Welcome to the around the world. Im suzanne malveaux. And im michael holmes. We are going to go first of although to toronto. Rob ford, the mayor there, embattled admitting that he in fact, used crack cocaine. He is before the city council answering a number of questions. Lets listen in. That we deliver in the city. Has there been any service thats been disrupted as a result of whats been happening . Or slowed down in any manner . Simple answer, counselor, is no. So everything continued to function garbage pick up, turn on your tap, water comes out, everything, would . Thats correct counselor. When it comes to committees, have committees continued to function and chairs attending and responding to the issues and the items on those committees . They all have continued, yes, counselor. Okay. And as we know, theres a motion coming forward later. The recommendations within this motion, is there any part of this motion or these recommendations that are, in fact, enforceable or are these symbolic or are they suggestions . Have you had an opportunity to have a look at that mr. City manager . All i would say, counselor, is as they are outlined in the motion, they are requests. Theyre requests. Yes. So theyre not the same type of recommendations in other issues that we deal with, that in fact, are actions and become enforceable . This is different . Correct. Okay. Thank you, madame speaker. Thank you. Okay. So thats it for the questions. Now, well go to speakers. The mayor, mayor ford, you want to speak at the end, correct . Its your item. Do you want to speak first or do you want to speak at the end . Id like to speak first since its his item. Thank you. So counselor min anyone wong, have you five minutes. Madame chair, today the whole world is watching. What will they see . A world class city demonstrating world class values . It already knows we know longer have world class leadership. But those watching dont know yet if we can sift out of the small politics of personal gain and instead of jackying for position or advantage do the right thing. Not for ourselves, not against the mayor, but for the institution of the city of toronto and its government upon which so many of our citizens depend. If we retreat behind legalese and say that no law has been broken, no wrong has been done, we miss the point made with such urgency around every dinner table because it is known so clearly in every parents worrying heart that the values that matter most in forging the life of an individual or of a city come not from the law and justice but from clear and consistent expressions of what is write and wrong. When presented with the choice of doing the right. That is Toronto Council mann denzil minnanwong speaking now at this Council Meeting which is ahead of a motion to get the mayor, rob ford,ing to step aside to deal with his personal problems. The mayor saying hes not going to do any such thing. Paula newton is standing by to talk about this. Paula, this has just been absolutely extraordinary. I mean theater is probably the wrong word. Its a bit of an embarrassment, isnt it . Reporter its an embarrassment but also quite sad. Its an incredible tragedy. What people out here are witnessing is like an intervention, like weve all gotten off the therapists couch. This man has again and again admitted to the fact that he has done things that criminally are wrong, not just morally wrong. And this was predicted to be that kind of an inquisition. Thats exactly what were getting today. It is getting ugly. I can tell you theres been a lot of heckling, no matter who is speaking at a given time. I want you to hear now what crucially mayor ford said in answer to a direct question about his drug use. Mr. Mayor, have you purchase Illegal Drugs in the last two year years . Careful. Yes, i have. Thank you. You know, despite the fact that he admitted that there, michael, he says look, im not going anywhere. Im going to stay in this job. I can do my job when his friend, the counselor standing next to him asked him, look, are you addicted to drugs . Are you addicted to alcohol . He stood up and said categorically, absolutely not. It is going on and on here, michael. This doesnt show any sign of ending for at least a few hours. Theyll be at a lunch break soon. The mayor predicted this would happen, that he would be publicly u milliated this way. This is what hes saying is happening. Its sad for many, many people, even those angry with rob ford, many wondering if this is really appropriate. He apologized and said he spoke to his family, that hes getting professional help here. What canning this council do essentially . I mean, can they say look, do they have the power to kick him out of office . This is all pretty much an exercise in moral authority. I think thats another thing that angers many people. As much satisfaction as perhaps the counselors are getting out of this right now, it isnt going to matter for much at the end of the day. They cannot remove him from office. He says hell continue to stay in office. It doesnt matter if this motion pas. It looks like theyve got at least twothirds of the council will pass it. It will not change the fact that the mayor is in charge of the city still. Theres another motion coming which could strip the mayor of those powers. Thats coming way off in the distance. Right now everyone is completely riveted by a man essentially going through a therapy session and really is on the spot every minute answering questions like you would be in a court of law really. Suzanne. All right. Extraordinary stuff. One of the counselors there was actually asking if he would sit down and have a conversation with him to discuss his issues. He cant be its important to note in canada, the mayor of the city has not got the same powers that a mayor in the United States has got its limited. Its a little deja vu for me. I used to live in washington, d. C. Former marylandon berry on tape smoking crack cocaine going through the whole motions. Eventually he lost his job. Eventually he was redeemed. Hes still on council. He is. So you never know where it is all going to end up. Mayor rob ford in toronto not going anywhere. It looks like the council cant make him. He is going to speak later on. We will bring that to you live when it happens. At the moment, Council Members are getting to have five minutes each to basically make statements now. Thats whats happening in the council chambers. Were following this. This is an overpowering stench of death hanging in the air. This is in the philippine disaster zone five days after that monster tie upon hit. Bodies are still decaying in the sun. It is unbelievable the tragedy. The roads are blocked with debris. Survivors, you can imagine they are growing more and more desperate every hour every day. Heres the latest now. The confirmed death toll from the haiyan tie upon now stands at 2,275, although no one believes its going to stay there. Its going to go up, more people are reported missing. Bodies are still everywhere under that debris youre looking at there. Body bags have started to arrive. But sadly not enough. Authorities say 2 Million People are in need of food and water. More than 11 million overall in some way impacted by the typhoon. Tons of food from around the world have started arriving in the philippines. The World Food Program alone has brought in 2700 tons of rice, but most of the hoaxless and starving typhoon survivors, they have yet to actually receive that food aid. 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The answer i guess is yes. The answer is yes, i guess. Counselor ford. I would like everyone else to stand up who has tried smoking marijuana. Counselor ford. The whole council will stand up. Councillor ford. Dont come across that youre holier than thou because you arent. Every one of you are not. Order. Never drank, never driven councillor ford, counselor ford everyone should be careful about throwing rocks into a glass house. Point of order. It is off. Privilege. Have you ever done illicit drugs minnanwong . I know the answer. I know the answer. You can see the brother there, of course, accusing the body of being hypocrites when it comes to drug use here. And you know, this is something that i believe theyve taken a recess. Were going to hear back from the mayor again who continue to defend himself because he says look, ive been dealing with this with my family. Im seeing a professional here. Im a hardworking guy, and he earlier today challenged everybody, those Council Members. He said i put my 13 years up against yours. Ive done a good job. He called himself a role model. He did. That councilman we were watching before who was speaking, counselman wong, is very antiford. There he is there. And he has been minnanwong. He has been gunning for the mayor on this issue and the mayor fighting back, and that question from the mayors brother was initially directed at that the Council Member there. And unbelievable. Unseemly stuff. As paula newton was saying earlier, sad in so many ways its being conducted on a public stage. Theyre trying to get him to step down, he says no way, not happening well get much more of this as theyve adjourned briefly. Theyre going to come back and try to sort this out. The mayor again will be defending himself. They dont have the power necessarily to take him out of office. No. All right. Well be right back here on around the world. Las known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for the smog. 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It is the lowest congressional Approval Rating in the 39 years that gallup has actually asked the question. The reason that people give, the top reason here of course, its understandable is the partisanship, the bickering that is surrounding the partial Government Shutdown that happened just last month. In anyones language, 9 is staggering. I mean you could get friends and family to make up 9 . That is amazing. Right now on capitol hill actually, a Congressional Committee is grilling the man charged with fixing the flawed obama care website. Todd park is the white houses Top Technology officer. He was subpoenaed last week by the committees republican chairman, representative darrell issa. Now the white house fought to have him testify in december instead. So the administration they said, well, hes way too busy. Hes under this deadline to get the site fixed in two weeks. So they lost that battle. Heres what park said today about the improvements that theyre making on the site. Getting better week by week. Some days are better than others. If you look at the trend line, things are getting better. One metric of the User Experience is called system response time, the rate at which the website responds to user requests like displaying a page that you want. Just a few weeks ago, that rate was on average eight seconds across the system which is totally unacceptable. Its now actually under a second today. Meanwhile, were hearing more evidence that the website may not be fixed by the end of the month as planned. Joe johns joining us from washington. Dana bash is on capitol hill. Joe, lets start with you. The same question weve been asking for weeks. Anything about when this website could be fixed . No real specifics on that, but we do know the administration has said repeatedly the website will be functional for the vast majority of americans by the end of this month. Clearly, that suggests it wont be perfect by the end of the month. The administrations been saying that for more than a week now that the system can process up to 17,000 registrations an hour. Also important i think to point out that theres been a decidedly political tint to all of the testimony and the questions today. One of the senior members of the Committee Even bringing up that comment that former president clinton made just yesterday that the administration needed to make good on its promise that anybody who wanted to have their insurance could keep it. Listen. Its kind of interesting to see as obama care implodes how everybodys running for cover. Yesterday, we saw the former president of the United States, bill clinton, throw the current president under the bus, so to speak on this issue. So a lot of politics in this hearing, as you might expect. Michael and suzanne. Of course, democrats were hearing them and heard the reference to former president bill clinton that in fact, he according to one lawmaker threw the president under the bus. Dana bash joining us from capitol hill. What does it look like . It seems like youve got a list of people, a long line that are starting to hammer