The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/14 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: December 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/14 at 00:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm wayne tibodeau we begin in providence road island where two students are dead after a mass shooting at brown university the brown community's heart is breaking and providence's heart is breaking along with it we're a week and a half away from christmas that's providence mayor brett smiling another nine people were injured more than 400 officers are teaming up to find the suspected gunman, Rhode Island Governor, Dan McKee. We'll partner in, continue to partner in with our federal officials as well to make sure that justice comes to the individual that pulled the trigger and cause death. Chris Reyes now with details of how it happened.

We do not have a shooter in custody at this time. That's from Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, following a mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island. Police are looking for a male suspect dressed in black. The call first came in at 4 p.m. Eastern, with shots fired in and around the engineering building. The building contains both classrooms and lab space. Two people are confirmed dead. President Donald Trump says he's been briefed on the situation. What a terrible thing it is. And all we can do right now is pray for the victims.

And for those that were very badly hurt, it looks like. A shelter in place is in effect for the entire campus, with students and teachers told to lock doors, silence phones, and stay hidden. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. U.S. President Donald Trump is vowing serious retaliation against ISIS. After two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in central Syria, the Pentagon says a lone ISIS gunman ambushed a military patrol, Syrian officials confirmed that gunmen was killed,

and was a member of the country's security forces, who they say had an extremist ideology. ISIS has not claimed responsibility for the attack. In BC's lower mainland, floodwaters are gradually dropping, but hundreds of people in the Fraser Valley remain out of their homes, and the forecast shows more heavy rain on the way. Tenia Fletcher has more. It is another atmospheric river.

It's poised to drench southern BC, but like last week, the bullseye is expected to hit just across the border. in Washington State. Still, it'll mean even more rain on an already oversaturated area. Here, local rivers are again expected to swell and cause localized flooding, but flows are expected to be less severe this time around. The current floodwaters are gradually receding. That's the good news. But a portion of Highway 1 is still closed. And Abbotsford Police put out a video today with a warning for drivers.

Please don't drive around barriers. Last night, we had two individual drivers that decided. to drive around road closure points and essentially sink their vehicles into the water, requiring them to be rescued. Crews are determining whether an evacuated property is safe to reenter, but as it stands, more than 450 properties are under evacuation order still and more than 1,000 others are on alert. Tanya Fletcher, CBC News, Vancouver.

Family doctors in Quebec have seen the details of a new deal between their Federation and the province. MDs were upset with the new law Bill 2, The revised deal drops the penalties for doctors who don't meet performance targets set by the province and reduces requirements that doctors increase the number of patients they see. Dr. Melanie Lacasse is a family physician in Gatineau. I think everybody's going to be relieved because their stress was not only on the physician, but it was on our staff at the clinic on the other healthcare professional as well. And for the patient, because some of them, they were worried that they would lose their family,

physician. Family doctors have until next Friday to vote on the deal. And staying in Quebec, provincial officials have ordered Mount St. Anne to indefinitely shut down three chairlifts. An inspection last week showed problems with the electrical system that could constitute a danger to the public. The ski resort had planned to open this weekend after closing last week due to similar problems. It says it's being experiencing issues since an outage on November 28th. And that is your world this hour. I'm Wayne Tobito. Thank you.