Toronto's Mayor Won't Surrender Seat
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: President Obama, to speak at any moment in Virginia. He is the biggest political heavy weight to hit the trail in Virginia on behalf of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. Toronto's mayor is sticking to his guns and said, again today, he will not resign, even though police claimed they have video reportedly showing Rob Ford (ph) smoking a crack cocaine pipes. The mayor reinforced his position a short time ago on his weekly Toronto radio show. Nick Valencia is following today's development. So, Nick, the mayor did offer apology, but is that as far as he was willing to go?</s>NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Pretty much. He didn't specifically address drug abuse allegations during this radio show but he did apologize. It has been a long week for the mayor of Toronto, we should say. It has been drug abuse allegations, erratic behavior allegations and he started his radio show by apologizing for his behavior. I believe we have some quotes here from the mayor. He said he is not perfect. He has made some mistakes and all he can do right now is apologized for those mistakes. But he is taking full responsibility. He did look visibly stressed, Fred, during his program. Local media reports saying that he arrived playing "staying alive" by the Bee Gees and that seemed to be his theme of his radio broadcast, though, it never specifically addressing exactly what happened these allegations this week. On Thursday the police chief of Toronto came out and said that there is digital video proof that they of the mayor smoking a glass pipe is in place, drug abuse allegations. They also had a 450-page report which looked into gang and drug activity. And they say he is featured prominently in that report, Fred, saying that he is has hung out and took pictures in front of a crack house with three alleged drug gang members. Also, tying him to his former driver who since have been arrested in-charge with extortion charges related to this video. There is report that this former driver was threatening those that has this video so that it wouldn't be release. And that video is important to point out has not been made public yet.</s>WHITFIELD: And why is that? I mean, if the police chief is saying we have this and you are also have been able to report that there are some reporters who have seen it. Why wouldn't the city's top cop say, this is was we have?</s>VALENCIA: And that is a thing. We are unsure about if they saw this video and this alleged drug abuse by the mayor, why they are not formally pressing charges against the mayor. Why hasn't this video been released publicly just yet. But three reporters have seen it, one reporter from Garker (ph) and two local Toronto reporters alleged to have seen this video, this bombshell evidence. They say that shows the mayor is addicted to crack cocaine and possibly. But you would think this would shrink his public support. But local media is reporting that it has boosted his support by five percent. Extraordinary.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, extraordinary. Apology admission of mistakes, however, no real detail on those mistakes. All right, thank you so much, Nick. Keep us posted on that.</s>VALENCIA: You got it.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, now, new details about the suspected LAX gunman show that he had one target in mind. The FBI says Paul Ciancia was carrying a handwritten note indicating that he wanted to shoot multiple TSA officers. Kyung Lah has more on his terrifying march through terminal three.</s>KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Investigators are still piecing together their timeline of what happened inside terminal three. They don't know every step of Paul Ciancia's path to the terminal. (on-camera): But here is what they do know. A roommate dropped him off here at the airport. He entered at about 9:20 in the morning one of these entrances at terminal three. According to pictures like this one as well as surveillance video. The gun was a 223 caliber assault rifle which Ciancia concealed in a bag. He then approached TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez who was standing there where those flowers are. This is a prescreening area and he shot him point blank multiple times in the chest. He then got on this escalator</s>ADNRE BIROTTE JR., U.S. ATTORNEY: The defendant is then alleged to have began walking away from the wounded TSA officer, going up an escalator and then coming back down that escalator to return and shoot the wounded officer again.</s>LAH: At the top of the escalator is a security checkpoint. At some point he wounded two additional TSA officers and one passenger. This is the other side of the checkpoint. From here the bun gunman made his way deep into the terminal three. Cell phone video captured the chaos as he neared the passenger gates.</s>ALEX NEUMANN, WITNESS: People were running and getting knocked down and there was luggages everywhere and mayhem is the best way to describe it.</s>LAH: We are speeding up the video so he can see his path as he wound through the terminal making his way through the gate area. Ciancia had five loaded magazines, a host of unspent ammo enough said the mayor of Los Angeles to kill everybody in the terminal. It ended right around here where Los Angeles airport police shot the gunman a handwritten note was found on him.</s>DAVID BOWDICH, FBI AGENT IN CHARGE: We found a statement where he made a conscious decision to kill multiple TSA employees. He addressed them at one point in the letter and stated that he wanted to quote "instill fear into their traderous (ph) minds."</s>LAH: As the FBI works out the details of this murderous path, the TSA is also asking how in this post 9/11 era did the gunman make it this close to an American passenger plane.</s>JOHN PISTOLE, TSA ADMINISTRATOR: As this gives us a great concern. And so, we will look at what our policies are but it is done in cooperation with each airport police agency and how we go about providing for the best possible security.</s>LAH: Because on this day in America's third busiest airport, it failed to prevent one man with a gun from doing this. Kyung Lah, CNN Los Angeles.</s>WHITFIELD: The wife from the officer killed in that attack said he was always excited to go to work and took pride in this job. 39-year- old Gerardo Hernandez was working as a travel document checker when he was shot on Friday. His wife, Ana, said that she and their two children are simply devastated.</s>ANA HERNANDEZ, GERARDO HERNANDEZ'S WIFE: He was a wonderful husband, father, brother, son and friend. Gerardo would have been 40 next week. I am truly devastated. We are all heartbroken and will miss him dearly.</s>WHITFIELD: Hernandez had been working for the TSA since 2010. He is the first TSA officer to be killed in the line of duty. John Kerry is in Cairo today asking Egyptians to work towards democracy. The secretary of state met with Egypt's foreign minister and told Egyptians the U.S. didn't suspend military aide to the country as a punishment for the over throw of its first Democratically elected president, but because it is quote " policy." Kerry is the highest level official to visit since Egypt since former president Mohammad Morsi's ouster. Morsi is accused of inciting violence during anti-government protest during the summer. His trial begins tomorrow. After NSA leaker Edward Snowden met with a German lawmaker in Moscow, he reportedly said he is willing to testify in a German inquiry about U.S. spying on Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel. Snowden will go to Germany as long as that country doesn't send him to the U.S. Snowden also said that in a manifesto of truth published today in a German newspaper that he feels justified in spilling intelligence secrets. Our Barbara Starr has more on Snowden's reported interest in testifying before U.S. Congress.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The German lawmaker who met Edward Snowden said the confessed NSA leaker isn't anti-American. He wants to testify in front of Congress.</s>HANS-CHRISTIAN STROEBELE, GERMAN MP: He stressed many times to my question if he is ready to come before the German parliament to testify that he would rather go before the U.S. Congress and put all the facts on the table because his message is about clarifying, possible serious offenses by the</s>U.S.A. STARR: Jesselyn Radack of the whistleblower advocacy group, the government accountability project recently met with Snowden in Moscow. She says he is making his own decisions and is not being manipulated by the Russians.</s>JESSELYN RADACK, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: Despite the police state surveillance state we have been turning into. So, I do think he would love to come back some day if the conditions politically were different.</s>STARR: For NSA chief general Keith Alexander, the turmoil caused by Snowden's revelations now giving him second thoughts on whether spying on allies like German Chancellor Angela Merkel was worth it.</s>KEITH ALEXANDER, NSA DIRECTOR: I think those partnerships have greater value than some of the collection and we ought to look at it like that.</s>STARR: The intelligence community adamantly denies a collected telephone and e-mail records directly from European citizens calling reports base on leaks by Snowden completely false. But secretary of state John Kerry acknowledging the U.S. they went too far and still mopping up the diplomatic fiasco.</s>JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: The president, our president is determined to try and clarify that made clear</s>STARR: But for director of National Intelligence James Clapper, no apologies in Snowden's direction.</s>REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R), MINNESOTA: And so, let me ask you this. Was that leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?</s>JAMES CLAPPER, NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR: Are you asking me?</s>BACHMANN: Yes.</s>CLAPPER: Absolutely.</s>WHITFIELD: Bring in now Barbara Starr. So, should we believe this, Barbara, that there would be any possible chance that Edward Snowden would come back to the United States, testify before Congress and not face any charges.</s>STARR: Very unlikely as in no way, Fredricka. You know, top administration officials have been asked about this on the Sunday talk shows and also top members of Congress, the chairs in the Senate and House intelligence committees. There is just simply no appetite for anything like leniency, clemency, any of it. If Snowden comes back, they all say, he will face charges for leaking classified information.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, Barbara Starr in Washington, thanks so much. All right, meantime, President Obama is hitting the campaign trail, just really across the Potomac. He is expected to speak at any moment now in Virginia. Why he is trying to drum up support in that state's governor's race.