The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/08 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/08 at 02:00 EST

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and a digital business library full of on-demand resources. Benefit together with Chambers Plan. Learn more at hellochambers.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. Travelers are dealing with hundreds of canceled flights in the U.S. There are fears thousands of more could be grounded in the days ahead. Air traffic controllers are working without pay

as the Federal Aviation Administration grapples with the ongoing government shutdown. Katie Nicholson reports. Red cancellations flash on the arrivals and departures boards at the Fort Lauderdale Airport where Gloria Brown is trying to fly home to Boise, Idaho. It's still on schedule on the boards. But many flights, roughly 4%, hundreds across 40 major airports, are not. It's all a part of an attempt to alleviate pressure on stressed air traffic controllers,

who haven't been paid since the federal government shutdown began October 1st. I think it's terrible, and I think our Congress is a bunch of losers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the flight reduction could go as high, as 20% if the shutdown doesn't end soon. I don't want to see the disruption. I don't want to see the delays. But Duffy believes it's necessary. Since the shutdown, sick calls and understaffing at air traffic control centers have caused ground stops and delays across the country.

Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. In Louisville, Kentucky, the death toll in this week's crash of a UPS cargo plane has climbed the 14. The MD 11 got 30 meters into the air before plunging off the run. highway in flames. Todd Inman of the National Transportation Safety Board tells some of what's been learned from the cockpit voice recorder. About 37 seconds after the crew called for takeoff thrust, a repeating bell was heard on the CVR, which persisted until the end of the recording 25 seconds later. During this time, the crew engaged in efforts to attempt to control the aircraft

before the crash. Inman says one of the plane's three engines came off the left wing as it rolled down the runway. Just minutes ago, UPS and FedEx announced they were grounding their fleets of MD-11s as a precaution. A U.S. federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has ruled Trump illegally ordered the National Guard into Portland, Oregon. It's the first decision permanently shutting down the use of the military to tamp down protests against immigration crackdowns. Trump had called Portland war ravaged, but Judge Karen Imbergut says that's, quote, untethered to the facts. A year-long legal and political battle over the fate of an ostrich flock has come to an end in British Columbia.

One day after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal to save the birds, they've been called over concerns about avian flu infection. Tenia Fletcher has more on the reaction. As darkness fell, floodlights lit up the pen where the ostriches were corralled. Dozens of rounds of shots could be heard for hours. hours after. Health officials announced the call was finished. In a statement, the Canadian Food Inspection

Agency saying it had consulted with experts and concluded the most appropriate and humane option was using professional marksmen to get the job done. From personal divisions to political ones. Attorney General Sean Fraser This is a decision that is following the

science and evidence. And Green Party leader Elizabeth May. Public concern and the faith in our institutions would have been better. or met if CFIA had agreed to retesting the animals. But University of Saskatchewan virologist Angela Rasmussen says the scientific value in doing so would be very limited. You might learn a little bit about what's happening with these particular ostriches.

Tanya Fletcher, CBC News, Vancouver. PEI politicians are hung up about gaps in cell phone service. A new report says nearly 7,000 homes have no reception indoors from any operator, and more than 2,000 cannot even get coverage out. side. Liberal MLA Robert Henderson says it's time to fix that. This day and age in Prince Sard Island, we should be able to have a reasonable cell phone coverage for the majority of Prince Seder Islanders, and we just don't have that now at all. The report also says there is no coverage on more than 2,000 kilometers of PEI roads. A couple of million dollars has been set

aside to try and improve service. Officials say they're looking putting towers on building to reduce the cost. That is your world this hour for CBC News. I'm Mike Miles.