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there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. reporter: franken taking a swipe at president trump and alabama senate candidate roy moore, but notably not apologizing for any of his alleged behavior. some of the allegations against me are simply not true. others i remember very differently. reporter: one of his accusers calling that appalling. he just keeps passing the buck and making it out to be something that we took his behavior the wrong way. reporter: the pressure started mounting after a seventh woman came forward publicly alleging sexually inapprope behavior. today s announcement coming after a 24-hour domino effect of colleagues pushing him to step aside. it s a very tough situation, but he did the right thing and i think we re at a very i ....
he probably had no clue that was a video camera and a doorbell. trust me, he would not have done what he did. reporter: here s something interesting, denise has this really cool device from r ing.com. it has a camera on it. it allows denise to monitor what is going on at the door, even if she is away from the home. in this case she was home. she was inside. she is trying to protect herself with these security devices. i m really mad about the situation. i was in the house and i could not do anything about it. reporter: denise is recovering from serious surgery. and the widow of a federal officer, she was home alone, vulnerable and unable to react in time despite the precautions. we are now sharing this video with hundreds of thousands of people and the police have the video. that s right. that s right. and they are going to do their best to capture house he ll visited. i m quite sure it wasn t. evidently he followed the ups truck around. reporter: a real b ....
in d.c. we ll have the latest in a live report. and later, the end of an e era. the washington post declaring the power suit a thing of the past. we want to know what you think coming up. good day at 9a starts now. oh, boy, straighten your ties. make them a little tighter. get going. pull up your suit coat. that s right. good day d.c. it s 9:00 sorry one on this thursday december 7th. so you guys said it. you don t think the power suit will ever go away. no. i think i read the article. we ll talk more about it later. i don t think it s so much as the power suit going away as maybe what the suit indicates is changing a little bit. now people are maybe using their suit to show a little more style. does that make sense? i don t think so. i think washington will be the last to adopt that maybe desmoines i watch we ll talk more about it later. listen on the fashion note also ahead this morning, the future of fashion pam tone is out with the official color o ....
allegations have mounted, franken has tried to apologize to his accusers. he has said that he would work with the ethics committee. he said he would try to regain the trust of his minnesota voters. in the end, though, following the resignation earlier this week of democratic congressman john conyers fellow democrats one by one came out in force this week urging franken to resign. some lawmakers here on capitol hill especially female lawmakers say this is a seed change in how sexual harassment is treated up here on capitol hill. the democrats sometimes painfully have stepped forward, conyers longest serving member of congress and said he s got to go. the democratic senators have said the same thing about al franken even though most of what he did was before he even became a senator. so, it seems to me a new standard has been set. i think the focus right now needs to be much more on what can w the victims. if somebody here in congress left their job because they felt ....
it getting down into the 30 s. it will make a big difference depending on where that system ends up. we will look ahead to the weekend coming up in just a little while. we will see you then. stay connected with the storm watch weather team around the clock i downloaded the free stormwatch 7 weather app. nancy: now to the developing story on the hill. senator al franken is resigning amid sexual abuse allegations. the minnesota democrat says he will not be silent, even taking a swipe at president trump in a farewell address. senator al franken is leaving the senate. in the coming weeks, i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. he goes reluctantly. i know in my heart that nothing i have done as a senator, nothing, has brought dishonoras brought .f john conyers it came after loud cries from his own party to step down. enough is enough. eight women accused the senator of inappropriate sexual conduct. those, even some of numbers differently. ....