southbound bel air road between slater avenue and necker road closed, two left lanes blocked because of that watermain break repair this morning. looking here at 95 southbound, you see that traffic is easing some but there's still significant delays and a lot of volume southbound towards the whitemarsh boulevard area. >>> 6:47. the big one. >> one of the biggest names in business in baltimore has been indicted. sherrie johnson has more. >> reporter: a prominent businessman is facing criminal charges, the developer responsible for harbor east where we're standing. he's been indicted along with city councilwoman helen holton. the indictments come two months after similar charges against holton were dismissed. john paterakis owns h & s bakeries and again is a developer of harbor east. now a grand jury indicted john paterakis. the state prosecutor says he gave city councilwoman helen holton $6,000 to help pay for a political poll. earlier this year she was indicted on charges of bribery and perjury. a judge dismissed the charges in may. this time the charges that she violated campaign fi

nearby a water main break blocking belair road between slater avenue and necker road. two southbound lanes are blocked there as well as one northbound lane. so keep that in mind. there is a live look at those delays that i mentioned on 895. again, it is bailout traffic from 95 because of that accident. no delays yet on the west side of the beltway. it traffic report brought to you by toyota and your participating toyota deal we are you will find a service department to keep your toyota running smoothly. toyota, moving forward. don, back over to you. >> thank you. >>> the top of the news this half hour, a baltimore city councilmember is facing an indictment in the corruption probe at city hall. there is a prominent name of a business manatee alongsiders. mary. >> reporter: councilwomen helen holton is facing charges against but what everybody is talking about is the indictment of john pat a, rakis. >> reporter: nonpaterakis and helen holton under indictment. at issue a $12,500 political survey for holton's reelection. it was funded in part with this check signed by pate

it was funded by the slater fund. the slater fund was under the direction of former president, rutherford b. hayes. dubois had to cajole them, argue with them, insult them, threaten them for them to fund him to get a ph.d in berlin because they set the slater fund up for vocational education for negroes. they didn't think negroes could get a ph.d. slavery ends in 1865 with the end of the civil war. why does a negro want a ph.d? he should be like booker t washington and should dedicate his life to [train crashing] ing other negroes in the vocational arts & sciences. but dubois, we have you will correspondence edited by a great historian between hayes and dubois. hayes capitulated and gave dubois a fellowship and he went off to berlin. to get a ph.d you needed to live three years to satisfy the residency requirement. and slater fund wouldn't renew him for a third-year. so to his enormous disappointment and great bitterness dubois returned to cambridge and in 185 became the first african-american to take the ph.d in hist

shelley slater has the report. >> how you doing? >> reporter: zachary boyd is back from afghanistan and hitting up willie's frozen custard, his favorite ice cream spot. this shirt, paired with the famous pink boxers put boyd's name on the world wide map, asleep when he got the call that friendly units needed help. >> a friendly unit got pinned down so we had to help them. >> reporter: the president commended boyd but at home his parents had a different initial reaction. >> the first time i saw it i just started laughing out loud but the more it goes i realize that this is something that shows the character of the guys that are there. >> reporter: now boyd is autographicking his shirt. >> it started out with one little picture. now it's gone viral. >> people look me up on facebook, myspace, stuff like that. from all over the world, like china, austria, different places like that. >> when i first saw it i thought, you know, this is something comedic, you may laugh a day or two and it will be gone but every time it's on the tv it explo

we led the way during the industrial revolution which began at slater mill in pawtucket, in my home state of rhode island. and we led the way in the information technology revolution that began in silicon valley. it is in americans' d.n.a. to think boldly and through hard work to translate bold thinking into practical solutions, solutions that improve people's lives all over the world and bring prosperity to our shores. it is time for us to lead again. a clean energy economy beckons, and we must not, we cannot ignore the call. congress must act to pass clean energy legislation that will promote here at home cleaner, cheaper renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and biofuels. and i stand here today in strong support of such legislation. our transition to a clean-energy economy is past due. this country has run on the same fuels and basically the same efficiency levels since the start of the industrial revolution over a century and a half ago. this was acceptable in 1900, perhaps even in 1950. but where does it leave us today in 2009? well, first, it leaves us depend on foreign oil. ap

southbound bel air between slater. two left lanes blocked there.drive times on the top and west side and 895. a look at the west side at 40. this traffic report brought to you by the cochran firm. if you suffered a personal injuries, call the cochran firm or visit cochran firm.com for free consultation. >>> in the news, just weeks after all charges against the city councilwoman were dropped. she is facing indictment and has another prominent citizens in the headlines with her. mary bubala has details. >> baking magnate john paterakis and helen holton are facing charges. it stems from who paid a political poll for the congresswoman. prosecutors say it is funded by patterakis and ronald limbs comb. similar charges against holton were dismissed in may, and her attorney believes these new charges will also be thrown out. no comment yet from john patterakis or his attorney if convicted of charges that carry jail and a hefty fine. back to you. >>> some university of maryland employees could soon be out of the job as the schools feel a crunch of the slugg

belding, lisa and slater have all agreed. but it's been slow going over the past month.ully that will all change tonight because mark-paul gosselaar, who played the one and only zach morris, is coming on the show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] there he is, yeah. there he is. look. there he is. look at those frosted tips. pretty good. [ light laughter ] that's going to be exciting talking to him. i can't wait. it was a big day today. apple announced its new iphone. you guys hear about that? they announced a new iphone today. and somehow i got talked into being the opening act. you know, i do some stand-up. a corporate gig. and it did not go well. let's take a look. [ applause ] >> jimmy: hey, guys. thank you so much. thank you. welcome. i guess -- hey, big news. the new iphone is out. wow, big news. get -- by the way, get the new iphone before the next one comes out -- tomorrow. [ light laughter ] or next week, at the absolute latest. you ever notice how women shop at the apps store? they're always like, "i've got to go to the --" men are like, "oh, honey." [ laughter ]

let's say mike slater got $100 in the lottery and mike is too busy being a media juggernaut to spend he hires a dude to spend it for him and to allocate what causes he is going to get into and who gets what. this is, in a large sense, what niece states are doing. what do you think? >> if that happened to me, this is how i would spend my money. newt gingrich's plan, one, a two-year 50% cut in payroll tax, the money is offset by the stimulus money. you get to keep your own money. neil: so you would not hire a czar. >> no. neil: always good to see you. glenn beck now. he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old! - oh, come on. - enough! you get half. and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah. his and hers. - ( crowd gasps ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion? - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu? - ( chirp ) joint custody. - dog: phew... announcer: get work done now. communicate in less than a second with nextel direct connect. only on the now network. deaf, hard of heari

can you tell me about michael slater's book on charles dickens. >> everyone thinks about that we've learned everything we need to know about charles dickens but they're actually hasn't been a biography in over 20 years of this is a first fall cradle to grave biography of dickens in a couple decades and we're excited about this. there's new information and i think that dickens is the kind of christmas, there will be some good books or sales with this book as well. >> and andy warhol biography, who is arthur? >> a distinguished historian and an art historian and critic, he writes for the nation magazine and this is a wonderful biography really of the kind of posthumous legacy data warhol left behind. a lot of people think actually it is more interesting to think about andy warhol than that of his paintings and art and this book actually talks about what andy warhol did to the meaning of an american icon, how he has become one of our most of the american icons in such an unlikely way. he did largely through working with iconographic subjects, whether the campbell soup can warrantless taylor. t