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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Rahm. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Florida to meet with President-elect Donald Trump. The meeting comes after Trump's recent threats to impose heavy hefty tariffs on Canadian products. NPR's Julianna Kim reports. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President-elect Donald Trump met on Friday night. The in-person meeting comes after Trudeau said he spoke to Trump earlier this week. Canada is America's largest trading partner, but that might soon change with the incoming Trump administration. Trump has said he wants to slap a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods.

But there's concern that such a move could throw Canada into a deep recession. Earlier this week, Trudeau says he plans to keep talking with Trump to see how the two can work together. But not everyone in Canada agrees. Some have called for the country to retaliate if Trump goes through with the tariffs. Juliana Kim, NPR News. The Gaza Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike in Gaza today killed at least five people, including aid workers. The Israeli military says it was targeting a man who had taken part in the Hamas attack

on Israel last October 7th. They say the man had worked for the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen. Attacks on two hospitals in northern Gaza have forced patients to be moved from their rooms. An ICU director at one of them was killed. NPR's Scott Newman has more. In a video by the Indonesian hospital near Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, gunfire can be heard outside amid shouts from staff trying to move patients to safety. Israel's military

did not immediately respond to a request for information on the attack. Meanwhile, at Kamal Adwin Hospital, the Gaza Health Ministry says the director of the intensive care unit was killed at the front gate on his way into work. The ministry describes the attack as an Israeli assassination. Israel's military said it was unaware of a strike at the hospital. The two hospitals, some of the few still functioning in the area, are barely a mile apart and have been frequent targets of Israeli strikes in the past. Gaza's civil defense says 75 people were killed in northern Gaza on Friday. Scott Newman, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

The head of the U.K.'s foreign spy Agency says Russia could dangerously escalate the conflict with Ukraine through sabotage efforts against Ukraine's allies and that any Russian success could threaten US security as well. Villain Marx has more. Richard Moore said he and his French counterpart were working to contain the risks of what he called a staggeringly reckless campaign of sabotage recently uncovered in Europe that includes suspicious arson attacks. He criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's mix of quote bluster and aggression and said Putin's recent nuclear threats were

quote dangerous and beyond irresponsible. Villamarks reporting. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. Today marks the end of the Atlantic hurricane season. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports it's been an active one with deadly and destructive storms. The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season had 18 named storms, 11 of them hurricanes with five reaching major hurricane status with winds topping 111 miles per hour. Five hurricanes hit the US, including hurricanes Helene and Milton, which combined killed more than 200 people

and caused billions of dollars of damage in Florida, North Carolina, and other parts of the Southeast. Both were late season storms in a year that saw a record seven hurricanes form after September 25th. Storms also rapidly intensified this season, feeding off warm sea surface temperatures. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June to the

end of November. Debbie Elliott, NPR News. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a disaster emergency in parts of her state because of the first big snowstorm of the season. It could bury towns along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The National Weather Service says heavy lake effect snow could make travel very difficult to impossible into next week. Forecasters expect Arctic air will expand south and east into the Northern Plains and the upper Midwest. More than two feet of snow could fall in Buffalo, where the Bills are to play the San Francisco

49ers tomorrow night. The Bills called for volunteers to shovel out the stadium if necessary. I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.