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 sym
Speculation. Right now, the immediate needs are for people in a number of places. Not just tacloban and cebu, but a number of lowlying areas and town, all places in the philippines, places that the government has not been able to get to. People in desperate need of water and food. The exact numbers, we dont know how many people have been wounded. The hospital in tacloban has been overwhelmed for days. The relief effort has started to come in to focus, but bad weather has put a big question mark over the area. Over the next couple of hours, the type of relief and what will be able to get in, in the wake of what is believed another Tropical Storm heading toward tacloban area. The reason were coming to you from here at the airport, we actually had flown planned to land. And then we were told that all flights at that point were stopped at that point because of the bad weather. We have a lot of our correspondents in tacloban and cebu, over the past hour coming in. We want to give you as muc
Paris. Police summoned to a post office in paris where a man was holding two people hostage. Never linked to last weeks terrorist attacks and he gave himself up. None the less speaks to heightened a alert hartly due to raids held in france belgium and germany. Nearly 30 potential terror suspects in custody, at least one imminent attack thwarted. This morning the head of the European Union says the complex nature of a terrorist threat means stopping all have become extremely difficult, all this as secretary of state john kerry arrived in paris to embrace, literally, the president of france. Francois hollande. We accept with humility the responsibility that falls to each of us to defend the values our societies cherish, and extremists fear the most. In the end our engagement all of us in this struggle it is not a choice. It is a mandate. Secretary kerry met with both frances president and foreign minister today, and Charlie Hebdo and the kosher market and placed flowers at the site where
Joining me now, gloria borger, David Chalian and jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent. So David Chalian, this is the first poll taken since our Republican Debate, the last chance to perhaps change anything heading into the christmas holidays. If anything has changed, its that trump has gone up and the rest of the field has faded. Right. This is proof that donald trump emerged from our debate unscathed, right . So he now has got more than double the support of his closest competitor, ted cruz, and that is just a huge position for trump to be in as you go into this holiday pause. Thats now the framework for the home stretch of the Campaign Leading up to the iowa caucuses. Ted cruz, obviously, has gone way up, his commanderinchief numbers have gotten better there but this story is still all donald trump right now. And the trend line for trump is actually increasing, too. Hes up and keeps on going up. Gloria borger, ted cruz, as david said, up a little bit. Marco rubio actually dow
Syria, Russias Putin and Bashar Al Assad are on the same side. This is thanks to russia, the poster reads. We were brought to this, the sport city camp to see how the Syrian Government and their kremlin backers say they give refuge. One governmentsanctioned aid worker told me how and why these people are here. What have these people been through to drive them to become refugees . These people just dont have any homes. Dont have any families. So horrible stuff kids here, i hear stuff from kids about killing, about death. You know, its horrible. They live horribly. They just feel safe here. They dont want to leave the land and didnt have the money to pay for the trip to europe which anybody can do. Reporter is that why these refugees are here being protected essentially by president assad . Because they couldnt afford to go to europe . No. No, im not saying this. They want to stay here with president Bashar Al Assad. They just didnt wanted to leave. Reporter theyre housing at least 5,000