she's nominated. i just want to see senator john mccain do the interview portion in a miss teen usa pageant. >> i have no more questions for this incredibly, highly qualified group of nominees. >> senator john mccain, putting the bad-ass back in ambassador hearings on the "ridicu-list." up next, "frozen, state of the south." 21p good evening. i'm brooke baldwin. tonight, thousands remain stranded here in atlanta and across the south as snow and ice catch the southern states unprepared, at least ten storm related deaths reported thus far. the city of atlanta here brought to an absolute standstill, with some drivers stuck in their cars. just imagine, more than 17

hours. moving an infuriating 1-mile-per-hour. >> good evening. i'm don lemon in new york. six states have declared a state of emergency in this the second day of this paralyzing storm. this is in birmingham, alabama. a man helpless from preventing a sliding car from hitting his. this is a cnn special, "frozen, state of the south." >> we begin with the warning signs. they were there. the experts called it. there's a storm coming. the big question, how did it come to this? we were talking about atlanta. this is a major city. this is the ninth biggest metropolis in the u.s., crippled by a mere 2.5 inches of snow. to kick off the special, here is cnn's marten savage. >> the polar blast that froze the nation's midsection. >> reporter: a winter storm watch issued monday, upgraded to a warning by friday and tuesday.

>> switching over to snow. >> reporter: one to two inches of snow in the forecast. >> creating major worries for millions of people in areas that do not typically see this kind of winter weather. >> reporter: by 12:00 p.m., the snow is coming down. >> it began snowing here about quarter till 12:00 and accumulating a little bit. you can see here on the windshield. >> as the snow comes down, what's on the ground is going to be sticking and making things very slick. >> reporter: as the snow accumulates in the early afternoon, the government, businesses and schools all close within hours of each other. with little advanced notice. >> all the businesses seemed to close at one time and everybody hit the interstates at the same time and we got gridlock. >> reporter: by 2:00 a.m., a perfect storm of gridlock. >> you just look at the map, it's filled up with red. it's jammed around town. >> absolute gridlock madness. >> reporter: as the roads turn to ice, the interstates turned into parking lots. by nightfall, motorists already

stranded for hours. >> four hours and i've gone one mile. >> i've been in my car since 1:30. >> took me three hours to go about three miles. >> reporter: trapped in the mass chaos, school buses and emergency crews. before the day is through, the mayor says he should have staggered the closures. >> we do take responsibility for having the business community, the government and our schools basically leave all at once. >> reporter: some students spend the night at their school. >> girls in the band room, boys in the media room. >> reporter: for hoothers trapp on buses, relief when they get home. >> i was super scared. >> i was scared that i wouldn't see my mom until like 7:00 a.m. >> martin savidge, cnn, atlanta. >> so many stuck in schools overnight. atlanta, you look around on the

streets, it's a virtual ghost town. empty streets tonight, closed businesses. hundreds of abandoned vehicles. michael hall spent the day driving around the streets and highways of atlanta. michael, tonight how is it looking? and also on those abandoned cars, they're all still out there. >> reporter: it is amazing. you're familiar with this stretch of road, it is 75 north, one of the main roads in atlanta. just a few of the thousands and thousands of cars that are still on the road. the car park is on the side of the freeway now, i can tell you. we've been out and about for the last ten hours driving around. i can tell you, we've seen car after car. i'm surprised a lot of people haven't come back to get their cars today. but they haven't. tomorrow, the department of transport is setting up a couple of meeting points where people can do, meet up and they'll get

a ride in a government four-wheel drive back to their vehicle with a tank of gas if they need it. and some jumper cables. it's a bit of a nightmare here on the side of the road. it's dangerous, too. >> it's icy, michael. michael holmes out for us in atlanta. and thousands of children were forced to spend the night in their schools or worse, stuck on school buses. mike crawford's 9-year-old son was among them. mike was stranded on the road for 27 hours. 27. couldn't get his son. he abandoned his car, walks to school and get there is at 5:00 this morning. and mike joins me now. mike, i guess my first question is this, what blows your mind more, is it the fact that you were in atlanta and a major city stuck in your car for 27 hours or the fact that your 9-year-old son, sam, slept at school? >> sam slept at school and when i got there, i slept at school, too. it wasn't actually 27 hours on the road, just 27 hours away

from home. i was on the road, on a single road, roswell road, for 14 1/2 hours. and there were many times for several hours at a time when we didn't move at all. >> how did once you saw your son and i know your sop was there with a couple of kids, how did he take it? how did he handle it? >> not as well as i would have liked. he called me a couple of times while i was on my way. he was very upset that i wasn't there yet. but when i got there, he gave me a big hug and scolded me for being late. >> and post scolding, how are you feeling, dad? are you just feeling fortunate that everyone is a-okay in your household? are you now getting irked, mad, angry? >> there were some times yesterday when i was just beyond the point of rational thought. i was so angry.

but today, a little reflective. i have to say that i'm just grateful for the principal of the school, where sam goes, and also miss charity, who both spent a great deal of time with him and looked after him when i couldn't. >> glad you mentioned those teachers. so many teachers instrumental in calming these students. mike, thank you for talking to me tonight. don lemon, you hear these stories, but the southern hospitality was on full display, taking strangers into their homes because of this. >> it brought a lot of people together. it did bring out the best in some people. one couple welcomed strangers into their homes. robin and greg jacobs hosted nearly 30 people, children as well as adults, into their home overnight. they join us now. thank you for joining us. did you ever in a million years think you would be in this position to host so many people in your home?

>> it was quite shocking. i'm surprised that we could comfortably accommodate so many people. but no, that was quite a surprise. >> do you think that schools should have been cancelled? do you think that businesses should have let out everyone at the same time? the mayor is saying he would have asked to stagger some of that? >> that's a joke. the schools should have been canceled. anybody with an internet connection saw that there was a 70% chance of snow starting at 11:00. and somebody needed to make the call to cancel the schools. i am just -- the leadership of the state and the city i thought was very poor, and in fact, when i referenced the southern hospitality, i think frankly that's what made this a survivable experience. there was just a lot of kindness outside, not just in our home but everywhere people were

trying to help everybody. that's what got the city through it. the state and the city really needs to look themselves in the mirror. >> robin, how did you end up with so many kids in your home? the school is right down the street, suspect isn't it? >> that's how we ended up where so many. we could go back and forth and get more carloads. when we got our own kids, we realized no one was going anywhere, we were calling friends and other parents saying do you want us to pick up your kids? a few people said no, we're on our way. we just proceeded and kept picking up more carloads. >> how does your street look how, robin or greg, either one of you? >> the people that spent the night here were able to get out mid afternoon. but there's still cars all along the sides of the streets and the street is not -- it was so iced over this morning that my son was ice skating down the street.

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and not having direct situational awareness and collaboration between the state and the city. they're going to have to do that better. i'm sure they will in the future. but not seeing what's coming, not acting on it, and waiting until they start seeing precipitation fall is way too late. probably 12 to 18 hours too late. just to tell you, we faced the same type of weather here in louisiana, and the state of emergency was called at least 12 to 14 hours before the weather event started. >> yeah. i've been watching the mayor do interviews all day on different networks. he says now at this hour, 2,000 people are still stranded in the atlanta area. how is that even possible? and the question is, leadership there, are they in denial about how bad this could have been? >> in a way, they're lucky. think about what would happen if we lost electricity. if the ice had done its most

ugliest task, and that's turning the lights out. that being said, those 2,000 people, that's what they know about. think about the people stuck in their homes and need food and water. this story could get a lot worse. lack of preparedness and starting too late and not paying attention, i think from all the indications i see, we've seen this song played out before. you've got to start early and you've got to be quick and keep people off the road before the snowstorm, not think about reacting after the snow stop falling. i hope they will look at the battle drill, as we call it in this business, and the decision points to act on the left side of the disaster. how you survive a disaster directly relates to how prepared you are. in this case, with all due respect to those fine government workers there, they did not take enough action to be prepared. >> so in 2011, i lived in atlanta, a seven-year resident

of atlanta. in 2011, there was a huge snowstorm that crippled the city for about five days. one would have thought they would have learned from that situation. i know again we talked about what you did in katrina. this is not to that scale, but there are parallels tosca katrina. >> atlanta and georgia have to get off this attitude, we only have a snowstorm every few years. you only have a fire every now and then but you still keep fire trucks. that airport is part of our national transportation system. you have two interstates coming together inside the ninth largest city in the world. they have to grow up, put their big boy pants on and get that city secured and get it ready to operate in all types of weather. >> thank you, general. i appreciate it.

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brooke bald welcome back to our special tonight. i'm brooke baldwin. so what should you do? what do you do if you find

yourself standed in a car or stuck outdoors in the extreme cold? joining me now is a survival expert, les stroud. so after owl people to get to talk tonight, you're the perfect person. what would you do if you're stuck in a car for upwards of 12, 14, 16 hours, sunlight is fading, and you're freezing cold? >> well, one of the problems i have in answering the question is what i want to say is you should already be prepared. you should realize -- i listen to someone on the radio earlier blaming the government because of the state of the way things were. so you're blaming the government because it's wintertime and you're in the winter and there's snow? so the biggest answer to that question is being out there and already being prepared, having a survival kit in the car, having extra clothing. but what do you do when it happens? one of the best things i like to subscribe, stop for a second, calm yourself down and do i call

it the zone of assessment. you yourself, how are you doing? your immediate surroundings, what do you have and what don't you have? and the third zone of assessment, what's beyond that? >> beyond the physical things you hope to have your in car, much of it is a mental game. when your phone battery dies and the sunlight goes away, you have to check yourself. but secondly, this has been a wakeup call to a lot of us, because no one is rolling around with blankets or extra gas on a normal day. what would you recommend for people to always carry? >> you want to ask the question, why aren't they? the thing about having a car, you don't have to carry any of it. you can have a nice little sort of plastic bins in the back of the car, put some stuff in there and you never have to think about it again. so for the ladies i say get one of your husband's oldest, ugliest coats you can find, throw that in the back.

so blankets, spare clothing, spare boots. a lot of people aren't traveling with boots because they're going somewhere nice. but have those in the car. energy food, high energy food like peanuts. cheese is good. puts fat in your body and gets that internal heat going. a flashlight. some of these things seem like common sense. i can't figure out why people don't look at their car and say i've got a mobile pack horse here. i can put stuff in it. >> i'll be first to admit tonight, i would be guilty. i would have the blanket, maybe some water. but would you hunker down in the car or would you have gotten out and walked home? >> you're asking me to answer a question without variables. the variables matter to everything in that. how far do you have to walk? is it treacherous or easy? you have to take all those questions, do i have the clothing, can it not going to be a big problem. does anyone know where i am?

answer all those questions first, and then the true answer becomes evident. >> less stroud, thank you so much for joining me tonight. here's hoping people don't find themselves in similar situations as we experienced here in atlanta. don, would you have that stuff in your car? >> people used to laugh at me at the things i had in think trunk. i had boots, a battery charger, air pump, i had a blanket. >> good for you. >> especially after 2011, after that snowstorm in 2011, it was unbelievable. but yeah, i did. people called me a hoarder, but i did. so thank you, brooke. listen, michael holmes is in atlanta on the road. the city is deserted tonight. what can atlanta and the rest of the city expect over the next few days? that's next. people don't have to think about

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there's atlanta. looks empty don't, doesn't it? the worst isn't over for that city. temperatures keep plummeting. chad myers joins us now from new orleans. chad, give us the situation there. >> reporter: here it's good. in atlanta, it's re-freezing. what melted today is now a frozen ice chunk again. there's still a state of emergency in atlanta, issued there, i just got a new issued one. they're saying please stay off the roads. emergency vehicles only. there's no need to be out tonight. same thing that happened when the snow came down. it got down to 18 that night and everything turned to a sheet of ice. it's no better tonight than it was a couple days ago. i would say stay off the road, please. >> brooke baldwin has a question for you. >> chad, it's not just atlanta, it's alabama, birmingham, similar situations across the south. i guess in the 60 seconds we have left, what's the biggest takeaway from this mess?

>> reporter: if we have snow coming to a major city, whether it's montgomery, birmingham, atlanta or any city in the u.s., don't send the kids to school if you know it's going to snow at noon. then you have to send them home at the same time. and all those parents got in the cars and by the time it was already slick and things just went downhill from there. >> that was one of the mistakes the mayor this morning acknowledged, blowing the whistle on sending folks home from schools and businesses at the same time and boom, you had that mess on the highway when, as we all know, driving in atlanta is not fun without the snow. just imagine what happened yesterday. >> a confluence of the worst event that all happened at the same time. mother nature, companies, schools, businesses letting people out, going into a vortex on the road. thank you very much, chad myers. >> chad, thank you so much.

and thank you for watching. i'm brooke baldwin live in atlanta. >> and now, michelle turn we are a cnn special report, "justin bieber's wild ride." good night, everyone. welcome, everybody. just when you thought life couldn't get more complicated for pop star justin bieber, it does. now more police, more charges, another courtroom, another country. his home country of canada. this latest issue over an alleged assault of a limo driver more than a month ago, as the same time he enters a not guilty plea over that wild night in miami beach. this is becoming an all too familiar story for him. now the glare of the glow seems to be blinding bieber. instant fame, superstar status.

my, how quickly things can change. it's the life of justin bieber. ♪ he was an unknown singer, whose youtube videos went viral. >> he pretty much became the first youtube sensation. the first megastar to launch from youtube. >> a teenage heartthrob, whose chart topping hits like "boyfriend" made believers of his fans. ♪ >> until the fresh-faced good boy tops the headlines with his bad boy behavior. >> you ore a larger than life pop as far and you don't know right or wrong. >> a night of partying in south beach turns into a late-night arrest. >> he told the officers he had been drinking beer, smoking canibus and taking prescription

medication. >> miami beach. colorful tropical paradise with sand, surf, art decko. hedonistic play ground. fast cars. beautiful bodies. nightclubs. where the rich and famous look for fun but often find trouble. tv and movie stars, athletes, rappers and now pop idol justin bieber. on monday, when bieber's flight landed in florida, seen in this tmz video, officers are there waiting for him. waiting to be his personal escorts for the night. >> it was unauthorized. the police administration had no knowledge of this escort, and it is not the norm. at some point, the escort took him at least to two locations that we know of. >> the first stop reportedly is a south beach hot spot, mansion

nightclub. with police still in tow, beebler goes to king of diamonds strip club. the club tweets, justin bieber just ordered 75,000 ones. 75,000 $1 bills. >> nobody is throwing that type of money in here. >> during his miami stay, bieber spends part of wednesday at the beach with his father and friend, khalil sharif. "people" magazine reporter carlos greer has covered bieber's career. he says when it comes to the bieber persona, cute is out, edgy is in. >> justin apparently was living a fast life in miami. living the rock star lifestyle,

going to strip clubs, drinking, apparently doing drugs. >> the next night, thursday, bieber is back in party mode. this time seen in these tmz photos at a nightclub. then he and his wingman, sharif, hit the streets. sharif posts photos of them in miami in italian sports car. bieber has a passenger, model chantel jefferies. police say two black suvs block off pine tree drive. empty except for bieber and sharif. then according to police, they race down the residential street until just after 4:00 a.m. >> oh, my god. he's going to crash! >> please, please! >> oh, my god, justin just got pulled over. >> justen got pulled over.

>> flashing lights, seen in this tmz video, police spot the duelling ferrari and lamborghini. >> an officer on patrol noticed two vehicles, which he later determined to be a ferrari and lamborghini, racing. thank goodness he was able to pull them over. he smelled alcohol on his breath, as well as the main juana smell. >> they had been going 55 to 60 miles per hour, twice the posted speed limit, according to this arrest affidavit. >> he was upset that the officers were questioning him. he felt almost insulted, a how dare you type attitude for stopping him. instead of taking a humble approach, he took an aggressive approach and things went downhill from there. >> the officer reports, i was going to perform a cursory pat-down. the driver stated, i ain't got no "f"-ing weapons, why do you have to search me? the driver again turned around

to face me. >> at that point, the officer decided since he wasn't complying with his orders, he was going to arrest him. >> bieber is in trouble for more than just his defiance. >> he said he had been drinking beer, smoking marijuana and taking prescription medication. he said he just takes what his mother tells him to take is what he told the officer. >> teen idol justin bieber is facing serious adult charges. >> dui, alcohol or drugs. resisting without violence. driving with an expired driver's license. >> the big issue now is what does the prosecution in miami beach want to do? do they want to press forward with the case that could well be felonies or do they want to reach a deal, a plea bargain? >> what would the standard bond be?

>> could canadian justin bieber be deported? >> certainly if this case proceeds in a much more serious way than it currently looks to be, certainly his immigration status might be at issue. but a simple drunk driving case is not the kind of thing that usually gets you thrown out of the country. but if it's more serious than that, there could be worse problems. >> his south florida caper is the latest in a recent string of bad boy behavior. >> what did you say? >> fighting with the paparazzi. allegations of spitting on fans. >> come right over here you -- >> call the cops. >> and an investigation in california, into eggs seen in these tmz images, splattered on a neighbor's house. bieber has come a long way from his squeaky clean image as a teen heartthrob. coming up, a teenager whose fame began as a beloved youtube

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♪ justin bieber was a musically tall edented tween. a canadian kid with no musical training. when, at the age of 12, he wowed in a local talent show. ♪ i know it makes no sense >> his mom posted his performance on youtube for relatives to see. but friends weren't the only ones watching. >> he pretty much became the first youtube sensation. >> justin bieber was singing cover tunes, like alicia keys' "fallen." and his viral videos caught the attention of scooter braun who vowed to make him a pop sensation. bieber's good luck was about to

get even better. braun introduced him to two of music's biggest stars. >> i met usher randomly in a parking lot going into a studio. >> when i saw him online, i understood his talent and wanted to meet him in person. i needed to just understand truly who he was and what he offered as a star. did he have star quality? so when i saw him, it was instant. he performed for me in instant. he challenged me to sing with him. >> usher was sold, and he wasn't the only one. >> and then a week later, i met justin timberlake. they saw my talent and they were like wow, i want to sign this kid. i was like really, you want to sign me? >> shirley halpern. >> it became a bidding war, even before he recorded his first

note. >> usher won. what was that audition with l.a. reed like then? >> justin came into the conference room and danced on the table and sang on the table. you know, just really blew away the label staff. he was an unknown entity, but i think l.a. reed been very sharp and perceptive, just saw that spark and signed him really quickly. >> usher became his mentor. and introduced his protege to the world in this youtube video. carlos greer writes for "people" magazine. >> justin was groomed by the best. you watch a justin bieber performance, you see usher in justin bieber. ♪ >> bieber would break records just months after the release of his first album.

in 2010, his song "baby" became the most watched youtube video ever. >> when justin released his first single, he became a superstar. he had fans running after him. he had to increase his security. so he immediately just had this wild life. >> bieber was stealing the spotlight from taylor swift at madison square garden. appearing on dick clark's new year's eve show. and performing for the president. >> i've done a lot of cool things. i got to present at the grammys. present at the vmas. but probably performing for the president is one of the coolest things. >> but to america, bieber was cool. his haircut was copied by kids

across the country and his presence would send girls screaming. >> bieber mania went crazy. bieber mania exploded. the girls went crazy. everywhere he went, he was mobbed. malls, mobbed. >> he was like the michael jackson of his time. fans literally were falling all over him. >> bieber loved it. >> what 15-year-old wouldn't want screaming girls running for him all the time? >> i don't know. do you have a girlfriend? >> right now, no, i'm single. >> but by the end of 2010, that was no longer true. pop princess saleena gomez had captured his heart. >> it was like puppy love at its finest. she would show up at his concerts, he would show up on stage with her. it was very sweet. >> saleena was sort of like justin's backbone. they were inseparable. they were the teenage pop couple

of their time. initially when they started dating, his fans hated her. but then they grew to actually love them as a couple. >> and the love for bieber kept growing. ♪ just one year after releasing his first record, he had more than 1 billion youtube views, more than 15 million likes on facebook, and four american music awards. >> it was so insane, that huge ascent and social media just helped propel it further and faster. >> that same year, bieber made his big screen debut in a concert documentary chronicling his life. boy in a string of "csi" episodes. but just weeks after his

character was killed off the show, one of the first signs of a boy behaving badly. bieber flicks his middle finger to the paparazzi. >> it's like when i get frustrated, i act out. coming up -- >> drive safe, justin. >> acting out would soon bring bieber more attention than his music. >> i think over the past year we've been watching bieber have a meltdown.

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from little boy to big star, justin bieber's fresh-faced good looks have been the focus of thousands of photos worldwide. but this is one photo he never wanted. a miami beach mugshot marking bieber's transformation from bad boy to big trouble. >> can we talk about the mugshot? >> yes. >> shirley helperin interviewed bieber in november of 2013. >> it's so funny because i recognized that justin bieber who i spent so much time with. that look of him in the camera was kind of the look that he had when we did this video segment with him when he just turned it on. he is posing for the police. >> posing but not talking. bieber and his camp haven't responded to cnn's request for comment. it seems safe to assume this isn't what he planned when he

dropped "believe," his third studio album, in june of 2012. a new sound, a new look. a clear message. i'm not that kid anymore. >> you know, he has a different haircut, his style has changed. he's constantly out with his shirt off and his pants hanging all the way down. he has all these tattoos now. >> bieber broke up for the last time with selena gomez and seemed to amp up the bad behavior. staring down the paparazzi. speeding in a lamborghini. and in this tmz photo, even smoking what was alleged to be marijuana. why didn't somebody see this coming? why didn't somebody help him or stop him? >> it's just that sort of tricky situation where you have a huge star, who you really need to make happy. there was a telling moment in

his movie, actually, in "believe" where they sat him down and asked him, have you heard "no" from anyone recently? and he laughed and said no. it's really hard to turn him down. >> but that, says dr. drew pinsky, isn't doing bieber any favors. >> drive safe, justin, drive safe, my man. >> just keeping him working is enabling him, in an interesting kind of way. but of course, i mean, the people around a celebrity are more concerned with their access to the celebrity than the well-being of the individual. >> bieber laughed off his troubles live on "saturday night." >> got busted for smoking weed and he's really sorry about it and people make mistakes and he's never going to do it again. >> bieber was unfazed. and why not. "believe," the album and the tour, were minting money. like his hit "boyfriend." ♪

>> unfortunately for bieber, the grammy voters didn't seem to be fans. >> i think the reason justin doesn't get the recognition by music industry organizations like the grammys is because it's still seen as bubble gum. we still see him as a teen pop star. you know, i mean, i have a feeling he probably hates reading articles where it says "teen phenom." >> march 2013, a month after the grammys. justin bieber celebrated his 19th birthday in london. but not quite as planned. >> he is having a bad week in london. >> poor biebs. >> shirtless, then wearing a gas mask. hours late to a huge show. then blowing off an autograph session. ultimately, bieber was hospitalized, short of breath. but by the time he left the hospital -- >> okay, okay, easy, just easy. >> he had plenty to say to the

paparazzi. >> [ bleep ] you say? what'd you say? [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> but when he reacted the way he did, i remember thinking, oh, boy. >> i had the exact same reaction. like -- it was sort of like -- he needs to keep himself in check. sometimes he just snaps, you know? and, i mean, can you really blame him? he's a 19-year-old kid. >> i think over the past year we've been watching bieber have a meltdown. he's been acting erratically. >> more erratic behavior, a very public pit stop in this tmz video from july. seemingly spitting on fans weeks later. and the odd moment that happened here in calabasas, california. in the suburbs outside l.a., the rich and famous hide behind gates and hedges. out of reach of everyone. except their neighbors. >> the l.a. county sheriff

department has arrived onto the scene, they are conducting an investigation into an egg-throwing incident that justin bieber was apparently involved in -- >> there was some sort of scuffle with the neighbor and justin allegedly, you know, chucked -- i mean, there was video of it, he chucked eggs at the guy's house. a really bad scene. >> causing quite a bit of damage. something to the tune of about $20,000. >> you're a larger than life pop star, and you don't know right or wrong. >> mr. bieber's past actions of loud parties, driving too fast, large numbers of people there, are way out of character for anyone that lives in that neighborhood. >> days later, l.a. county investigators searching the house arrested bieber's friend, rapper lil za, for having the illegal drug molly, though no charges have been brought against bieber the egg investigation continues. >> i think something much more serious is going on here. and if my suspicion is right and the substances that are involved

are what i'm worried about, this ain't going to stop. it's not going to stop soon. and it could get bad. >> dui, alcohol or drugs, resisting without violence, driving with an expired driver's license. >> at the time, the egg incident looked like real trouble for bieber. but now, compared to miami, it barely ranks as a teenage prank. >> this is real life. he has been arrested. he's under police investigation. and he was in tears. i don't think this is justin bieber rebranding himself. this is justin bieber in trouble with the law. >> after posting bond, bieber looked back on top of the world. then posted this to instagram. shirley helprin remembers the justin bieber she interviewed months ago. >> he was incredibly charming and sweet, you know, well-mannered. the opposite of what we would think of the justin bieber who just got arrested in miami.

so, yeah, there's a conflict there. and i don't know, will the real justin please stand up? -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. >> this is piers morgan live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. tonight breaking news. another bombshell for justin bieber. mobs as he arrived in toronto to face new assault charges over the beating of a limo driver. being questioned right now. my exclusive with legend barry gibb the sole surviving member of the bee gees. talks for the first time about the tragedy of losing all three of his younger brothers. and he has some smart advice for mr. bieber. >> i just think it's time to grow up. time to grow up and be what all these young girls love you. be a good example. >> the south is bad enough when it snows in atlanta. when 2 1/2 incbr