smoking cocaine. rob ford says no way. i do not use crack cocaine nor am i an addict of crack cocaine. but his words have only fired up his critics and the toronto star which now claims the mayor knows there s a video and knows who has it. counselor doug ford is the mayor s brother and defender in chief. i spoke to the mayor, i spoke to his staff, they said these allegations are completely false. but thursday two more of the mayor s staffers quit over the controversy. he s lost five in one week. do you think he can survive this? anything s possible. although the jokes do write themselves. hey, hey, don t judge him. maybe he s cleaning up the city by smoking all the crack in it. you re next prostitution rings. well, to be fair, it s not a lot to do with toronto. toronto, boring no longer
what you re hearing are police firing teargas and water cannons at the protesters. they ve been staging a sit-in. this is at a park just the last couple of days, four days or so, many of those protesters fighting back. this is a place ivan watson tells us it s like times square for istanbul. they want to turn this park into a shopping mall. ivan watson reports on it. you can see here how the turkish riot police are going after gatherings of people here in istanbul s square in the heart of the city. come on over here. ordinary civilians being caught up in what s taking place here. an old lady knocked on the ground by the water cannon. downtown istanbul, the commercial capital of turkey,
when traveling abroad. that s in about 20 minutes. i want you to stick arpd for that as well. that will be a fascinating chat. now, authorities meanwhile questioning someone in texas about those threatening letters we ve been reporting on that was sent to president obama and the mayor of new york. early tests are showing that the letter sent to mayor michael bloomberg contained a small amount of poison ricin. final results are expected today. and tests for ricin also being carried out on the letter that was sent to the president. an official says that letter looks similar to the ones sent to bloomberg. all of the letters were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana. the letters to bloomberg threatened to kill anyone who tries to take away their guns. and the heart of turkey s biggest city looked more like a war zone today. it was police versus protesters. this is on the streets of istanbul. yeah, the fight was intense. have a listen. [ gunfire ]
ended up in a hospital after a london concert where he stumbled, almost fainted on stage. and then in april swedish police seized drugs from his tour bus. and then bieber left a bizarre note, this was in the guest book at the anne frank house saying the holocaust victim would have been a belieber, the name used for his fans. and who would forget the pet monkey that was seized and quarantined in germany. and then the fights with the paparazzi. here s sara sidner. justin bieber, pop star turned party king, or just rebellious teen? the 19-year-old s clean-cut image seeing another stain after he was spotted club hopping around new york city wednesday night. raising more questions about his recent offstage antics. do you think that justin bieber is on this path of a slow destruction, or just a meltdown? i think some of the things he s done recently have crossed over from acting out into, you
know, meltdown status. she spent time with bieber and his inner circle writing his cover story for rolling stone magazine. bouncing between new york city clubs by night and by day reportedly racing through his california neighborhood, the l.a. sheriff s department is all but begging bieber to speak with deputies, sent to investigate reports of reckless driving. please talk to us, tell us what you believe occurred. this week, bieber s neighbors accuse the singer of barrelling through their gated neighborhood at breakneck speed. we got a couple of calls from two witnesses that said that they saw justin bieber driving recklessly in his white ferrari. some even estimated maybe freeway rates of speed. and this is in a 25-mile-per-hour zone. bieber s neighbors tell cnn this wasn t the first time they saw the singer driving recklessly. a neighbor who confronted bieber about it back in march accused the singer of spitting on him and making threats in response. the l.a. district att