here is jim axelrod. >> she was paralyzed and had drop foot, which is where your left foot hangs down and does nothing. >> reporter: when his mother had spinal surgery in 2008, her left leg was left paralyzed, she settled a medical malpractice suit with the surgeon. who has a long history of problems in indiana. >> it's pretty bad that people can get away with what they have in these situations. >> reporter: people? >> doctors. >> reporter: doctors are licensed and disciplined by state medical boards, panels made up of fellow physicians. >> folks have to realize the medical board is not a substantial barrier to them being injured by a physician. >> reporter: dr. john hall spent 25 years practicing pediatricanesthesia and care, he went to be on the mississippi medical board. >> most medical boards are put together of physicians who are political appointees and that is an inherent conflict of interest. >> the people policing the doctors have an interest in protecting the doctors. >> absolutely. >> reporter: after dr. hall pushed the mississippi medical board to be more aggressive in dis

here's cbs's jim axelrod. >> the host of "jeopardy," alex trebek! in october, ravaged by pancreatic cancer, alex trebek insisted on taping five more shows to run later. >> welcome, good luck, let's go to work. >> reporter: this week, millions of trebek's devoted fans are getting one last fresh look at the man who made being smart cool. >> how about the word "cage?" >> reporter: each night, for more than 30 years. >> this is the season of giving. i know you want to be generous. but today, i'd like you to go one step further. >> reporter: speaking directly to his audience, he started the week of tapings-- election day coming, covid raging-- with a plea, and not a word about the intestinal surgery he'd undergone just 11 days before. >> i'd like you to open up your hands and open up your heart to those who are still suffering because of covid-19, people who are suffering through no fault of their own. >> reporter: it was remarkable, if not entirely predictable. a thoughtful, decent man, shining his bright light on us at the end, not himself. >> we're tr

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cbs' jim axelrod has a look back. >> there's a long drive! it is gone!porter: after jackie robinson's breaking of the color barrier, hank aaron's 715th home run was the most significant baseball moment when it comes to race and culture. a black man had hit more home runs than babe ruth, the most of any major leaguer ever. >> what a marvelous moment for the country and the world. >> reporter: the chase to break the record made aaron a target for racists. he received death threats and piles and piles of hate mail. he carried a special burden always with grace and dignity. >> i got millions and millions of pieces of mail from people that were resentful, simply because of the fact who i was and they just were not ready for a black man to break that record. >> reporter: henry louis aaron was born in 1934 in mobile, alabama, one of eight children. he broke into pro ball as an 18-year-old, playing in the old negro leagues, something he spoke to cbs news about last summer. >> everything that i ever learned in baseball, i learned because of the negro league. >> r

as part of a year long investigation, jim axelrod went to under iindiana to examine wh in the field told us, state medical boards are protecting doctors instead of patients. >> i had never seen that much activity in a room after a surgery, something medically just wasn't right. >> jeremy payne is describing spinal surgery his 46-year-old mother regina bruce had in 2008 after she had been rear ended in a car accident. at the same hospital, dawn bell's father, thomas cox, went in for a spinal fusion. during the procedure, dawn told us the surgeon had a problem. >> during the surgery, he got sick. >> who got sick? >> the doctor. >> were you and your mom looking at each other like what is going on here? >> yes. we're like this -- are you serious? >> both operations were conducted by an orthopedic surgeon. the surgeries left jeremy payne's mother with her left leg paralyzed and dawne's father with nerve damage. >> he proceeded to have probably seven more surgeries trying to correct the nerve damage. >> what is your feeling as your mom and your dad aren't quite right after surgery? >> you're s

jim axelrod introduces us to comic sarah cooper. >> president trump: we hit the body with a tremendouswhether it was ultraviolet or just very powerful light. >> reporter: sarah cooper's impressions of donald trump made her an overnight success. and while she says she is glad to see him go, it is complicated. >> what if that was it? what if that was my 15 seconds? >> reporter: sarah cooper in her own voice, later on "sunday morning." >> pauley: david martin has been monitoring security preparations ahead of the inauguration. and lee cowan talks about the ditions to muz d muzzle the outgoing president. rita braver on the second impeachment of donald trump. steve hartman, and more. it is "sunday morning," the 17th of january 2021. we'll be right back. ♪ [trump >> pauley: from 45 to 46. the torch is passed to president-elect biden just three days from now, a torch that is at least as much a burden as source of light, given all of the challenges that the new president will face. here is john dickerson of "60 minutes." >> reporter: when joe biden raises his hand to take the oath of office, h

as we prepare to mark international holocaust r remembrance day today, our jim axelrod shows us the hate on those targeted. >> reporter: even among the many disturbing images the country confronted on january 6th, a confederate flag paraded through the capitol, for instance, some were more painful for others for some americans. >> future of the country is at stake here. >> reporter: take audrey glickman, a jewish woman from pittsburgh who had to look at rioters looking the acamp auschwhwitz sweatshihirts. it must hit you viscerally when you see camp auschwitz shirts january 6th. >> of course it does. >> reporter: how could it not, glickman was inside the tree of life sin nothing in pittsburgh, that horrific october day 20 anticipate when a gunman stormed in and slaughtered 11 of her fellow worshippers. do you ever wish that what would come out of the tree of life shooting isn't more hate, but a collective wake-up, hey, we got a problem? >> absolutely. that has been my wish from the very beginning. that people would understand, but we've seen more shootings since then. more killing. peopl

for our year-long investigation shot just before the pandemic, jim axelrod went to indiana to examinen the field told us. state medical boards are protecting doctors instead of patients. >> i'd never seen that much activity in a room after a surgery. something medically just wasn't right. >> reporter: jeremy payne is describing spinal surgery. his 46-year-old mother regina bruce had in 2008, after she'd been rear-ended in a sccar accident. at the same hospital his father in to a spinal procedure. telling us the surge hadn't a problem. >> during the surgery he got sick. >> reporter: who got sick? >> the doctor. >> reporter: were you looking at each other, what it's going on >> we're like, yes. are you serious? >> reporter: both operations contacted by an orthopedic surgeon and the surgeries left jeremy payne's mother with her left leg paralyzed and his father with nerve damage. >> proceeded probably to have seven more surgeries trying to correct the nerve damage. >> reporter: what is your feeling as your mom and your dad aren't quite right after surgery? >> you're second-guessing what'

reporter jim axelrod talk to us about the murder of jackie vandergriff back in 2016. >>reporter: when charles bryant goes to trial he claims again it was this sexual encounter gone wrong. but as we say, the prosecutors presented a different theory that came out of a lot of interrogation done by the texas ranger that made this connection between charles bryant and his former girlfriend, caitlin mathis. it is why caitlin mathis becomes critical to cracking this case and bringing to justice the killer of jackie vandergriff. spirit see this report and i don't 48 hours at 10 pm right here on kpix 5 . >>> even though eating out his band in the bay area open restaurant week is still going on a scheduled. we spoke to jp as a potter from visit oakland and talk to him about how this year will be different.>>reporter: our vision this year is to convey a message of we for oakland so we are not just promoting restaurants but markets, pop- ups, taco trucks, caterers, anyone who contributes to the culinary world.>> lots of deals will be offered in restaurant week and will this year

that ex-girlfriend, caitlin mathis spoke to jim axelrod in her first tv interview. >> reporter: whens identity right away, but this woman knew him very well. >> he would always give me flowers, always, especially if he had something to be sorry about. >> reporter: caitlin mathis dated charles bryant that past summer and had recently broken things off. >> he was trying to win me back and i was, like, nothing is going to work. >> reporter: but bryant was not taking no for an answer. in the weeks leading up to jackie's death, he kept showing up on caitlin's campus in denton, and was arrested three times. she had also filed a restraining order against him. this history made bryant a good suspect in jackie vandagriff's case. but police didn't have enough evidence to arrest him right away. but shortly after jackie's body was found, he tried to contact caitlin again, which was a violation of that restraining order. he was brought in for questioning. >> yeah, it is crazy. >> reporter: at first, bryant denied knowing who jackie was, but texas ranger jim holland, who specializes in interviewin

for "cbs this morning saturday," this is jim axelrod. >> i had the pleasure of interviewing him once.t was unbelievable to hear the stories of what he had to go through under that pressure and what he accomplished. >> keep pushing through. >> yeah. >> beyond what everything he did off the field. there is one crazy stat from on the field. he had, in his career, 6,856 total passes. number one all time by far. which is 722 more bases than the next player, right. that means -- 90 feet per base. hank aaron rounded the bases 12 miles more than the next player behind him. >> you didn't do the math, somebody else did. >> no -- >> of course. >> rest in piece, hammerin' hank. >>> we will explain what's in a name ahead. first, the weather for your weekend. ♪ >>> he has a large following in russia by exposing the high level of government corruption. supporters of alexei navalny are demanding his release from jail. but the russian government says he is a criminal. the story is straight ahead. >>> you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." if you have obstructive sleep apnea and you're often tire

. >> you have said, i've heard you say it, david axelrod, jim sciutto, you are in a battle now for thel of the republican party. that's how you see it. you say it's your five-meter target, which is a military term. that's the closest thing you're concerned about right now is the battle for the republican party. well, look, in the last 24 hours, i'm talking about the last 24 hours, you have the house leader going to meet with the former president. you have marjorie taylor greene getting a committee assignment, you have the republican party itself coming out with an official statement against impeachment. so given all that, i ask you this morning, how do you think your battle is going? >> so far, not great. now we're still at the very beginning of this. and, you know, we failed as a party just generally for four years to explain to the american people really what our values are. and we've pivoted to, we have to win at all costs. and donald trump, he's a fighter and we're going to back him and we got some policies that we liked in place, but in that process, we've lost the discussion abou

jim acosta at the white house. let's discuss with david axelrod, another commentator, john kasich, senior legal and national security analyst carrie cordero. let's begin with the serious new warning. cnn is learning from this internal fbi bulletin that armed protests are not only being planned here in the nation's capitol around the inauguration but in all 50 states next week in the coming days. how should the incoming biden administration, and you know a lot of these individuals, how should they be approaching the threats which also include direct threats to the president-elect, the vice president-elect and the speaker? >> you know, wolf, i'm having flashbacks to 2009 when the b s obama administration was about to take office, got word in final days before the inauguration about a terrorist plot, potential terrorist plot on the inauguration and, you know, this occasioned me writing a piece for the president in case he had to disperse the crowd in the middle of the ceremony. it was very, very serious, it was very sobering. the difference is we wer