the deep throat, the person we now know, mark phelps, incredible source. can you enlighten us about that? and tell us how incredibly helpful was he in expediting your reporting? >> deep throat, mark phelps, the deputy director of the fbi, with whom bob met maybe ten times, a dozen at the most, during our watergate reporting, there's too much mythology. we're probably partly to blame for it. what the great thing that phelps did is more than -- more often than not, he confirmed information that we had obtained elsewhere. if you read the book, look at the movie "all the president's men" you see every night we're going out and knocking on doors, and people who worked for richard nixon are saying, there's a secret fund. it paid for this. it did terrible things. and then deep throat would confirm, yes. and maybe add a little more to it. but the great thing that he did was, for us, is gave us a sense that we were right. you know, we had what we called the two-source rule. then it came to be a three source rule. we had these things nailed down. and yes, deep throa

the deep throat, the person we now know, mark phelps, incredible source. can you enlighten us about that? and tell us how incredibly helpful was he in expediting your reporting? >> deep throat, mark phelps, the deputy director of the fbi, with whom bob met maybe ten times, a dozen at the most, during our watergate reporting, there's too much mythology. we're probably partly to blame for it. what the great thing that phelps did is more than -- more often than not, he confirmed information that we had obtained elsewhere. if you read the book, look at the movie "all the president's men" you see every night we're going out and knocking on doors, and people who worked for richard nixon are saying, there's a secret fund. it paid for this. it did terrible things. and then deep throat would confirm, yes. and maybe add a little more to it. but the great thing that he did was, for us, is gave us a sense that we were right. you know, we had what we called the two-source rule. then it came to be a three source rule. we had these things nailed down. and yes, deep throa

swimmer michael phelps, a pan pacific in australia, his first individual titleception returning to the international competition world. he had been in retirement for a year and a half towed marked world record for his team make, katy ledecki. john lennon's killer goes before the parole board. will he be set free? >> a major rain event is underway as we have heavy rain coming down up to 4 to 5 minutes in parts of montana. i will show you where snow is falling this morning coming up. >> parole has been denied again for the man who gunned down john lennon. the department of corrections rejected it for the .8th time. he shot lennon four times outside the singer's new york apartment. he pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. rebecca stevenson is here with the weather. rebecca? >> richelle, we have a big rain event happening in montana, illinois, you are dealing with a line of thunderstorms that have not only a ton of rain. we are looking at about three inches of rainfall in spots just the last three hours and a lot of lightning. but it is montana that we had some snow coming down, glacier wilderness or actually the glacier peek nation