. >> most toronto city council members want mayor ford to take a leave of absence but they have no power to make him do so unless he is convicted of a crime or stops coming to work for a long prepare period of ti. >> i'm not aned addict of any sort. i'm not help. >> is there some way you can explain to us why you won't take

. >> toronto city councillors voted to strip mayor rob ford of some of his powers. it's the council's latest attempt to rein in ford who refused to resign after a drugs and alcohol scandal. >> norway may be the biggest producer of oil and gas, but has invested millions to counter carbon emissions. >> it rises out of the ground like a city of steel. this is monstat, a large industrial site in norway. and it's biggest emitter of

so nick, you spoke with rob ford's brother who is also a toronto city council member. what does he have to say about all of this? >> one of the things that's important for the family at the moment is just how much is being brought up about the mayor and how much that discredits the family. so the family's always looked up to the father who had a short but fairly popular political career here. that's the family's legacy. i asked the mayor's brother doug, what is all of this doing to the family's legacy? >> i think our legacy is going to be pretty solid based on how rob performs. you're going to look at a family that doesn't need to be doing this, that has actually sacrificed massive amounts of time, money, their business to serve the people. >> are you worried about his health with all this additional stress? not just the public, not just the counselors, but the families here too. >> well, i'm confident that the

today, the saga surrounding the toronto mayor continued to unfold. the citycouncil threatened to strip rob ford of his remaining powers. he had admitted he smoked crack cocaine. the embattled politician is fighting back and tonight he even gets his own tv show. -- hasrespondent hazlitt the latest. >> couldn't talk. that is all this is. >> a reality show and a coup d'État. the snowballing abuse scandal has at times seemed posted to a bad dream. a meeting to strip the mayor of most of his remaining powers and cut his budget was interrupted by protesters today. mayor ford may have been marginalized because of his inappropriate behavior but there are still those who believe it should be the people and not the politicians to decide his fate. >> mayor ford. >> i want to thank the thousands and thousands of e-mails and phone calls i am getting to continue on and to stay the course. hall, mayor city ford remains popular among those who bought into his tea party tight message of bloated government. on sundayat happened when the mayor turned out in support of his favor

city. i'm humiliated by it. >> reporter: "toronto star" editor michael cooke says the city is humiliated, too. >> it's funny, it's lewd, it's crude, and yet it's stunningly pad for the city. >> reporter: nor does it appear the mayor's wife is enjoying mertime in the limelight after the mayor made a crude remark about their sex life. as if they haven't been in the media enough, a comedy pilot airs monday. >> axelrod: next up, rapper jay-z moving forward with his joint venture in a store accuse of racial profiling. entrepreneur jay-z has made a decision about a controversy involving a new line of his clothes. he had been planning to sell them at the high-end store barney's, in new york, then some african americans said they'd been harassed when shopping there and that jay-z should pull the line from the store. as terrell brown reports, jay-z now says there is another way to deal with racial profiling. ♪ since i made it here i can make it anywhere ♪ >> reporter: new york's native superstar jay-z announced the decision on his web site last night: jay-z had been under pressure to call off his lucr

one thing we can tell you about the city council meeting, getting crazy up in toronto. the speaker of the city council had to clear the chamber of the public just a little while ago. so a lot of hot debate back and forth over that. one takeaway from my exclusive interview with rob ford yesterday, is here's a guy who demonstrates a level of confidence some people might call unbridled ego that few politicians possess. he is in a pickle that would have sent most officials -- spoke about running for higher office. still a lot of question about his fitness for office. one of his allies on council wants rob ford to bring in a letter from this doctor saying he is okay, and ford won't say whether he is getting treatment for substance abuse. >> i don't call it substance abuse because i'm not an addict or an alcoholic. we have health issues here. my weight is a huge issue, and have i drank in excess? absolutely. but to say you have an addiction, no. the professionals have said, no you don't have an addiction. >> that's the mayor speaking with john roberts over the weekend. we've s

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now, the drinking habits of city mayors don't often occupy the news, but when toronto's mayor says he's finished with alcohol it makes global headlines. this is the latest chapter in a saga that has embroiled the city , sparked by the mayor's admission of using crack cocaine. for more on the increasingly unbelievable story, i spoke a short time ago with david willis, joining me from toronto city hall. david, rob ford has given a series of television interviews. is he apologizing to the people of toronto for his behavior? >> far from it. the exact opposite. he says he will fight and there will be a war over the next election, he says, and he will basically show a lot of these people what they are missing out on. he says there will be a war and he will win it. rob ford has been rather divisive on the political scene here in toronto. they like their politics a little more genteel. this is a calm face. it has been called new york, only run by the swiss. the feeling is growing that he is becoming a liability and has started to harm toronto's image overseas. >> explain this to me. pollslookin

joining us now from toronto is city councilor. this has been so unbelievable to watch and i am sorry that you're going through this. need to ask you what exactly were you able to do with the motions against the mayor. paulsonite. >> today we have done is we have taken away his power to appoint anyone on the executive committee or remove them outside the cabinet. we have also taken away his ability to leave the city in case of an emergency. those of the things we can't control. monday, we will be discussing it and how fully implementing measures to take away the majority of this budget as mayor and reduce his budget to that of a counselor. and taking his staff away from him and only allowing a limited staff. he has been abusive to his staff and he has been hiring and firing. we're going to create stability and we're doing everything except -- heard me? v.a. so many of these allegations have yet to be proven and no charges. one of your fellow councilman said with regard to what has been done is still symbolic. the big question peopl

we have a wonderful city here in toronto. beautiful culinary experiences. te our diversity. and we want to move ahead with the pressing issues that face our city on a day-to-day basis. >> it is a beautiful city. you were talking about the mayor taunting. just yesterday he was signing his official mayor ford bobble heads raising money for charity. those sold out and now some of them are going for more than $300 on ebay. what does that say to you? he's doing this the day before he's set to appear before city council. >> i think some people are buying them because their part of fordnation. he is becoming notorious as a mayor in toronto. we're getting international headlines, which is a bit upsetting for the residents. we feel it's starting to harm our international reputation, our brand as a city, and possibly even business activities. we don't want that to happen. we want it to be stable. as i said, it's a dynamic city. and our focus as a city council is moving the agenda ahead. and putting this side show to the side. >> if city council isn't successful in hit

we acted within our authority because we felt that the mayor wasn't actually representing the city. toronto is a great city, a safe city, the third largest transit system, we have an incredible city and our mayor's behavior is not reflecting the city very well, and we felt as council we needed to make sure we were in charge of the agenda and that we could be in charge of the decision making moving forward. >> and what is likely to happen monday? i understand the city council will yet again try to remove more powers. to what extent? >> now what we are going to do is ask the deputy mayor to step in in the role of mayor. we will allocate staff to the deputy mayor, allocate all the functions we can to deputy mayor so norm kelly can effectively represent the city. as council, a large majority believe the mayor can't do that on our behalf. >> you'll ask the deputy mayor to step in? it is a request, and has the deputy mayor expressed he or she wants to do that? >> yes, he does, yes. the deputy mayor understands why we're taking these steps. once we take the final steps on monday, effectively we wi

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keep in mind, toronto is the fourth largest city in north america, and now even its bonds, if you can believe it, its municipal bond have been getting whip sawed in the markets on the latest revelations that toronto mayor rob ford probably smoked crack, and more than once. something he denied, and this scrum, we're looking at, everyone is waiting to hear what the mayor is going to do whether he is going to step down or elaborate on an admission on a rideow talk show. i cannot stress enough how this type of bizarre activity, especially when it concerns prominent big-city mayors, seems to come in threes. bob filner, with pinching women, the san diego mayor. kwame kilpatrick in detroit, who is going to jail for 28 years for abusing funds and all other privileges. and this completes what seems to be a bizarre hat trick of big city mayors mayors who lose it o whacky. this is something the mayor of toronto had firmly and repeatedly denied, this allegations he smoked crack and that sort of thing. he said, yeah, maybe in a drunken stupor later on. and it is actually affecting the price and th

this is a video of him in a drunk en rage. >> most toronto city council members want mayor ford to take a leave of absence but they have no power to make him do so unless he is convicted of a crime or stops coming to work for a long prepare period of ti. >> i'm not aned addict of any sort. i'm not help. >> is there some way you can explain to us why you won't take a leave of be a sense. absence. he was not quite confident. >> you don't know if people are videoing this or doing that. i don't know what is out there right now. everything i am aware of is out there. >>> for more on toronto mayor rob ford i'm joined by toronto by kevin newman who is the anchor of kevin newman live with ctv. >> was that the worst of rob ford's display our is there more to the story that we don't know about? >> who knows. there are things that are going to come out in the police investigation. it's head shaking stuff. just when you thought you heard enough he said he i bought drugs when i was mayor of toronto. and the staff are concerned about drunk driving and he downs a mickey of hard licke liquor an and dri

. >> plus, today is toronto city consy -- the toronto city council will try to take away some power held by the embattled mayor rob ford. >> coming up the redskins have a chance to rebound from a pretty bad loss. they have a match-up coming >>> it is nine after 5:00 on this friday morning. you know yesterday we got up to 55 after getting down to 29. that was the coldest morning so far at reagan national. and a few degrees below average. see the record by the way were 83 and 20. so far we're about an inch over on rainfall for the year. and sunrise that was at 6:51. that's 4:54 on the sunset. watching some clouds out to the west move in this morning, these are high thin clouds. no moisture in the form of precip with this. obviously some high level moisture with the clouds going to dim the sunshine from time to time today. we start out kind of chilly and some 20s in the suburbs but increasing clouds this afternoon and seasonably mild. with highs from the upper 0s to about 60, 61 and the south wednesday running 5 -- wind running 5, maybe 10 miles an hour. back in just about five minutes with

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the book is "drink the intimate >>> toronto mayor rob ford has embarrassed himself and his city with wild words and wilder actes by taking illegal drugs. ford mixed apology and defines as he stood for four hours before toronto city council for a public flogging. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the past two years. >> yes, i have. >> he stood in my way an blocked my path in a threatening way and in a way that i have never experienced with my time on this council. >> you are too much, buddy. >> i would ask that he apologize. his brother fe defended him. >> a yes yes or no, have you sd marijuana. mayoit was the first meeting ofe city council since mayor ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine. this is a video of him in a drunk en rage. >> most toronto city council members want mayor ford to take a leave of absence but they have no power to make him do so unless he is convicted of a crime or stops coming to work for a long prepare period of ti. >> i'm not aned addict of any sort. i'm not help. >> is there some way you can explain to us why you won't take a leave of be a sense. absen

it's amazing, toronto has a 400 pound andy dick running the city.i have been getting from family members for my birthday. if you watch our show regularly, you are familiar with my aunt chippy, a loving person, but she can be a very loud person. even for me, it is some times hard to tell if she is being nice or yelling at me. she is always yelling at me whether being nice or not. when she calls and leaves me a v voice mail. i save it. i don't answer the fen phone to voice mails. i will play the first few second of a voice mail from aunt chippy, guess if it is a happy voice mail or angry voice mail. you begin? >> you never answer your freaking phone, especially for your aunt. >> jimmy: happy or angry? >> angry? >> i called to tell you you, i just watched you. you were wonderful. handsome. you should wear a tuxedo all the time. >> jimmy: all right. you see what i am sake. next one. >> jimmy it is your aunt -- >> jimmy: all right, what does that sound like to you? >> angry. >> jimmy: let's find out. >> you are up for the emmy, i am so excited! i am so e

there's a big question about exactly what the rules in toronto will allow the city council to do.e know that just wednesday they voted to call on ford to take a leave of absence after all the controversy surrounding him. the question is what can they do. they're trying to push him out. they are angry, furious city council members talking to rob ford right now. we're keeping our eye on it on msnbc. explaining my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis to another new stylist. it was a total embarrassment. and not the kind of attention i wanted. so i had a serious talk with my dermatologist about my treatment options. this time, she prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearance. and the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer have happene

he acted out again in the toronto city council. short time later, the city council took action stripping most of his powers and handing it over to the deputy mayor. that is the breaking news. this happened while his brother, doug, was in an argument with other city council members. he later apologized for knocking the woman over. there was that today. and the saturday night live routine over the weekend, the st. patrick's day bender allegations last week, and the of course, i was too drunk to remember the crack smoking moment". >> i did not use crack cocaine, nor am i an addict of crack cocaine. >> yes, i have smoked crack, but am i an addict? have you tried it? probably indrunken stupor, none of you guys have ever, ever had a drink and gotten behind the wheel, i know that. have i drank, done drugs, yes. i'll do a drug test. >> i have never said that in my life to her. there is nothing else to say, guys, i really effed up. and that is it. >> and given all that you may wonder why he is still in office. you may wonder why some still

it's amazing, toronto has a 400 pound andy dick running the city.ges and calls i have been getting from family members for my birthday. if you watch our show regularly, you are familiar with my aunt chippy, a loving person, but she can be a very loud person. even for me, it is some times hard to tell if she is being nice or yelling at me. she is always yelling at me whether being nice or not. when she calls and leaves me a v voice mail. i save it. i don't answer the fen phone to voice mails. i will play the first few second of a voice mail from aunt chippy, guess if it is a happy voice mail or angry voice mail. you begin? >> you never answer your freaking phone, especially for your aunt. >> jimmy: happy or angry? >> angry? >> i called to tell you you, i just watched you. you were wonderful. handsome. you should wear a tuxedo all the time. >> jimmy: all right. you see what i am sake. next one. >> jimmy it is your aunt -- >> jimmy: all right, what does that sound like to you? >> angry. >> jimmy: let's find out. >> you are up for the emmy, i am so exci

more trouble for toronto's embattled mayor. the city council take his power away. >>> and why there may soon be a baby boom in china. >> toronto city council voted overwhelmingly to strip their troubled mayor of some of his power. rob ford has admitted to using crack cocaine and public drunkenness. >> reporter: it has never happened before, toronto city councilors stripping its mayor of power, although they've never had a mayor of admitting to smoking crack cocaine and public drunkenness. >> obviously someone else steps out of line like i have, it's going to affect councilors and the mayor, i think for years to come. >> reporter: in fact, when it came to a vote just the mayor and his brother, a councilor, opposed the motion to limit his powers. with almost unheard of unity, the councilors told the mayor his apology for his behavior is simply not enough. he is now mayor in name global >> those powers have been withdrawn from the mayor's office. >> reporter: rob ford has always been colorful and controversial. he came to power promising t

ford f'd up and smoke crack and toronto wants its city back.orporating the news into it. appreciate it. >>> the president's pick to lead the federal reserve facing confirmation this morning and what janet yellen says could have a big impact on the economic recovery. christine romans is going to break it all down in "money time." ♪ it's an extremely simple tool. but also extremely powerful. it could be used to start a poem. or finish a symphony. it's been to classrooms, boardrooms, even to space. and we can't wait to see where you'll take it next. introducing the thinner, lighter, more powerful ipad air. wout of landfills each year? plastic waste to cover mt. rainier by using one less trash bag each month, we can. and glad forceflex bags stretch until they're full.* so you can take them out less often. avo: thesales event "sis back. drive" which means it's never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. it gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your s

chaos as toronto's city council debates the future of mayor rob ford.as the mayor goes to confront the public gallery, he knocks over a counselor. in the end, the council voted overwhelmingly to strip ford of most of his duties of, cutting his budgets, and putting his deputy in charge of his staff. which effectively means rob ford is the mayor in name only. than a is nothing more coup d'État. and means that you are overruling a government. and some people said this is democracy. >> a feeling shared by his brother, a fellow counselor. the overthrow of a democratically have been elected mayor illegally. see in thirdyou world nations, not in canada. >> others say rob ford's behavior has simply been unforgettable -- unforgivable and is an embarrassment to canada's largest city. >> his involvement with crack- cocaine and cocaine, his admission that he drinks and drives, i do not believe that he is a proper representative for the city of toronto. >> rob ford still has the support of the canadian prime minister stephen harper who says he will continue to work

after showing up to city council meeting in a toronto argonauts jersey he was told about it on twitter. he had a milk mustache. not a good day for mr. major north -- mayor north of the border. >>> the dow and s & p logging another day of record highs. yellen said she would continue the program. take it away, jeff. >> yeah, good morning to you, brian. apple getting a little bruised in the smartphone war here. samsung selling three times more than am in the third quarter here. samsung shipped over 80,000 units. not a great quarter for apple. let's move on here. i want to talk a little bit about the playstation 4. a lot of people very excited about it. there have been some issue paps promotion with taco bell, some people got early units. there have been technical issues with the units. sony saying we're closely monitoring reports of problems. we're looking at the story. we think it's an isolated incident, brian. everybody very interested ahead of the christmas season. sony saying, we think it's an isolated story. one or two units having problems. >> basically dead on arrival are some of t

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to the clerk's office, when official invitations come into the city of toronto -- >> that's the toronto city council meeting they're debating stripping more of stripping some more of mayor rob ford's powers away and giving them to the deputy mayor. this evening on "anderson cooper 360," bill we are's interview with the interesting ford brothers coming up. something intensely personal between united states senate candidate liz cheney and her sister mary has become very public. the issue of same-sex marriage came up during an interview liz gave to fox news. >> i don't believe we ought to the discriminate against people because of their orientation. if people want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary on their life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that. i don't support amending the constitution on this issue. i do believe it's an issue that's got to be left up to the states. i believe in the traditional definition of marriage. >> your sister mary who is married to a woman put out this post. she said for the record, i love my sister.

that was followed by this video of him in had a drunken >>. >> most toronto city council members want him to take a leave of absence. they have no power to make him do so unless he is convicted of a crime or stops coming to work for a long period of time. >> i am not an addict of any sort. so i am not quite sure why you are saying i need help. >> is there some way that you can explain to us why you don't want sense? >> there is no need for me to take a leave of absence. >> i am going committees. >> when asked if more could confident? >> you don't know if people are videoing this or that. there. new york. >> for more or mayor rob ford, joined by former good morning co-host kevin newman who is the anchor of kevin newman live. what a circus today. was that the words of rod ford on display or is there more to his story we don't know about? >> no. well, i mean who knows? i mean there are still things in the police investigation or whatever. when you think you have heard enough that he admits to smoking crack today, he says, actually, i have bought drugs whilists mayor of toronto. then they

cheers and applause) >> jon: toronto mayor and intrepid-- yesterday appeared before the mighty toronto city council. as crowds of his supportive constituents gathered outside. so that's where south park got that. (laughter) anyway, ford has some splaning to do. >> mr. mayor, do you still have zero tolerance for drugs, guns and gangs? >> absolutely. (laughter) >> jon: wait, did you see zero tolerance for drugs or jim morison like high tolerance for drugs. but then inevitably the $64,000 question or whatever crack costs in canada. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the last two years? >> yes, i have. >> jon: the pause before mayor ford to answer that factually yes or no question was 8 seconds long. 8 seconds. we don't know what is he was thinking in the interval. but we think it might have been this. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the last two years? >> yes, i have. >> jon: going through the headlines. (cheers and applause) >> jon: maybe in those eight seconds mayor ford was truly trying to remember the last time he bought crack or maybe he was doing the homer simpson thing, exhor

even though the toronto city council has asked him to step down it has no legal means to remove fordfrom office. according to canadian law the on ones with the power to arrest the mayor are the queen and wayne gretzky. but that's it. there it is, mayor ford is done embarrassing toronto in front of the camera. >> the also thing was olivia gondak says i want to eat her [bleep]. i never said in in her life to her. i would never do that i'm happily married. i've got more than enough to eat at home. thank you very much. >> stephen: wow s it valentine's day already? kind of makes you nostalgic to the crack now, doesn't it toronto. we've be right back. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight, the co-founder of the social news sight, he's got called red if. he has a new book and i haven't read it. please welcome alexis o handian. alexis, good to see you. thanks for coming on. we met a couple times before. >> yes. >> couldn't dress up. >> i see, i sput on a swaket. >> stephen: what is that. >> a sweater jacket. that is how i was told to dress. i'm wise, i listen my girlfriend. >

in the toronto city mayor and his powers there, rob ford. d some drunken rages that have all gotten the city talking up there. they're trying to see if he is in shape to continue being their mayor. he says he's not going to be going anywhere. just to point out, he's not been convicted of any crime, even after police were handed a videotape that depicted the mayor smoking crack. so we will wait to see how this goes. our alex wagner is going to take over with her show from washington, d.c. a wild one, alex. that's for sure. >> yeah, it's a great lead-in. rob ford and the city council. but we're going to be talking about defending and rebooting on capitol hill. it is wednesday, november 13th. this is "now." >>> the glitches continue. new headaches this morning for the white house as an official tells "the washington post" that healthcare.gov will likely not be fully functional by november 30th as promised by the

joining me now is don peat, city hall bureau chief for "the toronto sun."e's been covering the mayor since he took office. don, it's good to have you here. obviously that reporter's reaction was fresh, right in the moment. certainly tried to play it off to the best of her ability. later on in the day, though, we have the mayor coming back out of his office to apologize. i want to show that to everybody. take a look. >> i want to apologize for my graphic remarks this morning. these allegations are 100% lies. >> i might have had some drinks and driven, which is absolutely wrong. >> so we know that he's admitted to drinking and driving. during one of the pressers his wife put it best when she said my husband has already said enough. don, over your years of covering this mayor, i mean because he was on the city council prior to becoming the mayor, what was his behavior like and how is this going over with the people who elected him into office? because the behavior, it's a personal influence that's rubbing off on his professional decision-making. >> right. well

toronto city council stripped embattled mayor rob ford of most of his powers after he admitted smoking crack cocaine and driving under the influence. >> in this heated city council meeting counsel members voted overwhelmingly to cut the mayor's budget by 60 personality and reassign his staff. he knocked down one of the city council members while racing to confront a heckler. mayor ford later apologized to the city council. >> i'm sorry. i apologize. i do. >> i'm asking you to apologize to counselor -- >> yes, absolutely. absolutely. it was a complete accident. i do sincerely apologize to you counselor mcconnell. >> toronto city council doesn't have the power to remove mayor ford from office. he says he will run for reelection and even hopes to become prime minister one day. >>> it is 6:16. the national security agency says it broke its own surveillance rules and repeatedly promised a u.s. intelligence court there would be additional safety measures. that's according to newly declassified court records. in 2009 the nsa admitted it collected material improperly after repeatedly promising

today toronto city council will take away some of mayor ford's powers. this after the mayor apologized for a rude remark made on live television while denying he made sexual advances on a female staffer. he they also accused the mayor of bringing an escort to his offices and asking staffers to buy him alcohol. >> i would never do that. i'm happily married. >> toronto city council has asked mayor ford to take a leave of absence but he has refused to do it. he has landed a new reality show which he plans to start shooting with his brother on monday. i >>> the u.s. coast guard is asking voters to keep a close eye out for any suspicious activity in the waters off the northern california coast. there are a growing number of drug smugglers from mexico who are heading north closer and closer to the bay area. in late september you might remember a boat from mexico carrying 80 pounds of pot capsized near santa cruz. and just this week another boat from mexico believed to be used for drug smuggling was found adrift in the caramel bay. >>> the search continues for

the gallop poll showed a 42% approval rating and that was taken two days after the toronto city councilstripped board of most of his powers. that move followed toward admission he smoked crack cocaine in a drunken stupor. comparison, president obama's approval rating is at 39%. congress, that stands at 9%. a wisconsin mother was reunited with her son today after being a part for more than 30 years. kathy says that her estranged husband moved to mexico with their two-year-old son against her wishes. her son, david was found after being orsed for illegally crossing the mexican border into california. today, after meeting her son in person for the first time, mya talked about getting call that changed her life. >> they told me they needed to confirm and i told them i had a son knaved david and that's how we started. and then he let me talk. >> david says his father told him that his mother had abandoned him. david ended up being raised by his grand parents in mexico, saw his father. his father has not made himself available for comment, although she speaks only english and her son only spa

. >> the toronto city council strips away some of the powers of their embattled mayor. despite admissions of drug use, to ford resists all calls resign. ♪ >> welcome to our viewers on public television and in america, and around the globe. one week after typhoon haiyan struck the philippines, eight workers or stroll -- are still struggling to reach those affected. despite many countries coming together to help, efforts are hindered by a desperate shortage of vehicles. the official death toll is over 3.5 -- 3500 but the final figure may be much higher. jeremy cook has been to one school in tacloban were survivors are trying to survive in the aftermath. >> the water is warm, and the children are playing in peace. meters away is the reality. their homes are destroyed by the raging storm and giant waves that struck here a week ago. their young lives were changed forever. she was badly injured as she swam for her life. the gas in her head is infected and she lies in the filth of a ruined hospital as her parents wait for someone, anyone, to help. andis badly hurt, he says, sh