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
Lets get Team Coverage. We want to tell you more about that breaking news story on i50 in annapolis maryland. Theres an overturned tractortrailer on u. S. Route 50 that could put a halt to your morning commute. Annie yu is live on the scene with the latest. Hey, annie. Reporter good morning, holly and maureen. Thats right, Maryland State Police tell us just after 2 oclock this morning, a tractortrailer somehow overturned and so its causing quite a disruption along route 50 here this morning. Since that time, there has been a heavy presence of Police Activity straight ahead. Accident is on the westbound side of 50. This is just after Saint Margarets road. All lanes on the westbound side are closed and so for those of you traveling from the Eastern Shore headed back to d. C. Youll be forced to get off at exit 29 which is Cape Saint Claire road. Eastbound cars are approaching. You are getting by with one lane on the right side because of all the large debris thats scattered from the westb
Okay steve. Lots the 30s. Cool afternoon and a very cool weekend. Details on the Weather Forecast and maybe a snowflake in the forecast as well. Erin. Unfortunately a busy crowded morning around the dmv. Traffic easing a bit on new york avenue. We had an earlier disabled tractortrailer by montana avenue that set us back. Outer loop parked with a. M. 30 minute delay solid crawling along from 95 to 270. Huge delays on suitland parkway inbound. On 50 traffic is once again moving westbound after an overturned tractorTrailer Crash really set us back at Cape Saint Claire road. We have team coverage. Fox5s annie yu shes out on location with the very latest. Reporter h hey, erin. The good news is the lanes reopened westbound. Eastbound youre good too. The miles of backup along the bay bridge. Bay bridge headed into d. C. Check this out. Just miles and miles of backups that sort of accumulated over the last five, six hours. Finally being let through. Along route 50 near Cape Saint Claire road.
Gaithersburg station apartments. Now, we dont know this is a very large apartment complex so we didnt really get good information from Montgomery County Police Exactly where in the apartment complex this happened. But we can tell you they did interview the victim. The victim says he had just come home from work, there was a knock at the door, em looked outside and he saw man standing there. He thought the man was in distress so he opened the door. The man and two others entered the apartment, they all had handguns and demanded property. The victim said go ahead take what you want. Apparently they took a wallet laptop cell phone, a long gun and a handgun. Police have not confirmed the models of those handguns at this time. We can give you a description of the suspects that was communicated to us from city of Gaithersburg Police. One suspect said to be a black male, 6 feet 2inches tall with dark skin and a haircut, also said to have a day old beard. And then we also have the second hispa
You can get around that one. Sounds good erin. Thank you. Thank you mike. If youre just waking up at 5 00 a. M. Were following breaking news out of gaithersburg. Police are searching for three heavily armed men. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is there, she joins us live with the latest. Mel, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. A very scary moment for one person here in Montgomery County in the city of gaithersburg. This happened at the gaithersburg station apartments. We are not sure exactly where in this very large apartment complex it happened, but police tell us this was a secure building but apparently the victim had just gotten home from work. He was home, he got surprised by a knock at the door. He saw a man outside and thought he was in distress so he opened the door. The man and two others rushed into the apartment. They all had handguns demanded property. The victim gave them his wallet, laptop and cell phone. The suspects also stole a long gun and a handgun. Weav confirm right n