Toronto Council To Debate Mayor Ford; Top Obama Tech Officials On Capitol Hill For Latest Hearing On Healthcare.Gov; Freeze Warnings From Texas To Georgia; Typhoon Survivors Struggle To Get Aid; Philippines Residents Hunt For Loved Ones
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN HOST: A live report from Capitol Hill coming up for you. All right now, the Toronto City Council meeting is under way. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford could face what his brother terms a public flogging. The council demands that he take a leave of absence after his crack smoking admission. The mayor expected to speak and take questions. CNN live in Toronto in just a minute. And getting under way right now, also in Washington, experts will testify in front of Congress on nuclear negotiations with Iran. This is just days after diplomats failed to reach a deal in Geneva. Also Secretary of State John Kerry making the rounds on Capitol Hill to discuss next steps on Iran's nuclear program. And there's more, a sentencing hearing for Boston mob boss, James "Whitey Bulger". This is a live picture of the courthouse. Prosecutors want to put the 84-year-old away for the rest of his life. Jurors convicted Bulger in August of racketeering, extortion and money laundering. Victims' relatives will be speaking at this hearing. The actual sentencing scheduled for tomorrow. All right, good morning, everyone. I'm Carol Costello. Thanks so much for joining me. Let's first take a look at what we're expecting from the city council meet in Toronto. CNN's Paula Newtown is in city hall right outside the mayor's office. Good morning, Paula.</s>PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And good morning, Carol. What a headline from the mayor himself. You know, he said it would be a rumble in the jungle. It certainly hasn't turned to be that as of yet. Right now, they've started with regular business on the order paper, but certainly Doug Ford, the mayor's brother, even saying that in fact he does believe that this will not go well for his brother. He thinks this is a waste of taxpayer money. The mayor himself, we saw him go in, go into council chambers. He says he's feeling good, and he says -- as to whether or not the mayor should stay in his job, he's saying there's no way he's going. Council is trying to get him to do two things, apologize to them, and to step down, for at least a little bit, to sort out what even the mayor says is a very chaotic percentage life.</s>COSTELLO: We know that the council members are taking care of preliminary business. The mayor is expected to speak at the bottom of the hour. Am I getting that right, Paula?</s>NEWTON: Absolutely. But I spoke to the mayor's chief of staff. I mean, no one knows where this is going. All everyone knows is that this will go on and on and on, even into tomorrow, if it has to, Carol. But the mayor's issues will come up very shortly and the mayor is expected to basically stand there and take it. Whatever questions, whatever is thrown at him from the other council members, he will sit there and have to answer questions. It is very much like an inquisition. He and his brother, all their supporters say they are ready for it.</s>COSTELLO: All right, Paula Newton, we'll get back to you. Thanks so much. He's been put in charge of fixing the Obamacare website, but today Todd Park is sitting in front of Congress as angry lawmakers demand answers on what went wrong and when the web site will actually be fix. These are live pictures on the House Oversight Committee hearing, that's the chairman, Darrell Issa. Joining me now from Capitol Hill is CNN chief congressional correspondent, Dana Bash. Good morning, Dana. What should we expect?</s>DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, good morning. You know, this hearing has been going on for half an hour and they just swore in the witnesses. The reason is because both the Republican Chair, Darrell Issa and the Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings took a lot of time basically blaming the other for the partisanship that has been part of the roll-out and the investigation into this roll-out. When it comes to the Republican chair, he minced no words in explaining how he feels about this role out. Listen to what he says.</s>REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA (R), CALIFORNIA: On October 1st, President Obama said using it would be as easy as buying an airline ticket on kayak.com or buying a television on Amazon. This is an insult to Amazon and Kayak. On the day of the launch, president Obama should have known the harsh lesson we have all learned since that time, and that was they weren't ready. They weren't close to ready. This wasn't a small mistake. This wasn't a scaling mistake. This was a monumental mistake to go live and effectively explode on the launch pad.</s>BASH: And what the Democrat Elijah Cummings just wrapped up his lengthy opening statement was that the Republicans are crying crocodile tears because as he said no one in this room or believed that Republicans ever wanted Obamacare to be successful in the first place. Of course, they spent so much time trying to repeal it and closed the government down, as far as House Republicans go, for 16 days, in an effort to at least dismantle in some way, shape or form. That is the back drop through which this hearing is happening and the hearing being an attempt to get at what did go wrong with regard to the web site with some of the chief I.T. people for lack of a better way to say it, who are involved in getting this web site up and running. And more importantly for consumers out there wondering about when the website will be really functional. These are the people who might be able to answer that question when they feel that the glitches will be worked out and it will be a much smoother place to go if and when somebody wants to get on and sign up for health care through this website.</s>COSTELLO: All right, you'll continue to monitor this for us. Dana Bash, thanks so much. Big chill fell over the eastern half of the country overnight with gusty winds, record fall temperatures and freeze warnings from Texas to Georgia. These are live pictures of New York City, that city getting another early dose of winter after yesterday's snow. Down south in Atlanta, it's even colder this morning. The wind chill made it feel like it was in the teens. Meteorologist Indra Petersons in New York to tell us when are the warm up. Good morning.</s>INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: So you don't like that, Carol? Neither do I. Everyone is making fun of me here in New York City. But at least in the south, you feel my pain for Southern California. We are talking about a cold front yesterday that brought the snow showers. Here is the good news. That guy is way offshore. We're not talking about snow anymore, but behind it, yes, we are left with this chill. I mean, look at the temperatures right now, Carol. You are still in the 30s, 37 degrees in Atlanta. New York City at the freezing mark, but you know what? I forgot to leave out the wind chill. So it actually feels even colder. We are talking about 20s in New York City, Atlanta, 33, Chicago, try this, 15 degrees, that's what it feels like with winds gusting to almost 40 miles per hour. We are talking about temperatures well below normal even for this time of year. Even all the way down to the south, temperatures almost 20 degrees below normal. The chill is here, but it's n/not going to last. It's all about the position of high pressure. It's bringing in cold air from Canada right now. But once you get on the back side, as early as tomorrow, you start to see the warm air coming off the gulf and with that, we're talking about the temperatures rebounding by tomorrow to exactly where they should be, pretty much 50s for all of us, Carol, and then maybe people will like me just a tad better.</s>COSTELLO: We still like you, but man, we like you a lot more now. Indra Petersons, thanks so much. Let's talk about the Philippines now, aid still struggling to reach those in need. Nearly a week after Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines. This morning four more aircraft left Japan to help the Marines in the Philippines. You can see more help landing in Cebu. Thousands of pounds of supplies have arrived so far. But more than 2 million people are still in need of food. And with power outages and blocked roads, things are only getting worse. Some of the same people fighting to survive are desperately searching to find their relatives and friends. Things are so bad, just finding the body of a child can mean a lot to a mother. Anderson Cooper is in the Philippines with that side of the story.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, HOST, CNN'S "AC 360" (voice-over): In Tacloban, the misery is beyond meaning. (on camera): This is your home? (voice-over): The first, the first she says, our house was one of the first to come down. Jovelyn Tanega sought shelter from the storm surge in this bus with her husband and six children. She survived, they were swept away. (on camera): Has anyone come to help you? (voice-over): I really want to see them, she says, even if it's just their bodies. She has found the body of her husband and shows us the bodies of three of her children. Now, she searches for her three other children. She doesn't believe they survived the storm. (on camera): Where will you sleep tonight?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Here in the street, anywhere. I don't know where I go.</s>COOPER (voice-over): In Tacloban, there isn't any place to go. Juanito Martinez is living in a make-shift shelter. His wife, Gina and daughter, are covered with sacks nearby. I really want someone to collect their bodies, he says. I want to know whether where they're taken so then I can light a candle for them. Juanito cooked some rice and noodles for his neighbors. One of the men tells us he wants to call his mother in Manila. He's desperate to tell her that he and his daughter survived though his wife and two other children are dead. We dialed her number on our satellite phone. They're gone, they'll all gone, he says. I don't know why this happened to me. You won't find answers here in Tacloban, you'll only find loss and misery. With so little help, that is just not going away. Anderson Cooper, CNN, Tacloban, Philippines.</s>COSTELLO: If you want to help the survivors of this disaster in the Philippines, please visit cnn.com/impact. I'll be right back.