The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 05:00 EST

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. Recovery efforts will resume this morning for the victims of a mid-air collision in Washington Wednesday night that claimed 67 lives when a commercial jet and helicopter collided in Washington. Authorities say they have recovered 40 bodies. The investigation into the cause of the crash continues. The CBC's Paul Hunter reports from Washington. Even as divers continue their work in the icy, shallow waters of the Potomac, sifting through the wreckage

of the two aircraft, investigators are already able to begin examining what's been recovered so far, including the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder from the passenger jet, the so-called black boxes. The US National Transportation Safety Board, which heads the investigation, expects to issue a preliminary report within 30 days. It'll be supported in part by Canada's Transportation Safety Board because, though the plane was operated by American Airlines, the Bombardier jetliner was built in Canada in 2004. It's to be reconstructed, piece by broken piece, in an NTSB hangar once the recovery is complete to aid investigators in their efforts.

Says the NTSB, for now, everything's on the table from mechanical to human error. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Several skaters and coaches were on that American Airlines flight. News of the plane crash is rippling through the rinks across Canada and the US. Julia Wong spoke with some Canadians who knew them. Ekaterina Gordeva is finding solace at an Edmonton skating rink as she remembers her friends Vadim Nomov and Evgenia Sheshkova who died in the American Airlines crash. The trio were all on the 1994 Russian Olympic figure skating team.

They were great, beautiful pair team. Very nice and kind people. The pair and Gordeeva later moved to the United States to coach. The close-knit skating community is reeling from the loss of the coaches and more than a dozen others. Olympic ice dancer Caitlin Weaver worked with several of the young skaters killed. These are faces that I watch grow up year by year. I'm devastated on every level. The group was flying back from a training camp in Wichita when the mid-air collision happened.

These are the best youth skaters in the country. So really, we've lost a lot. She, like many in the skating community, are holding on to one another to get through this disaster. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. The names of three more Israeli hostages to be freed tomorrow have been released. The Palestinian militant group Hamas announced today that the three will all be men. They are Afar Kalduron, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bebus.

Their release is part of the negotiated ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The number of Palestinians to be released has not been announced. Two NASA astronauts stranded at the International Space Station have taken their first spacewalk together since their arrival eight months ago. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the station last June for a visit that was planned to be just eight days. The pair performed maintenance work including removing a broken antenna. To Los Angeles. Canadian singer and California resident Alanis Morissette was one of several performers who

played a benefit concert last night for victims of the LA wildfires. Fire Aid used two separate venues. 29 people lost their lives by the wildfires that gutted several neighborhoods and homes earlier this month. That included comedian Billy Crystal, whose house burned to the ground in Pacific Palisades. These were the clothes I wore when I fled my house with my wife Janice, like so many of us did

on January 7th. Was all I had, wore it for a week plus an N95 mask. I looked like an evacuee or someone who had just robbed a 7-Eleven. All the proceeds from the concerts will go towards fire relief efforts. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fade.