john ehrlichman, abc news, los angeles. >>> an apparent misunderstanding at a restaurant over a bottlerapes for a new jersey man. he was at bobby flay's steak house in atlantic city when he asked his waitress for a wine recommendation. he says she offered a bottle that cost $37.50. now let's look at the check. he thought he was buying a bottle of wine for under $37. ends up it cost $3,750. 3750. he disputed the charge and eventually paid $2200. the wine was a 2011 screaming eagle cabernet from napa valley. he says the wine was good but not great. >> wow. sounds like a case for 7 on your side, if you ask me. $2200. speaking of 7 on your side, michael finney here with holiday shopping he has on his mind this afternoon. i have it on my mind, too. what are you going to get us? >> good question. >> something very very special. i hope we are all here on the same day. sears and kmart are the latest retailers to announce thanksgiving shopping hours. kmart will open at 6:00 in the morning and stay open for 42 straight hours. that's an hour longer than last year. kohl's and macy's will open thei

as john ehrlichman reports, getting peterson back on the field won't be that easy. >> reporter: adrian peterson was back at the montgomery county courthouse in texas tuesday, this time pleading no conest to misdemeanor reckless assault. >> how do you plead? >> reporter: peterson an all-pro republicaning ba i running back had been charged with disciplining his 4-year-old son with a tree branch. so severely, the wounds opened his skin. had he gone to trial, he could have faced jail time. with this plea deal, instead he'll receive probation, a maximum $4,000 fine and 80 hours of community service. >> i love my son more than anyone of you could even imagine. and i'm looking forward to and i'm anxious to repair my relationship with my child. >> reporter: for peterson's minnesota vikes teammates the plea deal was welcome news. >> you'd be crazy not to welcome him back into that locker room. >> reporter: a decision on him returning to the field lies in the hands of nfl commissioner roger goodell. peterson's case is one in a string of players accused of domestic violence putting pressure on th

i actually had three; bob haldeman, who i reported to, john ehrlichman never gave up the counsel's job actually and nixon continued to turn to him for an awful lot of things that related to the counsel's office, and ehrlichman just had me do the work. and then, of course, when the president started calling on me, i had that third master. >> host: how often would you meet with bob haldeman? >> guest: regularly. he had morning staff meetings. he was a good administrative chief of staff. he was easy to work with. a lot of people found him tough to work with. i think that was his immediate staff that he was hard on. but the other professionals on the staff he really treated as peers, and it was a pleasure to work for him. >> host: john dean, june 1972, what was that month like in the white house? >> guest: well, that's, of course, the month where the arrest occurred at the watergate. i happened to have been in manila in the philippines giving a speech at the time the break-in occurs and the arrests occur. first mistake might have been coming home. but i did. [laughter] i stopped in san fra

john ehrlichman, abc news, los angeles. >>> very big day in new york city.cture for you. the new number one world trade center opened its doors to its first tenants today. this milestone comes a little more than 13 years after the terrorist attack that took nearly 3,000 lives, of course. the building soars 104 stories above the city into the air, making it the tallest building in the united states. >> we brought it back. we built it even higher than it was before. and now we just have to tell the world we're back. >> the new tower took eight years to build at a cost of nearly $4 billion. developers say it is the most secure office building in america, made with reinforced concrete that's seven times more durable than traditional concrete. they also claim it's designed so that even if hit by an aircraft, the people at the top should be able to exit safely. the employees of publishing giant conde nast are the first to take up residence with many more expected to follow. >>> voters go to the polls across america tomorrow and the voice of the people will sound l

>> thanks, john ehrlichman there. >>> most of the state of texas is under flood warnings and watches. tropical storm vance is weakening in the pacific but still packing a strong punch. it's picking up tropical moisture and tracking northeast toward mexico and eventually texas. it's expected to dump up to a foot of rain in its path. officials in austin are getting the emergency operations center ready. they are monitoring the radar and the roads. >>> now here's a look at the rest of the nation's weather. that band of heavy rain covering much of texas extends up through south and the ohio valley into the northeast. showers also over the upper midwest and great lakes as well as the pacific northwest. dry and breezy for most of the west and santa ana winds raising a fire danger for parts of california. >>> temperatures a bit milder. most areas will be in the 60s. 70s in the south. 80s in the southwest. >>> one more halloween trick and treat i'm told this is from the l.a. zoo. >> the first baby hippopotamus in 26 years born on halloween. it was also a bit of a trick. mama hippo was on birt

john ehrlichman for abc news, los angeles. >>> an investigation is under way at l.a.x.he plane was empty on the tarmac when the truck hit it causing damage to one of the plane's turbines. the driver had to be pulled from the truck and hospitalized. there was no fire and no significant fuel leak. >>> the federal government is suing southwest airlines over allegations that repairs the carrier made to dozens of its planes did not meet safety standards. the government says southwest hired a contractor to make repairs on 44 planes to prevent the aluminum skin from cracking. the faa says the contractor failed to follow proper procedures and the airline returned the planes into service. >>> federal regulators are investigating honda, looking into whether they refused to report deaths and injuries related to defect photocopies centers on the air bags made by takata that are used in honda vehicles and other parts. honda has recalled more than 5 million vehicles to fix the air bag defects. the company says it is cooperating. >>> hundreds of meteor sightings are being reported acr

mitchell former white house chief of staff bob haldeman and former assistant to the president john ehrlichman and the others who got charged for the watergate cover-up. they obviously listen to the conversations and tweak them and they were good. the rest of the watergate prosecutors conversations were not so good. the content was good but then they would have the wrong person speaking. so i called one of my friends that used to be in the watergate prosecutor's office and said what happened? he said these were first drafts by fbi secretaries so if they didn't recognize the voice and often they didn't, it's not so good. i realized i had to redo those. stanley cutler a historian who forced nixon to release the tapes much earlier than he wanted to release them also did about 320 watergate conversations. stanley did more than watergate. he did the pre-watergate as well. i realized i would have to redo stanley's conversations. but that was 400 conversations, 80 by the prosecutors, 320 by cutler, there were 600 more conversations that the best i can tell nobody outside the national archives had eve