The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 01:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. Bro.ca. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Mike Miles. After nearly a week, the manhunt in the Brown University shooting is over. The suspect found dead hours ago with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities believe he acted alone. Steve Futterman with more on the investigation.

Law enforcement officials say they are certain the Brown gunman is dead. We are 100% confident that this is our. target. The person identified as Claudio Nevis Valenti, a Portuguese national, was tracked down at a storage unit in New Hampshire, where his body was found. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerona says an eyewitness was able to identify a car driven by the suspect. That was the key break in the case. He ran in a car in Boston. He drove it. We were able to find that car in New Hampshire. We were able to find evidence in the car from looking at it from the outside that connected this individual to our crime scene.

Valenti is a former Brown student. He is also believed responsible for the murder on Monday of an MIT physics professor. The professor and Valenti are believed to have been fellow students in Portugal. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. A deal to keep TikTok operating the United States has been signed. It should keep the social media app under the control of American-based investors. Anise Hidari has to deals. The U.S. side of TikTok will see control.

troll sold and transferred to American investors by January 22nd. That deal is now signed, according to a memo seen by both the Associated Press and Reuters. Reports indicate that memo says both TikTok and ByteDance, the video app's parent company, have agreed that a little under half of a new joint venture will be owned by three U.S. companies, MGX, Silver Lake, and Oracle. That's a tech company controlled by Trump ally Larry Ellison. Just under 20% of this new TikTok company will stick. with the current owner, China-based bite dance.

The TikTok app had been banned during the Biden administration over national security concerns tied to Chinese ownership. The first Trump administration had expressed similar concerns, but this time around, Trump kept postponing, cutting off the app. Under this deal, reports say the algorithm, that's the program that controls what people see on TikTok, will be reconfigured based on U.S. data. Any Sadr, CBC News, Calgary.

British Columbia could be in for more flooding of the days ahead. with the forecast calling for heavy rain, wind, and snow. The province is still recovering from several powerful storm systems known as atmospheric rivers, which scientists warn are becoming stronger. Yasmin Renea explains. Heavy showers have battered the South Coast for more than a week, bringing in a total of about 15 centimeters in the hardest-hit areas. These storms are also known as atmospheric rivers,

large, narrow streams of water vapor that travel through the sky. As the rivers move through mountainous regions like the B.C. coast, the vapor condenses into precipitation, sometimes dumping a month's worth of rain or snow in a matter of days. Jennifer Smith, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says they are critical in helping Canada maintain its water supply, but they can be problematic. When they stall for too long, or they're too strong of a system, or we do get repeated ones in succession. That's what happened in recent days across swaths of B.C. As the climate changes and flooding risks grow, experts say BC will have to adapt to what could be the new normal. Yasmiranea, CBC News, Vancouver. Alberts pushing for province-wide referendums will soon have to shell out 50 times more for the opportunity.

The Alberta government has hiked the application fee for new citizen initiatives from $500 to $25,000. The Minister of Justice says petitions are costly. their fee being added to discourage, quote, frivolous applications. The cost to be refundable if the application meets the required threshold of signatures and completes reporting requirements. That is the world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.

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