Franken caved to the pressure from his pierce. And tonight arizona congressman trent franks announced his resignation on the heels of an ethics investigation over harassing his female staffers. Fox5s Marina Maracco is live on the hill tonight with the very latest. Reporter the two resignation announcements come within hours of each other. This most recent one, gop quong man trent franks stepping down. The House Ethics Committee announced it will investigate the l term republican to determine if he engaged in anything that constitutes Sexual Harassment. Now, in a statement that he issued tonight, franks acknowledges he made staffers uncomfortable and that he discussed fertility issues and sewer casey with two female staffers, franks goes onto say, quote, i have absolutely never physically intimidated, coursed or had or attempted to have any of my congressional staff. However, i do want to take full and personal responsibility for the ways i have broached the topic that unbeknownsted to
Department is responding. Plus, the bold crime spree that included a church van. Senator john mccain in the hospital and a special meet and greet between a 911 operator and the baby she helped deliver. Your news starts now. Lets begin tonight with what youre all probably thinking about, the weather it is cold out there. Not only is it bitterly cold, many of you may have seen snow showers tonight. What does this mean for the roads and for that morning commute as well. Lets get right to sue palka for an update. I think for most areas this is going to have a minor impact on the morning commute, but not for all areas. We still have a few snow flowers around. They will be gone very soon. Just to put these in motion, moving to west to east they did very little west of d. C. They might have had a quick coating. But they were a little more vigorous east of d. C. Through colombia and a small coating was were going on through you through. Were getting on the west side of the bay where we see the
Vote is still expected sometime tonight. Earlier today the house of representatives passed the rewrite of the tax code, but just hours later three provision s in the house bill were found to violate senate rules. The house will revote tomorrow and the legislation is expected to pass again. New tonight, busted for dui an elected d. C. Neighborhood leader is firing back at the Prince Georges County police department. Offersers say when they arrested Paul Trantham he was belligerent and cursed officers out and they say they have the video to prove it. Tonight trantham spoke to fox5. Sarah simmons is live in the news room. Reporter officers stopped trantham on indian head highway last night claiming that his car was swerving. He refused to take a sobriety try test and took him into custody. He locked himself in a Bathroom Police release a video of that incident. Take a look. Come on , mr. Trantham, come on out man. Call your supervisor, punk. Police say trantham cursed out the officers and
Tonight with what is expected to be an historic vote on tax re form. The senate is still debating the gop legislation. Youre looking at a live picture from capital hill. Members began this debate more than six hours ago. A vote is still expected sometime tonight. Earlier today the house of representatives passed a sweeping rewrite of the nations tax code, the first in three decades, but a prosed yurl naf yew basically wiped out that vote. Senate democrats say three provisions in the house bill violate senate rules and therefore have to be removed and so the house will have a redo tomorrow. The legislation is expected to pass again. We will of course keep an eye on this throughout the evening. Also developing tonight a single vote may spell the end of the republican control in vas house of delegates. The Democratic Delegate shell i simmons seems to have won by one vote. Her victory would mean an democrats in the statehouse. It would also mean a rare power sharing agreement may have to b