Good day at 9a starts right now. Good right now. Going to be cold a whole lot later. Get ready to snuggle in. Were glad youre with us on this tuesday, december 12th. All right. Ahead this morning were celebrating National Gingerbread house day. With major sugar rush. Well catch up with local chefs at National Harbor to see how they brought this giant display honoring the district live and get this, the entire thing took 340 hours and 200 pounds of powdered sugar to build. Wow. It looks spectacular. I wouldnt where it goes after its done. Somebodys belly. A lot of sugar. Every attempt ive made at Gingerbread House forget about it. You have to have double the candy. You eat the candy. Put it on. Eat the candy. Expert on the way to get the answers to all of our questions. Outside right now. You better get yourselves ready by this time tomorrow well be dealing with arctic blast. Weve been talking about it all morning. Expected to keep temperatures below the freezing mark. Lets send things
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
Temperatures middle 40s but winds gusting over 30 is going to help it feel like the 30s all day. Hey erin. Plenty of green on the road. Metro is on time. Well get you around the red line problems. If youre just getting up with us now, well start with breaking news. Its from rockville. A pedestrian was struck overnight near the intersection of 355 and east middle lane. Rockville pike was closed for several hours but it has since reopened. Fox5 is still waiting to hear from First Responders on the victims condition and also what may have led to that accident. And were also following a developing story from annapolis. Around 11 50 last night fire crews responded to a 911 call to find this, a driver who had plowed their pickup truck into the side of a building. Happened on eagle wood drive. Two people were taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. No word though on how they were injured. One victim was that found outside the building, a second had to be removed from the damaged
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