spectacle unfold in a country they don t expect it to unfold in? for news media folks, it makes us feel any time we mention rob ford, everybody starts laughing. you don t have to say anything smart. everybody starts laughing. even this idea of i got drunk and we did crack and i m sorry. i m like, wait a minute, how did you get from the drunken stupor. are you at a bar where people are selling crack. hey, mayor, i got crack on me. do you want to take this up a notch? yeager meister? no, i got crack. slow down. for americans it doesn t make us reflect on anything who are we as a society? what s going on? weiner made us wonder about that, philner made us wonder about that spitzer made us think about that. rob ford it doesn t reflect ounce. we can point and laugh. i think a lot of people in america have issues like rob ford. you are absolutely right. we have that di divide, he is
hit just hours from now. we ll have a live report. and later, an incredible story about a girl who survived the horrors of war to become an icon of hope. new york times columnist nick kristof explains. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. a lot to tell you about this morning. but first we start with the arrest of those two american men in japan. police picked them up after the body of an irish exchange student was found in one of their hotel rooms. i m joined on the telephone from tokyo. what can you tell us about this woman? we re looking at a picture of her. she is the victim in this case. tell us how she died. reporter: well, we know her name is nicola furlong. she was studying in japan and she had just recently celebrated her 21st birthday. what tokyo police are telling us is she died by something called suffocation by cervical compression, and that does sound like it s strangulation. kyoto news agency is reporting that she and a friend went to a nicki minaj to