Look at the camera above below rather. Things are jammed up on the outer loop by New Hampshire avenue. A full look at your traffic and some metro issues on the red line this weekend next. Allison and steve. Erin thanks very much. Lets get on to the news right now. The Sexual Misconduct scandal sweeps up another lawmaker on the hill. Republican Blake Farenthold the latest to announce hes stepping down all this while calls continue for an investigation into the president. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live on capitol hill now with the latest. Mel. Reporter well, steve and allison, congressman Blake Farenthold of ssaid that the claims that the claims brought by a former Communications Director are false but still he announced that he will not seek reelection next year. Now some of the accusations include sexual jokes, comments and a hostile work environment. Farenthold reportedly used taxpayer funds to settle a 2014 harassment lawsuit filed by that staff. In an apology on facebook, farenthold
Watched with glee and joy in his eyes. In case you missed it earlier today it was absolutely amazing his wish to become k9 officer coming true and the first step in his transformation right here at fox5. Heres the deal. Holly as we just saw earlier this morning was with him when he learned that he had to go where, holly . What was his first stop . Well he had to come here to fox5 because he has to get his officially issued Police Uniform because, you know, hes going to be looking for bad guys today. Hes going to be helping keep the city safe. Let me tell you this right now. Every k9 officer on the d. C. Metro police force wishes that he was riding around in that right there. Hes got a very special ride to take him on his mission today. Let me just tell you, its not a good day d. C. It is an awesome day d. C. Because this wish is being granted for ember. Hes just eight years old. Hes been fighting Cystic Fibrosis. He lost a lung when he was just two years old. And he has a feeding tube.
Things appear clearing up this morning thankfully. All that after a dusting of snow we got yesterday but you can still feel that winter chill in the air. Gary, are we going to get more or will it go away . In terms of the snow, i think thats all gone and you know what, too, i think really the big headline this morning is were still going o be cool today but look, coming our way i think were going to be trending warmer around here the next several days and it does look like before this warmer trend goes away, we may actually touch 60 degrees again before well, over the next couple days or so. Let me show you whats happening. Basically a warmer trend begins today. Temperatures will be in the upper 40s and the low 50s. Temperatures right now are kind of cold but you know what, some of these numbers have been going up a little bit during the overnight. Actually last hour it was a lot warmer than it is in places now. Right now with this clearing skies, the sun is coming up, thats very, very
Can we repeat sunday . We will let you know. The news is next. Now, abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Kimberly a disturbing story to begin with, but it could have been so much worse. A young toddler was shot in the leg in southeast d. C. The little girl was rushed to the hospital and is expected to be ok. The police are remaining tightlipped about this. Melissa dipane has what we know right now. Melissa the police say kids were playing with a gun when it went off and shot the little girl in the leg and apartment in the 2500 block of pomeroy road in southeast. The police say there is a lot of information to sort out. The toddler was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries and was conscious and breathing when she was transported. Figure out whats going on. We dont want to compromise an Ongoing Investigation or anyones identities before we have everything figured out. Still lots of questions to answer in this case about the gun and where it came from, but the case is still