>> axelrod: tonight, christie fires back. an angry response from the new jersey governor to charges he knew more about the bridge traffic scandal than he originally said. we'll have the latest from elaine quijano and john dickerson. just under 24 hours to kicked off. terrell brown is tracking the plan to keep millions of people safe tomorrow. will amanda knox really be sent back to an italian prison? jeff pegues takes a look at the odds. >> i'm going to fight this until the very end. >> reporter: and star spangled soprano-- renee flemin rehearsing her legendary voice to tackle the super bowl rendition of the "national anthem." >> waking up in the middle of the erial

information out there. we would like to see it and know what it is. we would like to get it, cooperatively if possible. >> reporter: a lawyer for the committee met yesterday with the u.s. attorney's office which is also looking into the lane closures. based on that meeting, the investigation will continue. >> axelrod: elaine, thank you. let's bring in cbs news political director john dickerson in washington. john, everyone's trying to digest these latest developments and understand the significance. what do you see? >> well, david wildstein is the official who ordered the lane closings, so when he says he has a version of events that contradicts governor christie's it creates tremontors but the claims he's making are quite incomplete. the central question of this matter is whether governor christie ordered the lane closures on the george washington bridge as political retribution or did he know about

it? no evidence suggests either of those things is true, and what david wildstein has provided so far doesn't suggest it's true. what he is saying is that he can contradict what governor christie has said about the lane closures once they were under way. if there is a discrepancy, that could call the governor's credibility into question, which could be politically damaging, but right now, there is no evidence to back up mr. wildstein's claim. so it could be damaging to governor christie or it could just be a big bluff. >> axelrod: but to gauge consequences on political futures for governor christie, you have to gauge both as governor and potential presidential candidate. >> i think the political future for governor christie, for bothef those jobs, is kind of the same. and that will be determined by these investigations. once they're all over, if it turns out he didn't have a role in ordering this retribution, then he might be able to live to fight another day if, going through two months of investigations his credibility isn't too damaged.

>> axelrod: john dickerson in washington, thank you. driving to the super bowl in new jersey tomorrow will be next to impossible, which is exactly how those in charge of security have designed it. terrell brown has been looking at the extraordinary measures being taken for the first super bowl ever in the new york metropolitan area. >> reporter: today's security teams locked down metlife stadium. every vehicle that approaches is stopped and screened and trucks will be x-rayed by agents from the u.s. customs and border protection. chief mccabe. >> those machines can look deep inside any kind of truck and if there's something there you want us to find it before it gets anywhere near the stadium roemer it were fans can expect airport-type screeningst gates, and black hawk helicopters and military jet will enforce a no-fly zone in the skies above. with only 12,000 parking passes issued and no taxis allowed near the stadium, most the 80 fans going to the game have to use

public transportation to get there. louis koumoutsos knows buses and trains are a potential terror target. >> the focus is get the people identified, get them properly identified with their tickets, make sure they get from point a to point b, and they get back from point b, into point awhere they wish to go. >> reporter: michael galvez flew in from los angeles. >> i feel very safe. there's a lot of n.y.p.d. around. we saw homeland security. it's a great vibe. everyone is happy. i'm not worried about security at all. >> reporter: for those who can afford it, teterboro airport, just minutes from the stadium, has become the red carpet runway of private planes carrying vip guests, so many that the port authority mandated a reservation system and a landing fee of $250 per aircraft to cover costs. at this point, law enforcement officials tell us there are no known threats aimed at the super bowl. and even with the very visible security presence, there will be

hundreds of undercover officers watching fans in and around the stadium and along transit routes, jim. >jim. >> axelrod: now to the winter olympic games in sochi, russia. just six days to go until the opening ceremonies, and the russians are insisting loudly and clearly that all who attend will be safe. as mark phillips reports from sochi tonight, gay rights activists are not so sure. >> reporter: the olympic facilities are ready, the athletes have begun to arrive, the security, the russians say, is in place. and dimitri chernyshenko, the czar of these games, is head of sochi's organizing committee just wants the games to begin. >> sochi likely is the most secure and safe place in the world. >> reporter: safe, maybe, but these demonstrators in paris today are just the latest to say sochi is not free if you're gay or lesbian. russia's antigay propaganda laws

are an issue that won't go away, no matter how much the game's organizers would like it to. >> you know, it's just rumors and the people trying to use the games as the most covered and attractive event in the world. and using this to promote some interest. >> reporter: the gay and human rights activists have long made their objections known to what they see as russiaay antigay laws. now they're trying to hit the russians in the pocketbook. they have written an open letter to the game's big international sponsors. they're trying to put pressure on companies like coca-cola, mcdonald's, and others, who pay millions to associate themselves with an olympic movement they say is tainted. and many athletes, including u.s. skier ted legity, agreed. >> the way the world is going more and more, goes towards a more tolerant and, you know, equal society. and i think, you know, this is just an unfortunate step in the wrong direction. >> reporter: what the organizers hope is that once the

competition begins, it, not security, not gay rights, will become the olympic story. mark phillips, cbs news, sochi. >> axelrod: we have some uncommonly bad weather to show you in southern england where high tides and heavy rains are combining for dangerous conditions. as charlie d'agata reports, the people who live there have been dealing with this for more than a month. >> reporter: even in a country that takes a certain pride? enjoying great whawl opposite of rainy weather, this is different. >> absolutely pain. absolute pain, yeah, not nice. >> reporter: tineke bradley's village in somerset has been completely surrounded by floodwaters for weeks. this is the worst of it. believe it or not, this river is actually a road, and people on the other side have been stranded, cut off, essentially, since christmas eve. the only way to get back and forth is by boat. and the last boat is late afternoon. >> it's like having a curfew.

you're not allowed out after 4:00 because there's no ways of getting out. so we've all sort of got a curfew, which is quite ridiculous, really. >> reporter: it was already the wettest january since records began. that's before the heavy rains started again. some have seen an opportunity for a new sport. but the relentless rainstorms are taking their toll. in one town we visited, they're pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into rivers that are already overflowing. and a storm surge this weekend has swollen the rivers even further. the army's been put on standby if needed, but stranded villagers have joked it might be a better idea to send the navy. charlie d'agata, cbs news, somerset, england. >> axelrod: a lack of water continues to be the problem in california where the state's main water agency recently announced it will be restricting what it supplies to almost

nothing. as carter evans shows us, the toll from the drought is already being felt i california's multibillion-dollar wine industry. >> reporter: high in the hills above napa valley, cane vineyards usually looks lush in february. this winter, it's exactly the opposite. >> dry, dry, dry, dry, dry. >> reporter: ashley bennett is the vineyard manager. she's worked these fields for 16 years. have you ever seen it this bad? >> i haven't. right now, this is very scary to have everything look as brown as it does. >> reporter: how much rain do you normally get? >> we get about 60 inches of rain. >> reporter: how much did you get this year? >> about two. >> reporter: this is their water supply. it looks like a puddle in there. >> right, there's not enough we could pump. >> reporter: last year was the driest on record in california. it hasn't let up. give me an idea of what this hillside behind us normally looks like. >> normal itly in january it's vibrant grief. >> reporter: doug shafer's family winery has weathered drought before. after the last one, they built

this giant reservoir. >> reporter: this was your insurance policy. >> yes. >> reporter: how concern read you that we're actually walking on the bed of your reservoir right now. >> i'm very concerned. >> reporter: how full should it normally be this time of year. >> we'd be under water. >> reporter: if there is no more rain they will have to rely on wells and recycled water. >> we get very creative in what we can do. we will have grapes this year. we will make wine this year. there will be less of it. >> reporter: perhaps a lot less. shafer says fewer grapes may also mean a better quality vintage. good wine but less of it. >> that's the name of the game this year. >> reporter: it may be a silver lining, but vineyards in california's wine country would much rather see dark clouds. carter evans, cbs news, napa valley. >> axelrod: later, amanda knox, convicted in italy, fighting possible evening news continues.

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vowing to fight any attempt to extradite her to italy. she, of course, is the 26-year-old from seattle convicted by an italian court in 2009 of murdering her college roommate while studying abroad. acquitted on appeal two years later, and then convicted yet again this past thursday. while she may have popular sentiment on her side here, what about the law? here's jeff pegues. >> reporter: today, two days after the end of the trial, the italian magistrate who read the verdict in the case did something u.s. judges never do-- he talked about his feelings. judge alessandro nencini reportedly said he suffered over the verdict in a case he called emotionally very tough. but whether knox actually sees the inside of another italian jail cell is exwhoos at stake

now, with the prospect of a battle over her extradition. since 1984, the u.s. has had an extradition treat weitaly. should the italian government make a formal request to the state department, ultimately secretary of state john kerry may have to decide if the request is valid, and then initiate some process leading to knox's arrest. but as legal analyst rikki kleiman told "cbs this morning" extradition cases aren't only based on the law. >> we have extradition treaties with all kinds of countries. we're not going to, while we're looking for edward snowden, suddenly make a decision politically or perhaps five years from now to say, "well, this time, we're not sending someone back." >> reporter: the state department says it is monitoring the situation, and it may be a year or more before the appeals in italy are exhausted in the case. for now, amanda knox says she will never go back willingly. >> i'm going to fight this until the very end, and it's not right. and it's not fair.

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named robert marchand, because, well, he's remarkable. that's him biking at the national velodrome outside paris. he kept going for an hour, clocking 177 miles.. robebert marchand isis 102 yea old. by the way, afterwards, he said he could have done better. and finally tonight, it stands to reason at least some members of the seahawks and broncos will have a little trouble getting to sleep tonight, and you can't blame renee fleming if she does, as well. fleming is the super star from the world of opera who will be singling the national anthem before the super bowl tomorrow. you often hear when the national anthem is discussed about what a challenge it is. it's not an easy song to sing. is that right? >> oh, it's so right. i mean, you know, i want to say this is not for civilians, to sing the national anthem. because-- in its most basic form, the range is an octav and a half, and to have that range so that it's comfortable for men and women of all voice types is

impossible. >> axelrod: how long have you been rehearsing for this? >> i have been living and breathing the national anthem now since before the holidays. i mean, waking up in the middle of the night, more often than you can imagine going... ( gasps ) oh, my gosh. am i going to get it right. you can't say, "can i do that again? can we repeat, that please?" >> axelrod: are you playing offense or are you playing defense? do you want to just survive or do you want to kill it? >> that's a really good question. i would say it's probably somewhere between the two. survival is important, and i do think a lot about just getting through it. i also have to suffer a lot in advance of anything important. that's been my lifelong coping mechanism. it's ridiculous, and i have suffered a lot this month. so... >> axelrod: i'm not sure that an overwhelming number of professional football fans have a working knowledge of opera. >> mmm, yeah.

>> axelrod: this isn't the met. it's metlife. >> i love that. i am so thrilled to have this opportunity to be the ambassador for my-- for the music that i represent. only a small percentage of people ultimately are going to love opera and classical music, but they should be exposed to it. so if i get this large audience and this opportunity to say, "see what you think," that's a gift. >> axelrod: i bet we'll be the ones getting the gift when we hear her tomorrow night. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. we want to leave you with a live look at the light show at the empire state building in honor of the super bowl. i'm jim axelrod in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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