More Sexual Misconduct reported on the hill. This time republican representative blake farenthold. He is 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. Good morning, mel. Reporter and good morning. The texas congressman says that the allegations brought by a former Communications Director against him are false. Nonetheless he said he will not seek reelection next year. Accusations from former staffers include allegations of sexually graphic jokes and comments farenthold is also suspected of using taxpayer funds to settle a 2014 harassment lawsuit filed pie one of those staffers. The texan is accused of berating aides and creating a hostile work environment. He apologized on facebook. Face. Stress of the job to manifest itself in angry outbursts. Unacceptable behavior has been alleged no those stories and i think hes made the right decision that hes going t
Of this year. Now, some of those accusations include graphic jokes, sexually graphic jokes and comments. Farenthold is suspected of using taxpayer funds some 84,000 to settle a 2014 harassment lawsuit filed pie one of those staffers. The texan is also accused of berating aides and creating a hostile work environment. He apologized on facebook. I allowed the personal stress of the job to manifest itself in angry outbursts. Unacceptable behavior has been alleged in those stories and i think hes made the right decision that hes going to be leaving congress. Reporter the House Ethics Committee will be investigating claims against farenthold. Misconduct accusations in the u. S. House forced out john conyers and trent franks. Texas republican joe barton also wont seek reelection after a nude photo of him surfaced online in november. And in the senate, democrat al frankens replacement has been named. Though the senor set. Also this week three women who went public with accusations of Sexual M
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
Tracking temperatures in the 60s as we close in on christmas. Thats a good way to start monday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [laughter] veronica in the middle of december. After the story about the airport, that makes it a little bit better. Autria we say good morning to you. Im autria godfrey. Adrianna and im adrianna hopkins, in for larry smith, who is caught up in this mess. Autria you ask yourself, what would i do . Veronica the weather cooperating, across the eastern storms,the country, no but things will be changing as we get closer to the holiday weekend. Dulles, 37 degrees. Gaithersburg, germantown. Even 37 right now. Fredericksburg, warrenton, just dipping below freezing over the last hour, warrenton included. Highs 50s across the area. 46, thatsperature, why we say it will feel a bit like a spring day for us as far as cloud cover goes today. We have seen some jerking t
This outtaj at the Atlanta Delta canceled many, many flights yesterday and even today theres some 300 Flights Canceled but thats because delta has its hub there atlanta and when the power went out really everybody was at a standstill for most of the day. Lets take you to video from yesterday when the airport was just plunged into■c darkness. [inpuible] multiple Power Systems and then were told toxic fumes kept Georgia Power crews from accessing the site for hours so every■c single plane was stopped there on the tarmac and in the terminals passengers were stranded. Atlantas airport, the busiest in the world so what happens there has a Ripple Effect all over the country. National told us■c theyre having to do a lot of changing to get home. Not going as planned retty much. Sad how you wake up with so much joy ready to go and you, working out. Heartbreaking. Reporter and■c [inaudible] all right, so, sorry about the technical difficulties were having out there. They got atlantas not