The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/24 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/24 at 10:00 EST

Choose clicks, choose the algorithm, choose doom scrolling at 3am, eyes tired, brain rewired, choose headlines that scream, choose fake friends, deepfakes, bots, and comment wars that never end. Choose truth bent and broken until you can't tell up from down or write from wrong. Choose the chaos, choose the noise. Or don't. Choose news, not noise. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm nud ad deen korene a strong storm is beginning to drench parts of southern california the state is expected to be hit by an atmospheric river over the next few days american weather

officials are warning of a high risk of flash flooding as well as mudslides steve futterman has more from los angeles the rain is coming down right now i'm standing in the middle of it and it's going to be going on throughout the day and into tomorrow. It's going to be a very, very powerful storm, dropping lots of rain in some areas, more than 250 millimeters. Ariel Cohen is the meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Service here in Southern California.

This is what he has to say about this storm. This is the type of storm system that affects the area approximately every five to 10 years or so. There will almost certainly be numerous rock slides and mudslides, along with areas of severe flooding, The areas here in Southern California, of course, are the areas hit by the January fires, Pacific Palisades, Altadena. Basically, there's not much vegetation on the mountains, so the mountains can't absorb much water. And this is the big concern about mudslides.

When you don't have vegetation on the mountains, the mountains are very, very vulnerable to these mudslides, these rock sites. That's what has people really the most concerned. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. The future of a $29 million border security team in all. Alberta is unclear. The patrol was introduced a year ago. It is supposed to intercept illegal border crossers, as well as firearms and drug smuggling. But as Andrew Jeffrey reports, the Premier is signaling it may not be needed. After Alberta made a $29 million investment into border security, Premier Daniel Smith said earlier this month that Coots, the site of Alberta's busiest

border crossing, isn't the hotbed of activity they suspected. What we learned from that is that the the border at Coots is not the huge traffic or transit route for either human smuggling or drug smuggling or trafficking. Last winter, after Donald Trump was elected to his second term in the White House, Alberta announced a border security plan. Its team includes roughly 51 officers patrolling southern Alberta. The province has said it would consider redeploying the team. And Coots Mayor Scott McCumber says that could be a good decision. The province says its team apprehended five suspected a legal border crossing since launching this year. Andrew Jeffrey, CBC News, Calgary.

Venezuela's National Assembly is bringing forth a new bill to criminalize the seizure of oil tankers. The new law aims to stop activities that hinder navigation and commerce, such as U.S. blockades and seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers. Just last weekend, the United States attempted to intercept vessels linked to Venezuela. The Maduro regime has slammed the move as a lawless act of piracy, while Washington says the seizures are about stopping the flow of drugs into the U.S. An 11-year-old boy is dead after a carbon monoxide leak at a residential building in Regina. His family was just getting settled in the city after moving from St. John's Newfoundland.

Laura Sharpelletti has more. Someone came up to me and said that my son was dead. When Morena Hills returned home from work last Friday, found her husband and son unresponsive. She pulled young Henry Lasko into the hallway and screamed for help. A neighbor rushed to her side. I said, keep doing compressions. I got to go back in and get my husband.

I was able to drag him out of there with all my might. First responders arrived and began working on her husband. He's now in stable condition in hospital. Regina fire chief Lane Jackson says mechanical work was being done in the building and a piece of service equipment may have been the carbon monoxide source. Firefighters along on the gas inspector. were able to isolate it, shut it down. The family moved to Regina partly for an elite competitive soccer program.

Henry was a gifted athlete with dreams of competing in the Olympics. CBC has reached out to the owner of the building but did not receive a response. Police say the investigation is ongoing. Laura Sharp-Bledi. CBC News, Regina. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Nuredideen Corine. Thank you.