(NEW YORK) — Fifty years after they published “All the President’s Men,” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein remain “joined at the hip.”
“We’re on the phone, usually a couple times a week to each other,” Bernstein said. “We keep up with the work that the other is doing. We talk about what’s going on here in Washington, about what’s going on in the White House.”
The two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters sat down with ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl at the Watergate Hotel as they marked the 50th anniversary of their iconic book, which Time called “perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history.”
Asked whether they predicted the impact “All the President’s Men” would have on the country, they both laughed. Writing the book was a “necessity,” Woodward said. “We’d written these stories that no one believed.”
“But more than that, we didn’t think the truth about Watergate was going to ever come out,” Bernstein added.
Their first approach was to lay out the facts of the Watergate scandal. But it soon became clear it should center on the two of them, they said.
“I said, ‘Well, the one rule of journalism, write about what you know best, and you know nothing better than what you’ve done, so let’s write about what we did,’” Woodward said.
Bernstein was skeptical. “[I thought] that it would be an undisguised ego trip and recognized as such, that we should just stick with the facts of Watergate,” he recalled. “But Woodward said, ‘Look, we don’t have anything to write about at this point but ourselves.’”
The two wrote the book in Woodward’s mother’s house in Naples, Florida.
“Carl sat out by the swimming pool in the most awful pair of green shorts you’ve ever seen,” Woodward joked. “I sat in the kitchen and we said to get this done, we’re going to have to each do 10 pages a day, and then we can go out to dinner. And so that’s what we did.”
While they had a rocky relationship at first, as they detail in the book, they quickly gained an appreciation for each other.
“Within a few days of working on this story together, each of us saw in the other remarkable things,” Bernstein shared. “We often switch, to this day half a century later, roles that are expected. What’s expected of me, he’ll do, what’s expected of him I’ll do.”
Added Woodward: “What it demonstrates is the power of collaboration. We learn in our personal lives you never do anything alone effectively. And it’s the same with journalism.”
Karl asked their view on why the book, and the Hollywood adaptation in 1976, became such an important work of journalism.
“The book itself is like a primer on basic reporting,” Bernstein responded. “You see what’s the most important decision we make as reporters? To go out at night and to visit people who work for Richard Nixon and his reelection in their homes, knock on their doors, have the doors you know, slammed in our faces, except for the few that didn’t.”
(CHINO, Calif.) — Two people who were aboard a World War II historical plane were killed Saturday when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Chino Airport in Southern California, firefighters said.
The private Lockheed L12 aircraft was off the runway approximately 200 yards away in a grass field, when firefighters arrived around 12:35 p.m., Bryan Turner, the battalion chief with Chino Valley Fire District, told ABC News.
The identities of the deceased passengers weren’t immediately revealed.
Turner said it’s too early to tell why the plane crashed, but there was fire involved.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash, both agencies said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
(EDGEWOOD, Md.) — After 10 months of searching the country, investigators said they arrested the suspect on Friday who they say allegedly murdered Rachel Morin while she was hiking through a Maryland trail last summer.
Harford County Sherriff Jeffrey Gahler told reporters Saturday that through DNA evidence and tracking, local police and the FBI arrested Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in connection with the 2023 killing.
Morin, 37, a mother of five, was found dead on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail on Aug. 6, 2023, a day after her boyfriend reported her missing after she didn’t return home from a hike.
Gahler said that his team, the FBI and the community worked relentlessly to bring justice to Morin and her family.
“Our deputies and partners have worked this case with persistence and passion every day,” he said.
Martinez-Hernandez, 23, will be charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape when he is extradited to Maryland, Gahler said.
Investigators believe Morin was attacked on the trail and pulled through a wooded area before being killed in a drainage culvert that runs alongside the trail, the sheriff’s office previously said.
DNA evidence was recovered at the crime scene shortly after Morin’s body was found linked to a 2023 home invasion in Los Angeles, where a suspect’s DNA had been found. A 9-year-old girl was assaulted in the LA case, according to the sheriff.
Although they had the DNA evidence and video from that break-in, Gahler said they did not have an identity on the suspect until May.
Martinez-Hernandez, allegedly entered the U.S. illegally last year from El Salvador, where he was wanted for murdering a woman, according to the sheriff and the FBI.
“Now with the new DNA evidence we knew who he is but we didn’t know where he was,” Gahler said.
Two weeks ago, investigators tracked the suspect to Tulsa and an arrest warrant was issued Friday.
Gahler said his office privately informed Morin’s family about the warrant before the arrest was made.
Patricia Morin, the victim’s mother, held back tears as she thanked the investigators and press for helping to find the suspect.
“At one point when things looked really bleak and hopeless, the lead detective told me, ‘Patience will win in the end,'” she said during the news conference. “I’m very thankful and very grateful.”
The investigation into the murder is still ongoing.
Gahler said that investigators still don’t know the motive behind the killing, however, he noted that it appeared the suspect acted alone.
Attorney information for the suspect was not immediately available. An extradition date has not been set.
ABC News’ Nadine El-Bawab contributed to this report.
(MIAMI) — Even though the bulk of the rain has wrapped up across South Florida, a Flood Watch remains in effect for more than 4 million people from Fort Lauderdale to Key Largo, including Miami.
Typically, scattered showers in Florida are no big deal, but with so many locations recently picking up 1 to 2 feet of rain, any showers today could lead to more flooding. Looking ahead, the risk for additional flooding will continue to decrease in the coming days.
Over the last seven days, Miami and Fort Lauderdale have both officially seen more than 14 inches of rainfall.
Sunday is finally looking like a “mostly” dry day for the South Florida region, although there is always a chance for a pop-up thunderstorm for this area.
Today’s severe risk This afternoon and evening, severe thunderstorms are likely in two areas of the northern Plains, including cities like Des Moines, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Bismarck, North Dakota; Rapid City, South Dakota; and Minot, North Dakota.
Damaging wind, large hail, and scattered tornadoes are all possible in this area as the afternoon progresses into the overnight hours.
Dangerous heat expands This weekend, Excessive Heat Warnings are in effect across parts of the southwest as temperatures soar into the 100s in cities like Phoenix, Arizona; Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Texas; and Las Vegas.
That heat expands eastward in the coming days, leading to a potentially record-breaking stretch of brutal heat for dozens of cities.
On Sunday, the heat reaches the Heartland and Midwest, with cities like St. Louis, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; and Little Rock, Arkansas, all facing record temperatures approaching 100 degrees.
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has already issued an Excessive Heat Watch, in effect from Monday morning through Friday night, calling this a “prolonged, potentially historic heat wave.”
On Monday, the Extreme Heat Risk covers Kansas City, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, and Des Moines, Iowa.
The brutal heat on Tuesday reaches the east. Record highs are likely in dozens of cities from Ohio to Vermont as temperatures soar into the mid/upper 90s.
Not only does the heat continue to expand later in the week, but the numbers keep going up. Highs could be approaching 100 in cities like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Hartford, Connecticut; and Concord, New Hampshire.
In the tropics Despite a very quiet start to the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, there is some potential activity on the horizon. The National Hurricane Center is watching an area around the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico, and it currently has a 50% chance of tropical development over the next seven days.
If this blob lives up to its potential, it could become the first named storm of the year, which would be Alberto.
The conditions in the tropics this summer are worrisome, with both the ocean temperatures and atmospheric conditions primed and ready to produce storms. There is no guarantee that it’ll be a record-breaking year, but it’s still very early in the season and things can ramp up quickly.
(POTOMAC, Md.) — Police were searching for a suspect who fled the scene after opening fire at a Maryland high school football Saturday morning, which left a man in the bleachers dead and a child wounded.
The incident took place outside Potomac High School in Oxon Hill around 11:20 a.m., Prince George’s County Police said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Officers found the unidentified adult man “suffering from a gunshot wound(s)” and rushed him to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to the PGCPD.
“A second victim, a child, was also located suffering from a gunshot wound. The child was driven to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” the PGCPD said in a statement.
Investigators asked anyone with information about the incident to call 1-866-411-TIPS.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
(LARGO, Md.) — Strolling through a retirement home in Largo, Maryland, Emma Patterson takes a seat to show photos from her cell phone.
One by one, she scrolls through photos showing different children throughout the years whom she has fostered.
Patterson says she’s fostered over 40 children since she opened her home in Montgomery County, Maryland, to foster youth in the 1980s.
The need for foster parents in the U.S. remains crucial. There were over 400,000 youth in the foster care system waiting for placement in a permanent home as of 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families.
Patterson is one of the foster parents in the county who has housed the most children long-term and one of the longest-serving foster parents, a Montgomery County spokesperson confirmed to ABC News. Now after decades of caretaking youth in need, Patterson, 88, is retiring.
“This wasn’t something that I ever thought anybody paid attention to. You know, I didn’t do it for the purpose of anybody, give me any recognition,” Patterson told ABC News. “It was always a situation where it was just a boy or girl that didn’t have anybody to care anything about them. And they needed a place to sleep or something to eat.”
Patterson says she started to get involved in the foster care system when her two birth children started bringing other kids home who needed help.
Whether they needed winter coats, food, or a place to stay, her birth kids brought others home knowing their mom would help them, she said.
“With my kids, you know, every time I looked, they were bringing a boy or girl home,” Patterson said. “But I said okay, you know, these are children. They need help. And so I just started doing what I could to help them. So that’s kind of how I got started. I guess you’d call it foster care because some of them came and didn’t leave.”
Patterson says she had just split with her ex-husband when she began to open her home. She worked two jobs — one at the University of the District of Columbia, the other in retail — and she would often use her discount to get the kids what they needed.
Eventually, Patterson’s house in White Oak, Maryland, became an official foster home for Montgomery County. She started to foster even younger children, picking up newborns from hospitals and nurseries who needed a place to go home to. She’s legally adopted two of them.
In May, Montgomery County presented Patterson with an award to recognize her years of service to the youth of the county.
“This is something I’m actually connected to; I have 2 foster children and I understand what foster parents do and the important role they play in a child’s life,” said Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, who presented Patterson with the award in May. “I am happy to honor Ms. Patterson for her dedication to our community over all these years. I’m glad she’s getting the kind of recognition she has long deserved. I hope her story inspires others to help vulnerable children and families as well. Montgomery County is not alone in having an urgent need for new foster families.”
Patterson credits her own mother and both of her grandmothers for her maternal instincts. Patterson told ABC News she grew up in a loving home with caring parents and three siblings, and she wanted to give that experience to all the kids that came into her home.
For Patterson, the best part of her entire fostering experience is seeing the people her foster kids have grown into.
“I’m very proud of all of the children because, you know, they all have just turned out to be just wonderful human beings, “I’m just so proud of them, you know, that little bit of something I was able to give them or do for them that if it was in any way, you know, helpful for them to have such wonderful achievements in life. You know, I’m just delighted for them, you know, they just turned out to be great human beings.”
(NEW YORK) — Esteemed economist Peter Goodman’s book, “How the World Ran Out of Everything,” offers a comprehensive analysis of how the pandemic disrupted the global supply chain and its profound impact on daily life.
Goodman starkly points out that shipping prices are skyrocketing, reaching levels comparable to the pandemic era when container shortages were rampant.
In his book, Goodman uncovers a disturbing pattern. He asserts that for an extended period, major corporations have manipulated their markets by restricting product supply, resulting in inflated prices and societal disparities.
He mentioned that meatpackers at slaughterhouses are now exporting more meat than ever. According to Goodman, we are essentially sacrificing the lives of slaughterhouse workers for the profit margins of monopoly companies.
ABC News sat down with Goodman to discuss more about his book and inflation in the U.S.
ABC NEWS LIVE : The global economics correspondent for The New York Times, renowned for his in-depth reporting in his new book, “How the World Ran Out of Everything,” Peter Goodman is taking a deeper look at how the global supply chain was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it could still be impacting your daily life. Peter Goodman, thank you so much for joining us.
GOODMAN: Thanks for having me.
ABC NEWS LIVE: Talk a little bit about what inspired you to write this book. We all remember those days where people didn’t even know what the supply chain was. And then very quickly, we learned about the supply chain during COVID.
GOODMAN: Yeah, I mean, it was cosmically bewildering, right? We’re already dealing with quarantine kids, cooped up with distance learning. And suddenly, I mean, in my own case, I’m living in London with a newborn born in April 2020, and we’re dealing with the fact that we can’t find hand sanitizer. We can’t find the ingredients to make hand sanitizer. We’re hearing frontline medical workers are treating COVID patients without any protective gear. And you just wondered, like, what’s going on here?
ABC NEWS LIVE: It’s just it was a scary time for a lot of folks to realize how dependent we are on the supply chain.
GOODMAN: I mean, we are dependent upon this kind of rickety, improvised series of networks heavily focused on China. One thing is missing, and suddenly there’s serious shortages. And we’re still there for many products. And we’re back in a shipping crisis, because the Hutus are opening fire on container ships heading toward the Red Sea. So we’re again seeing shipping prices going up. And this is at the center of our inflation problems as well.
ABC NEWS LIVE: Well, in your book, you allege that for decades, some of the largest businesses had amassed chokeholds on their markets while limiting the supply of their products as a way to charge higher prices. Talk about that allegation a little bit.
GOODMAN: So monopoly power is at the center of this, right? We all like to think about supply and demand. If demand is constrained, well then we understand that the price is supposed to drop. If there are shortages, then eventually production kicks in and makes more stuff and prices kind of equalize.
But we have so many markets. like I focus on the beef industry, where the robber barons would blush, you know, four companies control 85% of the capacity for meatpacking in the United States. So even while ranchers were going out of business because they can’t find people to buy their cattle in the midst of the pandemic, and we’ve got slaughterhouse workers, I profile a woman who actually lost her life at a slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado.
When we decide, you know, we got to keep these plants going and the public is told, if not, you know, we’re going to run out of meat. Well, these meatpackers are actually exporting more meat than ever in this time. So we essentially are sacrificing the lives of slaughterhouse workers for profit margins for monopoly companies. When things are scarce, price goes up. We know that. And there’s a lot of engineered scarcity in this economy.
ABC NEWS LIVE: Is that still the case as much today as it was two or three years ago during the pandemic? We’ve heard a lot more about this issue of the robber baron and this corporate greed and companies having this market power, but has anything been done to change that?
GOODMAN: I mean, the unfunny punchline in my book is every chapter, whether we’re looking at rail, trucking, shipping, which is essentially this large, unregulated international cartel where, you know, during the worst of the pandemic, we saw shortages of containers.
We saw the cost of moving factory goods from Asia to the West Coast of the United States, which is the gateway for most of our imports go up tenfold. Well, we’re there right now. We’re seeing shipping prices soar back close to those levels. This is not a history book. This is a book about the present and the future.
ABC NEWS LIVE: That’s concerning when we do have this already persistent inflation, those higher costs that people are still struggling with even as it’s gotten better.
GOODMAN: Well that’s right. I mean, the inflation rate has cooled quite a bit, but the prices haven’t come down for all sorts of things. That’s not news for anybody who’s gone to the store to buy milk, eggs for their family, put gas in their car.
I mean, we’ve got scarcity. A lot of it’s engineered, some of it’s disruption from the supply chain. But if we don’t figure out how to make this system work, not just for the investor class, but for society as a whole and also for working people, you know, we’re dependent upon this army of working people who most of us don’t give a thought to.
ABC NEWS LIVE: A sobering reminder as we forget when it’s not quite in front of us as it was a couple years ago, but still a problem there, as you point out. Peter, thanks so much for being here.
GOODMAN: Thanks so much for having me.
ABC NEWS LIVE: ‘How the World Ran Out of Everything’ is now available wherever books are sold.
(NEW YORK) — One person has been arrested and two others are being sought for burning American and Israeli flags outside the Israeli consulate in New York City, authorities said.
Jahki Lodgson-McCray, 20, was charged with reckless endangerment, menacing, disorderly conduct and failure to use a sidewalk, authorities said.
On Wednesday, three people used an accelerant to burn flags in an active bike lane outside the Consulate General of Israel in midtown Manhattan, according to the NYPD.
“The flames of the flags presented a danger to bikers having to swerve out of the bike lane onto ongoing traffic and also presented a danger to civilians on the sidewalk,” police said.
The New York Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is looking for the two outstanding suspects.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry called them “cowards” on social media.
“The NYPD will identify and apprehend all of them for their failed efforts to sow fear and discord in the place where mutual respect is the essence of who we are,” Daughtry wrote.
The flag burning comes on the heels of vandalism incidents in New York City this week, including at the homes of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum and several of the museum’s board members, officials said.
And on Monday, a masked man led a call-and-response chant by protesters on a crowded Manhattan subway car. The chant asked Zionists to identify themselves.
“Repeat after me: Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist,” the leader, wearing sunglasses and a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, which has become a symbol of pro-Palestinian resistance, is heard repeatedly saying in the video, adding, “This is your chance to get out!”
“Ok, no Zionists, we’re good,” the leader is then heard saying.
The NYPD is working to identify the masked leader.
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(WASHINGTON) — Commander, the first family’s embattled German Shepherd, bit another U.S. Secret Service agent while President Joe Biden was walking him around the White House grounds, according to newly released records.
Biden was walking Commander in the Kennedy Garden on Sept. 12, 2023, when the dog bit a Secret Service agent who approached the president to help him with something, the records obtained by conservative activist group Judicial Watch and reviewed by ABC News show.
“As I started to walk toward him to see if he needed help, Commander ran through his legs and bit my left arm through the front of my jacket. I pulled my arm away and yelled no,” according to an email sent from an unnamed agent. “When turning to close the door, Commander jumped again and bit my left arm for the second time.”
The emails were part of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit for U.S. Secret Service emails via a Freedom of Information Act.
The email shows that while no skin was broken, the agent’s coat did have dog bites in it.
After it was reported in the press that another agent was bit, frustration set in at least for one agent, the emails show.
“Can we please find a way to get this dog muzzled,” the unnamed agent wrote.
The dog was moved from the White House in October, due to a string of over 11 biting incidents, according to an ABC News tally.
In one incident, a Secret Service uniformed officer had to be taken to the hospital after a bite from Commander.
(MIAMI) — More than 4 million people remain under a flood watch through Saturday evening in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Scattered showers are expected Saturday, much lighter than last week, but still enough to cause ponding and flash flooding because there is nowhere for new rainfall to go.
Over the last seven days, Miami and Fort Lauderdale have both officially seen more than 14 inches of rainfall.
The amount of rain that Miami and Fort Lauderdale received in the last seven days constitutes a 25-year event. There is a 4% chance this type of rain event happens any given year.
This is based on climate records specifically for this area, but rapid human-induced climate change is amplifying heavy rain and prolonged flood events.
Sunday is finally looking like a “mostly” dry day for the South Florida region. There is inevitably always a chance for a pop-up thunderstorm for this area, and that will still be the case on Sunday, but there isn’t expected to be an onslaught of continuous rain.
Severe weather
The heaviest rain this weekend is expected to fall in the Upper Midwest from Wisconsin to Nebraska, where a severe risk exists.
Later Saturday afternoon and into the overnight, strong supercells will have the chance to form over cities like Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, and Des Moines, Iowa. These storms have the potential for a few tornadoes as well as damaging winds and large hail. Heavy rain may also lead to flash flooding.
On Sunday, the threat for damaging wind, large hail, and flash flooding is from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The threat for scattered severe storms on Monday is mainly for the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Excessive heat
An excessive heat warning is in effect through Sunday for parts of Arizona and southern California.
Phoenix, Arizona, could reach 113 degrees while Tucson could reach 110 degrees. This is a Major Heat Risk.
In southern California, Palm Springs and Imperial could reach temperatures between 115 and 118 degrees Saturday.
El Paso, Texas, could reach a heat index value over 100-degrees, leading to an Excessive Heat Warning for that area through the weekend.
Record heat moves east
A heat dome is setting up and getting ready to move east across the country in the coming days, bringing a chance for record-breaking daily temperatures, and the hottest conditions of the year so far.
On Sunday, cities like St. Louis, Missouri, Nashville, Tennessee, and Little Rock, Arkansas will all rival daily record high temperatures, and their hottest temps of the year so far, with potential high temps around 100-degrees.
The Extreme Heat Risk on Monday is for an area from Kansas City, Missouri, to St. Louis, Missouri, to Des Moines, Iowa, and the Quad Cities.
The potential for record daily highs could occur in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, Columbus, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
On Tuesday, the Extreme Heat Risk is for Chicago, Green Bay, Indianapolis, nearly all of Michigan including Detroit and Grand Rapids, Cincinnati and Louisville.
Thursday is expected to be much of the same as Wednesday, with the Extreme Heat Risk creeping into the Northeast and now including areas from Ohio to Maine — possibly even including New York City for the first time this year.
