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VOCM News Morning Update October 7th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Sarah Strickland. A warning, some of the
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  Speaker 2: details in this story are disturbing. There's a new and
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  Speaker 2: chilling development in the case surrounding the Tumbler Ridge mass
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  Speaker 2: shooting earlier this year. The incident, one of the worst
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  Speaker 2: mass shootings in Canadian history, claimed the lives of nine people,
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  Speaker 2: including the shooter. A 30-year-old in Washington state has been
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  Speaker 2: charged with conspiracy to murder people in a foreign country
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  Speaker 2: after allegedly providing support and money to the shooter. Acting U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Neil Floyd says the investigation revealed that James Cody
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  Speaker 2: Bryant had been in regular and repeated contact with the
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  Speaker 2: 18-year-old shooter, providing advice and even offering to live stream
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  Speaker 2: the events. Floyd outlined the horrific extent of Bryant's involvement.
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  Speaker 3: 30-year-old James Cody Bryant had the information and ability to
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  Speaker 3: alert law enforcement and even discussed that possibility with the shooter,
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  Speaker 3: but he chose not to. Instead, he encouraged and offered
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  Speaker 3: assistance to a murderer. As one example, after killing two
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  Speaker 3: of his own relatives, when the shooter had trouble starting
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  Speaker 3: his own car, Bryant provided advice and offered assistance on
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  Speaker 3: how to get the car started so that JVR could
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  Speaker 3: proceed to the school and kill children.
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  Speaker 2: The British Columbia government has filed a lawsuit in California
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  Speaker 2: against OpenAI for failing to alert authorities to disturbing conversations
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  Speaker 2: the shooter had on chat GPT, despite the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they had been flagged by employees. Premier Tony Wakeham says
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  Speaker 2: he will underscore the potential for both provinces in the
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  Speaker 2: new Churchill Falls deal when he speaks with the upcoming
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  Speaker 2: PQ Premier of Quebec. Tony Wakeham says his team reached
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  Speaker 2: out to Premier-elect Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon Tuesday night with the
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  Speaker 2: hope that the two would speak today. The governing Collé-Champs Avenir,
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  Speaker 2: which reached the Churchill Falls deal with Newfoundland and Labrador,
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  Speaker 2: were wiped off the political map. Wakeham says the PQ's
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  Speaker 2: election message wasn't about tearing anything up. It was more
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  Speaker 2: focused on review.
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  Speaker 4: Looking forward to having that conversation and for them to doing,
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  Speaker 4: getting him brought up to speed on the file with
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  Speaker 4: Hydro-Quebec and others. You know, both officials from Hydro-Quebec and
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  Speaker 4: officials from Newfoundland Hydro, of course, have been working continuously
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  Speaker 4: towards definitive agreements. And there's work to be done. But
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  Speaker 4: hoping that after the Premier has a chance to review it,
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  Speaker 4: the new incumbent Premier has a chance to review it,
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  Speaker 4: we'll continue to move forward.
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  Speaker 2: A woman has been charged with impaired following a hit-and-run
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  Speaker 2: in Carboneer over the weekend. RCMP were called just after 8.30
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  Speaker 2: Saturday evening to a home on London Road after a
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  Speaker 2: vehicle crashed into a parked car and left the scene.
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  Speaker 2: The callers suspected that the driver involved may have been impaired.
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  Speaker 2: Officers located a vehicle matching the description parked nearby. Police
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  Speaker 2: say the driver, a 57-year-old woman, provided a breath sample
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  Speaker 2: that was more than twice the legal limit. The accused
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  Speaker 2: will appear in court in December. Her license was suspended
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  Speaker 2: and the vehicle impounded. There's another small break in the
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  Speaker 2: price of gasoline. The PUB dropped the price by nearly
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  Speaker 2: three cents per liter. Diesel on the island is up
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  Speaker 2: by a cent and a half, while there's hardly any
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  Speaker 2: change to the price in Labrador West. Furnace oil is
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  Speaker 2: up by roughly a cent. The price of stove oil
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  Speaker 2: in Lab West remains relatively unchanged.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Delta Airlines plane
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  Speaker 2: clipped an Air Canada aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport
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  Speaker 2: yesterday morning. Here's Jason White.
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  Speaker 4: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Federal Aviation Administration says it happened as a Delta Airlines
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  Speaker 1: plane was taxiing for departure and the Air Canada plane
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  Speaker 1: was being towed toward the gate. The Delta plane's left
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  Speaker 1: wing tip clipped the Air Canada aircraft's horizontal stabilizer. That's
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  Speaker 1: a wing-like structure at the tail end of a plane.
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  Speaker 1: An Air Canada spokesperson says no injuries were reported and
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  Speaker 1: the plane is being taken out of service for inspection
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  Speaker 1: and repairs. Jason White, the Canadian Press.
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  Speaker 2: The Kids Eat Smart Foundation is celebrating those who make
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  Speaker 2: its breakfast programs in schools across the province happen. This
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  Speaker 2: is Kids Eat Smart Week across Newfoundland and Labrador. The
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  Speaker 2: foundation kicked things off yesterday with an event at East
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  Speaker 2: Point Elementary in St. John's. Executive Director Selena Stoyles says
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  Speaker 2: the provincial government gives them nearly $ 1. 4 million in funding
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  Speaker 2: every year, but it takes $ 5. 8 million to do their programming.
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  Speaker 2: Stoyles says inflation has driven up the cost of serving
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  Speaker 2: the meals by 29 percent.
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  Speaker 5: The reality is in Newfoundland and Labrador, we have the
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  Speaker 5: highest child poverty in the country, and we know that
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  Speaker 5: the stats are telling us that one in three children
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  Speaker 5: under the age of 18 lives in a food insecure
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  Speaker 5: home or a home without food.
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  Speaker 2: That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.