Year. Now, accusations from former staffers include sexually graphic jokes and comments. Farenthold is suspected of using taxpayer funds to settle a 2014 harassment lawsuit. Hes accused of berating aides and creating a hostile Work Environment. I allowed the personal stress of the job to manifest itself in angry out outbursts. I think hes made the right decision that hes going to be leaving congress. Reporter the House Ethics Committee will begin investigating claims against farenthold. Misconduct accusations the senators resignation has not yet been set. Also this week you may recall three women who went public during the campaign with accusations of Sexual Misconduct on the part of donald trump, one more time and there is now a growing group of Congress Women who would like there to be a House Oversight investigation. Live on capitol hill, im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local news. Thanks mel. 4 32 right now. These are new images of a man wanted for a deadly stabbing in alexandria. Endless
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
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.
Seen from miles away. One week before christmas at least 30 people are now without place to stay. Their decorations and almost all their belongings completely destroyed. Take a look hide me. Fire investigators remain outside the building five hours after the fire first started. We are being kept on the property. Off the in this video you can see the flames shooting higher into the air at the Carriage Hill apartments in hillcrest heights. The fire started just before 7 00 this morning on curtis drive. When firefighters first arrived all three floors of the garden style apartments were on fire. At one point the flames were in theg 20 to 30 feet air through the roof and firefighters were told to get out immediately. All of this happening as families were scrambling to wake up and get out of the building. They were bringing on the doors thing theres a fire its time for us to getut and called my sister to let her know the building was on fire. There was people screaming and the fire truck s
Mile in some areas through novato and petaluma. For the morning hours, the north bay valley locations, youll be dealing with a little bit of patchy fog, freezing conditions also in the inner east bay and the north bay. 33 in santa rosa. Just a tad above freezing. As we get closer to the bay, 39 in oakland to start the day. And 44 in San Francisco. These numbers are cooler than yesterday. As we get into the afternoon well be slightly warmer than yesterday under partly cloudy conditions. We have a look at the slight possibility of rain coming our way. Sal is off today and were still checking traffic for you. Lets start with the tracy super commute. Westbound interstate 580 from tracy to livermore and pleasanton at last check everything is moving pretty good. You can see it on the map. And now to the traffic cameras, interstate 880 through oakland along the coal seem. So far no problems. We expect traffic to pick up. And at the bay bridge toll plaza absolutely nothing. Just smooth sailing