good evening i'm andrew adrian is away tonight horror and condemnation as the picture of what russian soldiers left behind in bucha becomes clear what's happening in bucca is outrageous and everyone's seen it our cbc news team is there as the world reacts to the slaughter of civilians in ukraine these acts of terrors won't go unpunished plus the worry this could torch already troubled peace talks also a new report says it's now or never to stop catastrophic global warming we are on a fast track to climate disaster the world's top climate scientists issue a new shorter timeline but there's hope too we break it down one of twitter's more controversial users is now the company's largest shareholder the moment this canadian artist found out he'd just won a grammy i tell you that was the most surreal moment of my life i think this is the national out of the horrors left behind in bucha ukraine when russian troops pulled out anger is rising outrage against russia building we are going to show you images tonight that are disturbing graphic but they are also important because they show the reality of this war these are some of them bodies found strewn in the kiev suburb some on the streets others in shallow or mass graves and the dead appear to be civilians the destruction is wider than that but even after weeks of horror stories it is those deaths that are prompting new action now it came today from the international community through sanctions the expulsion of russian diplomats and allegations of war crimes meanwhile inside the country ukraine's president went to see the scene himself margaret evans takes us there ukraine's wartime leader clearly determined to hold the world's gaze on the suffering of his people visiting butcher in person no longer known as a sleepy commuter town but as the site of alleged atrocities by russia's retreating army vladimir zelinski called it genocide you can see what happened he said we know of thousands of people killed and tortured with severed limbs raped women murdered children this is genocide the cloak on what the outside world could see of russia's occupation of bucha and nearby areas was lifted over the weekend after ukraine declared it had recaptured territory what it revealed has shocked the world bodies seemingly of civilians lying in the streets we came across this man by the side of the road yesterday his shopping bag beside him a mass grave has been reported in a church yard and the bodies of five men who apparently died with their hands tied behind their backs were found in a basement brought up into the sunlight today ill-kept secrets are also being revealed in other towns and villages the russians have left this image shows a shallow grave in modergene south and west of bucha three of the bodies have been identified as those of the village mayor her husband and her son it's not clear what impact the revelations will have on peace negotiations already failing it's very difficult to talk when you see what they did here vladimir zelinsky said in bucha from the ukrainian foreign minister today there was a warning that the disturbing scenes unveiled in the liberated areas near kiev are but a drop in the bucket compared to other cities under attack and i can tell you without an exaggeration but with great sorrow that the situation in mariupol is much worse compared to what we've seen in bucha and other cities and towns and villages nearby kiev he also warned that no one should be in any doubt that russia is now regrouping okay margaret so let's pick up there what do we know about russia's movements now well andrew analysts will tell you that they think about two-thirds of the russian forces that were uh you know just last week stationed around kiev the capital are now up in belarus and being refitted regrouping they think that what's going to happen is that there's going to be a bigger push to the east a lot of people thought at the beginning of the invasion that that's actually what russia intended to do anyway to create a land corridor between crimea which it of course annexed in 2014 and those breakaway pro-russian republics in the donbass region which russia has recognized so to kind of put a territorial grouping together but basically people think that what the russians are doing now is regrouping getting ready to go for a bigger push to the east where they have been more successful during this campaign okay margaret evans in kiev tonight thank you as global fury rose today so too did calls for accountability here's cameron mcintosh with the push to prosecute russia's leader for war crimes to make before i start the day arriving in washington speaking for the first time since the deaths in bucha came to light president biden not holding back you may remember i got criticized for calling putin a war criminal now biden is calling for vladimir putin to be tried like one we have to gather all the detail so this could be an actual have a war crime trial this guy is brutal similar calls across europe today as leaders condemn the deaths the united kingdom said it will work with the international court we're putting funding in we've got the metropolitan police investigating those war crimes so the perpetrators can be brought to justice these are clearly war crimes canada pledged help too as it announced more sanctions and it is important for canada to play its role in making sure that there is accountability for these acts but whether putin or any other russian authority could even be brought to trial is a very open question it's unclear what a trial would even look like we have to consult with our allies and partners on what makes most sense as a mechanism moving forward there's work to be done to work out the specifics of that russia's foreign minister called the accusations lies and fakes he wants the u.n security council to deal with ukrainian provocations ukraine's president says he'll address the u.n tomorrow meanwhile biden is promising more weapons and a harder line i'm going to continue to add sanctions thank you i'll let you know the white house also said not only does it expect the fighting to get worse that russia could actually take territory in eastern ukraine potentially bringing with it more atrocities cameron mcintosh cbc news washington a group of international scientists say the world has to act now or never to prevent a climate disaster scientists have been talking about this target for years 1.5 degrees that's what we need to
hold global warming to by the end of this century to avoid a catastrophic future but today we got a new deadline a new report says in order to hit that target carbon emissions must peak by 2025 and fall rapidly after that otherwise the climate could warm by three degrees bringing on unprecedented heat waves terrifying storms and widespread water shortages stephen d'souza shows us solutions the report says we already have at this manufacturing plant in burnaby workers hope the technology they're developing could help canada reach its climate goals over the next decade we want to be one of the companies that enables up to a billion tons annually if co2 captured or removed removed his company creates carbon capture and storage systems instead of carbon spewing out of a smoke stack it's sent through pipes into a system where filters absorb the co2 but large-scale removal is still years away the intergovernmental panel on climate change warns efforts like that must be accelerated and dependence on fossil fuels has to be rapidly reduced otherwise there could be devastating impacts across the planet from severe weather to drought the u.n secretary general was blunt in his assessment some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another simply put they are lying and the results will be catastrophic this is a climate emergency the report warns that to reach climate goals governments will have to leave valuable oil and gas projects in the ground a difficult challenge says a federal environment minister i think our our work as a government and as a responsible government is to ensure that the transition happens as smoothly as possible one tool companies like this in bc are eagerly awaiting a tax credit for carbon capture programs expected in this week's federal budget it's a critical part of decarbonizing the energy system and the industrial emissions in time to meet our climate goals but critics say those systems only prolong dependence on fossil fuels it's clear that these are dangerous distractions and betting on them is essentially gambling with our lives so while the consensus of scientists on what needs to be done is clear the path there is still far from simple stephen d'souza cbc news toronto let's bring in cbc news senior meteorologist johanna wagstaff who has covered the climate story extensively for us johanna this report it does spend a lot of time on solutions right so what's the note for you well andrew this report is essentially a handbook on how to tackle climate change it offers dozens of different pathways to get there all of them though we have to act fast the report found that we have just three years for missions to peak something that i found interesting for the first time ever the authors assessed human habits and looked at climate policies that are working and found that mass scale habitual changes things like reduction in food waste could cut emissions 40 to 70 percent by 2050 while improving well-being ultimately though even with all of these factors the bottom line is that coal must be effectively phased out if the world is staying within 1.5 degrees celsius right and and all within such a tight timeline as you mentioned right so so joe do you see some hope in all of this because i'm i'm hoping you see some hope in all of this i do andrew so right now the world's current pledges have warming closer to a catastrophic three degrees by the end of this century but i saw how the first report in this series informed the agreement that 195 countries signed last november in glasgow and written in that final pledge the world agreed to meet again in egypt in eight months and come up with their strongest and essentially final commitment and this is the report that the world will make those pledges on and every single one of those 195 countries andrew agreed on what was in the report today senior meteorologist johanna wagstaff thank you very much you're welcome today ontario premier doug ford hailed a huge investment to help the province become a major hub for electric vehicle production with general motors committing 1.8
billion dollars to retool their plants in oshawa and ingersoll will bring pickup truck production to oshawa and electric commercial vehicle production to ingersoll federal and ontario governments will top that up with another 259 million dollars each ingersoll will host canada's first all-electric gm assembly plant making the bright drop electric commercial van while retooling the oshawa plant is expected to bring 2600 jobs by adding a third shift to make chevy silverados bc premier john horgan tested positive for kovid this morning he announced the news on twitter saying his symptoms are mild and that he will continue to isolate and work from home the 62 year old recently underwent treatment for throat cancer which does put him at a higher risk for more serious outcomes of covet 19. well today these familiar towers in the heart of toronto were part of a rebound from covett many private and public sector workers went back to the office in that big transition that so many of us are trying to manage but katie nicholson shows us confidence is shaky for some steve miller's marketing agency renovated its office to make it more covid safe you can still feel a little like you're sealed in here and away from the others if you still have some trepidation he's eager for more staff to be able to get together in person being able to sort of you know riff off each other you know some of that just comes a little more naturally in person despite the renovations and a drawer full of rapid tests the rest of the staff is a little hesitant we still have a fair number of people working from home in downtown toronto where ontario public servants and a lot of the financial district return to office life mixed feelings i feel really comfortable it's about time that we get back to normal it's a little bit stressful because you know some people are taking go train some people on the ttc you never know what people are going to pick up kova testing is much less robust than it was but hospitalizations are up 30 percent from the previous week still the premier is confident no further action is needed our hospitals are in good shape right now we expected a little spike this doctor isn't so confident i would say in the past few weeks many health care providers are off they're sick and a lot of health care providers are burnt out and so you know i would say to premier ford that people are really struggling and you may not have the staffing staffing and staff comfort steve miller's chief concern if the numbers continue to rise and if we see this wave become sort of one of a title nature uh we might sort of do a little pulse check on the agency and just get a gut check on on how people are feeling about coming in and wait a little longer until they can riff on ideas in person katie nicholson cbc news toronto ontario's police watchdog has closed its investigation into this incident during the convoy protests in ottawa this dramatic video was widely shared in february fueling false rumors including that the woman had died in fact she was helped to her feet and suffered a minor injury to her shoulder the special investigations unit says that was not enough to warrant further investigation and today a sentence came down for a tragic case that caught national attention last year but there's no resolution for those involved a family lost their two young children killed in a crash behind the wheel a teenage driver ali shiasson brings us the scene outside the courthouse today outside court the chowdhury family shares their tragic story showing just how quickly life can change the five of us were in our comfort zone in our front yard of our home we were at ease we felt safe we heard a speeding car and immediately saw it flying into our two children and neighbor the crash shocked their von ontario community symbols of mourning dotted the quiet suburb after their deaths our beautiful anaya so full of passion courage and determination died from her injuries our little loving spunky four-year-old jax also lost his life due to his injuries the sixteen-year-old driver was speeding down the residential street going 102 kilometers an hour the children's father is struggling to accept this new reality i have to accept the devastation on my family and i have to accept the laws that protect the guilty the now 17 year old driver has been sentenced to one year in open custody followed by six months of community supervision and a six-year driving ban in court the judge said he seemed remorseful this is not a light sense this young man's going into custody while there is no sentence that could possibly ease the chowdhury's pain defense attorney andrew vaughn says the sentence is fair criminal justice act takes into account that young people's brains are not fully developed they're not fully cognitively developed and so we know as much as we want to hold the response i think the sense does that the family is trying to turn their grief into advocacy for safer streets we ask you as a greater community to do your part in honoring not only the lives of our children but all those who have lost their lives to reckless driving this is what we lost this is what you guys lost is what the world lost ali shiassan cbc news toronto police in california have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that killed six people and left another 12 hurt yesterday in sacramento gunfire erupted in the wee hours as crowds were streaming out of closing bars police have said multiple shooters were involved well turning now to a dramatic day for social media giant twitter and one of its fiercest critics tech billionaire elon musk he has now become twitter's largest shareholder following a multi-billion dollar stock purchase and all this just days after the world's richest man mused about creating his own social media platform here's nisha patel elon musk is taking an old saying to a new level put your money where your mouth is spending nearly three billion dollars to buy up nine percent of twitter in this clip from a past interview musk shared what he liked about the platform kind of like needs some means of getting a message out social media platforms are a key source of news information and entertainment and so that's sort of the new um sandbox where entrepreneurs want to play founder and ceo of electric car giant tesla and aerospace firm spacex musk is one of twitter's most high-profile users ladies and gentlemen elon musk he's got more than 80 million followers i think if i just posted that on twitter i'd be fine but he's also one of its most controversial users from using it to pump questionable cryptocurrencies to a tweet about taking tesla private at a fixed share price that eventually saw him step down as chair of the company so why would elon musk do this look i mean this has really been building from mosques the first step toward him driving significant change of twitter just two weeks ago musk polled his followers asking free speech is essential to a functioning democracy do you believe twitter rigorously adheres to this principle please vote carefully maybe the end game is acquiring the company outright it would be a much easier endeavor to take than kind of starting something up from scratch so like some experts say musk could change the tone of twitter enable not just what we consider free speech to circulate but like a very a lot of problematic um forms of content he goes down a direction usually goes aggressively dives into the deep end of the pool that's the view of what he's going to do with twitter musk hasn't said anything publicly about his intentions but he is known for making big moves nisha patel cbc news toronto many journalists have been forced to flee russia or face jail time for their reporting next their determination to report the truth despite the risk this letter from moscow police this is when did you get that today today plus with covet cases on the rise again what's the risk of getting long-covered everyone seems to know somebody that has chronic symptoms after copenhagen and a very canadian way to find out you just won a grammy i tell you that was the most surreal moment of my life i think we're back in two journalists in russia are facing increasing risk more than 150 journalists have left in recent weeks out of concern over the new laws that threaten to put them in jail for publishing anything the kremlin considers to be fake news as briar stewart shows us many are finding refuge in neighboring countries that's my flat sergey smirnoff apologizes for the disarray in his apartment in the past month his entire life has been turned upside down he fled russia and so did most of his independent news outlet media zona our team in georgia in georgia and lithuania and turkey and armenia smirnoff came to vilnius lithuania's capital because he wants to freely report on what russia's military is doing without the fear of going to jail but his family couldn't join him his infant son doesn't yet have a passport i fear about my family because search because pressure on russian and we know not have dif defense about repression from russia government absolutely russia has passed new punishing media laws where it's a crime to describe what's happening in ukraine as a war or invasion anyone accused of publishing fake news can face up to 15 years in jail the only acceptable narrative is the government one in the past few weeks more than 150 journalists have left russia dmitry seminov spoke to a few of them the journalist used to be a political activist in russia and fled to lithuania it's obvious that russia is turning rapidly if it has not already turned into north korea he said i would advise everyone who has the opportunity to leave although there are very few opportunities for such people now and even if they flee it doesn't mean they're off the government's radar with so many journalists and activists settling here in lithuania the country's security services put out a warning saying that intelligence agencies in belarus and russia could step up surveillance of their citizens here but the most vulnerable remain the ones who stayed in russia last week novaya gazetta a publication whose editor won the nobel peace prize last year was forced to close after receiving a second warning from russia's communications regulator before that the paper was running blank pages as a way to show they were being censored that's why we prefer to publish nothing than official material missing two from the paper were the images the deputy editor yearned to publish like those of the destruction from mary opal photography these pictures from there seem to be the best words to me she said they can show the horror of what's happening and shout no to war those working outside of russia can report what they want but it doesn't mean they're entirely out of the kremlin's reach this letter from moscow police this is when did you get that today today today smirnoff has just learned russia has opened a criminal case against him for a tweet he put out more than a month ago related to the country's figure skaters it's a big problem for me which is why he says he can't return his family plans to move here soon and join him along with the rest of those in a self-imposed exile in lithuania briar stewart cbc news real news millions of ukrainians have been forced to flee the country and leave their homes and loved ones behind i lived with my boyfriend he's still staying there and i'm very scared what happened with him we'll hear from some who found safety here in canada a little later but first as restrictions lift and infections rise we look at the reality and the risk of developing long coven that's next welcome back starting today the government is mailing out a survey to a hundred thousand canadians over 18. they are anxious to get a clear picture of how many people suffer from long covet that's when debilitating symptoms simply don't go away you're about to hear firsthand what that is like candace mccann is a long coveted patient in toronto adriana patino also living with long cover joining us from north vancouver and we have infectious diseases specialist dr isaac bogash also here in toronto thank you to the three of you for joining us candace i'd like to start with you can you share with us when you first realized that your covid was long-haul coveted i'm sure so when i initially had symptoms in march of 2020 um covet wasn't even on our radar i hadn't traveled um i was showing mild symptoms i went to the doctor and i seemed to recover quite quickly i was able to continue on with my daily life and didn't think too much of it it was a few months later when i was hit with the same symptoms but much more severe along with a host of other symptoms that affected my whole body and eventually couldn't work it was then that i started to realize that it could have been related to covet when i was hearing about other people with the same types of issues and symptoms and if we think back to march 2020 i mean this was you know long before the vaccine was available how are you now um honestly there hasn't been much improvement um over that year and a half plus since i've had the long haul symptoms i'm still struggling extremely fatigued my husband has to do all the housework and the cooking i'm still not back to work it's been a long haul as they say yeah no it sounds like it adriana can i ask you the same questions when when you first realized that you had a much bigger problem on your hands than expected and also how you're doing today yes um i got second december 2020 and unlike candice unfortunately i never actually recovered it was the doctor said you know uh it's still good you should just let it run 10 days you'll be fine and you know 10 days went by and i wasn't improving i was going at least twice a week to the er because of my oxygen was low my heart rate was through the roof i couldn't even move um when the end of january hit and i was still very sick like i knew obviously there was something very wrong and i didn't know what what to do at that point and here we are a year and you know several months later has your condition improved much if at all since then the only thing that's improved has been my my lungs because i've been doing daily lung therapy with a specialized covert lung specialist and it took me about 10 months almost 11 months to be able to laugh without having a coughing fit wow other than that everything else is the same my cognitive function actually has been declining my brain function i've always had very bad brain fog and now it's actual neurological uh damage that they detected my brain function again is going down my heart is still very bad i still get 120 160 heart rate out of the blue and that's in two different uh medical uh medicines for the heart wow dr bogash what do you think you know a lot of people are going to be listening to to both candace and adriana in this age of of variants and and sub-variance and thinking could this happen to me i mean you know what's the answer yeah i mean it's obviously awful to hear and you know we hear more and more stories uh like this and you know everyone seems to know somebody that has chronic symptoms after covered one of the issues of course is the data that we have to date and you know this is being studied increasingly but there's a lot of room for improvement in some of the clinical studies that we have some of the studies don't fully define the issue there's limitations because some of the studies don't have control groups or they have reporting biases or there's none a non-standardized definition of what long covet is but you've heard like of course it's real it's here candace how has your life changed it's changed almost 100 percent um i really my days are spent just managing symptoms um i can no longer exercise i can i'm having issues with my legs pain and muscle spasms um like adriana said i'm having cognitive issues as well finding it very difficult to read watch tv so most of the day i just lie in bed i can listen to audio books and and that's it you know you know candace it strikes me that it's not every day that you have an opportunity to actually speak with an infectious disease specialist i'm curious do you have a question for dr bogash um i do i'd love to know is there hope for long-haulers in the future um and how is the research going in canada as far as trials for drugs and for treatment yeah there absolutely is there is hope and it's not just in canada it's around the world i think it's increasingly recognized that long covet is a serious problem and as we heard at the very beginning there's more attention paid toward this by both federal and provincial governments and in fact there are clinics popping up that are really geared to support individuals who are suffering suffering from chronic symptoms following a coca-19 infection dr bogash you know a lot of folks in canada are vaccinated not once but but twice even three times has that affected the incidence rate of of long cove you know based on some of the limited data that we have to date it does appear that vaccination significantly reduces the likelihood that someone is going to develop long coverage should they uh catch covert 19 uh that's obviously a good thing adriana i'd like to give you the final word here what is it that you would like folks at home watching this to know and and what is your hope uh well first of all i want them to know that this is a very serious uh issue it can happen to absolutely anyone not just on first infections it can be on repeated infections and it's not linked to general health or your age or anything like that it can happen i was 100 healthy competitive swimmer i'm young i didn't have anything before and i still can't work absolutely everything in our world has been turned upside down and it can happen to anyone and my hope is that more people are cautious uh you know just simple precautions take care of yourself take care of others um try to get reasonable distance and take it seriously because you don't know what's going to happen to you well adriana i'm listening and i suspect many others are as well we're going to leave it there i think we could talk for a lot longer than this but thank you so much candace adriana dr bogash what a wonderful conversation and i wish you well thank you and next a ukrainian family finds safety here in canada after fleeing the war i feel bad that i escaped that i left my country their fears for the loved ones they were forced to leave behind and the challenges they face now here in this country after this welcome back for weeks we have been watching a mass exodus from ukraine as people flee their homes flee the war to find safety including here in canada but tonight some who have made the long journey say once they arrive they're struggling to get help and that is adding another layer to what is already a difficult time we don't know how to make our first steps in canada we read that there are lots of help but we cannot find this help ukrainian women and children are very talented we just need a small help with first steps my name is sanji tarasenko i come from ukraine with my colleague my friend victoria and three kids ava is eleven eli is nine and oscar is three years old i feel bad that i escaped that i left my country you worry about everyone not only about my husband but then i see how many kids died i i see how many schools are destroyed kindergarten hospital kids hospital and i understand that nothing matters when something happened to your children my name is victoria i am 24 years old and i decided to help her with it all the refugees made a very hard decision when they decided to leave their houses no one wanted to go somewhere to find better life because we were happy in ukraine uh and we built our future and we were waiting for something we had our plans and now everything is destroyed and we don't know what will happen tomorrow and we don't know if we meet our loved ones if we meet our family next day and it's a terrible feeling i can't even explain you and i wish no one to feel the same like me i lived with my boyfriend he's still staying there and i'm very scared what happened with him and really when i read news when someone drops the bulb on cave i'm afraid that it could be my boyfriend in this place my heart is breaking they are asking why daddy is not around call daddy to come they bit angry with daddies that he leave us they're talking every day i explain them we have words they understand it but they are just kids so we hope the war will be over and when only my husband calls us come back everything is safe we'll go back home okay the challenge is i hope to come back home very soon because i miss my home very much i want to go home sorry but for now as there are lots of paperwork you can't take a job because you don't have apartment you can't take apartments because you don't have jobs canada is not easy since the fighting started in ukraine more than 4 million people have fled the country over half have gone to neighboring poland romania moldova and hungary have also taken in many but last month canada launched a special program to help ukrainians come here in two weeks more than 91 000 applications were received and more than 14 000 approved ontario is now the first province to legalize online gambling but existing casinos complain the newcomers are getting a better deal it's not fair we want to compete we want eye gaming we want it to be a level playing field and that's not the only concern we're back after this i'm jamie and tomorrow on cbc's daily news podcast front burner liberal environment minister stephen gilbeau went from ecoactivist to politician we take a closer look at his new climate plan subscribe wherever you get your podcast look at that some wild pictures from australia's iconic bondi beach you can see it engulfed by tides as a storm system moves through the famous strip of sand swallowed by giant waves a rare sight though still not scary enough to stop this surfer from catching a wave or two well there's a new game in ontario tonight online gambling it is the first province to legalize and tax these platforms but as felipe de montine shows us there is concern that it could be too tempting for problem gamblers ontario is hoping it's going to be a huge new revenue source regulating and taxing the one billion dollar online gambling industry this toronto startup offers virtual casino games and sports betting one of the few homegrown operators now licensed and allowed to advertise legally we have a bit of a home court advantage we feel so it being that market is obviously critical for us big global gambling sites like bet 365 and fanduel are also joining the party with hundreds of online games now certified by the provincial regulator now that they're legit there's concerns some ontarians may not play within their limits most people have a really bad understanding of random chance and so they think for example if they keep playing their due to win researchers say all the flashy ads and easy access may draw at-risk players with the increase in accessibility of gambling games in this way there should also be an increase in accessibility of responsible gambling tools and services to these players beyond passive measures like including links to addiction resources on their sites fanduel canada says it's being proactive on our app there are a lot of tools for for players to be able to self-regulate around game bets length of time wager limits licensed online operators are being taxed by ontario 20 of their earnings far less than brick and mortar casinos at 55 percent it's not fair we want to compete we want eye gaming we want it to be a level playing field legalizing online betting in ontario could draw some customers away from casinos an industry report says that could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tax revenue each year for queen's park philip de monte cbc news toronto also being held online this week the canadian screen awards tonight the academy honored the best in broadcast news and we do have some news that we're very proud to share and the canadian screen award goes to cbc news the national the national one for best national newscast and our executive producer chad paulin accepted the award from our control room the studio to the newsroom to the field the edit suites and these days too the kitchen tables right across this country so thank you so much to our incredible team this honor really belongs to you one of the nationals visual storytellers also honored the award for best photography went to video producer jean francois bisson for this story about ugandan gorillas and jf accepted the award from his hotel room in ukraine where he is covering the war a big shout out to my wife shelley thank you so much for everything he's supporting me allowing me to do what i do every day my passion cbc news also won for coverage of the installation of governor general mary simon other winners include our colleagues at the fifth estate reporter belle pury and cbc vancouver host anita bath big congratulations to all of tonight's winners and nominees and now to the moment another canadian won a major award well you you don't know you won you won imagine getting a life-changing phone call while driving through a snowstorm not this uh definitely not a snowstorm there our moment is coming up next well i think alex cuba would be smiling if you saw this video in this moment uh he was driving to be fair when he became a grammy award winner for the best latin pop album of the year just the circumstances were a little different his publicist called him to break the good news and the car erupted in excitement he tells us all about it in our moment this past weekend i was in the okanagan performing with the okanagan symphony orchestra which is the reason why i didn't go to the grammys so i am driving back home from those shows you know yesterday with me my partner my wife sarah and and my my youngest son owen we went through snowstorm it was like back to winter you know i'm like oh my god and i looked at the time and it was i thought that my category has already passed like five minutes after that the phone rings i had it connected to the bluetooth in the car so he made a huge noise it was my publicist to tell me what you you don't know you won oh my god it was an amazing moment we started screaming in the car you know it's like oh my god and i'm proud of myself because i didn't lose it i kept driving straight that was the most surreal moment of my life indeed i love that story and so he says you know this is a pretty meaningful moment for him because he recorded this album himself while he was in quarantine during the pandemic so he's happy to see some good come out of it he did drive for a little while longer and then pulled over recorded some acceptance speeches and then got back on the road that's the national for this april 4th have a great night you
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