i think i would have killed him myself. >> reporter: haggerty told "eyewitness news" the pain rushed back this week when he found out that someone spray painted jacobs plaque. >> i called him a very nice name. the relationship between haggerty and jacobs started in the early 19 40's in south philadelphia when george jacobs showed little joe how to play baseball. >> i loved the man ever since then. haggerty says the two continued to develop a friendship but a conversation one night at work still haunts him. >> i regret one thing. i said george the only thing this job will ever get is you killed. and i regret that ever since. >> reporter: i spoke to fop president john mcnesby who called the the vandalism disgraceful. he said members of the fop and police department work together to repair this marker. thousands more will pass this plaque in the years to come and many won't even know it's there. but joe haggerty hopes someone will take just a few seconds to read about his buddy who died on the job half a century ago. >> he was a good guy and he had a chance to help somebody do something

>> it is, my mother-in-law, renee haggerty. >> hello, renee. [ cheering ] she was gracious enough to let us come and do this at her house. and i have grill master craig, who's been working the food all day. >> yep. >> and my sister-in-law, sherry. >> hi, sherry. >> who has been helping with setup and kp duty and my mom, johanna over there. >> wendy rieger, are you listening, wendy? >> i am. >> i know sometimes you're on your phone when i'm talking. okay. just make sure. wendy, i have somebody who wants to say hi to you? >> cheers, wendy, met you the other night, miss you. >> slante. >> swancha? >> slante. oh, lordy. >> that's good stuff. let's take a look and show you the forecast, guys, wendy knows these guys like to have a good time, have a great time with the weather because it doesn't get any better than this. as a matter of fact, look at the numbers around town. sitting in 80-degree mark, the city, upper 70s, around 80, upper 80s, d.c., winds out of the north, 12 miles per hour. temperatures around the rest of the region, again, a spectacular afternoon, only 75, gaithersburg, 81

. >> you want to play dan haggerty. >> you want to have range. >> right. >> you are one half of hollywood'srs and what roles do you play in each other's decisions to choose the projects you pick? >> we're very hands-on with each other's decisions. i mean i always if i'm, you know on the precipice of deciding to do something or not, i send it to her and she reads it and weighs in. and vice versa. i mean i haven't always -- i haven't always -- i have done things that she's been not enthusiastic about. >> has she been right? >> yes. yeah, but i don't tend to necessarily learn, but we get very volveinvolved. >> have you been surprised at the legs six degrees of separation has had? >> i have. i thought it would go the way of pet rocks and hula hoops and it has this incredible hang time. 1994 is when i first heard about it. a couple three guys in albright college in pennsylvania hanging out, one of my movies is on the tv. and they kind of come up with this idea. it was like viral before there really was that word applied to those things. but it's good. i started six degrees.org in 2007, and that'