Your World Tonight - Hurricane Isaias hits the gulf coast, and more

Episode Date: October 10, 2026

Hurricane Isaias has made landfall in the southeastern United States as a Category 2 storm. Crews in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle are now working to clean up the debris, and restore power to nearly a million people. Meanwhile in the Pacific, Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel are bringing destructive winds, storm surges and rain to coastal areas of Mexico and the U.S.Also: The French government is trying to put an end to a nationwide student uprising. For more than two weeks, high school students have taken to the streets to protest the conditions in their schools. So far, the demonstrators have been unmoved by proposals from officials, and they are vowing to keep marching until all of their demands are met. And: Once upon a time, record labels promoting new, up and coming pop stars devised a strategy to bring their artists to the youth: shopping mall tours. But as the era of the boy band faded away, and malls went into decline, those tours stopped. Now, a staple brand of malls everywhere is trying to bring them back.Plus: NATO strengthens defence in the skies of Russia's neighbours, Volunteer firefighters struggle to cope with rising diesel prices, and more.

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A web series where host Michelle Spina sits down with members of Gen Z to share real perspectives and experiences on money, life, and what comes next. Paid content with Dejardé. Now streaming on CBC Gem. This is a CBC podcast. We're very used to living through these hurricanes, so we do have a presence of mind to be able to know how to keep ourselves safe. An all-too familiar story for people on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Atlantic hurricane season now in full swing.

And as Isayas moves deeper into the southeastern U.S., another massive storm is bearing down on the west coast of. Mexico. This is Your World Tonight. I'm Kaz Bovain. Also on the program, Saudi Arabia suspends operations at Riyadh's airport after a missile attack kills and injures several people. And... We don't have toilet paper. We don't have soap. We do have computers, but they don't work. But we know other schools have rats in the school, bugs. Students in France, frustrated by conditions at their schools, are pushing their government to act. Their protest movement, now a national crisis.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Isayas is weakening as it moves toward Nashville. Now a post-tropical cyclone, the storm made landfall Friday night as a category two hurricane, dishing out strong winds and heavy rains across the U.S. southeast. As crews work to restore power and assess the damage, an even larger storm is threatening Mexico's southwest. Philip Lee Schenach reports. It's like a Mike Tyson punch. really hard, really fast. Issa I has made landfall near Dustin, Florida last night with winds hitting 170 kilometers per hour.

But Jake Collins, the state's lieutenant governor, says it could have been much worse. As it came to landfall, it became more diffuse. So you saw it slow down and start to curb off to the north and to the right there. And that probably was very good for us overall. The strong winds and rain down power lines. Authorities in Florida and Alabama say at least two. people were killed by falling trees. Colin says the dangers from the storm haven't passed as the ground remains saturated with water.

If we didn't learn anything else from Helene and Milton, blooding is very possible as the water tables stay up. Hundreds of thousands of people along the storm's track from Florida into Alabama and Georgia are without power. Now downgraded to a post-tropical storm, it's expected to bring heavy rains to the Tennessee Valley as it continues northeast. East. Issa Iez is the only Atlantic storm this hurricane season and set a new record for how late it formed. By contrast, the Pacific Ocean has had a much more active storm season, with two storms threatening along the West Coast this weekend. With winds up to 230 kilometers per hour, Hurricane Simon is expected to make landfall near the popular Mexican resort, Puerto Viarta, Sunday morning, as a category four storm.

Further north, a weaker system, tropical storm Rachel, is hitting southern California with storm surges and heavy rain. Long Beach resident Michael Fawber says he hasn't seen this kind of destruction in more than three decades. The boardwalk is destroyed. The break wall is gone on part of the places, and the waves are just going straight into people's homes. And it's something that I have not seen. Chris Fogarty is with the Canadian Hurricane Center in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He says this strange storm season may be linked to El Nino, which is a recurring phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean. So the ocean is extra hot, and it's producing lots of hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean area.

Everywhere from Mexico, out through to Hawaii, all the way across to the Philippines and China. You know, it's nature's way of balancing. If it's really quiet somewhere, it's really stormy somewhere else. U.S. authorities issued a tropical storm watch for only the second time in California history. The last time was in 2023, the last El Nino year. Philip Lichanak, CBC News, Toronto. Nine people, including two children and a pregnant woman, are dead after a mass shooting in northern Pennsylvania. It happened late yesterday evening.

Police responded to the scene after reports of shots fired outside a home in Erie, about two hours north of Pittsburgh. Two women were found dead in. in the street, more victims were found inside the home. The suspect died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Erie police chief Rick Laura says what happened in his community is deeply disturbing. Nine people died in this tragedy. Eight victims in the suspected shooter. Eight of these deceased were family members.

Laura declined to discuss motive but says investigators would be speaking to other relatives. Protests continued in New York City today after U.S. immigration officials. defend ice agents who shot a man in a busy area on Thursday night. They opened fire on the man while his young child was inside the car with him. The CBC's Chris Reyes has been following the story in New York. Chris, tell us what was happening in the city today. So, Cass, New Yorkers hit the streets again, protesting ice actions in their city. Many carried signs in support of Oscar Bergal, the 28-year-old Dominican man shot on Thursday.

While his five-year-old son was in the backseat of the car, the child was. was unhurt. This would be the third day that we've seen demonstrations since that incident. So the first ice-related shooting in New York City since President Trump enforced aggressive immigration policies in his second administration. Demonstrators say they want ice out of their city. They have been encroaching more and more over the last several weeks, but it feels like this is really a more, it's a bloodier step, you know. We care about everyone. We want everyone to be safe. Immigrants are not bad. They're good people.

The Department of Homeland Security says the agents fired when Bregal drove his car at them. Bregal does have a criminal record in New York. Bregal's lawyers are fighting for his release. And they're also concerned about his care, saying that he still has a bullet in his body. Now, Chris, where does the case stand today? So so far, a judge has ordered DHS not to deport Bregal while his case is before the courts in the U.S. The next court appearance is on Tuesday, and that's when it's expected. Bergal's release and detention will be discussed, including how much his lawyers can have access to him.

They said so far they haven't had a lot of contact with him. When New York City mayor, Zoran Mamdani, requested Bragaal's release during his conversations with DHS and President Donald Trump, Trump said that he would do it only if NYPD would deal with his pending charges. Here's what Bridal's lawyer, Harold Salas, said, about his client's criminal record. Regardless of whether or not someone has a criminal history, it is not lawful and it is not okay to shoot a father in an afternoon with his son in the backseat.

That is not how we resolve legal disputes in this country. New York's governor also requested that ICE pause its operations in the state that was rebuffed. Just for some context here, Cass, New York City and New York State in general functions as a sanctuary state, meaning that they don't readily cooperate with ice agents. All right. Thanks for this, Chris. Thank you.

The CBC's Chris Reyes in New York. Still ahead. In the era of online retail, spending a day at the shopping mall feels a bit retro. That could be why some companies are looking to a very turn-of-the-millen strategy to bump up business, mall tours. That's right. Catch your favorite up-and-coming boy band or girl group near the food court.

Later on your world tonight. In Saudi Arabia, at least 12 people are dead and over 300 injured after a missile struck a passenger terminal at Riyadh's International Airport. This is the third attack on the site this week after two separate strikes on Thursday killed at least three Saudi nationals. The surge in attacks comes amid renewed fighting between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Yemeni government forces supported by a Saudi-led coalition. Airport operations in Riyadh have been suspended and flights have been diverting. or cancelled. Multiple countries, including Canada, are advising their citizens to avoid the area. There is mounting concern among NATO nations that Russia may be preparing to test the alliance and their commitments toward mutual defense. They are now strengthening security in the skies and

along the borders of its Baltic members. The CBC's Chris Brown takes an up-close look at the alliance's readiness and how Canada is contributing. High above Lithuania, a military transport plane drops its back ramp in mid-flight, exposing a dizzying drop and a breathtaking sight for the media on board. A wall of NATO jets flying in tight formation just meters away. This is the military alliance flexing its muscles. The Turkish, Italian and Spanish jets are close enough that we can see the pilot's faces, including Spaniard Antonio Monsebo. The message is clear. Nothing flights without authoritative in the alliance airspace.

This high-altitude display of collective defense comes at a perilous moment. On the ground below, leaders of NATO nations along Russia's border say they already feel like they're in a hybrid war as the Kremlin steps up sabotage across Europe. Add to that, Donald Trump. Your countries are going to hell. The U.S. President's constant criticism of Europe has left many questioning his commitment to Article 5,

NATO's core collective defense provision. But top commanders here, such as French general Guillaume Tomah, dismiss any talk the U.S. can't be relied on. What I can say at my level, that I am completely confident in the support of U.S. forces in protecting the alliance. With Ukraine under relentless bombardment, NATO's air command has aggressively shifted from passive surveillance, to active defense. Latvia is building a domestic drone wall, says Eris Erichvelis, the State Secretary

for Defense. It integrates radar and interceptor systems to counter potential low-flying Russian threats. Can it stop swarms of shahads and other things coming over from Russia? Maybe not today, but it will be able as it matures. Holding the vulnerable ground underneath, falls heavily. on Canada. Ottawa's footprint in the Baltics has grown to 3,000 troops leading a multinational brigade based in Latvia. Canadian Brigadier General Mason Stalker says his mandate is pure combat readiness. Readiness isn't just a word. It's actually our approach. I'm all about readiness and being more ready tomorrow than we were today. Back in the air, Russia's border is only a couple

of minutes flying time away. It's a razor-thin proximity that demands split-second reactions, as Vladimir Putin keeps testing to see exactly where NATO's limits lie. Chris Brown, CBC News, over Lithuania. Rescuers in Ukraine are searching through rubble for survivors after Russia's latest attack. Russian strikes have killed at least 20 people in Ukraine's Zaporizia region, including three children. It comes a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel. A move Kiev warns could fund Moscow's war effort. Today, Trump said it's time for new leadership in Ukraine, suggesting Ukrainian President Volumir Zelensky has not done enough to end the war with Russia. Trump is also blaming record U.S. diesel prices on Ukraine rather than the

U.S.-led war on Iran, which has raised fuel prices around the world. The French government is trying to put an end to a nationwide student uprising. For more than two weeks, high school students have taken to the streets to protest the conditions in their schools. As freelance reporter Kyle Brown tells us, so far the demonstrators have been unmoved by proposals from officials and are vowing to keep marching until all of their demands are met. Thousands of students on the streets of Paris denounced the deteriorating conditions in their high schools. Rebecca, a student at Henry Berkson's secondary school, describes what it's like.

We don't have toilet paper, we don't have soap, we don't have doors in the toilets. We do have computers, but they don't work. Oh, the windows are broken. So in summer it's really hot and in winter it's really cold. But we know other schools have many problems, like rats in the school, bugs, too much people in the class. 40 people per class is really a problem. There are overcrowded classes, and at the same time, this coincided with a teacher shortage. Agnes Van Zanten is a professor at the National Center for Scientific Research,

specializing in social inequality. And this has to do with the fact that the teaching profession is less and less attractive, so the government has not really made a strong effort to make the profession attractive either by raising salaries or in other ways as well. On average, there are between 25 and 30 students per class in France's high schools, which is more than the European average. And in some schools, the figure is considerably higher. Education Minister Edouard Jeffre says the government has now identified the high schools

most in need of teachers and, at the same time, teachers in need of work. We have 3,000 substitute teachers who are currently not teaching, he says, adding, we've had trouble assigning them to schools. He says those teachers will be placed in schools that need them by next Tuesday. It's very disappointing first because people think, well, if we had all these substitute teachers, why weren't they on the field doing something? Agnes Van Zanten again. And at the same time, well, it's just 3,000 substitute teachers, which is not very much. So it looks like a measure that was the only one they thought that could be announced very quickly. So there is a big gap between what is being demanded by the students and what's being offered by the government.

While the government plans to spend around $1.9 billion, more for education in next year's budget, the secondary school students' union demands more than 15 billion now. Student unions say protests will resume next Tuesday. Kyle Brown for CBC News, Paris. The Premier of Manitoba is defending his choice to answer questions in the legislature in French. Wab Canoe says it should not be notable in a province with a thriving Francophone community. But, as Karen Pauls tells us, Canoe may also be trying to reach a more national audience. Manitoba Premier Wab Knoo, answering in French all week during question period.

He's been doing it ever since the opposition progressive conservatives turfed their leader. Their interim leader doesn't speak French. Conrad Nareth got in trouble for this comment in the spring when Knoo was speaking French. Narth has since apologized and says he has no problem with. with Canoe speaking French. I ask the questions of concern to Manitobans in the language that I'm most comfortable in, and he responds in French with translation available. Canoe acknowledges language is always political.

The leader of the progressive conservative party got mad at me for speaking French in the chamber, which is my prerogative to do. That is a clear attack on francophone rights in Manitoba. Still, the Premier's motivation is being questioned. Well, at best, I'd say it's impolite. Raymond de Berre is a retired political scientist from the Universite de Saint-Boniface. It certainly politicizes the use of French in the Legislative Assembly in a way that I think is unhealthy. It may not be headline news in Quebec, where the separatist Party Quebecois won a minority government on Monday night.

People who are interested in Canadian politics and interested in especially, Official languages certainly have they took notice of what happened. Danielle Bellin is the director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. He says Canoe is sending a message to audiences both inside and outside of Manitoba that can only help him politically. Showing to the rest of the country and including to people in Quebec that, you know, he speaks French, you know, helps increase his profile across the country. In an interview on Friday's CBC Manitoba French Morning Show,

Canoe was asked why he's speaking more French in the Manitoba legislature. Should I not appetite to pick on Forrest Gump? Maybe I feel a bit like Forrest Gump, he said. I started going with it and then I thought it was important to keep going. Canoe says he'll look into simultaneous French translation of question period online, the same thing MLAs get in the chamber. As well, more Francophone history in Manitoba's curriculum. A provincial strategy on bilingualism is expected next March.

Karen Paul's, CBC News, Winnipeg. Volunteer fire departments are sounding a different kind of alarm these days. Most of their fire trucks run on diesel, and the rapidly rising cost of the fuel is adding expenses to their already stretched budgets. Cameron Farquison brings us that story from PEI. Crossroads Fire Chief Greg McCormick is keeping a close eye on his department spending these days. As he watches diesel prices climb, he watches his budget getting tighter.

We've seen a substantial increase in the cost of the diesel fuel that our trucks use. The only saving grace is that our call volume actually is down this year. So it's all kind of cancelling out. According to Natural Resource Canada, the average price of diesel rose about 70% nationally from August 2025 to August of this year. At the start of the year, McCormick estimated the fire department would spend about $11,000 on diesel. But it's already spent 8600, nearly double what it spent this time last year. The increased expenses could mean the fire department has to make sacrifices,

including cutting training time on its trucks. The operators are getting comfortable using it, but it's a very large truck, and it has a very large engine, and it has a very healthy appetite for diesel fuel. So how often we take that on the road might get limited if the situation continues to worsen. And it's not just pressure at the pump. camps. Canada's tariffs on U.S. products are also having an effect. All of our Canadian suppliers have some element of an American-made product or an American purchase product. The bunker gear is made at a company in Montreal, but the fabric that they use

comes from the United States. At some point, the nozzles, the hand tools, the chainsaws, all of these things. We can buy them locally from local suppliers, but they all generally come from the United States. It's a similar story at the Miss Cush Fire Department. Woodbury says the cost of getting essential supplies is top of mind. When we purchase that piece of equipment, that emergency equipment, with freight costs that were usually $15 to $20, we're going to see those costs rise as well. So it's not the direct fuel that we're putting in the vehicles, but it's also the equipment that we're purchasing. Woodbury says it's only a matter of time before something we'll have to give.

We have to make some serious decisions and where we want to cut, whether it is training, there is extra activities that our firefighters do to improve their mental health. Both fire departments say they're looking at next year's budgets and planning to put money aside to address fuel costs. And while they may have some tough decisions to make, the chiefs say the top priority remains the safety of their teams and the public. Cameron Farquison, CBC News, Stratford, Prince Edward Island. It has been a banner year for Canada on screen. According to telefilm's most recent numbers, Canadian movies have doubled their box office take compared to the same period last year.

A group representing independent cinema says its members played a big role in that. As Kate McGilvery tells us, it's calling for industry changes to get even more eyes on homegrown movies. If you saw big Canadian titles this year, like Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. How can we use this to get a show at the Rivley? Or undertone? Can you hear something? The odds are good that you saw them at an indie theater. Independent cinemas, despite making up only 16, 16%, 16% of the total box office in Canada,

they actually make up 60, 60% of the total box office for Canadian films. Sonja Yacotta William runs the network of independent Canadian exhibitors. In a survey that her group put out this fall, they found that indie theaters could do even more to get people watching Canadian movies if some problematic industry practices were changed. For example, big studios demanding what's called a full show commitment. A cinema will be required. required to show only that one film in absolutely every single showtime.

For single screen cinemas, that means they can't mix in a few screenings of a Canadian film if they have a big Hollywood title. Another problematic industry practice she flags the zone system. That's an unwritten rule where movie distributors will only allow one theater in a certain area to screen a new title. Yocota Williams says the practice privileges Cineplex, though the chain has long denied it has any say over what plays where. The net effect is that, you know, there's way less choice of where to see movies in Canada

than there are in, you know, basically any other country. The survey also found that indie cinemas don't book Canadian titles because they're worried about a lack of audience or because they don't hear about them at all. Some distributors are better at getting the word out than others. Peter Henderson programs for the bookshelf cinema in Guelph, Ontario. He says more promotion and lead time would help him sell more tickets. That's case scenario, you know, months ahead of time.

That doesn't happen as often with Canadian films. CBC News reached out to the association that represents the big studios in Canada and did not hear back. Telefilm Canada says it's planning a new initiative to support indie theaters here, with details coming soon. Kate McGilvery, CBC News, Toronto. Once upon a time, record labels promoting new and upcoming pop stars devised a strategy to bring their artists to the youth, shopping mall tours. But as the era of the boy band faded away and. malls went into decline, those tours stopped. Now, a staple brand of malls everywhere is trying to bring them back.

Magda Gablesa has that story. Meet JYT, Just Your Type, a new boy band that's about to follow in the footsteps of past pop stars. Gap is partnering with the group and bringing back a throwback, the mall tour. To me, I think it's a really perfect fit. And it's going to bring something that was a retro, a retro, a retro, doing a retrovats. That's Tony Young, better known as Master Tea, the VJ for much music in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, a time when mall tours were all the rage. The promotional strategy was born in 1987. Teenagers packed malls across the U.S. to see Tiffany perform her single, launching her career. Boy bands like New Kids on the Block, and girl groups like Destiny's Child, did mall tours too. Even Britney Spears performed in Ontario at Markville Mall in 1999.

Kids frequent them all, but like, wow, look at the experience. They get to watch their artists perform, get to watch their artists dance, sing. And that's, you know, that's a great experience. And it's a better probably experience than actually going to a sit-down culture. But over the years, mall tours disappeared. Max Valacette is a communications and trends expert in Toronto. What happened with the advent of online is people were just going to malls a lot less.

While we also did a bit of recalibration on sort of teen and young adult artists, there weren't as many also over that period of time. He says malls have since made a comeback, and so have artists appealing to that younger audience. Along with the mall tour, Gap says there will be a docu-series about the band's journey, a clothing collection, and social media content. Inevitably, young people do set the tone in trends like, this. So you're not doing this just so that you connect with teenagers and young adults. You're doing this because if they say something is cool or interesting, it does tend to have an impact on

older demographics and drive what they purchase as well. It might make business sense, but will this retro strategy work? The tour dates haven't been announced yet. We've reached out to Gap to learn whether Canadian malls will get in on the action and have yet to hear back. Makta Geberra Salasa, CBC News, Toronto. Finally, we all speak with accents. Unique patterns of speech we develop based on where we grow up or who surrounded us. But did you know that's not unique to humans? Take a listen.

Okay, now this. So those first sounds you heard were a collection of calls made by Northern Resident Killer Whales from Pod A1 of Clan A, to be exact. That second series? Southern Resident Killer Whales from Clan J, Pod J. Could you spot the difference? Orca researcher John Ford can. This goes back to work that I did as a graduate student 45 years ago. A scientist emeritus with Fisheries and Oceans Canada,

Ford has spent decades cataloging the unique dialects of orca pods in the waters off the BC coast. Now that collection is organized and available for anyone to listen to online. Through Simon Fraser University's humans and algorithms listening to or halo, project. Some recordings date back to the 50s, and Ford says the distinct dialects have stayed remarkably consistent, passed on through generations. You can tell when a pod is highly active, and they might have caught a salmon, and there's excited whales. They tend to increase the pitch of the call a little bit, and they shorten it. When we get excited, we talk fast and maybe raise our voice. So the whales do that as well. He hopes expanding our understanding of each pod's unique voice

will help scientists track them and better inform shipping traffic off the BC coast to reduce the risk of collisions. Especially for the southern residents, the population is so small that we need to mitigate any kind of risk. Ford also hopes the catalog helps to grow people's curiosity about orcas in the underwater world.

And yes, he does have a favorite. The most dramatic resident calls to me are the R clan. They just sound very different from the others and very distinctive. This has been your world tonight for Saturday, October 10th. I'm Casbovan. Good night. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca.ca slash podcasts.