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 taylor is accused of robbing and stabbing luis bonilla near the meadow Woods Apartments earlier this month. In one of the new photos you can see a tattoo on taylors neck that says pray for me. Detectives recovered the victims phone. It helped them identify the suspect. Developing in charles county, Police Responded to a deadly shooting last night. Officials found a man suffering from a gunshot wound around 8 30 on spruce street and holly avenue in waldorf. He died at the scene. No word on a suspect or a motive. Charges have been upgraded against the man accused of driving a car into a crowd of counterprotesters during the white supremacist rally charlottesville. A group of white nationalists gathered in charlottesville spurred by the citys plan to remove a confederate statue. Now, during the chaos fields allegedly drove a car into the crowd of counterprotesters killing heather heyer. He claims he feared for his life and mistakenly hit the accelerator. A d. C. Massage therapist pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female clients. 24yearold habtamu gebreslassi is charged with sexual abuse and assault. Hes accused of inappropriately touching three women, two at the massage envy in tenleytown and one at deluca massage and body work near dupont circle. Now, gebreslassie faces up to five years in prison. He will also have to register as a sex offender. His sentencing is set for february. Well, the toll for driving the 10mile stretch on the new i66 toll lane in Northern Virginia it hit a new high. Take a look. A driver tweeted this image yesterday morning before the toll road. As you can chris cane 82 also wrote thats insane. Drivers have expressed outrage over the pricey tolls. Last week the Northern VirginiaTransportation Commission in arlington met with frustrated drivers hoping to discuss a proposed resolution for the skyrocketing fares. Some possible Solutions Including a toll prices and changing the hours when motorists are charged tolls. No word on when any of the whene place. Thats a lot of money to travel a little stretch of road. It is but its what the market will bear, right . So, the only thing that will change that is if no one drives it. Yeah. And it is free for two or more people if theyre in hov mode. Or it encourages you to carpool which might be the point. Exactly. Good morning ladies. Happy friday. Happy friday. Its real cold, mike. Lots of questions on this friday. Yeah its freezing outside. Thats going to be a big dea were expecting snow showers to kick up and where they come down it could stick so because of that, National Weather service went ahead and issued a Winter Weather advisory. Again, were not talking two, three, 4inch amounts here. Generally were just talking a coating to an inch of snow possible around the d. C. Region. However, because that threat does look like its going to be in time for the evening rush they want head and issued this advisory. Be aware as you head off to work your trick home may be a little tricky. Keep an eye on the fox5 weather app and well try to get you through this. Not everybody especially west of town youll struggle to see the snow. Its actually north and east of town has the best chances today. Two systems. Area of low pressure up here towards the great lakes thats going to swing through provide a little bit of energy for this guy which doesnt look all that impressive across North Carolina but its going to get itself organized later this afternoon and thats whats going to throw the snow showers back in our direction. Temperatures today are going to be key because theyre below freezing right now. In fact very cold in the suburbs where dulles is at 23, bwi at 24. For the day today. Watch out for those snow showers mainly kicking in during the afternoon hours. Thats weather. Erin back to you for traffic. 4 35. Luckily mike that weather is not going to impact the morning commute around the dmv. No it will not. Confirmation. 270 wide opened. No problems past father hurley. Looking good on 70 in frederick. Lets show you the top side of the beltway in college park. Wide opened in the inner loop and outer loop. 95 also in the clear right now from the icc to the beltway. Bw parkway quiet. Our secondaries looking good. 50 inbound also smooth sailing coming from bowie. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. 4 36 is our time right now and coming up on fox5 news morning. If you need emergency help are you going to call 911 or would you actually opt for a cheaper choice . Theres a Surprising New trend happening. We have those new details ahead this morning. Lets look live across the d. C. Region on this friday morning. Right now it is cold out there, below the freezing mark. Were at 30 degrees and we might see some white stuff mike says later this afternoon. Fox5 news morning coming right back. Dont go anywhere. All right, time now is 4 39 and we are back with whats hot on the web. The stories youre engaging with the most this morning on social media. And first up, is House Speaker paul ryan about to hang up his political hat . The House Speaker is reportedly considering retiring after the 2018 midterm elections. According to politico ryan has told people close to him that his current term as speaker will be his last. Ryan is disputing reports. He smiled when that reporters asked him about it. Ryan entered congress in 1999 and was elected speaker in 2015. Dustin hoffman facing new allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Three wome women stepped forward with accusations. She says the incident happened in 1980. The other two women say they were sexually assau hoffman while he was shooting the 1987 movie ishtar. A lawyer for hoffman calls the claims defamatory falsehoods. Survivors of terror attacks may be at risk of developing frequent migraines or tension type headaches. Norwegian researchers examined the aftermath of a 2011 terrorist attack on a summer camp in norway. 69 people died, 33 people were wounded. Investigators found hundreds of the young survivors many were at a much higher rate suffering with migraines than the general population. The fondings could have far reaching implications. For the first time an eighth planet has been found orbiting a distant star. Nasa made the announcement yesterday. The planet is orbiting kepler 90. The new planet is the third rock from the sun and joins seven others previously discovered by nasa. Kepler 90 is the first star known to support as many planets as our own orbiting sun. And finally from cheers to holiday jeers on the road. Aaa expecting a number of americans to travel during the upcoming holiday season. More than 107 Million People will be on the move with most driving to their destination. I will stay traffic has been extra bad around here lately so there you have it. tis the season. Right. Coming up on fox5 news morning. In a galaxy close by fans line up to get a peek at the latest star wars movie. A live look across the d. C. Region. Time is 4 41. That is a beautiful Christmas Tree but bundle up. Yeah, its the capitol Christmas Tree. It looks amazing. This is fox5 news morning. The time now is 4 44 and heres a look at the stories were following for you today, friday, december 15th. Another lawmaker is stepping down over Sexual Misconduct allegations. Texas republican Blake Farenthold says hes done at the end of his term next year. Former staffers accused him of creating a hostile Work Environment subjecting them to suggestive jokes and comments and frequently screaming at aides. Republicans on the verge of tax reform and meeting their christmas deadline. Some senators are holding out for an increase in the child tax jumping on reports that the bill would mainly benefit the wealthy. Next week, ailing senators john mccain and thad cochran will return for the final vote. And happening today, fox5 is making wishes come true. Were introducing you to a young boy who is about to have his wish to become a k9 officer come true. His name is ember. Well be live with him all day as he helps the city solve crimes. You can join us live starting at 8 00 a. M. On fox news morning and fox5d. C. Com to cheer him on. Just use the hashtag k9 cop ember. Going to be a whole lot of fun. Good morning to you were glad youre with us today. Its friday. We made it. You said snow is on the way. Snow is potentially on the way here, mostly d. C. And locations east. Ill show you futurecast here in a second but you need to watch out for it for your afternoon commute. Sounds like the Perfect Little snow because its just like an inch. Just like an inch at most. That could cause road issues unfortunately. Ill be home by [laughter] yes, right. For all you that wont be at home we have to watch out for you and yes, the cold temperatures do play a part in this because we have to see how warm were able to get. Here in d. C. Temperatures look a little marginal. Off to the north and west of town look at gaithersburg 22degree temperatures this morning. Thats going to cool the ground. 23 for dulles. 24 in baltimore, 29 in annapolis, 30 in leonardtown. All these especially kind of this area here where temperatures are so cold this morning those are locations where we really have to watch out later on this afternoon. Heres futurecast by 11 oclock, i dont really like snow by 11 oclock. I think it will come after. I think it will be 1, 2, 3 oclock where we see the kind of most steady snow around the region. Again, best chance of that is going to be actually north and east of d. C. But well continue to watch it here. Winter weather advisories, ill show you those in just a second. Once it gets off to the east, which it should do pretty quickly this evening it will be out of our hair and then we dont have to worry about anything else through the weekend so good news there. 34 degrees today. Again watch out for that afternoon light snow moving in around town. Advisory. Starts at 1 oclock, goes until 7 oclock tonight and they mostly put this into effect not because of amounts but because of the threat of up to an inch of snow during the rush hour period. They want everybody to kind of be weather aware today and to take caution and be prepared as youre heading home from work or school later on this afternoon. By saturday, mostly sunny, temperatures getting a little warmer up to 47 degrees. So, improving conditions there. If youre ready for a break from the cold, look at sunday. More clouds will build in. In fact by the time the redskins hit the field i think were mostly cloudy. Clouds building kind of throughout the day. Highs tomorrow near 50. Are you ready for temps near 60 . Ill tell you when thats going to happen coming up in few more minutes. First we got to get over to erin get a check of traffic. Those beautiful leaves are misleading. Doesnt look like snow to me. Right not. For the road 66 eastbound nice and quiet through Gainsville Centreville no problems in fairfax. 28 looks good in all of your secondaries in arlington are just fine. Well show you a look elsewhere. Were seeing nice conditions inside the beltway on 395. No pro street bridge. Arlington Memorial Bridge looks good and the key bridge rosslyn into georgetown problem free. Same story on the wilson bridge right there. We are wide opened on the outer loop and inner loop. You can see just a tiny bit of congestion starting to develop as we take a wide view, look at all that of green. We are crash free around the district, maryland and virginia. Ill let you know if and when that changes. Metro service does pick up at 5 00 a. M. We could have some red line issues and well have red line issues this weekend. Well take a look at that next. A local church says a historically black Burial Ground in bethesda is under attack. The countys Planning Board is expected to approve a project for a Self Storage Facility to go on what the church argues are the remnants of an historic cemetery. Annie yu live on the news room with more on this controversy. Whats going on annie. Reporter holly and erin members of Macedonia Baptist Church are protesting to save the site of an africanamerican Burial Ground. Its the moses african cemetery and dates back early 19 hundreds and it was the cemetery for a community built by freed slaves. Yesterday, last night, the Montgomery CountyPlanning Board approved plans to build a Storage Facility on this land despite the protests of Church Members and their supporters. Church members argue the Self Storage Facility will cover the Burial Ground but the owners say any remnants of the cemetery are within a smaller plot of land they gave back to the county. The Planning Department is going to approve a new plan to put another structure on top of moses african cemetery and so we are here to protest another site of desecration for our ancestors. Well, its disappointing. I hope by the time we hope they change their minds. Were very excited to be a part of the community as they said we were are the first ones that donated land to the project, to the greenway, so hopefully wounds will be healed and [inaudible] were doing the benches and the the history of the black community and all the history of of bethesda and the river row community. Reporter the meeting also turned into a clash between protesters andusecurityg boards meeting. The board chair made the protesters hold their black lives matter signs backwards so that the words werent visible and protesters say that was a violation of their First Amendment right. The board meanwhile says that it has a policy outlying signs bigger than a standard sheet of paper and fox5 tried asking the board chair more about this sign policy and why protesters werent allowed to hold these signs in a public building but he would not answer any of our questions. Meanwhile Church Members and supporters tell us that they plan on boycotting the storage business once it is built. Well continue to keep an eye on this one. Back up to you erin and holly. Thank you very much annie. We have good news for metro riders. Theres free wifi at 30 metro stations. Metro first began offering free wifi at stations earlier this year. The new stations you can stay connected include dupont west Rosslyn Anacostia and bethesda. Metro says they hope to have wifi at all stations by the middle of next year. Big night at the cinema. The premiere of the highly anticipated star wars movie the last jedi. Saw the lines there. That was here in d. C. Hundreds lined up outside of the Uptown Theater in northwest. People enc even camped out in a tent just to see the First Showing of the new film. Kevin said he just liked it but i heard its really good. Its getting rave reviews acrosstheboard. Im excited. I have my tickets for 10 30 tomorrow morning. You have to let me know because im not going to make it until after the christmas holiday. Please let me know your thoughts. You got it. Coming up on fox5 news morning. How you can volunteer your time to remember those who have sacrificed their lives for our country. Were going to have details on that ahead. As we head to break lets take a live look across the d. C. Region. Time now is 4 51. Grab that heavy coat. Youre going to need at this time. 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