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and addresses including top military leaders like david petraeus. we ll tell you about the new terror threat early this friday morning, june 17th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the early show here on a friday month. i m chris wragge. i m erica hill. all we hear about this morning is anthony weiner. it was wished by some lawmakers for some time. a bizarre, bizarre press conference only adding to the fiasco. we ll get the latest on the fallout from this prolonged anthony weiner scandal, the democratic ko iic congressman f brooklyn announced he will resign, ten days after it was announced he sent lewd messages and photos to women. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. reporter: he acknowledged the scandal was not going to blow over. there were too many e-mails, too many photos and too many women. today i am announcing my resignation from congress. reporter: congressman weiner attempts to weather his storm of his own making came to an end thursday three w