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
Definitely grown, people trying to get through security here and theres some of that additional security that we talked about. T. S. A. Saying that with the additional load of passengers, they are bringing in additional officers, 1400 extra t. S. A. Officers and additional k9 teams. But the dogs here doing that snisniffing that helps people gt through security faster. These people have been somewhat cleared. You know when they used to have to do the swipe test. Theyre not having to do that any. So, it looks like most people here are in a pretty good holiday mood. Number of people are most people we should say, most of them are going to see family and friends. We talked to a couple of people here at the airport and asked them where they were going and what theyre doing. Im going to go to bogota colombia south america. West palm beach florida. We go away every christmas with my brotherinlaw and his wife went relax on the beach. Nashville 1010ism whats in nashville. Its a beautiful countr
Airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National with some of those details. Mel, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Still only seeing really delays out of los angeles this morning and even then not that many. So, things do seem to be moving pretty well given the fact that this is supposed to be a record year for Holiday Travel. This seventh year in a row travel has increased. Its not your imagination if you think there are more people on the airplanes and the security lines. Weve seen a couple of different configurations here going on in these t. S. A. Lines. Right now this is pretty normal. Passengers are moving pretty steadily. Now, when the k9s are in operation, then its a little bit of a different scenario. They come back and forth and they sniff the shoes and the bags and those instances then people dont have to take off their shoes at security and it really does make things go a lot quicker. We ti
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Here. I see you. Mike thomas. Stay warm. Only 5 oclock on a friday. Not okay wisdom. Right, right. Stay warm today guys. It is going to be a cold one. We have a little bit of snow in the forecast. Well talk about it all coming up in a minute. Hey, erin. A crash on some of our secondaries in the district. Ill get you around this one in southwest as we continue. Want to take you to new york city now. A fire breaking out of that place in the bronx at least 12 people including an infant are said to be dead. That fire happening in a bronx Apartment Building. The four alarm fire broke out just before 7 00 last night in the building not far from the bronx zoo. Officials say four other people are fighting for their lives. About 170 firefighters responded to the scene to help rescue people trapped as they battled temperatures in the teens. Officials fear the death toll unfortunately will rise. Also while you were sleeping, d. C. Police have been working to identify a body found inside a burning