marty london immediately started to recap the story for his colleagues. are you familiar with bernie madoff? the boys told me he's running a ponzi scheme to the tune of $50 billion. 50 million, asked marty? billion, with a b. do you think he was crazy? no one from family members to the top lawyers in the country could wrap their head around the figure. it would dwarf the worldcom scandal. over the next hour marty asked andrew and mark to describe in depth who they were, their jobs at the firm, their relationship to their parents, their wives. he asked them repeatedly if they were involved in the fraud. we had no idea, they kept repeating. none whatsoever. we were completely blindsided. they wrapped up the story, and marty closed his notebook. we need to report this, and i'm not even precisely sure how to do that. i want to bring in my partner and get his thoughts. he picked up the phone. the clock was ticking. it was already 5:00 p.m. the office was closed. they needed the get somebody on the phone, but it had to be the right person. he turned to andrew an

london. for snow may for a fine day of sliding into snowball fights. the county is urging people to be careful when driving on a slippery roads. >>marty: for barry bonds is free on bail this morning as he appealed a felony conviction of lying to a grand jury did he was sentenced yesterday to two years of probation and 30 days of house arrest. sphere kron4's focal plans williams, a co-author of a book that exploit the use of steroids and his ball and said the conviction could have an impact on hall of fame chances for barry bonds. >> i spoke to one of the former baseball commissioner is and he thinks that the electors for the hall of fame will punish very bonds for steroid use and will not let him in right away. will ultimately depend on how the game decides to regard this still would is about one- half of the players are using banned drugs. you want to pretend that did not happen? >>marty: barry bonds has long denied using steroids. >>ysabel: kobe bryant and his wife are divorcing. and as of lyons filed divorce papers yesterday citing irreconcilable differences. there is no freedom of between the two. it is estimated his worth of to $