Contact with her. Yesterday two more women accused franken of unwanted groping or attempts at forcibly kissing bringing the total number of accusers to eight. Now frankens support in the senate has vanished dozens are calling for him to resign. After the first accusation franken apologized and said he would cooperate with the Senate Ethics committee investigation. Then more women came forward with stories of franken groping or trying to forcibly kiss them on the mouth. After the rebuke from colleages his office said the senator will make a public announcement today and followed up with this tweet about 6 00 p. M. Wednesday. Senator franken is talking with his family at this time and plans to make an announcement in d. C. Tomorrow. Any reports of a final decision are inaccurate. Now, senator franken denied the most recent forcible kissing accusation, that one goes back to 2010. He did tell minnesota that he is a warm person who hugs a lot and has since learned some of those interactions
This is tomorrow morning. No issues today. Ill have all the details on your friday forecast and your weekend forecast. Well talk more about the snow coming up in just a minute. Erin. Friday morning commute traffic is light in the district. Looking good on new york avenue so far. We have a problem in prince georges county. Utility work 214 at brightseat road. Watch for those closures in the left lanes. Well keep you updated and take a look at a crash on 29 out by timber wood on the top side of the beltway next. 7 01. Following breaking news from gaithersburg maryland where police are searching for three armed men. Were told the suspect stole weapons before they left or they fled. Fox5s mel i wa Melanie Alnwicks us live with the latest. Reporter good morning steve and allison. Still no information from police in terms of was this person targeted or was this completely random. But it was definitely a very scary situation here at the gaithersburg station apartments overnight last night. It
Stayed sigh len so long. Doug jones is former federal prosecutor his started with the issues and turned focus on misconduct allegations against moore. Heres a sam p. M. Of the candidate speeches. I ran five state cam paipz and three county campaigns in the same county and never once was this mentioned. It is time we put our diseaseence and our state before political party. We lag nipd industry and education. Former president obama recorded robo calls for jones. President trump did the same for moore saying he needs moores vote in congress and that is true. Ft. Democrat wins, which is something that would be a upset that has not happened in decades, the senate that would only senate gop would have slimmest majority meaning almost every republican senator would have to agree in order toas legislation. And alabamas other senator Richard Shelby also a prominent republican. He is publicly said he does not support moore and said he would write in another prominent republicans name. Live on c
Heres a look at the latest results. Roy moore came in 48. 4 and doug jones arounding at 49. 9 . Shortly after the race was called he tweet his congregationlations to doug joes and theyll have another shot at a senate seat soon. Bill clinton tweeted congratulations saying jones deserves the win and ran a good campaign. His victory doesnt challenge blal answer of power in the senate and puts democratic block in more powerful position. Democrats 49 seats and gop will hold 581 once he takes his seat. Today Virginia House of delegates 40th district recount begins. Fairfax county and Prince William will number different rooms at the fairfax courthouse. Election officials must recouped 40,000 absentee ballots and other recounts do not change rules and republicans would con it to hold to the house of delega delegates. Time now is 4 31, following haste development in the the death of walt whitmanp schol senior. Navid sepehri was found. Good morning, guys, Montgomery County police put out a pres
Heavily benefit the rich. Chuck schumer wants the vote delayed until doug jones is sworn in january. President trump wants to play for the border wall by trimming surveillance costs and freezing the pay of federal office at the department of homeland security. He wants to where offset some s by having the dhs decrease its funding for technology by 175 million. The details are still uncertain because the information is coming from a whistleblower. Lets talk about the latest on the russia probe. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein grilled on 90 pages of Text Messages between two fbi officials assigned to the probe criticizing President Trump who was campaigning at the time. Some lawmakers say the messages are evidence that the investigation is biased against the president. This morning Montgomery County police admit they could have done a better job in the case of a missing teenager who went to walt whitman high school. The case ended in the death of 17yearold navid sepehri. He wa