Resignation over harassing his female staffers. Marina maracco is live on the hill tonight with the latest. Reporter these resignation announcements come with within hours of each one and the latest one, congressman for arizona, treng franks stepping they will determine if he engaged in anything that constitutes Sexual Harassment in a statement that he issued tonight franks acknowledged that he made staffers uncomfortable and that he discussed fertility issues and sewer casey with two female staffers. He goes onto say i have absolutely never physically intimidated could he herselfed or attempted to have any Sexual Conduct with any member of congressional staff. I do not want to take ways that i proach ed the individuals uncomfortable. Earlier today senatorial franken took to the senate floor announcing that he will be re signing in the coming weeks. Many women have accused him from before and after. The most recent coming yesterday when a woman says he tried to forcibly kiss her back in tweaks and during his resignation speech he took a shot at President Trump and Republican Senate roy moore i am aware that there is some ir any in the fact that i i am leaving while a man who has brag ged on tape about his h history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office and a man who has repeatedly on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. Now both as the list of men who are fac ing accusations of Sexual Harassment continues to grow. Tonight we are learning the House Ethics Committee now expanding its investigation into Sexual Harassment allegations against republican congressman blake fair told of texas. Live tonight from capital hill, marina maracco, fox five local news. Fox news has learned the department of justice is launch ing an investigation into planned parenthood. The doj has sent a letter to the chairman of the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Asking for unredacted records from the committees 2016 investigation into planned parenthood and the potential sale of human fetal tissue. The records would only be provided if a letter was sent asking for the records and assuring that they would only be used for investigative purposes. Congress passed a bill to avert a Government Shutdown at least until december 22. The temporary funding bill passed mostly alo white house indicated the president will sign the bill. The stop gap legislation is aimed at giving negotiators more time to settle the budget differins. Any increase in pentagon funtding must include funding increases for other domestic t programs. When the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opens President Trump will be. The georgia congressman was initially supposed to speak during the event but declined. He said the president s hurtful policies are a bee betrayal. Women immigrants and nfl players who protested during the national anthem. New tonight, nearly three weeks after a deadly incident in Fairfax County involving u su park Police Family and friends are remember ing the life of bee sang gay sar. The 25 year old was shot and killed by Us Park Police after allegedly leading them on arlington. Fox5 as corey coffin was at the Lincoln Memorial tonight where hundreds gathered. A friend of the family tells me that the Lincoln Memorial here is one of bee san geysers favorite spots which is why they chose this area to hold this vigil tonight. Original rv sps on the facebook showed about a thousand and more and more Community Members continue to compile into this area hold ing candles also and signs of pictures of bisangs face. This all began on november 17 according to the fbi who has now taken over the case the 25 year old was involved in a hit and run in alexandria and he allegedly lead police on a chase that ended in Fairfax County with a chase. It was then that his family say he was shot in the head three times by a Us Park Police officer while in his vehicle. Authorities have not confirmed whether geyser was armed. His family says he was not. Fair provided backup in the incident and this week we just learned that the incident was captured on the dash camera. So there is footage from that night, that video, though is not being re leased in this investigation. Out here tonight things were very raw, very emotional. Even though the family was seeking answers from the investigator rings tonight was about honoring his life. His sister spoke to the crowd as to did did his friends. He was so full of life. We used to joke that he actually swallowed a microphone when he was younger. He was passionate about everything. He was caring. He was kind. He was so fun and he loved to debate. The memories i have with you will always follow me on my way. This i can promise. No one can take them away. This heart. No father, no mother, no sister should be there to witness such a tragedy. As we mentioned still a very emotional night out here. Were hearing many people in the crowd crying as people gave testimony as to bee sangs life. Were even seeing shirts with the hashtag we are bee sang. Theres still so much more we need to learn in the investigation, including the officer who fired the shots. And any other details that come out leading up to the shooting. Im cory cough im, fox5 a local news. Investigators will resume their search tomorrow for the remains of a d d. C. Woman who went missing several years ago. Pamela butlers was a federal worker who vanished from her northwest d. C. Home in february of 2009. Earlier this year her boyfriend Jose Rodriquez crews admitted to killing her. As part of a plea tell detectives where he buried butler. Tomorrow a limited portion of if 95 lanes in stafford yowpt will be closed at 10 a. M. Will Virginia State and d. C. Police search for butlers remains along wooded areas along both sides of 95 and nlt medians between north and southbound lanes. It is already day four of the new i66 tolls and many of you are fed up with the costly fairs. Some griefers have had to pay as much as 40 to drive that 10mile stretch. Kristin leone is here with more on how the lawmakers are trying to put the brakes on these costly fares reporter highway robberies what many critics are calling the surge in toll costs. Peak fares reaching as much as you mentioned, 40 earlier this week and then dropping to about half that yesterday and today. But according to virginia lawmakers, Northern Virginia is they now want to cap or even scrap the cost tosmght tonight critics met with norn virginia transportation commissioner in arlington hoping to propose a resolution heemplet in case youre wondering, the commission they received that toll revenue and in turn turn over that money for new buses and other transit option. Well, the commission decided not to take action on this issue tonight, but there were still plenty of people riled up about the toll cost. Loudon supervisor ron myers says for him in addition to pg contact the tolls at 5 he would also like to see the hours changed for when drivers are tolled. I know its only four daze. But this wasnt what was told to us. We have two and a half timeframe where people are getting tolled now when it was restriction free before and those are a lot of people who are working hourly jobs coming between five 30 a. M. And 6 30 a significant toll to get to work every morning. Theyre taking routes in arlg to be. Theyre taking dw park parkway and those routes have been atrocious. If you take a closer look on your screen there, vdot release some data here showing the average total round trip costs on monday during the morning and afternoon peak rush hour which is 14. 50 as you see. Thats not bad. Toy. 25 each way and after all its less than 17 bucks which is what vdot pro jected back in 2015. Accord ing to critics as they pointed out that average total round trip cost doesnt paint an accurate picture in this case because it includes whether you drive one exit or you drive the whole entire portion of the 9 miles of the tolled portion of i66 there. So again, bottom line here in this case state and a local lawmakers are for vdo to to either cap the costs or reconfigure the costs altogether here and were told that the state transportation secretary will meet again in about 30 days to discuss the toll and once again in 90 days as well. Well keep a close eye on for you. Reporting live in arlington tonight. Kristin leone, fox5 local news. Were going to stay on the roadways for now. If you take the 355 bridge over the me knock see river in frederick unity. A garbage truck hit the bridge causing significant damage. Repairs to the bridge will take up to 60 days. New steel beams fabricated because they just simply dont have these in stock anymore. They have to be made, installed and inspected before the bridge can reopened. Drivers are detird to the south and route 85 to i270 fl the north. Plan on t will take several weeks. He pledded guilty to killing an un armed blackmail. Today former South CarolinaPolice Officer michael sleighinger learned his fate. Also coming up tonight, caught on camera, road rage taken to the next level. Well show you how this one played out. Plus, this is a live picture of those dangerous wild fires out west. Crews are work ing around the clock to get a handle on those Southern California blazes. Another one has broken out. Weve got the latest after the break. Sue, that continues to be just a jaw dropping story. Winds were bad out there today, hopefully theyre a little better tomorrow. Weve got lots to talk about in our own local forecast including the possibility of seeing our first snow of the season. Its closer than you thivment well let you know what to expect for friday. Fox5 blo at ten will be right back. as a person who loves the finer things, this Holiday Season, ive asked for a luxurious new buick suv. fingers crossed. ring in the holidays with buick. Get up to 20 below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. Thats almost 7,400 on this Buick Enclave leather. Experience the new buick this Holiday Season for remaining 2017s. This next story is insane. Take a look at taken to the next level. This is in houston, texas. It was all caught on camera. The drivers of the two cars got out and began firing their guns at each other. One woman was grac ed by a bullet. One of the gunman was taken to the hospital. Both gunman were ar rested. A judge sentenced former South Carolina michael sleighinger to 20 years in prison for the Fatal Shooting of an unarmed black mail man. He shot and killed Walter Scotts was rubbing from a traffic stop in twieft. He pleaded guilty to violatings scotts civil rights during tier fm moments in court several members of scotts family said they forgive the officer and are praying for him the wild fires are still ravag ing Southern California. In fact, within the last hour we learned the fires destroyed 400 homes. In two people were burned and thousands of people are still under evacuation orders. Adam housley has the latest tonight from the front lines. Reporter right eventless winds lead to another intense fire overnight across bone dry Southern California. Besides the wipped and the low humidity the air quality remains very poor here. Were at the front of the thomas fire. Were roughly 30 miles from where it started as it now threatens the town of carpetry a and roughly 13,000 people who live here. There are four fires burning in the area. The screw ball fire in the bell air. The creek fire north of burbank, to the northwest is the right fire and to the west in ventura a county, the thomas fire which burned its way toward the pacific ocean. Flames jumped lanes and temporarily some 50,000 people were forced to flee. Were just kind of waiting and if the wire crosses the road over here were probably going to wet down the roof, spray it down and do a couple other extra things, put the sprinklers on. Everything is here. We got out with the dogs. April now the painful part for dozens of others like darlene jordan who came back to a pile of rubble and ash. Im just greatful that were now okay. We have to start over. Helicopters navigated the winds as they tried to con contain the fire over las ritz i bell air neighborhood. The smoke from the different blazes closed more than 2350 schools in the los angeles area, the fire threat and the winds are expected until continues until saturday. There was no wind. It allow firefighters made to make some headway. This fire, the thomas fire will burn for at least another week or two. In carpentry, california. You can see the toll the firefight is taking on crews. The firefighter over come by the heat could barely walk. Thank goodness a fellow firefighter as he collapsed on the sidewalk once again. Fortunately medics were right there to treat him. Were told is okay. Those guys are out there for hours and hours and hours at a time and all that heavy grewe and the fire doesnt let up. Thats really something. Theyre on duty 24 hours because theres only so many crews out there. Sue palka is here. Any relief in site for Southern California theyre keeping the red flag warnings up does look like the winds are going to be better tomorrow. As you heard adam housley say they did get a little bit of help as winds were lighter. This has been quite a mind blowing event of santa and a winds out there. We hope that its going to get better as the weekend goes osm its just hard to watch and to see theetion poor information everybody wearing the masks because the smoke is so toxic and its everyone wrvment meanwhile here not a lot that we have tokery about except the possibility of our first snow. Ill tell you what, i wish we could send a little of this south out to california. Most of the day tomorrow weve got nothing to worry about. Weve been watching some snow medication across cleveland, another i and buffalo. I put a video from my brother you can check out. They had seven inches since three 30. Its snowing in parts of texas. Houston may b bit of snow right now. Thats what were much whatting for very late tomorrow night and saturday. Most of what we would see, if anything, is on savment heres what changed today. Yesterday it looks like most of this would be south and east of d. C. Today Lindsay Murphy every model has this as a little bit more vigorous and farther west. We believe on saturday we may see not just our first flakes but maybe our first accumulation of light snow. I wanted to give you a quick idea of the futurecast that there may be a little bit of rain or snow and rain mix tomorrow. It would be late tomorrow night into saturday when we have to keep an eye on this. Im going to compare two models, but the very important yeurn model and ill have you my first call on what i think is going to happen around here. Crews in Northern Virginia are gearing up for winter today and tomorrow vdot ing crews with anti icing materials n ahead of the icy weather. That includes treating roads with brian or a liquid magnesium chloride. Coming up tomorrow on fox5 the artistic director the washington ballet will be in the loft to talk about the nut cracker. A fashion director has. It all kicks off tomorrow morning at four 25. Four 25. Some d. C. Students took part in a unique nationwide challenge. Students at Center City Charter School in park east became kindness super heros and put together a guilt. They also spoke of the importance of kindness in the community and the need to support one another the guilt featured pictures and words to describe how kindness has made their school a better place to learn. I love that story. Very sweat. Some holiday grin muchs are targeting stores and customers. The tactics they are using this year. The first lady stopped by Childrens National to greet young patients and reveal what shes going to be asking santa for this well its a perfect nespresso morning here, george. Hold on a second. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . Some early christmas wishes for young people in the district. First Lady Melania Trump visited paying itself at the chiltd remembers medical center. She addressed the group talking about the importance of christmas and she took questions from the children. What did you ask santa for christmas. Thats a nice one. I ask santa for christmas piece on the world, health, love and kindness. Thank you. Mrs. Strum p also told the children her favorite thing to eat for why is mass dinner was healthy food. Certainly wish her all the things shes wishing for. Harassment on the hill, the fall out in congress after allegations of misconduct. The news at ten 30 starts right now right now at ten 30 some crowds arent there to buy gifts. Thousand thieves are trying to take advantage of stores and customers. And the parents of the accused florida serial kirl arent talking but a judge is giving them an ultimatum. Answer the questions or end up behind bars. The cold air is settling in and the question tonight will we see a snowflake or two this weekend. Stepping down over Sexual Harassment allegations. Marina maracco is live on the hill with that story. Reporter these two resignation announcements come within hours of each other. The latest one from capital hill, gop congressman trent franks who acknowledged he made staffers feel uncomfortable by discussing fertility issues and sewer casey. Earlier today democratic senatorial franken also announced he w