bernie's daughter-in-law, stephanie madoff mack is here. her husband, mark, committed suicide. she blames bernie madoff. >>> first, to josh elliott. >> we're going to begin with the desperate search for survivors at this hour in eastern turkey. the death toll is now at 239. dozens of people are still trapped, though in the rubble of buildings, which, really in an instant were flattened like pancakes. alex marquardt is in the quake zone. >> reporter: this video shot inside an apartment shows the moment the quake hit. outside, chaos in the streets. women clutching babies. screams of red dents everywhere. across much of this swath of eastern turkey, all that remains is rubble. hardest hit? ercis and van. cities near the iranian board. more than 80 multistory buildings in ercis collapse, half of them with people still inside. rescue teams are working around the clock. pulling people from the rubble. more than 1,000 teams have been called in from across the country, as well as turkish troops. the conditions here are just right for a catastrophe. turkey sits on a number of fault lines

and i went running around and she's like he's dead stephanie, shehe's dead. i hate bernie madoff.i saw bernie madoff right now, i would tell him that i hold him fully responsible for killing my husband and i'd spit in his face. >> boy that emotion is still so raw. and she's very angry at ruth madoff, too. >> reporter: yes, george. you'll see tonight why, i mean, there were things that went on that her husband couldn't recover from but they could have been fixable. and it's very difficult for stephanie to deal with that having lost the center of her world. going to take time. >> i'll bet. chris, thank you. much more of the interview tonight on "20/20." >>> and coming up here the prosecution rests in the trial of michael jackson's doctor. can the defense recover? reathe... i couldn't sleep and mornings? rough. i tried tissues and neti pot thingy and even more tissues then i said enough! and i found the solution. [ female announcer ] drug-free breathe right nasal strips. i put it on and...wow! instant relief. i breathed better...slept better felt better. [ female announcer ] take the

stephanie madoff was busy decorating her apartment and getting ready for the holidays. suddenly, she received a panicked phone call from her husband, mark. >> he was out of breath. and he said, "where are you?" i said, "what's wrong?" he goes, "i'm fine, stephanie, but it's my father. my father's done something really bad." >> reporter: her husband, she says, had grown increasingly concerned about his father's business. finally, confronting him that fateful afternoon. >> he marched into his father's office and said, "what the -- is going on here?" and they went to his house on 64th street and told them that his business was just one big lie and that he was billions in debt. he said that bernie delivered the news like that. >> reporter: flat affect. >> flat affect. ruth was sitting on a couch, like a zombie, saying nothing. >> reporter: mark and andy turned in their father that day. >> what do you have to say for yourself? >> reporter: bernie confessed to running the biggest ponzi scheme in history. all told, $65 billion conned out of investors. he used his fund as a per

bernie's daughter-in-law, stephanie madoff mack is here. speaking out about madoff's ponzi scheme and those closest to him. did his actions push her mark over the edge to commit suicide? she blames bernie madoff. >>> first, to josh elliott. >> we're going to begin with the desperate search for survivors at this hour in eastern turkey. where the death toll from the magnitude 7.2 earth quake has now risen to 270. dozens of people are still trapped in the rubble of the buildings which, in an instant, were flattened like pan takecakes. abc's alex marquardt is in the quake zone. >> reporter: this video shot inside an apartment shows the moment the quake hit. outside, chaos in the streets. women clutching babies. screams of residents everywhere. across much of this swath of eastern turkey, all that remains is rubble. hardest hit? ercis and van. cities near the iranian border. in ercis alone, more than 80 multi story buildings collapsed, half of them with people inside. rescue teams are working around the clock. pulling people from the rubble. more

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that is stephanie madoff mack. she lost something nobody else did. mething you want to see and read. stephanie says in her book, that mark lost both of his parents on the day bernie confessed. that's because he refused to see his mother, ruth, as long as she stood by bernie's side. >> he couldn't understand how she could continuously stand by this man who ruined so many lives. who ruined his life. >> reporter: it was now october 2009. and mark was still haunted by his mother's decision. stephanie lashed out, legging mark to deal with his mother head-on, instead of being eaten up inside. but mark told her, he just couldn't. and instead, did something much worse. >> he said, you know what? i'm going to leave. i'm going to leave. after about an hour and a half, i got -- i started to get scared. >> reporter: fear would turn to panic, after she checked the medicine cabinet and all the pills were gone. >> and i was just so scared. by 8:00 in the morning, i thought the worst. and i saw, out of the corner of my eye, a man come in and just go on to my bed. and

. >> stephanie madoff is breaking her silence and had a very candid interview with you. what did she share? >> stephanie changed her name as mark had intended to do if he had not killed himself. she is the one person who can tell us what was going on inside that family. stephanie had nothing to do wwith what went on in the hedge fund, but she was living with someone who discovered the problem and had to live with the shame of being implicated in everything by the public scrutiny. her story is as close as you can get to what it was like inside that family. >>in one of the worst situations in financial history. >> she spoke about bernard madoff's wife and her involvement. >> yes. because her husband was so intent on getting his name back and felt he could not if his own mother would not abandon bernie and the decision of ruth to stay with bernie tortured him as a sound. >> all right, chris, thank you so much as always. we ask you to join us tonight at 10:00 to catch the story on "20/20." >>> and nice and mild this weekend. >> looking good. what you would expect for october

it is a coming-out of sorts for ruth, his son andrew and daughter-in-law stephanie. madoffamera interview from prison in north carolina. now, the books, which are expected to be best sellers, could bring in a lot of money to the authors. madoff's $50 billion ponzi scheme, the largest in history, came to a crashing halt in 2008. as of today, only about $10 billion have been recovered. bernie madoff's former attorney, ira sorkin, came "outfront" today along with a senior writer for "the new york times." i spoke to them about the media blitz. diana told me she e-mailed with madoff himself this week. >> he told me that although his psychologist told him not to watch the interview that stephanie did on television, he did watch it. in an e-mail he sent on monday, he said, "it was as painful as i expected. i cannot find fault with what she said about me or the hate she expressed. i certainly am guilty of causing mark's death." so, it obviously hit home to him. he is always the spider at the middle of the web. he is the ghost at the feast, because he was the man who hit the dominos

it is a coming-out of sorts for ruth, his son andrew and daughter-in-law stephanie. madoffa interview from prison in north carolina. now, the books, which are expected to be best sellers, could bring in a lot of money to the authors. madoff's $50 billion ponzi scheme, the largest in history, came to a crashing halt in 2008. as of today, only about $10 billion have been recovered. bernie madoff's former attorney, ira sorkin, came "outfront" today along with a senior writer for "the new york times." i spoke to them about the media blitz. diana told me she e-mailed with madoff himself this week. >> he told me that although his psychologist told him not to watch the interview that stephanie did on television, he did watch it. in an e-mail he sent on monday, he said, "it was as painful as i expected. i cannot find fault with what she said about me or the hate she expressed. i certainly am guilty of causing mark's death." so, it obviously hit home to him. he is always the spider at the middle of the web. he is the ghost at the feast, because he was the man who hit the dominos and

stephanie madoff mack was married to bernie madoff's son who killed himself last december. "20/20," she says that mark madoff had no idea what was going on. >> he marched into his father's office and said, what the -- is going on here? and bernie said, i can't tell you here. we have to go home to my apartment. i don't want to tell you in the office. and so, he and andy and bernie left. and they went to his house on 64th street. and told them that his business was just one, big lie. and that he was billions in debt. he said that bernie delivered the news like that. >> flat affect. >> flat affect s. >> no crying? no, i'm sorry. >> and then cried. ruth was sitting on a couch, like a zombie, saying nothing. andy fell to his knees and started to cry. and my husband picked his brother up and said, let's get out of here. >> you can hear much more from chris cuomo's emotional interview tomorrow night on "20/20." stephanie madoff mack's book, "the end of normal: a wife's anguish," is out today. she'll join us live on "good morning america" next monday. >>> and finally, another note

. >> and there is stephanie madoff whose husband mark committed suicide last year, depressed over hiscrime. >> if i saw bernie madoff right now, i would tell him that i hold him fully responsible for killing my husband and i'd spit in his face. >> so every time you hear an interview, every time you read an article involving an interview, what goes through your mind? >> i have a visceral reaction. i really feel sick to my stomach. >> i wish we could get that kind of publicity so people understand who the victims are. they're every day people. >> you're hearing people ask them a lot of questions. do you have any questions that remain in your mind that you'd like to ask them? >> if i knew that bernie madoff would actually tell the truth for a change, i would say why? how? and who helped you? >> for victims there are many questions they feel will never be fully answered. prosecutors have not charged madoff's children nor his wife. she is living in a barrowed home in south florida. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >>> other news we're following, some are calling them radical ideas by the ca

. >> reporter: no comment this morning from stephanie madoff mac, the widow of mark madoff, who killed himself last year. she talked in this exclusive. >> i have a difficult time understanding the choices she made. no doubt did she love mark very much. but i feel she might have loved bernie more. >> reporter: it's interesting to note that he may have made conflicting statements. telling "new york" magazine, that he did not consider killing himself. but telling "the new york times" overnight, that suicide had, quote, crossed my mind, after his initial arrest. it's worth noting that while ruth madoff said she and her husband tried killing themselves because distraught over the crime. bernie madoff has not expressed much remorse, other than in court, when he was trying to get a lighter sentence. >>> let's go to barbara walters. with robin. >> barbara sat down with bernie madoff in the complex. no cameras allowed inside. >> they do not allow cameras in prison. but he talked very freely. let me go through some of the points. remorse. he has terrible remorse, he says. he knows he ruined his

. >> and there's stephanie madoff, whose husband mark committed sigh side last year, depressed over hisht now, i would tell him that i hold him fully responsible for killing my husband and i'd spit in his face. >> so every time you hear an interview, every time you read an article, involving an interview, what goes through your mind? >> i get a visceral reaction. i really feel sick to my stomach. >> i wish we could get that kind of publicity so people understand who the victims are. >> if they were sincere, they'd p give the proceeds to the charities he's scammed. >> you're hearing people ask them a lot of questions. do you have any questions that remain in your mind that you'd like to ask him? >> if i knew that madoff woul tell the truth for a change, i would say why? how? and who helped you? >> there are many questions, they feel, may never be fully answered. prosecutors have not charged madoff's children nor his wife. she's living in a borrowed home in south florida and the more interviews come up, wolf, these family members, victims, say they bring themselves to watch it, they have

. >> then there's stephanie madoff whose husband mark committed suicide last year, depressed over his bernie madoff right now, i would tell him that i hold him fully responsible for killing my husband. and i'd spit in his face. >> so every time you hear an interview, every time you read an article, involving an interview, what goes through your mind. >> i get a visceral reaction, i really feel sick to my stomach. >> i wish we could get that kind of publicity so people understand who the victims are. they're everyday people. >> you're hearing people ask them a lot of questions. do you have any questions that remain in your mind that you'd like to ask them? >> if i knew that bernie madoff would actually tell the truth for a change, i would say why? how? and who helped you? >> for victims, there are many questions they feel will never be fully answered. prosecutors have not charged madoff's children nor his wife. she's lived in a borrowed home in south florida. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >>> president bush called it the soft bigotry of low expectations thinking that minority childre

you have her daughter-in-law, stephanie madoff mack, who published a book, this is widow of mark madofftted suicide and in her book she says horrendous things about bernie madoff, as well as ruth, that i hate bernie madoff, if i saw him now i would tell him that i hold him fully responsible for killing my husband and i'd spit in his face. ruth madoff is breaking her silence because in in order to have contact with her grandchildren and we're other surviving son, this is the price she has to pay. martha: it's like a shakespearean tragedy, this whole thing all around. adam, thank you very much. adam shapiro. we'll see more of that over the weekend. bill: coming up next hour here, a new plan in california, the governor there says it will save the states hundreds of millions of dollars. what's in it? and will it work? >> martha: his past performances have been called, quote, inarticulate and amateurish by one critic, but rick perry is hinting that he may skip some of the future debates. is that a good idea for him? >> i do think he made mistakes and i'm curious to know whether you do. >> i

. >> reporter: then stephanie madoff, whose husband mark committed suicide last year depressed over his him fully responsible for killing my husband, and i'd spit in his face. >> reporter: so every time you hear an interview, every time you read an article involving an interview, what goes through your mind? >> i had a visceral reaction. i really feel sick to my stomach. >> i wish we could get that kind of publicity so people understand who the victims are. they're everyday people. >> reporter: you're hearing people ask them a lot of questions. do you have any questions that remain in your mind that you'd like to ask them? >> if i knew that bernie madoff would actually tell the truth for a change, i would say, why? how? and, who helped you? >> reporter: for victim, there are many questions they feel will never be fully answered. prosecutors have not charged madoff's children nor his wife. she's living in a borrowed home in south florida. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >>> to politics now and gop presidential candidate newt gingrich saying president obama is pulling a madoff with his la

stephanie and everyone else. before he went to prison, madoff says during his four months in the new york jail, he contemplated suicide but didn't have the courage to do it. but his wife, ruth, in a forthcoming interview with "60 minutes" said the two of them did attempt suicide together on christmas eve of 2008. >> i don't know whose idea it was but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening. we had terrible phone calls. hate mail -- just beyond anything and i said, i can't -- i just can't go on. we took pills. and woke up the next day. >> what did you take? >> i think ambien. >> how many? >> i don't remember. >> i took what we had. >> did you leave notes? >> no. it was very impulsive and i'm glad we woke up. >> reporter: today, madoff in prison is in therapy and he says he's able to compartmentalize what he did and he says he never thinks about suicide now. he's fine by day but he rarely sleeps and says he has horrible nightmares. i asked him if he was depressed and he said "yes, but the fact that i'm functioning troubles me a great deal." you can't do what i've done without guilt.

mark's widow, stephanie, told "20/20's" chris cuomo how she felt about madoff now. >> i hate bernie madoff. if i saw bernie madoff right now, i would tell him that i hold him fully responsible for killing my husband and i'd spit in his face. >> reporter: after that interview, which madoff saw, he wrote me an e-mail. he said he was advised by the prison not to watch but he did anyway and, he said, it was "as painful as i expected. i am guilty of causing my son's death and the unbearable pain i caused stephanie and everyone else." before he went to prison, may do doff says that during his four months in a new york jail, he con item mramented suicide, but didn't have the courage to do it. but his wife ruth in an interview with "60 minutes" said that the two of them attempted suicide together on christmas eve of 2008. >> i don't know whose idea it was but we decided to kill ourselves because it was -- it was so horrendous what was happening. we had terrible phone calls, hate mail. just beyond anything and i said, i can't -- i just can't go on anymore. we took pills. and woke up the next day. >

. >> reporter: in 2010, madoff's eldest son took his life and the second anniversary of the father's arrest. mark's wife stephanietold abc her husband felt ruth was wrong to stand by bernie. >> he couldn't understand how she could continuously stand by this man who ruined so many lives. who ruined his life. >> reporter: bernie madoff pleded -- pleded -- pleaded guilty and is serving a 150 year sentence. >>> one of the worsen environmental disasters about. p will be allowed to drill in the gulf of mexico. the oil company met tougher safety standard put in place last year during an explosion and stilt explosion and spill last year killed 11 on bp's rig and dumped barrels of oil into the gulf. >>> tears in the courtroom but this time they were coming from the defendant. michael jackson's doctor cried in court as the defense witness took the stand in his involuntary manslaughter trial. dr. conrad murray cried when a patient told jurors that murray opened the clinic in houston in honor of his father. >>> birth control may do more than just prevent pregnancy. taking the pill for almost 10 years almost cuts a woman's ri

. >> reporter: in 2010, madoff's eldest son, mark, took his own life, on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. mark's wife, stephanie, told abc, that her husband felt ruth was wrong to stand by bernie. >> he couldn't understand how she could continuously stand by this man, who ruined so many lives. who ruined his life. >> reporter: bernie madoff pleaded guilty to fraud charges in 2009. he's currently serving a 150-year prison sentence. rob? >> and, karen, what is bernie himself saying about the possible suicide pact? >> reporter: rob, "the new york times" is reporting that in an e-mail from prison, bernie madoff said that suicide did cross his mind. but two things stopped him. first, he said he could help his victims recover their assets. all of that money that he robbed from tens of thousands of investors. and second, bernie madoff said he couldn't abandon his family. rob and yunji? >> fascinating. thank you, karen. abc's karen travers joining us live from washington. >>> a fragile peace is holding so far this morning between occupied oakland activists and police. protesters have taken down fences and moved back on

madoff, a monster. >> before he died, and he gave stephanie permission to change her last name. >> you can see more for:00. >>> we know you have been waiting for this. we will find out who has the best bathrooms in america. >> we are on your side tonight with what could be a medical breakthrough in the fight against the deadliest form of cancer. >> this week's working woman are climbing hike in their careers. >>> they have captivated locals and tourists alike. those climbing engineers with a monumental task. they are at the national cathedral. several of these climbers are working women. tonight, we introduce you to two of them. >> we are honored to be here. >> high atop the washington monument like a scene from a movie. it is enough to make anyone feel a bit woozy. the same engineers moved to the national cathedral. painstaking precision, examining the iconic structure. the engineering team shared these photos with us. many think this is man's work, just don't tell that to them. >> it goes without saying, we work just as hard. >> she studied civil and structural engineering works alongside katie franc

. >> it was last year about madoff's oldest son did take his life. mark's wife stephanied that mark felt ruth was wrong to stand by bernie after the arrest. >> he could not understand how she could stand by this man. how she could stand by a monster. >> ruth went into hiding in florida after madoff went to prison. even dying her hair red in an effort to avoid being recognized when she returned to new york. >> brian ross reporting. to politics now. if the election were held today the republican candidate for president would be mitt romney according to the latest poll by cnn and time magazine. they give him a commanding advantage in new hampshire and florida and narrower leads in iowa and north carolina. businessman herman cain in second place in each state. fully half those polled said they might change their minds before primary date. >>> and texas governor rick prosecutorry is trailing in all of those states. the gop candidate was a clear favorite when jumped into the race. last night on fox news he blamed the televised debate saying it was a mistake for him to participa

. >> reporter: in 2010 madoff's eldest son mark took his life on second anniversary of his father's arrest. mark's wife stephanie told abc her husband felt ruth was wrong to stand by bernie. >> he couldn't understand how she could continuously stand by this man who ruined so many lives. who ruined his life. >> reporter: bernie pleaded guilty to fraud in 2009 and is serving a 150 year prison sentence. karen travers, abc news. >>> testimony will resume in dr. conrad murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in los angeles. he is charged in the death of michael jackson. today the defense is expected to call the final two wednesday witnesses medical -- witnesses, both medical experts. yesterday dr. murray cried in court what patient told jurors dr. murray opened a clinic in houston honoring his father. >>> well, a one of a kind police chase in the auburn town hip of ohio a -- township of ohio a woman under the influence and over the speed limit and practically naked. police tried to pull her over after her vehicle reached 110 miles per hour. authorities used stop sticks to slow her down. it was beginning when the woma

it was last year that madoff's eldest son mark did take his life, hanging himself in his new york apartment on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. mark's wife stephanie told abc's chris cuomo that mark felt ruth was wrong to stand by bernie after the arrest. >> he could not understand how she could stand by this man, how she could stand by a monster. he was very conflicted over that. >> reporter: ruth went into hiding in florida after madoff went to prison, even dying her hair red in an effort to avoid being recognized. ruth has been allowed by federal authorities to keep more than $2 million and now lives in boca raton, florida. she's denied knowing anything about her husband's massive scheme, saying her own friends and even her own sister were among the victims, diane. >> thank you brian, so much, for reporting in tonight. >>> and we turn now to that showdown, protesters and police clashing in oakland, california, overnight. tear gas, chaos in the streets. both sides bracing for another round tonight. and here's abc's abbie boudreau. >> reporter: oakland's city center was empty today. just hours after police were battling with protesters, who are s