martinez and his fellow burglars were being supervised from this command post in room 723, an old howard johnson turned gw dormitory, all to make sure nobody was coming on the sixth floor of the watergate where the dnc had its headquarters. democratic operative r. spencer oliver's phone was the only one the burglars successfully tapped. oliver says nixon's men used information from the tap to sabotage the democratic primary and ensure george mcgovern's nomination. >> it was a major coup by nixon within the democratic party to destroy it and divide it and to nominate the weakest candidate. >> reporter: at the time the white house tried to dismiss the break-in as a third-rate burglary but "the washington post" reporters bob woodward and carl bernstein began to tie top nixon aides to a massive coverup that had begun before the burglary. as senate hearings began in 1973 white house counsel john dean said nixon knew about the coverup. then another bombshell the revelation of a secret white house taping system. after a long battle the supreme court ordered nixon to turn over the tapes. one crucial tap

selection set to begin for the driver charged in a deadly two-car crash that happened in howard county. johnson was involved in the crash that killed man last year. it happened near mission road and savage, the trial expected to last two days. >>> a stabbing happened at boarding house, late saturday on lafayette. according to police, that there was an argument between antonio and a woman, she got her brother involved, things got physical. matson was stabbed in the back and taken to hopkins but died. the woman and her brother were taken in to police custody. >>> we are learning about funeral arrangements for richard dawson, dawson passed away wfer after a battle with esophageal cancer. he hosted 1994 and 95 season. who could forget him kissing the female contestants as he often did. he was on the 1960s show, hogan's heroes. i saw that in syndication. richard dawson, dead at 69 years old. >>> stay with us, the iconic lands mark of the inner harbor could be making a come back. sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering so, i'm walking down the s

martinez and his fellow burglars were being supervised from this command post in room 723, an old howard johnson'sd dormitory to make sure nobody was coming on the sixth floor of the watergate where the dnc had its headquarters. democratic operative r. spencer oliver's phone was the only one the burglars successfully tapped. oliver says nixon's men used information from the tap to sabotage the democratic primary and ensure george mcgovern's nomination. >> it was a major coup by creep and nixon within the democratic party to destroy it and divide it and to nominate the weakest candidate. >> at the time, the white house tried to dismiss the break-in as a third-rate burglary. but "washington post" reporters bob word ward and bernstein tied it to a massive cover-up that had begun before the burglary. as senate watergate hearings began, john dean said nixon knew about the cover-up. then another bombshell. the revelation of a secret white house taping system. after a long battle, the supreme court ordered nixon to turn over the tapes. one crucial tape had an 18 1/2 minute audio gap. what nixon actually

she is this year the general howard k. johnson visiting professor of military history at the united states army war college in carlyle, pennsylvania. i had no idea i was going to draw so much applause. carol is an expert on the civil war, the war in vietnam and a new field, the education of military officers. i can recommend her book, "pickets charge in military history andmemory," published in 1997 by the university of north carolina press. it's a wonderful piece. she has announced a book for may of this year. a book i tried to get my hands on to read it before i put the remarks together. i couldn't do it. my librarian couldn't find a copy of the book. it has the enormously intriguing title of, "with a sword in one hand and jominy in the other." i assume it is a study of civil war strategy and tactics. carol is the author of many articles, book reviews, conference papers, consultations, staff, prizes, and, of course, she is a wonderful teacher. i didn't try very hard to resist when i discovered at penn state your teacher. it has

baldwin who was installed across the street listening to these conversations at the howard johnson, by all accounts, those conversations were sexually explicit. there was evidence to suggest that this telephone was being used for purpose of setting up dates for democratic party chairmans from around the 50 states an other young democrats who came into washington, d.c. and in the spring of 1972 and a prostitution ring that operated out of the plaza which is just a few blocks away from watergate. the evidence further suggests that maureen dean, john dean's wife may have had something to do with that prostitution ring and that is what has accounted for suggestions over the year that in fact, it was john dean who ordered this break-in. there has never been any evidence to suggest that richard nixon even knew about the watergate break-in in advance. >> do you know when we -- he strongly refutes anything vovepling his wife and a prostitution ring. and he does it vehemently. guest: he has threatened me multiple times over the year with lawsuits and the last time that he was on your program as

installed across the street with a lot of electronics gear listening to the conversation at the howard johnson's, by all accounts, those conversations were sexually explicit. there is evidence to suggest that this telephone was being used for the purpose of setting up dates for democratic party chairmen from around the 50 states and other young democrats who would come into washington, d.c. in the spring of 1972, and a prostitution ring that operated out of the columbia plaza apartment complex just a few blocks away from the watergate. the evidence further suggests that john dean's wife maureen dean might have something to do with that prostitution ring and that's what's accounted to suggestions over the years that increased that it's john dean who ordered this break-in. there has never been any evidence to suggest that richard nixon knew about the watergate break-in in advance. host: as you know and we've talked to john dean about this, he strongly refutes anything involving his wife and prostitution ring and has done so vehemently. guest: he has and he has mitigated over the issue without much

it happened in the holiday inn express in howard county. sherrie johnson is live with the latest and i understand the dea is on the scene right now. >> reporter: that's exactly right. we have learned through sources that dea agents actually went inside the building about 3:30 this morning. we are also told that they are sampling the air every ten minutes. special ops took samples for evaluation checking to find out if there is a meth lab in this hotel. now howard county police arrested four men believed to be manufacturing methamphetamine in a hotel room at holiday inn express in elk ridge. police got a tip 10:40 about a meth lab. when officers arrived, they smelled a strong unusual odor in a room on the 4th floor. once officers went inside, that room, they say chemicals inside the room and arrested four men. they all are adults. authorities believe they checked into the hotel on saturday, and authorities evacuated rooms on the 4th floor and above and below the suspect's room. we caught up with one hotel guest who was evacuated. >> i've never expected anyt

it happened at the holiday inn express in howard county. sherrie johnson is live in elk ridge with more on the details. things have died down as the night has worn on sherrie. >> reporter: that's right. we still have a few that are on the scene here investigating. now about 3:30 this morning we were told by sources that dea agents actually went inside the building. now dea actually has meth lab specialist and we have been told they take sam peelings every ten minutes -- sampleings every ten minutes trying to find out if this was a meth lab. howard county police arrested four men believed to be manufacturing methamphetamine in a hotel room here at the holiday inn express in elk ridge. police got a tip around 10:40 last night about a meth lab. when officers arrived they smelled a strong unusual odor in a room on the 4th floor. once officers went inside the room, they saw chemicals and arrested the four men. they are adults and authorities believe they checked into the hotel on saturday. authorities evacuated rooms on the 4th floor and we caught up with one h

. >> josh gibson, frank howard, walter johnson. i don't remember which statue we're seeing when.z, can you tell me who we are seeing now. >> this is the josh gibson statue. the statues are unique. what the sculpture tried to capture was. no some the statues so you see the arm and bat kind of come down. the staff uses are a little bit strange. >> they are depicting action. -- the statues are a little bit strange. >> josh gibson played with the homestead greys and the pittsburgh crawfords. the homestead grays came to may many of their games in the washington area. gibson, for every 500 at bats, he averaged 51 home runs. he won 12 home run titles. he may have been -- not may have been. he is generally considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time but up fortunately due to the circumstance of segregation and everything back in the day, he never got to play for a major league team. he passed away three months before jackie robinson signed with the brooklyn dodgers breaking the color barrier i don't i'll quickly mention frank frank howard, probably the greatest sena

an old howard johnson's turned gw dormitory.e nobody was coming on the sixth floor of the watergate where the dnc had its headquarters. democratic operative r. spencer oliver's phone was the only one that the burglars successfully tapped. they used information from the tap to sabotage the democratic primary and ensure george mcgovern's nomination. >> it was a major coup within the democratic party to destroy it and divide it and to nominate the weakest candidate. >> at the time the white house tried to dismiss the break-in as a third-rate burglary. but "washington post" reporters bob woodward and karl bernstein began to tie top nixon aides before the burglary. white house council john dean said nixon knew about the cover-up. then another bombshell. the revelation of a secret white house taping system after a long battle the supreme court ordered nixon to turn over the tapes. one had an 18 1/2 minute audio gap. what nixon actually said on the tape is the last remaining secret of watergate following the 2005 revelation of deep thr

with presumably the sirens whaling and lights flashing the spotter across the street in the howard johnson'shis walkie-talkie and warn the burglars law enforcement was there and to get out. of course that law enforcement officer had to go up six flights of stairs before getting to the dnc, democratic headquarters, on the sixth floor of the watergate hotel. so if things had gone the way they were supposed to go, then the burglars would have escaped. >> what was the guy doing instead, playing ping-pong with forest gump? >> not quite. apparently sitting at a bar that was notorious at the time called p.w.'s, drinking rum and cokes and i got this from a co-owner of the bar, neighbor of mine, bill lacey, vietnam war vet and hero was in the dmz for a number of years and leading a platoon there and bill was with his brother and another fellow rick stewart, owned p.w.'s restaurant right there on the same street as the palm here in washington. and he told me the story years ago, but he didn't want me to write it until a couple months ago. i said look, the 40th anniversary of watergate is coming up, le

howard county. police are also trying jones and johnson to lease two burglaries in anne arundel county. >> in most cases, they smashed open the glass window or door, entered the location and took either gister or tip money from the jars. >> johnson came running back to the vehicle and told him, let's go, let's go. he claims he frequently tries -- drives them so they can break into businesses to steal money. >> johnson and jones are charged with the burglaries of two pizza shops and a chinese restaurant in essex. barry simms, wbal-tv 11 news. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> surprisingly, so far, most of this month has been cooler than normal. there is some heat in the forecast. summer officially begins on wednesday, and the hottest of the week maybe thursday. for most areas around baltimore, driving with glo- coat -- couple of isolated showers that have popped up. most of the activity is out in the mountains to the west, lined up along the warm front which will push through here during the day tomorrow into wednesday. the very comfortable weather pattern ha

johnson and jones to numerous burglaries throughout the area. >> further investigation epergnconnected those two men to other burglaries dating back to april 29. >> they are charged with 12 burglaries in howardcounty. police are also tying jones and johnson to at least two burglaries in anne arundel county. >> they took care register or to get money from the jars. >> jones admitted his involvement and implicated the other two, saying that johnson came running back to the vehicle and hurriedly told him, let's go, let's go. he also claims he frequently drives the other so they can break into businesses and steal money. >> johnson and jones are charged with the burglaries of two pizza shops and a chinese restaurant in essex. barry simms, wbal-tv 11 news. >> here is a look at some of our other top stories at this hour. what a weekend in baltimore as hundreds of thousands of visitors headed to the inner harbor for the star-spangled sailabration. not only did the city benefit economically, it showed that downtown baltimore is still a great place to be. law enforcement reports that no major crime issues happen this weekend, which has been an ongoing source of concern. so far it has attracted more t

jones and johnson targeted a dozen restaurants and businesses. the men are also suspected in similar cases. howard county police said detectives helped -- >>> attorneys for former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky will begin arguing their side on monday. this week prosecutors called eight alleged victims to the stand who testified about encounters with sandusky when they were little boys. he within the on to claim there are financial motives behind this case. >>> we have several traffic circles in the area. now we're going to have a traffic diamond. the new diverging diamond interchange will help take traffic to arundel mills. there will be lines and lights to help you -- guide you through this. this is the sixth one in the u.s. you can go to our website to see videos of other interchanges like this and how to drive through without wrecking. >>> there are going to be traffic delays on the inner loop of the ballet -- the beltway. the work will go on through the weekend and next weekend f you have to be in that area, you may want to find another way to get around. >> well, the bear

howard county police say they worked baltimore county detectives to track down jones and johnson. >>> the man injury fire department a plane crash in westminister has died. he was flying a small plane and was preparing to land at the airport when he called in problems. witnesses saw the plane falling before it crashed. he was from montgomery. he was the only person on board the plane. he died this afternoon at the hospital. >>> tonight police have released the name of a off duty police officer involved in a fight with a teen that led to the teen's death. they won't release his first name but said is he a nine year veteran. christopher brown died. investigators say the officer heard a loud noise at his door and started chasing the group of teens. brown was hiding in the bushes nearby. they fought and brown died. >>> new developments in the case of a raid by agents on a group of drug traffickers. one of them plotted to kill an undercover atf agent. prosecutors say the would be armed robbers discussed killing the agent and taking his share of the drugs and money from a planned robbery of

that was forminger dnc chairman howard dean, attacking republicans at the conference. peter johnsonlagher, what do you say to that? >> lyou say it's going to be the meanest campaign season in american history. that is sick. and so when you call the other party racist, when you say that they're against homosexuals, when you say they are against jews and catholics, that they are nativists and harken to the worst in our history? that's sick. >> it's a call to violence. >> that's just it. there is more than just rhetoric. there have been conservative bloggers who have had this whole spoofing of phone numbers, calling 911, their lives are put in jeopardy by liberal activists-- >>> saying they have guns. >> i just killed my wife, the spoofer says and gives his number to 911. and three prominent conservative bloggers have been targeted? >> what did you say, this would spark violence? >> this was a call to violence, implicitly, when you engage in that kind of divisive language that sets people at each and other falsely accuses an entire party of the worst aspects, the most base defiling beh

howard county police areinvestigating a suspected meth lab on marshalee drive. police were called to the scene because informants smelled something. sherrie johnson is live with details on the bust. good morning. >> reporter: good morning charley. authorities were out here for much of the night. many leaving a few moments ago but we are told dea agents actually went into the building about 3:30 this morning. d-ea has meth lab specialist and they were sampling the air 10 minutes special ops took samples trying to figure out if this was a meth lab. howard county police arrested four men believed to be manufacturing methamphetamine in a hotel room right here at the holiday inn express in elk ridge. police got a tip around 10:40 last night about a meth lab. when officers arrived they smelled a strong unusual odor in the room on the 4th floor. once officer went inside, they saw chemicals and that's when they arrested the four men. now authorities believe they checked into the hotel on saturday. authorities evacuated rooms on the fourth floor and we caught up with one hotel guest spencer smith who was evacuated and he admits it was scary. >> apparently

howard county investigators and the dea are on the scene of a suspected meth lab bust at a well-known hotel chain in elk ridge. sherrie johnson is live with the latest and this story changes minute by minute sherie. >> reporter: that's right. -- sherrie. >> reporter: authorities are on the scene killed a back a little bit. when we first arrived at 4 a.m. there were tons of cars and trucks. it scaled back a little bit but some authorities are on the scene. dea agents went inside the building about 3:30 this morning. dea has meth lab specialists. they have been sampling the air every ten minutes. special ops took samples for evaluation trying to figure out if it's a meth lab. howard county police arrested four men believed to be manufacturing methamphetamine in a hotel room right here at the holiday inn express in elk ridge. police got a tip 10:40 last night about a meth lob. -- lab. when officers arrived they smelled a strong unusual odor in a room on the 4th floor. once they went inside, they saw chemicals and immediately arrested the four men. now all -- all of them are adults. they checked in on saturday they believe. autho

in jail in howard county after police say they discovered them manufacturing methamphetamine in the hotel room. but there is a new twist to the story this morning. abc2 news sherrie johnsonre with an exclusive interview with one of the suspects. >> reporter: yesterday, we had an exclusive interview with spencer smith one of the hotel guests at the holiday inn in elk ridge. turns out he was not just a guest but police say he is the 5th person arrested in the meth bust. this started monday night when someone called 911 reporting a strong odor on the 4th floor the holiday inn in elk ridge. while the addictive man- madechemical is scarce in maryland that set the stage for five out of state suspects to set up a lab in their room. during the commotion we interviewed spencer smith to claimed to have limited knock of the drug but turned -- knowledge of the drug but turned out to be the 5th person arrested. >> i don't know anything about this apparently a meth lab. and the only things i do know is what i see on movies and a big bang. >> reporter: in addition to the risk of fire and explosion, cooking meth can produce toxic fumes. cleaning crews were on the scene for more than 12