The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/15 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/15 at 04:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. We begin with tragic news from Los Angeles. Rob Reiner is dead. The body of the legendary director and actor was found inside his home Sunday afternoon,

along with the body of his wife, Michelle Singer. Alan Hamilton is the Los Angeles deputy police chief. The current death investigation that is being conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department is going to be handled by the Homicide Special Section of Robbery Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Investigators won't say if they have a suspect

or explain how the victims died. Rob Reiner was 78 years old. He first gained worldwide fame playing Archie Bunker's Meathead Son-in-law in the 1970s sitcom, all in the family. Wait a second, it's you, me. Yeah, that's right, you're the property owner with your 24-inch TVs and your four-slice toasters

and your ice making refrigerators? That's all you care about, Archie, is what you got and how you can keep it. Well, you'd care about it too, sonny boy, if you had anything. But Reiner made his biggest mark as a beloved director with such films as Stand By Me, a few good men, and the Princess Bride. The Prime Minister of Australia is calling for tougher gun control laws in his country after a deadly attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. Two gunmen allegedly shot and killed 15 people Sunday.

One suspect was killed. The second is now in hospital. Phil Mercer reports from the scene of the tragedy. People have been gathering all day here at Bondi Beach to lay flowers among the visitors, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and other senior political figures. There is an undeniable sense of despondency, anger and uncertainty among the victims, a 10-year-old girl, the oldest 87 years of age. The government is facing pressure over its response to a rising tide of anti-Semitism in Australia since the October 7 attacks and Israel's war in Gaza. The Prime Minister is insisting that anti-Jurist sentiment is being taken seriously. There is an overriding sense of trauma here at Australia's most famous beach. Phil Mercer for CBC News at Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Rabbi Yankee Berger is from Ottawa, but now lives in Australia. His son survived the attack. The people who were killed were my close friends. It's devastating. It's shopping. You know, we woke up this morning just hoping it was one big bad dream. And my son, he heard the first gunshots. So he ran for cover, and he took his daughter. There are a few other children there.

He took them along with them. And he stood in front of them, you know, to prevent them from harm's way. The sounds of the gunshots were coming closer and closer. and he literally said his last prayers with his daughter. Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at a Hanukkah ceremony in Ottawa yesterday and expressed his support for the Jewish community. We're following a developing story in Hong Kong, a judge has found Jimmy Lai guilty of sedition and foreign collusion.

The pro-democracy activist and business tycoon ran the Apple Daily newspaper. In Abbotsford, British Columbia, floodwaters are receding, but residents are still cleaning up. And as Aaron Collins reports, officials warned that more rainfall is on the way. It wasn't as bad as the last time. Kristen Sane has been here before. Her Abbotsford home damaged by floodwater again. We came back home just to check out how everything fared through the flood.

This flood impacting businesses here in the Fraser Valley, too. You can see where the water was. Vern Oistrick says the recycling facility he works at has been damaged by flooding four times over the years. You can see where the brown spots are in those bags, eh? What's it like three feet up, two feet? So every one of those pallets are screwed. The situation is improving. Abbotsford's mayor, Ross Seaman, hopes to get all residents home soon.

There are people working around the clock to do whatever they can to get those impacted back to their properties as soon as possible. Of course, more rain could slow that work down. Environment Canada says the Fraser Valley, including Abbottes, Can expect up to 80 millimeters of rain by the end of Monday. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Abbotsford, B.C. And that is your world this hour.