doesn't feel great but when you think about what it's supposedly doing for you. a pinching feeling, not that bad. >> reporter: even with a cupping kit you can hurt yourself so don't try is it. >> and seal real positive results. athletes saying cups works pretty well and they are betting michael phelps will have a lot of people asking for it and you have to hospital marks don't

stick around too long. >> we'll see. tell you in about a week. >> >> reporter: in newark, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> reporter: we're told the chinese used to do what's called wet cupping and that's where a small flame, ouch, is used to help suck out the oxygen. i don't know about that. but i do know is that you do want to watch "the olympic zone" and a phenom from our area. "the olympic zone" is tonight at 7:30. we will future new jersey's own 16-year-old laurie hernandez on the team usa gymnastics team. winning hearts over and as you know they call her the human emoji because of all of her great expressions. back for you. >> should have seen my expressions when i saw tim's arm there. i'm going to stick with a hot shower, jacqueline. that's me decision on the cupping thing. >> reporter: i know. i know. >> but they say it works. all right, jackie, see you in a bit. thanks.

here at home, what's going on with the weather? >> well, it's pretty comfortable now. >> yeah. >> comfortable yesterday. it's not going to -- >> it's going to get brutal around here towards the end of the week, and, yeah, got another heat wave on the way. the temperatures now not too bad. 83 degrees in philadelphia. got high clouds. low 80s, new jersey, 84, lehigh valley. had more sunshine in the lehigh valley and you'll see why in a minute. now at the jersey shore we've got a sea breeze today. yesterday we didn't and it was up near 990 degrees. today the sea breeze at 79 and 77 ocean city. ocean is 79. it was up to 80 degrees a few hours ago. that's the first time this summer it got up there. it's now finally warm enough for me to go in the ocean officially and temperature has to get up to 80 degrees in the water. all right. we've got a heat wave coming. heat wave number five. only 85 degrees today and some

of the clouds kept the temperatures down. 88 tomorrow and 92 wednesday and this is when it gets really hot. thursday, friday, saturday, maybe even into sunday as the temperatures get into the mid-90s, it feels like it is 100 degrees. we have these high clouds from philadelphia southward and the rain staying well to the south. that's not coming up this way any time soon. as we go through the hour-by-hour future case you can see -- going to see a lot of sunshine tomorrow. it's going to be a sunnier day than today and then by wednesday morning there could be a few showers developing, and that's just the start of the increase in the humidity as the temperature and the feels-like temperature, so tomorrow the humidity is up a little bit, so it feels a little bit warmer in westchester, 86 and the temperature 185. allentown the same because the humidity is not that high, but

look what is happening at the shore. stone harbor 82 and feeling like 86. longport 86 and the humidity is really starting to build at the shore. that's the first sign of this and, unfortunately, by thursday night when the eagles are playing it's just going to be brutal. tailgating ahead of the game. 95, feeling like 101, and even at the end of the game it's going to be feeling like it's 90 degrees. you can tell your own seven-day forecast out the bott tom of the screen any time. don't have to wait until the end. not only are temperatures going up by daytime and by nighttime and every part of the area gets hotter as we through the next few days. the ten-day, 292, 94, 95, 96.

thunderstorm threat increasing thursday, friday and especially over the weekend we could get some pretty heavy rain, at least at times. 96 degrees on saturday and finally next week we start getting more normal temperatures. >> all right. . which key eagles starters will miss the first preseason game and how much will we see carson wentz and why is coach doug pederson stop tackling in practices? that's all next. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message.

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the eagles preseason opener is just three days away, but they will be playing without key starters. jason peters and malcolm jenkins won't play. hopefully they will be able to go next week. jordan matthews won't play either. he's expected to miss a few weeks. hoping to have him for the third preseason game. he has a knee strain after being hit low in practice last week. coach doug pederson brought back the hitting and tackling that andy reid used to have but doug says today no more tackling. >> just got a look at the overall health of the football team and it's not about getting somebody hurt and protecting the guys that are out here and they have been doing an excellent job. the last six days have been tough and i wanted it to be tough on them and by no means are we where we want to be as a football team, but at the same time i think we've made some big strides in the last week. >> preseason opener, sam bradford will start and play a

series or two and chase daniels will play the rest of the first half and carson wentz will play most of the second half and it will be carson's first nfl game action. eagles preseason opener thursday night against the bucs. catch it on csn and cozi-tv. the browns announced rg3 will be the starting quarterback. breath brown was at eagles practice and check out the period, going full popovich like his old boss. yesterday he got to cedario sarich, what a block to clinch a win in the olympics for his home country of croatia. his attitude reminds him of spurs great manu ginobili. >> ginobili was like this in the first year of the nba. wears his heart on the sleeve. you can see the aggressive nature, his body language. i feel like that combined with learning nba basketball, i'll take that foundation all day every day. >> phillies will be facing chase utley tonight for the first time since he was traded to the

dodgers last august. chase's former teammate ryan howard is hoping to play beyond this year even though he's struggled. now he's 6 for his last 10 and howard says he's got present left in the tank. take a look at these quotes. for whatever reason everybody else thinks i'm done playing. i know i can still play. i know i'm still capable of it. this year one bad month and you're done. for me it's about not having the opportunity to rectify one bad month. maybe had a little bit more than that. i'm john clark. we're right back. welcome to the wonder of the olympic games. one day, the world came together.

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>> reporter: i'm jacqueline london. a big night tonight here at the olympic park behind me in rio. michael phelps and katie ledecky dive into the pool. what more do i have to say in the way ledecky smashed her

world record last night. almost the only person in the pool. we'll see you after the olympic coverage. >> that's our news. thanks for watching. "nightly news" is next. meltdown, chaos as delta suffers a worldwide crisis. terminals packed with people. water slide tragedy, a 10-year-old boy dies on the tallest water slide in the world. a terrifying accident and growing questions tonight about what happened. sounding the alarm, 50 senior republicans warning donald trump would be, quote, the most reckless president in american history, showing his support is cratering. and gold in rio. a star is born, we