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tonight A young police officer shot and killed in Southern Ontario it started with a traffic call then gunfire two armed suspects seen leaving the scene and the horrible details of this dark night don't end there getting from point A to point B has rarely been so difficult for so many Canadians every day has been a real struggle amid Promises of accountability and Luggage piling up Airline struggle to clear a travel backlog a new year could bring an old problem involving covet 19. are we ready to take the hit of a new variant that might emerge I don't think so that's why Canada's self-described disease detectives are on the case looking for three things this is the national with David Coleman good evening Adrian is away we are tracking a developing story tonight an officer with the Ontario Provincial Police has been shot and killed in Ontario's Niagara region the shooting took place in Haldeman County that's south of Hamilton and about an hour and a half outside Toronto the Ontario Provincial Police have identified the officer as Constable jigosh fishhalla he was just 28 years old and in his first year with the opp he responded to a call about a vehicle stuck in a ditch near Hagersville when he got there police say the officer was shot and that a man and a woman were witnessed leaving the scene the officer was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died the opp named the male suspect as Randall McKenzie but they didn't name the female suspect tonight police say they have two suspects in custody the mayor of Haldeman Shelly Ann Bentley said the upcoming days would be difficult once I understand he was a young officer and he was one of ours and this will have a deep impact in our community the cbc's jehovusa is on the scene tonight I thought where do police go from here with the investigation well David tonight there are so many questions that have been left unanswered you know to get a call about a car in a ditch is is not something unheard of especially given the fact of the winter storms that we have just experienced particularly in this area really we need to understand what led what was that inciting incident that led to the officer of being shot you know as you mentioned uh you know he was responding to a call of a car relatively in distress and he was shot shortly afterwards taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries which he later succumbed to uh I'm in the community uh one of the communities that was asked to shelter uh in place six nations of the Grand River its Chief has uh expressed his condolences as has the premier of Ontario to the family of the police officer and to his friends so right now lots of questions about why the officer was shot we know that as you mentioned the two suspects were arrested so I think there there will be a lot to sort of uncover in the coming days absolutely Musa thank you very much all right that is the fourth police officer also killed in Ontario just since September turning now to other news as some Canadians dig out from the brutal Christmas weather others feel another storm Rising one of sheer frustration has traveled chaos drags on at Canada's airports it's become a common scene in airports across the country delayed flights frayed nerves and mounds and mounds of unclaimed baggage our goal today is really to clear out as many bags and reunite them with passengers who are at their destination and have been without their luggage for a few days but it's not just misplaced bags thousands of Canadian Travelers are also not where they're supposed to be every day has been a real struggle Corrine Fiddler and her family were supposed to return from the Dominican Republic six days ago they're still in Punta Cana and that's a serious problem my grandbaby hurt her formula you know running out of formula um diapers all those things that you have to replace uh picking up medications and you know things that you can't just go buy off the shelf sun wing says it has eight recovery flights scheduled this week but some Travelers won't be departing until Friday the airline is just one of many struggling to make up flights during Fierce winter storms at one of the busiest travel times of the year Airlines need to have a real look now in terms of the meteorological uh implications of what's really a changing climate so to the extent that Airlines need to do things like have more spare aircraft and crew available Transport Canada says airports and airlines are doing everything they can to get passengers moving for its part the federal government says it's watching the situation closely as rough as Canada's travel situation has been it's as bad or worse in parts of the U.S we're trying to fly home but not looking like it's happening Southwest Airlines one of America's biggest carriers dropped over half of its flights today even before the day started Southwest alone is now canceled over 12 000 flights since Friday meanwhile Buffalo's airport is still closed as that City digs out at least 28 people have died in the Buffalo region as a result of the storm the highest number in decades the death toll across the U.S has now passed 60. we're learning tonight about one of the victims who died in the Christmas Eve bus crash in BC Karen jute Singh sodi was 41 years old he was traveling to Surrey to celebrate the holiday with his cousin he's a very happiest person very very happiest person yeah he loves children's very much he he's a small daughter likes my small son I leaves behind a three-year-old daughter a six-year-old son and a wife who live in India he was working as a chef in BC and was trying to bring his family to Canada Singh says he called the police when his cousin stopped answering his phone on Christmas Eve but it wasn't until the next afternoon that he learned his cousin was among the four who had died that accident happened during some harrowing conditions on BC's roads for the past couple of weeks the province has been hit with one storm after another now Lindsey duncombe looks at how heavy rain and unusually high tides are impacting the region another day another weather crisis in British Columbia when I first heard the forecast I thought oh here we go again first the snow the rain and the freezing rain now today the risk of flooding specifically especially High Tides known as king Tides we haven't really had this type of weather for years about 30 years ago it was probably this bad um but uh it's definitely manageable if you get ahead of it it's just not if you don't for this Waterfront community in Delta BC that means sandbagging properties and helping each other I know they've helped me put sandbags down I couldn't even lift one myself I'm not a spring chicken so we're all working together we have a full staff out there now we've been providing sandbagging and doing sandbagging in certain areas the big concern with these King Tides is the wind the worry is that that wind will whip up the ocean waves and then those waves will carry the debris all of those logs and rocks and put them directly in the path of the houses in Vancouver similar fears the Stanley Park Seawall too dangerous to navigate it's hard to tell where this Beachside pool ends and the Sea Begins the water level is the highest we believe we've seen in over 30 years probably 40 years so it is a bit unnerving on Vancouver Island all that water made getting around a challenge and in Washington state that is a jellyfish heading down fourth it's so wet these folks found a jellyfish in a puddle this is likely the worst of it but we still continue to see High King Tides through the early part of this week but really the highest of those water levels was earlier today relief in a place where weather crises feel increasingly commonplace Lindsey duncombe CBC News Vancouver the ringleader of the failed plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to 16 years in prison today Adam Fox was convicted four months ago of conspiring to kidnap the governor before the 2020 election the FBI infiltrated the group and arrested its members before they could act his co-leader in the in the plot Barry Croft Jr is scheduled to be sentenced to Maura also in the U.S border officials can no longer keep up with the sheer number of migrants seeking entry and now almost two years after Donald Trump left office a controversial part of his administration's border policy is being extended here's JP Tasker on that situation the U.S is grappling with the surge of migrants streaming over the southern border at a pace not seen in modern history new data reveals more than 1.6

million Asylum applications are now pending in court oh that's this is a record this is just by far um a record total for the U.S this Venezuelan woman and her children sought refuge in November but they were sent back to Mexico they told us it was because of title 42 she says that's a trump-era policy that allows officials to turn away Asylum Seekers on public health grounds meant as a covid containment emergency measure and now extended the Supreme Court is allowing it to stand while legal arguments play out a decision that frustrates opponents it's literally like sending them to walk the plank they're going right into the hands of cartels Carousel and her family wanted to avoid that fate they made a run for the Border I wanted to cross legally but I felt I had no choice she says they're now in El Paso the Texas border town that is Ground Zero for this wave 2500 people are arriving every day today the state finished a three kilometer fence to curb the flow with a crush of people local agencies are overwhelmed we're dealing with human beings in a crisis situation and I think it's a matter of what's a priority what is a priority right now a priority that some Republican Governors have politicized like Texas governor Greg Abbott who again sent migrants North this time to vice president Kamala Harris's home in Washington a provocative move the White House is called a cruel dangerous and shameful stunt the Supreme Court's decision on title 42 means migrants are left in limbo for now an estimated 50 000 of them are along the border waiting to cross a humanitarian crisis that experts say will only get worse JP Tasker CBC News Washington after Beijing announced an end to strict quarantine rules for returning Travelers in the New Year Chinese Travelers are now rushing to buy tickets data from a Chinese travel site showed ticket inquiries skyrocketed within minutes of the government announcement the travel restrictions are among the last strict measures left since China began rolling back its coveted policies earlier in the month but after years of those policies experts fear China's population is especially vulnerable to covid and presents opportunities for new variants to rise and as Christine Burak shows us finding them and tracking them is getting harder with restrictions relaxed in China covid-19 is spreading like wildfire raising concerns of volatile new variant could emerge just as the World Health Organization warns variant surveillance is dwindling are we ready to take the hit of another wave of a new variant that might emerge I don't think so if you look at all of these they all have those mutations at Simon Frazier University Fiona Brinkman and her team are tracking a soup of variance spreading in Canada you're taking this data and then trying to be a detective and figure out you know what's happening and what might be happening in the future the data comes from ongoing covid-19 testing it provides genetic sequences or fingerprints from the virus those sequences kinda look like barcodes that change as the virus mutates most mutations are slight and harmless but at this time last year scientists spotted a sequence with a shocking number of mutations Omicron set off an explosion of cases that continues to burden the Health Care system one of the important components about this work is to really catch those new variants that are really significant as soon as possible catching a new variant early can guide Public Health decisions Hospital Staffing and vaccine campaigns but it requires sifting through millions of samples these variants are carrying more mutations than we'd expect at West Western University artpune is working with data scientists at home and abroad building programs to track specific mutations in the virus we then now have a sort of a short list of mutations that were particularly concerned about mainly three parts of the virus that affect how easily it spreads whether it causes more severe illness and how well it skirts our immune defenses I don't want to say it but it's probably likely that we'll see something like another variant of concern again scientists say the best defense against any current or new virus variants is a fresh dose of a covid-19 vaccine something millions of people in China are now lining up for Christine Burak CBC News Toronto it's a civic responsibility that can come with a great cost people summon for jury duty are often subjected to graphic imagery and testimony they can't talk about what they're going through because they're sworn to secrecy now a new piece of legislation aims to change that as Olivia stefanovich reports it allows jurors to share their experience with Health Care Professionals eight years after Mark farent served as a juror in a criminal trial the weight of his civic duty still takes a toll I was a foreman on a graphic first degree murder trial I didn't know that it would impact me to the degree that it did developing PTSD farent sought mental health support but couldn't talk about what he went through since he was bound to jury secrecy I don't understand why we we asked citizen to be a jury and after the trial we let them down but that's changed after this Senator sponsored a bill to allow jurors to speak about their deliberations with Health Care Professionals when people will be asked to be a jury they know now that there will be support The Honorable member for Saint Albert Edmonton thank you Mr Speaker I'm very pleased to rise the bill was originally introduced in the House of Commons four years ago but was stalled by federal elections and paroled Parliament when you come out of jury duty you are not the same person as you were when you went in Senator Lucy monsion helped the bill finally cross the finish line in the Senate with unanimous support after sharing her own experience in 1989 I was a juror on a first degree murder and at the time I had found the experience interesting but also very difficult like ferent monsion says she also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and since the law forbade her from sharing her own experience monsion says she studied Psychotherapy herself I would go into such a a rage and after a few years my husband said to me one day said you need help this bill removes a barrier that has stood for individuals across the country now that the bills passed he says the federal and provincial governments need to improve access to Mental Health Services that's why it's so important that a National Standard be be available across the country the new law takes effect in late January the Canadian jury's commission says it's an important step towards improving the public support for jury duty which it says is low across the country Olivia stefanovic CBC News Ottawa since Russia invaded Ukraine back in February Millions have fled the country often pulling families apart indefinitely I hope we will back to home to Ukraine the audio books comforting Ukrainian children with their father's voices next 2022 saw Canada's Health Care System pushed to the point of Crisis that means I have no staff today this is this is a sheep yeah the struggle to find patients beds and staff to treat them plus a different kind of Boxing Day tradition a Winnipeg man running day and night to help those most in need we're back in two a massive fire destroyed a chemical plant and damaged several other buildings in Tokyo today nobody was reported killed but Tokyo's fire department says one man was treated for smoke inhalation the fire raged for hours before they got it under control Serbia has put its military on its highest level of combat alert amid Rising tension with neighboring Kosovo tensions cost of an officials blame on Serbia working under the influence of Russia minorities serve protesters living in kosovo's north have blocked major roads Serbia has readied its forces On the Border citing the need to protect them Kosovo which is aiming to strengthen ties with the EU says the barricades are employed to destabilize the country Israeli authorities have announced an arrest over a bombing last month that killed two people including a Canadian Israeli teenager the suspect a 26-year-old Palestinian man he was taken into custody just days after the blast but the arrest is only being revealed now intelligence officials say he identifies with Islamic State and that he acted alone in Ukraine battles continued during the waning days of 2022 with scattered shelling in the South and the worst of the fighting concentrated on the Eastern Front despite daily assaults from Russia the Ukrainian city of bakmut still holds small number of civilians still living in the rubble have been dealing with this for months now you kind of get used to it says this woman earlier I'd bend over and get on the ground but now you just scratch yourself and don't even look to see what's happening the Russian military tries to put a positive spin on the season but they've Advanced towards Bach mood maybe five kilometers over the past two months and at Great cost costly for Ukraine too this funeral today and key for another soldier who died defending the city in his nightly addressed the Ukrainian president said the next year of the war has to be decisive he'll get no argument from the shattered streets of bakmut millions of ukrainians have fled the war families broken apart but Rosie burchard shows us how child refugees in the Netherlands are getting a crucial emotional Lifeline the voices of their loved ones still trapped by the war reading books just for them foreign six-year-old Olivia is a Fearless Explorer in her new home of Rotterdam Olivia but her mother Allah says she wasn't always that way while fleeing Russian attacks in southern Ukraine in March both of them were paralyzed with fear we don't know what we must do it was first in our life and we don't we don't know what what people must do in this situation it were scared Allah's husband risland had to stay behind in Ukraine to remain ready to fight oh I want to see my father she told me but on this day a connection with him comes in a cardboard box this might look like an ordinary children's book but through this app Olivia can listen to the story in her father's voice with a custom audiobook foreign it might be the only way she hears from him for days due to the war and blackouts in Ukraine via isn't the only child missing a far away father this Christmas since March at least four million people have fled Ukraine and officially registered for Refuge here in the European Union according to EU figures most are women and children and it's the sorrow of separation from family members back home that inspired action here at Amsterdam Ukrainian entrepreneur Andres michelski has teamed up with a Dutch charity to turn his audiobooks into a tool to ease the distress of displacement those families are beside of being separated but they are on the risk of maybe you're not going to see each other right and I think for us it's also one of the moments is to have to preserve this memory actually preserve the father's voice preserve the grandma more than a thousand book packages have been delivered to Refugee families in the Netherlands with thousands more across Europe on the waiting list the stories are written by Ukrainian authors with themes chosen to help kids cope with the trauma of War this one's about a lost bison trying to find a home for winter Allah says it's helped Olivia settle in but her heart is elsewhere I hope we will back to home to Ukraine it's my big dream a welcome reminder of home as they navigate this unchosen chapter in their lives Rosie burchard for CBC News Rotterdam Staffing shortages in a surge of respiratory illnesses have pushed emergency rooms to the brink this year that's it there's literally nowhere else to go coming up Adrian takes us inside an ER on the Edge Plus how the pandemic inspired a Saskatchewan senior to get back to her artistic passion for some the covid crisis may have faded at least somewhat but Canada's Health Care Emergency only seems to get worse with chronic Staffing shortages across the country the very hospitals we rely on are now themselves on life support back in the fall Kingston Health Sciences Center gave Adrian and her team unprecedented inside access just when part of the emergency room had to be shut down yourself so we're going to be closing section c due to lack of Staff this morning 6 30 in the morning in a section of the emergency department at Kingston General is closing because you're short two nurses here short two nurses this morning that means patience on the Move immediately so where are we going he's going to Delta six okay and you said some of these patients have been moved three times oh yeah there's bed space in section c as it's called but not enough staff to keep it running so who's next guys the covered positive patient the MRSA patient or the has no isolation he could be a good hallway charge nurse Monica Griffin has to find Space elsewhere in emerge where the remaining staff can keep an eye on the extra patients quite a few will end up in the hallway by the time we're finished it's not very nice how you doing how are you okay this young lady's been here in the hallway all night yeah I've been in the hospital since uh 11 A.M yesterday morning that's 20 hours in emergency so far for Missy Calvary here for a broken ankle and waiting for surgery in your mind did you realize how busy it would be no I didn't no not until I came here and I seen it myself I can't really sleep people going by always in people's way everybody's sweet here though so that's good they definitely need more people basically down here now is this is what you see it's empty 10 empty beds that we can't use sleep this all the time or worse this is just our regular day Monica's 12 hour overnight shift is done she hands off to Angela Arnold just beginning an already awful shift um no floats whatsoever coming that means I have no staff today this is this is a sheep yep blank blank blank blank blank blank Kingston Health Sciences is a trauma center and for about half a million people in the area it's where you'll likely end up if you have a heart attack or a stroke and when Staffing shortages happen here they hurt and not just in the emergency department thank you Colleen so much for coming are you covering breaks yeah I'm covering breaks and I can stay till seven thank you Nurse Julia Fournier is the program manager for the ICU Hi how are you her job is ultimately to keep the department up and running well but that is getting harder many more seconds come in uh Amy is not gonna be here Sunday I hope she's okay hi good morning I see the Staffing we are down to 17 this morning which is very challenging at the units daily Staffing huddle Julia reports that they only have about 50 percent of the people they need I put out all the sos's on social media and emails and texting and I'll continue to shift level as best I can that's where we're at thank you is that a good call or I can't tell if it's a pretty typical call we just try to plan for the next four hours what's the next Double we can make so one nurse to two patient ratio is there a triple we can make a one nurse to three patient ratio which is never heard of in critical care does that mean you're worried about the care people are getting I know the nurses provide excellent care that's not but it's um I knew it was going to happen I do worry about them because of the the moral injury and the moral strain they're tired I'll collect myself they've been through a lot with the pandemic it's hard I have many conversations with them I worry about them and then you take that on yeah yeah I do I do it's really really hard to see your team struggle like that yeah and I look around your office here and it's full of things people have said to you you're doing an amazing job your hard work and dedication yeah they see it and recognition is one of the ways that we support each other yeah I care deeply for this team hello it's admitting and look at this this space is basically the hospital's Air Traffic Control do we have any surgical beds coming up any Penny discharges for tonight uh no I've used everything I possibly can right now we're finding bed space for patients seems to hard is finding the staff to care for them and do any of these forests have hallway or conference room patients it's the domain of Renee St Pierre so we need to move them out of the ward room a registered nurse for over 20 years before taking on this role full-time what do you see when you when you look at these screens which beds are empty who needs isolation so we have medicine patients on surgical floors surgical patients on our perinatal floors like we're just trying to fit people in where we can especially when emerges in a crunch we just move people up sometimes it's to hallway spaces we've opened up beds that are that used to be storage rooms so now that they've revamped them and opened them up into patient care areas so it's not just these things here these are all patients that are either waiting in the community or at another hospital that are waiting to come to be transferred here so this is another place that um that kind of gets missed I think when we hear about all the things that are getting dropped in healthcare right now as they're waiting at home for this bed so those two privates do we know if any of one of them are going to be going home anytime soon Amy Dawn Ashford and Brenda Hudson's work the phones checking every Department every unit for a safe space hi it's Renee so yeah we don't have any beds so we'll have to move someone from your floor is there anyone going home that we could actually cohort those two mrsas in a semi no okay thanks okay bye time to head back to the emergency department with Renee just going to let them know where we're at with beds because we're physically just don't have any beds left the ER is busy today like really busy yes so that's not the answer they need right that's not what they want to hear from us no oh wow okay there's people everywhere right now and return so just coming down to give you an update on beds going into tonight there is going to be two ICU beds looking and hoping for some more surgical discharges to get anyone else out but there's going to be one bed there other than that Med service is pretty much a full now charge so that's a doctor calling to let her know there's another patient that needs to come to us I'm just gonna put one right beside the desk where there's one vacant spot if you look around there yeah there's one space right by the Admin desk that's it there's literally nowhere else to to go I need uh nurses and uh rooms okay so is there anything that I can really get you today no no okay you've known this was coming we've warned that this was coming Dr David messenger is the head of emergency medicine he says the system has been starved for years we've really become the door to health care for so many people who can't access it in any other way a patient group that's getting older no one banked on two years where those people wouldn't be able to see a doctor right so things are getting worse things are getting worse people are getting sicker so the good ideas almost always come from the people whose boots are on the ground what's even a little thing that would make life better we've struggled for so long to find more efficiencies in the system so that we can help people move through the system faster more effectively more efficiently we need system level Solutions we need change that would allow enhanced scope of practice for different types of care providers foreign I'm going to open it up with one nurse with one Nursery keep it going with one nurse just one nurse means section c can open up for the night still there is a dread about what tomorrow will bring you leave here and you think it can't get any worse and it does like you know how much more can you take but somehow they seem to just make it through somehow we were able to gather together and make sure that the sickest gets treated and they will if you're the sickest you're going to get in somehow we make it happen and an update on this story tonight to ease the Staffing crunch Kingston Health Sciences Center will offer signing bonuses to recruit more nurses and lab techs starting January 1st up to ten thousand dollars for some positions the pandemic has been difficult for everyone but it's also inspired some people to try new things I picked up a pen you know in January of 2021 and decided that I was going to start drawing again coming up how one Saskatchewan woman rekindled her passion and connected to the community plus like most of us musicians are also feeling squeezed these days how the pandemic and inflation is making touring more costly the pandemic inspired many of us to pick up new hobbies this senior in Regina returned to her love of drawing something she'd set aside 50 years ago it helped her make connections in the community when she needed the most Bonnie Allen brought us her story earlier this year okay I got it on 69 year old Sandy Whitford has plenty of Little Helpers to set up an Art Exhibit on the side of her garage but keeping these 16 portraits on the wall is a challenge the models are just so eager to show off their portraits all drawn by Whitford since she rediscovered her love of drawing during the pandemic I have not drawn for 50 years so I picked up a pen you know in January of 2021 and decided that I was going to start drawing again and this is it this is what's come of it see what I did with Rebecca Whitford was having a tough time last year her husband's Health was failing after a stroke and they were isolated she began an online drawing course to comfort herself the last time he was in the hospital he uh he had a team of about 18 nurses and so while I sat there for hours and hours I would draw the nurses and then I would give them the copy of the pictures after whitford's husband passed away she needed new inspiration so she turned to her neighborhood children Whitford didn't really know them at the time having just moved on to the street before covet hit she didn't just do one family but she did all the families and I just thought that was such a generous use of her time and we're just so so grateful and the children are clearly tickled I think the drawing is really good and that Sandy's really talented now Whitford knows everyone on her street it's drawn us closer you know I'm sort of like the grandma on the street the drawing grandma on the street Whitford is giving the portraits to the children okay everybody but says feeling this connection to her community has been the real gift Bonnie Allen CBC News metal Lake Saskatchewan after a hard couple of years some Canadian musicians are assessing whether to go on tour again they want to connect with fans but with the cost of everything Rising some say it's a money loser here's Eli Glassner on a story we brought you earlier this year on the high cost of hitting the road Lorena McKennitt and Caden's weapon couldn't be more different trying to win the race but they're both feeling the strain I'm putting my life in my own hands hopefully I get lucky it's like it's scary you feel like you're sitting duck playing Russian roulette mechanic was planning a European tour but without covet Insurance she pulled the plug so if I'm putting up half a million dollars and I get struck by covid for a week or two then I'm I'm hugely out of pocket a lot of money um so it would be a financial hit that I just simply wouldn't be able to survive instead she's touring closer to home consulting doctors for Best Practices still her cellist caught covid the likely Source the two and a half hours that we're sitting on stage in an environment where many people are not mouths after he won the 2021 Polaris prize Cadence weapon toured the U.S he sold his own merch drove a van and shelled out for kova tests the result after the tour was done I had ended up losing two thousand dollars on the tour while the smaller acts are struggling the big names like Adele and Harry Styles are playing multiple shows in the same location less touring means more profits and avoiding another Factor inflation over a thousand dollars for a weekend with just a basic minivan um so then you really have to start looking at how are we going to do this as costs rise more up and coming acts won't be able to tour which affects the artists and audiences that is really a shame and a loss for not only for the industry but also for audiences and for fans because uh every big name out there started out small so we'll start with the apartment well artists want help to make touring safer and affordable a Montreal venue is giving Vans a bed hot meals and more that I've never seen people happier to do their laundry in my entire life a little relief from musicians trying to keep the show on the road you like last year CBC News Toronto we have more ahead on the national including some ancient artifacts buried in volcanic ash coming up some 2 000 year old Treasures preserved and now revealed in a new exhibit in Italy plus running date for np-22 happy wedding day running 24 straight hours meet the Winnipeg man who wants to Rebrand Boxing Day In Our Moment many people know about Pompeii the Italian city buried under volcanic ash two thousand years ago but the catastrophe also hit a nearby town called herculenium incredibly the impact actually preserved many objects there now as Megan Williams shows us a new exhibit is offering a glimpse at those ancient Treasures Mount Vesuvius still an active volcano to Millennia after its massive eruption buried the ancient town of Pompeii and this seaside resort where wealthy Romans vacationed but while Pompeii was covered with hot ash burning through all organic material Herculaneum much closer to Vesuvius was engulfed in hot mud that sealed off air and Incredibly preserved even wood ceiling beams beds grates to protect Goods the wood on this thermal bath door even escaped being charred says archaeologist Mario notomista you can even see the wooden nails other wood was carbonized like this joist that held up an ancient villa which restorers work on like a puzzle this is an amazing place it's an ancient food vendor like a street food vendor here was a pot of the meat or vegetable stew they found original traces of carbonized vegetables from 2000 years ago over here was the barbecue and then this balcony where separated the storage space original wood from 2000 years ago the new exhibit includes these intricately carved feet of tables and ivory decorations found in the luxurious Villa of a member of Julius Caesar's family and amazingly an oak dresser now carbonized with a door that still opens most moving of all this crib found with a tiny mattress in it and the skeleton of a baby that still rocks unlike Stone and Marble wood says the head of Herculaneum is intimate Many Many Items materials of our everyday life so simple to understand so brilliant and we have a new peculiar idea of these Anson world helping visitors young and old feel like they're stepping back in time Megan Williams CBC News Herculaneum well here's a selfless way to spend Boxing Day these Brave Winnipeg residents weren't running to the checkouts they were running a 24-hour ultra marathon raising money to combat homelessness janol malapad started the initiative seven years ago running Ultra marathons every December 26th sometimes up to 56 hours long his dedication to helping others is Our Moment you get that new calendar scratch off boxing day and write in running day this is the eighth year I ran on running day seventh year raise money for Asylum Mission somebody uh passed away they froze to death and I felt that how can this happen I learned of Silo Mission which is a great place for a person who's unsheltered so I felt hey I could use this running to help them out brand different links 100 kilometers 150 miles 24 hours 48 hours homelessness is not a quick and easy fix we have to always help out where we can you know I'm getting emotional just talking about it but that's what we have to do just keep moving forward and help out each other I'm proud to say that including yesterday's funds that were donated over a hundred thousand dollars have been donated now I'm originally from Winnipeg as well and so seeing this happening in Winnipeg is both amazing but also not that surprising congratulations to everybody that's just such wonderful uh thing to do and that is the national for December 27th have a great night thank you foreign

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