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Between the ponzi king bernard madoff and steve fishman. steve joins us live from new york. great piece. maybe the quote that will blow people's minds the most, these five little words -- i am a good person. does bernie madoff really believe somehow he's understood? >> i think that's true. i think that, as bernie told me, his view is that he's a good person who made a mistake. he's a good person who got trapped -- i think that's his word -- into this. >> he said he allowed himself be talked into it, and i thought, allowed himself to be talked into what? i mean, he is the mastermind of this who...

Blowing around. this is going to continue for a lot of the day. this will continue until the cold front pushes offshore, and that doesn't happen really until tomorrow. let's go to a couple of pictures we have. anywhere you want to go, we have snow in the pacific northwest, rain and flooding in pittsburgh, we've had this wind across parts of texas, that wind in texas made all of those fires yesterday. that wind has calmed down for amarillo, but still seeing very, very heavy wind across parts of dallas, texas, today. there's the radar pf let's go "off the radar," shall we? >> way up in space, li...

Chad myers is tracking some severe weather in the southeast. chad, a tornado touched down in central tennessee just now. >> yes. and it smells like tornadoes outside. you can feel it. you can touch the air. you walk outside and all of a sudden it slaps you in the face with this blast of humidity. that's what a spring day is supposed to feel like. when you get a severe spring day like this with another cold mass, cold air mass, cold front from the northwest, the energy in the atmosphere, you can get severe weather. right now chattanooga under the gun, especially about five miles north, rotation...

Over the state, hundreds of people packing this room to buy marijuana in just about every conceivable form. vendor ben grows marijuana and takes it, he says, for back pain and a blood disorder. >> well, a lot of people think it's just a bunch of guys sitting around getting stoned where it's actually patients. both of my patients are in their 60s, using it for medication, not the actual effect itself. the euphoric effect but the painkilling effect and the ability to eat again. a lot of them have real problems with gastrointestinal problems. >> reporter: the growers operate in a murky legal work...

You know? do you understand how some people might be nervous by it? >> i can't say that i understand why people would be rvous about it. it's really about just broadening your horizons and looking at the entire scope of the population. if we're going to offer scholarships to group one, two, three, and four, but group five isn't allowed to have scholarships that is a logical fallacy. just because they're white and male they don't have a bunch of money sitting around ready to pay for $40,000, $50,000 tuitions. it's the pink elephant in the room. we're addressing that situation. hey, it's time. t...