believe, jim axelrod reports so if you find that hard to believe, jim axelrod reports so does madoff. >> reporter: for 26 months, since bernard madoff's multibillion-dollar ponzi scheme unraveled, one of history's great financial villains claimed he acted alone. now he's telling the "new york times" certain banks and hedge funds were complicit in his fraud, calling it willful blindness. they had to know, but the attitude was sort of, "if you're doing something wrong, we don't want to know," madoff said. >> american law treats willful blindness the same as actual knowledge. you can't shut your eyes and avoid having knowledge attributed to you that you would have known had you opened your eyes. >> it stirs up a certain level of anger for me. >> reporter: for george neirenberg, who lost his life savings with madoff, this strengthens his position about the complicity of banks. >> if they had some sort of awareness and had reported it, a lot of people would have been spared a lot of undue hardship in their lives. >> reporter: madoff didn't name specific banks or funds but said he met in pr

as jim axelrod tells us, it's already in training for a new line of work as dr. watson. >> reporter: forget lady gaga and her egg. the biggest splafn on tv last week-- >> this is "jeopardy!." . >> reporter: was made by a game show contestant. no, not these guys. this guy. >> seems to have a split personality. >> who is hyde. >> yes. >> reporter: watson, iba's super computer which took on two of "jeopardy!'s" all-time champs and crushed them in a man versus machine match-up which carried some scary implications. >> i, for one, welcome our new computer. . >> reporter: no matter how much we chuckled about it. in the world of artificial intelligence watson is a superstar, able to sift through 200 million pages of content in three seconds to figure out complicated "jeopardy!" clues. >> it helps us appreciate our brains, our cognition, how we solve problems, and how incredible the human mind and the human body is. >> reporter: but ibm's m's engineers and computer scientists didn't develop watson simply to dominate game shows. job one for watson may be health care. ibm

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jim axelrod with more on the historic videotape that once was lost but now is found. >> reporter: the modern super bowl makes the early version seem so quaint that it's today think the only thing super bowls 1 and 45 have in common-- is the participation of the green bay packers. >> and this first super bowl, super sums of money were thrown around like footballs. but at the ticket windows it was just an average sunny sunday. >> start with the attendants in 1967. 61,946 which meant the los angeles coliseum was not even two-thirds full. that's almost as unimaginable as the cost of a ticket to super bowl i, $12. it wasn't a fierce bidding war to broadcast the game. both nbc and cbs televised it at the same time. in fact, maybe that's the best way to understand what a different event the first super bowl was. neither network recorded the first broadcast and for years it was presumed to be lost forever. not to be found in either network's archives. film of the game existed but not the broadcast itself. until recently. how big a find is this? >> i think it's a really big find because the su

lot of people who are watching their weight drink diet sodas, but now as national correspondent jim axelrod reports they may be linked to heart disease. >> reporter: if you think you're doing the right thing... by drinking diet soda instead of regular, you may want to rethink that. >> we know that sugar and calories are not healthy. however, this was the first study to show that there may actually be health consequences of consuming diet soda. >> reporter: hannah gardner's team studied more than 2,500 people in new york city and found those drinking diet soda had a 48% higher risk of stroke than those who reported no soda drinking. >> we did not see a significant association between regular soft drink consumption and risk of combined vascular events, but we did see it for diet soda. >> reporter: americans drink 4.2 billion gallons of diet soda each year. that's nearly a third of all soda consumed in this country. since the people studied may have had other risk factors, much more investigation must now be done, but doctors say the study does deliver a valid warning. >> we can't conclude any

more about that now from national correspondent jim axelrod. >> we will not be denied our rights to collectively bargain! ( cheers and applause). >> reporter: for some, what's going on in wisconsin is the opening bell. but for others, like ohio's governor john kasich... >> if they want to strike, they should be fired. >> reporter: ...it's a death knell for public unions. >> i report to the people. >> reporter: kasich, a republican, thinks he'll help close an estimated $8 billion budget gap in ohio by limiting the bargaining rights for public employees. >> kill the bill! >> this is a budget fight and in that way it's like all other states trying to balance their budget, but this has a charged ideological element. >> reporter: and governor kasich isn't alone. nine other republican governors from nevada to new jersey are also targeting unions with various proposals, decreasing wages and bargaining power in some cases, increasing what workers contribute to pensions and benefits in others. >> the public sector union members do have a target on their back. they're the peg that's standing higher, and t

i'm jim axelrod reporting from new york.m egypt are where anti-government protesters have been demonstrating for 17 days now demanding president hosni mubarak step down immediately. officials in cairo are now saying mubarak is ready to meet the pro-it testers' demands. we are expecting an announcement any minute. cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer is in cairo. elizabeth, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, for sure state television is the source on this that the supreme council of the armed forces is in permanent session and that the military says it's going to look after the interests and safety of the people. i think, in a word, that sounds like a coup, maybe a soft coup. what's not clear is whether the power will transfer from president mubarak into the hands of the vice president, omar suleiman, or whether it will go straight into the army's hands. the crowds behind me going wild, but i don't think anybody really knows what this means or whether it is good for the protesters. jim? >> liz, we're hearing a couple

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> burt ross lost $5 million in bernie madoff's ponzi scheme. spoke in court movingly the day madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. he joins us this morning. thanks for coming in. when you opened up the paper yesterday morning, you saw the headline, you read the article, you read the things that bernie madoff has said. what was your first reaction? >> well, he's back again to talking about in that article, and that was the lead article by diana henriques of "the new york times" about how years ago he had made money for people legitimately. and i still don't think he gets. i think he is so insecure that he's trying to say, and he said this at the trial also, that he really was a bright guy and could make money for people legitimately. but that's not bernie madoff's epitaph. the fact of the matter is, he couldn't make money for people without cheating. and that's what he is. he's a cheat. >> so in reading that article to you it said this guy still doesn't get it? >> no. and he never will. there was no expectation, i think, on any of our par

we begin with jim axelrod. >> reporter: you can forget lady gaga and her edge. >> this is jeopardy. >on tv last week was a game show contestant with spikey hair and a blue face. >> brad and ken. >> reporter: no, not these guys. this guy. >> seems to have a split personality. >> who is hyde. >> reporter: watson, i.b.m.'s super computer which took on two of jeopardy's all-time champs and crushed them in a man versus machine match-up that carried some scary implications. >> i for one welcome our new computer. >> reporter: no matter how much we chuckled about them. in the world of artificial intelligence, watson is a super star. able to understand language with all its nuances and sift through 200 million pages of content in three seconds to figure out complicated jeopardy clues. >> who is jeanne paul jeanne. >> correct. >> reporter: david farucci of i.b.m.'s research center headed up watson's design team. >> it helps us to appreciate how we solve problems and how incredible the human mind and body is. >> reporter: what are you seeing as future applications of the technology that we're se