Driving Away Goblins; $1 Million Pot Seized
PHILLIPS: All right, grab your passport. We're heading around the world. First stop: Milan, Italy. Of course, we've got to talk about playboy Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi and his prostitution trial on the fast track. Bunga-bunga, Zain Verjee is following us with more from London? That sounds like cave man talk. Cave man behavior, that's for sure.</s>ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hey, Bunga-bunga.</s>PHILLIPS: Yes, I forgot, ok, I got to get it right. Meanwhile, I'm confused.</s>VERJEE: Yes everyone is puzzled by the word but that's what's being expressed all over Italy and resonating around the world. These sex parties that Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister of Italy is alleged to have had. Now, he is going to be on trial charged with the abuse of power and having sex with a 17-year-old dancer. Now, Kyra, he had a press conference today, and he said, when asked about it, he said, "For the love of God, I will not talk about this. All I can say is I am not worried". He is facing a panel of three judges, Kyra, all female and that trial is going to start in a few weeks. I want to take you now to Japan. Kyra, I have been watching a story about goblins. I think you may like that one. Basically, what they're doing over there is they have this annual ritual. I mean these three guys they dress up as goblins and they are running around as you can see in this video dressing up and they -- flinging around these iron bars and then what happens is these monks kick them out. So, why are they doing this? Well, it's a ritual, and the idea is they drive away the bad luck represented by goblins, and they invite good health and good fortune. You don't do that at home, do you? Kyra?</s>PHILLIPS: It's a lot easier just to hang up an evil -- an evil eye versus having a goblin run around my house with a torch.</s>VERJEE: All right, good. Well, that makes one of us. So anyway now, in Canada, I'm following this other story where $1 million worth of pot was seized in downtown Toronto. Basically there was this pizzeria and police were monitoring it, and they noticed that people would go in for pizza -- pizza and then come out with nothing. And so they had this raid and it turns out that they got a $1 million worth of drug, and that's dangerous because you know what Kyra, it could fuel bunga-bunga.</s>PHILLIPS: And also too, I thought when you smoked too much pot then you got hungry, you would think they would be coming out with even more pizza than --</s>VERJEE: More pizza, right, right. Exactly, yes.</s>PHILLIPS: Zain, thank you.</s>VERJEE: You're welcome, Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: All right, we're following lots of developments in the next hour of CNN NEWSROOM. Let's go and check in first with Stephanie Elam.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN BUSINESS NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, there's going to be a monopoly makeover. No more money, no more chance, no more community chest; it's going to look a lot different. I'll tell you how different, that's coming up in the next hour.</s>ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: And I'm Rob Marciano, in the CNN Severe Weather Center. The West Coast continues to get pounded with rain, wind and heavy snow; meanwhile, the eastern two-thirds starting to warm up and feel like spring. But don't get used to it. It won't last long. The full forecast in the next hour.</s>PHILLIPS: All right, thanks guys. And love and marriage go together. Well, you know the song. But what about love and living together? I think we need a new song because apparently it's the new way to go. Ditch the altar, just get a great pad, shack up. Why the change? We're talking about it in the next hour.