The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 21:00 EST

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Canada's Transportation Safety Board is trying to determine what caused the crash of a Delta plane at Toronto's Pearson Airport. 80 people were on board,

everyone survived. Thomas Daigle has the latest on the investigation. Oh no no no no no! Video recorded from a distance and posted online provides the best indication yet of what happened in the final seconds of Delta Flight 4819. Oh my God. Facing gusty winds and snow on the ground, the CRJ-900 touches down, then rolls to the right while still in motion. Oh f***! The back of the plane erupts in flames with a thick plume of dark smoke rising over the tarmac at Toronto's Pearson Airport.

Today in the howling wind investigators spent the day examining that jet. We do expect that the investigators on site will be reviewing the aircraft on its current configuration on the runway for the next 48 hours. Toronto's Airport Authority CEO Deborah Flint says 20 investigators from the Transportation Safety Board are on hand to find out what went wrong. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Now to the passengers who survived the crash, a fireball, and their plane flipping over. The accounts of people who are in that plane are nothing short of terrifying.

Jamie Strashen has more. Oh my god. Delta Flight 4819, upside down, on fire after flipping and careening down the runway. Somehow all 80 people on board survived. It's really important to recognize how grateful we are. Deborah Flint is the CEO of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority. She describes the response of everyone involved as textbook. John Nelson was on the plane. I was upside down, the lady next to me was upside down. We kind of let ourselves go and fell to hit the ceiling. He credits flight attendants for keeping people calm. As this

recording from air traffic control indicates, firefighters directly assigned to Pearson Airport were on scene minutes after the crash. For those aboard Flight 4819, a sense of thanks for everything that went right, after everything went so very wrong. Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. Mark Carney is dominating fundraising efforts in the race for the federal liberal leadership. Elections Canada filing showed the former central banker has raised nearly $2 million. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, his competition isn't even close.

I'm getting my support from the grassroots. Frank Baylis may not yet be a household name, but the former Liberal MP has raised more money than Christian Freeland in the first leg of the Liberal leadership race, pulling in just over $227,000. I've got a lot of the cultural communities. Freeland's team says it's working to correct its fundraising figures with Elections Canada. The initial data shows the former finance minister also trails behind Karina Gould, the former Liberal House leader, but not former Liberal MP Ruby Dalla.

I am very grateful to all of the donors and the supporters. None of the candidates are fundraising anywhere close to Mark Carney. The former Bank of Canada governor has raised the most money from the most donors. Over $1.9 million for more than 11,000 contributors so far. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. A jury in Los Angeles has reached a verdict in the trial of rapper A$AP Rocky. We, the jury of the above entitled action, find defendant, Rocky Mayors, not guilty of the Cheers erupted in the courtroom after Rocky was found not guilty of firing a handgun at a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021. The 36-year-old hip-hop star jumped into the gallery

to hug his longtime partner Rihanna. He was facing up to 24 years in prison if he had been convicted. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.