tonight Eclipse fever reaches a fever pitch yeah I think it's just going to be crazy the crowds the preparations we made a a good plan a robust plan and of course i' Wild Card the weather we're in the heart of the path of totality to break down what you can expect yes the father of an 11-year-old boy attacked and killed by a pair of dogs speaks out I'm never going to get the him tell me he loves me or that you know give me a kiss or I'm never going to get to hold on those things are all over for
me what he says happened the day of the attack Canada's new dental care plan is about to launch but some seniors are learning their dentists won't participate what does it mean to me I'm just got to continue pay why aren't more dentists signing up from CBC News this is the national with Ian hen in the countdown is on tonight for millions of Canadians to get ready for what may be a once in a-lifetime experience in just a few hours a total solar eclipse will happen over Canada the first time in d
ecades the excitement is growing in Niagara Falls tonight where up to a million people some from halfway around the world are pouring in to watch as the sun is eclipsed by the Moon it all begins Monday off Mexico's West Coast at about 11:00 a.m. local time moving Northeast over the United States hitting Ontario at about 3:00 p.m. Eastern then tracking across Southern Quebec and Atlantic Canada whether permitting nagara Falls will be one of the best places on Earth to witness the eclipse totality
that moment when the moon blocks the sun completely will last for more than three minutes among the longest in Canada Katie Nicholson shows us the final preparations as the clock ticks down these are your are our eclipse Donuts Galaxy Eclipse Donuts Monday's eclipse is still hours away but these Celestial treats are flying off the shelves yesterday was extremely busy lots of people coming in for the donuts lots of people coming in for we did like little Eclipse brownies with stars on them too s
o yeah I think it's just going to be crazy half an hour away this Niagara on the Lake Restaurant also Full Throttle they haven't had to prepare for crowds like this since Mumford and Suns fans flooded the town 9 years ago we as a town ran out of money in our ATMs um so there were huge lines outside I would imagine there'll be something similar to that hopefully the ATMs don't run out of money Greg vires Winery is hopping with Eclipse zippers he's curated a wine tasting for each stage of the even
t almost like an eclipse where you start with something light and bright you work your way through the darker red wines that we have here and then you might finish again with the sun coming out of course that depends on the weather and so does Crow size estimates have varied from a million to several hundred thousand in the Niagara region the city brought in extra portable cell towers to keep people connected officials have prepped for over a year but still don't know what to expect we've made a
a good plan a robust plan um but we just don't have a hard number and the hard number could be a factor if it's if it's low it's one thing if it's large it can be another science for many this will be a game day decision others have planned to be here for years this New Jersey couple drove 8 hours just for this experience we didn't see the complete eclipse in 2017 and I have friends that traveled to see it and experienced the 100% darkness and at that time it was put on my bucket list okay and
20 years it who knows where we'll be in 20 years so live for today and Katie give us a sense of what the mood is like there this evening well I mean the place is packed for April it kind of almost feels when you look out there shouldn't be this many people here in April uh but they're just walking up and down along the Falls here uh there are people here from Australia people from the Carolinas everyone's in a really good mood even though it's really uncertain what the weather is ultimately goin
g to be like tomorrow a lot of the places that I've talked to have plan B's in case the weather is poor uh they'll be able to watch a feed of the of NASA sort of coverage of the eclipse so everyone's going to have an eclipse experience here but maybe not the eclipse experience they were hoping to get Katie Nicholson in Niagara Falls tonight of course as Katie mentioned weather is the big wild card here so let's bring in meteorologist Jay scollin and I know you're feeling a lot of pressure here t
o get this forecast right yeah I'm feeling pressure for delivering high pressure because that's what you want to see to have a clear sky for the path of totality so let's take a journey along that path shortly after 310 Southwestern Ontario looking at a partly cloudy sky so some clear breaks and a clearing Trend into the southwestern part of Ontario likely still battling more Cloud than clear sky as we look to one of the hot spots of course in Southern Ontario the Niagara region uh this is where
you'll be looking at even a slight chance of scattered showers in the late afternoon now as we look towards the Limestone City Quinny region up towards Cornwall into eastern Ontario uh more Cloud than clear sky clear breaks possible and hopefully they time out for you for that uh path of totality as we uh look to Southern Quebec not a long duration but a fairly clear sky for folks in Montreal for totality South and EAS sherbrook looking to be very nice as is New Brunswick as we take a look at a
ridge of high pressure keeping that part of the country very clear the path of totality of course across Western Pei with a clear sky Magdalene Islands as well and then as we push into Southwestern newfinland clouds begin to build partly cloudy for the PTO Basque area for southwestern Newan land becoming more overcast mostly cloudy as we look to Eastern areas not as great of viewing conditions for folks there Ian and listen quickly Before I Let You Go tell me about the excitement on the island
oh very here on Pei the excitement is about as high as my anxiety for uh making sure I deliver on this forecast just by nature of being uh Canada's smallest province a large part of our Province will be covered in that path of totality Ridge of high pressure keeping things clear and I know kids are so excited they even handed out solar viewing glasses for all Island students so the kids are at the ready they just need this local meteorologist here to deliver Ian J Scotland in charlot toown tonig
ht thanks well let's head back to Niagara Falls and Senior science reporter Nicole morero some clouds are expected there but but all is not lost yeah you know what we are going to see some cloud cover here but maybe with some breaks but people don't have to you know lose hope because it's an eclipse you're still going to actually see the eclipse you'll see it get darker and uh you might not see the sun's Corona uh but it will still be an experience it's been really interesting today Nicole to he
ar people describe their Eclipse experiences in the past tell us about yours yeah I I went down uh to Missouri to cover it for CBC and it was supposed to be a clear place to see it unfortunately it wasn't we had thunderstorms but the clouds broke up right around totality you you could actually see the moon's Shadow coming towards you and that was something that was just incredible to feel and then you're in the shadow and I was able to see brief brief view of the sun's Corona which was just incr
edible and while you're standing in the shadow either side of you it feels like it looks like there are sunsets on either side of you and then the clouds did part uh so I did get to see the partial phase the the end of the part phase going out but it is really honestly something to experience even with cloud cover fingers cross for those of you in Niagara Falls Nicole thank you very much thanks I and we'll have continuing coverage from Niagara Falls tomorrow beginning at 6:00 a.m. eastern follow
ed by a CBC News special as the eclipse draws closer starting at 1 p.m. Eastern with reports from across Canada as well as the United States and Mexico catch it all on CBC News Network or CBC television or watch the live stream on CBC gem the CBC News app or CBC News explore turning to other news now an Edmonton father is speaking publicly tonight about the death of his son after a dog attack earlier this week Julia Wong takes us through what he says happened in the moments before and what's mak
ing this difficult time even harder this past week has been a nightmare for Wesley Grist is a horrible tragedy big time one I have to relive almost every day last Monday in this Edmonton neighborhood grist's 11-year-old son cash was attacked and killed by two very large dogs cash had been visiting his father from BC Gris says he was working outside the house and his son had just come back from the store with some snacks just before he went inside he came over gave me a hug and he you told me he
loved me and told him I loved him and I told him then I told him I was like I'll be in a few minutes he does not know exactly what happened next and I walked in the house and and when I walked in I was I I was seeing something like you know I I thought that I heard the dogs making a commotion and I seen I seen a mess and I didn't know what it was what I was looking at nobody wants to see any child like that but to have to be the parent and find your child like that you know that's the hardest [
__ ] that's the hardest thing I've ever been through in my whole life Grist says the dogs belong to his roommate Cash's mom says he told her they were Connie corsy the same breed as this one seen here which can grow to more than 100 PBS the city of Edmonton says Animal Control had been to the house twice this year for complaints of attacks that also took place inside the house but Grist says these dogs had not been problematic with cash I watch these dogs cuddle with them almost every day there'
s never been an issue like this there's nothing and I would never put my son in a spot where he was at risk Cash's parents say the dogs have been put down for Grist his feel feelings towards the animals are complicated and he does not blame his roommate I'm not happy about it the lives that you know ultimately resulted in my son's life ending are gone so I can't ask for anything more than that he's speaking out because his roommate has been attacked online he calls it all a distraction as he tri
es to grieve I'm one I'm the most vulnerable I feel like I'm being taken away from dealing with what I should be focusing on and it's not fair to me it's not fair to his mom it's not fair to any of us so he's focused on keeping his only child's memory alive he would want everybody just to be happy and getting along cuz that's who he was he wants everything to be beautiful cuz he's beautiful he's perfect Julia Cash's father talked about the negative attention he's dealing with but there's some he
lp coming from the community as well yeah so he first says that the attention he and his roomate have received has made a difficult situation even harder and he's asking the community for some time for the family to breathe and so that they can actually get a chance to process Cash's death now the community here in this neighborhood is actually organizing a fundraiser with the family's blessing to raise funds to help cover funeral costs and that funeral for cash is set for next Sunday and the fa
mily is stressing they want to keep that private Julia thank you today the federal government announced billions of dollars in funding for investments in artificial intelligence it's the latest budget preview view from prime minister Justin Trudeau our upcoming budget will include measures to create good jobs in our AI sector and to boost productivity by helping businesses adopt AI with an investment of $2.4 billion the majority of that money will go into a fund for computing capabilities and Te
chnical infrastructure Trudeau said the government will begin Consulting the industry on how best to use the fund part of the money will Al go to creating more AI protections and support workers who may be affected by the technology the budget itself won't be tabled until the middle of the month but the opposition is already pushing back at the level of spending Pier PV has laid out his demands in a new letter to Justin Trudeau but as Kate McKenna shows us the prime minister is making it clear h
e is not changing course conservative leader Pierre PV is calling on the prime minister to put the breakes on spending he spraying billions of dollarss out of a fire hose but it's more like spraying gasoline on the fire he sent this letter to Justin Trudeau calling on him to stop adding to the country's debt build more homes and pass a bill proposing more carbon tax carve outs things he claims are key to making life more affordable for Canadians but Trudeau has another Vision he's crisscrossing
the country making near daily pre-budget announcements billions in funding for housing and artificial intelligence spending he says is responsible and will spur economic growth once again Pier PV is wrong is not listening to experts and economists and he's willing to hurt the things that Canadians rely on to get through these difficult times but pressure is building six Premier are demanding a meeting to talk about their opposition to a carbon tax what I would hope is a real Frank discussion on
on the reality of what is being proposed judau hasn't accepted that invitation reiterating that most families get more money back in rebates than they pay all we see is Premier misinforming Canadians and wanting to take away the Canada carbon rebate checks that are making a huge difference in people's lives if Justin Trudeau is so sure of his plan to quadruple the carbon tax to 61 sense a leader he should have the courage to sit down with our Premier and explain that to them Trudeau is expected
to make more pre-budget spending announcements this week ahead of the budget being tabled later this month expect more measures targeting Millennials and Jen Zed two demographics that have been affected by what's become one of the biggest issues in Canadian politics affordability Kate McKenna CBC News Ottawa on the Day Canada was supposed to end its evacuation flights out of Hai it's adding another in the coming days because of a last minute surge in requests at least 250 Canadians permanent res
idents and family members have been helped out of the country so far hai's gripped by gang violence right now leading to food shortages and making it dangerous to move around Israel has withdrawn more troops from Southern Gaza to prepare it says for their next missions that pullback leaves just one Brigade in the South as the war between Israel and Hamas hits the six Monon Mark Israel's promising and offensive in the southern city of Rafa where 1.4 million gin are Sheltering a fresh round of neg
otiations is underway to try to secure a ceasefire in return for the release of all of the remaining hostages as Sarah levit shows us they were on the minds of many as people mark this Grim milestone in Jerusalem a vigil to remember lives lost and those still hanging in the balance 6 months after Hamas attacked Israel around a 100 hostages are still believed to be alive ziv Aboud survived the attack but her boyfriend Ilia Cohen remains a hostage I feel terrible she says and I'm doing everything
I can to get my boyfriend back the repercussions of the October 7th attack are felt worldwide in Montreal members of of the Jewish Community came together Raquel L lost her son during the attack more of the time goes by it's like it gets a bit deeper the absence and feels in some ways the time is Stood Still in Gaza there is also mourning this man has held weekly prayers for those killed in the war for six months we've come to this hospital to pray says Islam Abu he's lost 36 of his own relativ
some of the more than 33,000 people gaza's Hamas run Health Ministry says have been killed Israel's response to October 7th vast devastating and increasingly criticized the United Nations says hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are starving the humanitarian costs of this crisis are uh are abominable we need to see a ceasefire in which Hamas lays down its arms and Rel es the hostages Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the hostages have to be returned before ceasefire is possible Ne
ws Sunday that some Israeli troops had withdrawn from Southern Gaza was met with shock as residents surged back into the city of can Yunis but Israel's military says the pullback is just temporary in a war that appears to be nowhere near its end Sarah lit CBC News my rwandans are marking 30 years since the start of that country's genocide killing about 800,000 people in Ottawa march to remember those killed by hu extremists in 1994 in rwanda's capital a vigil commemorating the start of the 100 D
ay Massacre tosis and moderate hus were targeted as well as those who opposed the genocide Canada's new dental plan for seniors appears to be struggling out of the gate they don't want to do the program because they they just cannot handle the extra burden that comes with it why many dentists are reluctant to take part but first Clark the crossover and they hit from three College basketball's best female player takes on the best team for a national championship Perfection with a touch of sweet r
edemption and a notorious F bear awakens from its Slumber there's not a lot of bears that look like him we're back in and he's going to need full forfoot for the win a tough loss for candidates Brad gushu in the gold medal game at the men's World curling championships in Switzerland Sweden's Nicholas Aden breaking a tie with the l shot in the Final End to win 65 this marks Canada's third straight silver medal at the worlds the popularity of NCAA basketball is reaching new heights this spring and
it's transcending the sports world as Jamie stashin shows us win or lose these young players are setting records and keeping crowds entertained Perfection with a touch of sweet redemption undefeated South Carolina with the eyes of the sporting World on Iowa's Caitlyn Clark it was South Carolina's season for the ages that took Center Stage an undefeated season 38 straight wins capped off with an NCAA National Championship I'm just so proud of our team and it feels great it hasn't sunk in yet man
it caps a historic moment for women's college basketball moving from Niche to mainstream and the top of the sporting World Clark the all-time leading scorer in the women's game the headliner no one has done more to grow the popularity in a broad way of this game I don't want my legacy to be oh Caitlyn won X amount of games or Caitlyn scored x amount of points it's you know I hope it's what I was able to do for the game of women's basketball the women's tournament Drew record TV audiences far la
rger than the men's tournament and commanded record ticket prices and was even part of a skit on Saturday Night Live it's just hard to get excited when there's better games on oh you mean the NBA no the women's tournament for fans especially here in Canada there's more to come Toronto Zach Ed leads Purdue University against the University of Connecticut in the men's final Monday night it's a really big deal but obviously we still have we still have game a game to play Ed's story is also inspirin
g he didn't play basketball growing up until his 7 foot4 frame attracted the basketball World he's dedicated himself and uh again if anybody said that uh you know 3 4 years ago that this was going to be the path that he was on I I I think they'd be Liars he certainly figured it out recently named NCAA player of the year for the second year in a row with players like Ed and Clark set to turn pro a generation of new stars to cheer on Jamie stashin CBC News Toronto some seniors covered under Canada
's new Dental Care Program are learning their dentists aren't taking part it really irk me that the federal government came out and announced a dental plan but they didn't do their homework what's behind the hesitation and the efforts to get more Buy in plus what NASA can learn from the solar eclipse they're going to be looking at the sun and chasing it as long as they can Canadian Jeremy Hansen shares an astronaut's perspective and how in you Brunswick scientist is taking clouds out of the equa
tion we should be able to see the shadow of the Moon approaching us the national breaks down the story shaping our world next needl yeah we're going to some time it's for now everything's okay several passengers and flight attendant heard something loud hit the wing what hit the wing was the engine cover of a Boeing 737 airplane the flight operated by Southwest Airlines had just taken off from Denver International Airport this morning the plane returning safely Southwest says it's reviewing the
aircraft and the US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating this is the latest in a recent string of issues with Boeing planes starting next month Canada's national dental care plan should start covering low and middle-income seniors but some patients are now finding out their dentists won't be participating in the program Marina Von stackelberg explains why no pay on any of the implants at all m- coverage under the Canadian dental care plan starts next month this denturist says it will
really help his senior patients it's something that most of our clients are going to be affected by um we're happy to to be part of it especially if it works the way it's supposed to so far 1.6 million seniors have enrolled Ottawa will only say thousands of Oral healthc Care Providers have registered to treat them Dental associations warn participation is low case in point their residents working dentists themselves tell CBC news they won't run the program in their own practices my staff have t
old me in no uncertain terms they don't want to do the program because they they just cannot handle the extra burden that comes with it they say dental offices are thinly staffed and can't handle the paperwork Ottawa requires to process claims plus they don't know what they're signing up for unlike other dental plans this Federal program is asking the dentist to sign a contract that's like seven pages long with a lot of unknown factors and unnecessary terms and conditions some seniors are shocke
d to find out their dentist won't take part what does it mean for me I've just got to continue paying and just have the minimal minimal amount of things done it really irks me that the federal government came out and announced a dental plan but they didn't do their homework to get the thing in place so that a my dentist could be part of it but Ottawa may be looking to sweeten the deal we're working actively on creating an alternative portal uh that will allow dentists uh to uh participate uh uh
just directly when a patient comes in front of them to just put in the information and be able to put that claim another sore spot for dentists and patients the federal government initially pitched this as free dental care but only some procedures are covered and at a lower rate than many clinics charge so you should still expect to see a bill when you leave the dentist chair Marina Von stackelberg CBC News Ottawa now we go deep for turn to the stories shaping our world we're just hours away fro
m a rare and Majestic total eclipse I'm just really excited about the eclipse if you're in the right place you'll have a chance to see the moon block out the sun completely and for the first time in years Canada offers Prime views once in a lifetime once in a lifetime for him I starting in Mexico here's the path of totality where the eclipse can be full F appreciated and one of Canada's top spots is Niagara Falls Ontario where the totality Peak is forecast to last 3 minutes and 31 seconds the be
st site to see it is here up to a million visitors have been expected the region has declared a state of emergency traffic could be bumper to- bumper I suspect we're going to see congestion on all uh on all of the arteries the crowds are already growing in Niagara Falls and it includes NASA scientists eager to observe and to learn Heather hiso the host of CBC morning live is in Niagara Falls to show us the growing excite excitement there but first here's her conversation with Canadian astronaut
Jeremy Hansen he breaks down what scientists hope to learn and how they'll do it your fellow astronauts there are seven of them who'll be viewing the eclipse from 400 kmers up in the International Space Station they must be getting a spectacular view so it it' be neat to hear what they see from their perspective because the best Windows on the space station actually look down on the earth and so they will be able to see the shadow of the Moon moving across the earth I think that'll be a really u
nique perspective and so I don't think they're going to be looking at the sun like we are with our glasses I think they're actually going to be transfixed on the planet and what that looks like as they pass over it there must be so many extraordinary moments from the ISS but this would have to be extra special and I was thinking how many advances in technology and imaging since 2017 the last American Eclipse we might be getting some really spectacular images from them yeah we're always sending u
p the latest camera technology and in fact some new ones were just unpacked in the last few weeks so absolutely might get some neat photos the other thing I'm wondering about NASA is putting up some fascinating experiments this time for the eclipse and are there any that are particular interest to you well one of the things that I thought was cool is that we have this special airplane in Houston where we fly the the t38 Jets for our training their WB 57s they can fly really really high and carry
payloads they have special cameras that they're going to be looking at the sun and chasing it as long as they can staying in that total eclipse they have some sounding Rockets so these are Rockets you launch I think they're launching out of Virginia and they're going to go up just before Eclipse during and after to see how the Earth ionosphere changes that's kind of the the atmosphere around our planet so there's some really cool things that they can do I knew you were going to say the W 57s be
cause as a as a fighter pilot yourself I thought that would be particularly interesting to fly that high and to do those research experiments I'm going to be speaking to the person who's the principal investigator for one of them so I'm really looking forward to hearing more about it we were talking earlier about how there seems to be a really great level of interest in this eclipse in particular but do you think it's an opportunity to Foster an interest in space and astronomy in general right n
ow yes absolutely and science just this understanding that science serves us as Humanity I'd like to kind of ponder what are what are the people that saw this thousands of years ago what were they thinking when they saw an eclipse like this they wouldn't have understood what we understand today and so science has brought us to this point where we understand how the planets are moving how we're orbiting the Sun how the moon orbits the earth um and that I think that's really neat to look at how sc
ience has served us over this time period and just Embrace science as part of our future I think as we Eclipse 8 billion people we really need science to get we all need to get on the same page if we're going to move forward as unified humanity and tackle the big problems that face us on the planet thank you Jeremy so great to see you again it's my pleasure eny the eclipse I certainly will you too and Heather that was just part of your conversation what else did you learn from Jeremy Hansen you
know I was surprised to learn Ian that Jeremy and I actually share something in common neither of us has ever seen a total solar eclipse and both of us are very excited about tomorrow he's not sure how he's going to react or what he's going to feel but he's very excited to to see the corona those beautiful white streamers that are always hidden by the brightness of the Sun so he'll be looking for that tomorrow he'll let me know how he feels and if he's about to become an eclipse Chaser after tha
t we'll find out tomorrow we can tell in the shot how beautiful Niagara Falls is today uh but what's it like uh when you consider people are already arriving for the eclipse it's really exciting here and there's no doubt about it I mean this is always one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and you can see the big crowd but Niagara Parks was just telling me this is more typical of a peak summer day not an early April day and there are big groups here there are people wearing sp
ace gear you hear different accents people are here from Australia New Jersey and the parking lot behind me here all the cars have American Plate so there's lots of people who are already starting to arrive the expectation was there might be as many as a million people here for tomorrow they're revising that downward somewhat but still it's going to be a very big crowd the largest crowd ever here in Niagara for a single event was when Nick Wenda walked over the tight rope from the American side
over here and there were 150,000 people here for that event they're expecting many more people than that tomorrow morning and already as I said let me show you the souvenir shop is humming here's an example of what people are buying and of course these the glasses that we must wear tomorrow to say staia so it's really humming crowds are growing there's so much energy here in Ni Falls it's like the city's already having its own coronal mass ejection so we're ready for tomorrow let me tell you and
you'll be leading our extensive coverage uh in the lead up to and during the eclipse and so here I am stuck in Vancouver I'll be relying on what you're showing us what can we expect but you know even there Ian everywhere across the C country virtually there will be at least a partial eclipse so you can experience at least that everywhere in Canada but the fact of the matter is with this total solar clipse it is all about totality so we have special coverage starting with our morning show 6:00 E
astern until 10: and we have guests and we have reporters all along the path of totality but if you're not there don't worry you can experience it with us on CBC News all day long because we have special coverage again coming up in the afternoon but it's really something because as I said the excitement is building the only question mark is the weather and that's something over which we have no control obviously beautiful day today wish were like that tomorrow there is Cloud in the forecast mayb
e some Sunny breaks but you know we haven't had an eclipse in Canada since 1979 we won't have another one since until 2044 so we want to make the most of every moment sharing this little bit of Canadian history together and here in Niagara if the weather doesn't work out well there's always the eclipse Donuts that Katie Nicholson showed us earlier in your newscast and um I'm going to keep these at the ready just in case things don't go quite as planned so cheers we'll see you tomorrow Ian lookin
g forward to watching well let's bring in the mayor of Niagara Falls Jim deod daddy who has been anticipating this day for some time now uh the night before the big event mayor how are you feeling well Ian it kind of feels like Christmas Eve you know it's nervous anticipation before the big event of course Mother Nature is fully in charge so we're keeping an eye on the weather it's going to be a clear day for sure question is are we going to get a little bit of cloud but in the meantime the peop
le are pouring into the city I can tell you the restaurants are full most of the hotels are full there's still some rooms believe it or not at reasonable rates I was just talking to the the Proprietors at the Best Western in town on Lundy's Lane and they still got 60 rooms for tomorrow reasonably priced so there are still rooms but there's Buzz all the parking lot people all the people selling merchandise I saw people in these Dicky D carts selling go uh the goggles the eclipse glasses so you ca
n feel the buzz people are excited it's it's an early start to the tourism season and we're so ready after covid we're so ready yeah I mean I love the enthusiasm that you have mayor for example I think you said it's going to be clear skies but there might be a few clouds so that's the most optimistic spin on that part of it listen for people who are watching in Southern Ontario uh who are thinking of maybe making the drive to Niagara Falls tomorrow what advice do you have for them yeah thank you
first advice is don't leave anything to the last minute if you're going to drive down come prepared leave early and have everything you're going to need for the day uh if you can bring your glasses yes we're going to have a lot of eclipse glasses but don't take a chance make sure your car is gased up or it's charged bring with you something to eat cereal bars water in case you're spending time in the car if you need medication bring it with you but please come early and be patient and if you ca
n take the GO train they've added a whole bunch of extra cars and the GO train comes right into the downtown of nager Falls which is about a 20 minute walk to the falls so thing is be prepared and maybe a lawn chair a blanket if you want to sit down and look up and observe the sky as this once in a-lifetime Opportunity happens you know you you declared I guess a state of emergency in agar Falls a few days ago that was kind of eye-catching for me I thought wow like what what are the concerns uh w
hat are the concerns tonight do you think you have everything under control no we do Ian and it wasn't the city that did it it was the regional government that decided to do that on their own and uh you know we did not do that at the city we we do have things at hand I had the police chief in here a couple of days ago we'll have RCMP op Naga Regional Police and Parks police ambulance firefighters we've got porta potties extra cellular towers I mean we've got plan a plan B plan C emergency operat
ion centers all over the region we are very much ready we do this for living this will be the biggest crowd mind you but but we're ready you have all of that plus the Falls itself I got to tell you one of the most breathtaking sites in the world so I wish you the best tomorrow mayor thank you very much thanks for having me in an Brunswick scientist is making sure weather won't get in the way of his Eclipse experience that's something you can't really see just on the ground the communal effort ai
med at guaranteeing a perfect view the skies above New Brunswick haven't looked like this in more than a thousand years this is a rare event a retired scientist turned his new hobby into a community project aimed at getting a rare perspective it's a little telescope to go above the clouds during the upcoming solar eclipse David Hunter is a man of science but he gets quite philosophical when he breaks down what's driving him to capture those heavenly images well my name is David Hunter and I'm re
tired but in my working life I was a medical physicist working in Toronto I was born and raised here in Florence for New Brunswick and I came back here and retired I've always been interested in science and astronomy and cosmology and so forth then I realized my Heavens you know New Brunswick is going to be on the center line of this eclipse and we should do something about it and take note of it so now the lights are flashing so these are the flashing lights originally I thought it was just goi
ng to be nice little hobby project which would just I would just sort of semi dable in it uh and U it it it just went beyond that the last time there was a total solar eclipse in central NE Brun was in 932 more than a thousand years ago and roughly speaking just statistically every 400 years uh any particular spot on earth will experience a total solar eclipse so this is uh this is a rare event we're building and have built a what we're calling a Bloon born solar telescope so it's a little teles
cope to go above the clouds if there are any clouds during the upcoming solar eclipse total solar eclipse on the 8th of April 2024 and the project is to get better views of the earth and the shadow of the Moon and the Sun during the eclipse from a high altitude up to 100,000 ft and we are uh sending these images real time down to the ground and we'll be able to see them during the flight there's the solar telescope camera there's a other special camera here which is sending Real Time images at a
bout 12 to 15 frames per second down to the ground when the path of totality is coming up from Texas and United States it will be approaching New Brunswick from the west southwest and our cameras will be looking at the Earth in that direction some of the time and we should be able to see the shadow of the Moon approaching us at the as as totality near so that's something you can't really see just on the ground we have to have a recovery team to find find the payload it's a very involved process
and and involves quite a few people and I'm grateful to all the people who have been working and continue to work on this project I really very thankful W that's really doing a good job I'm Ian Gerson I as David I am a locally born and raised man I knew about the eclipse and uh I've always had somewhat of an interest in very basic astronomy and the telescope and the stars and so I just thought I could contribute something he was looking for somebody that had a canoe basically and I did and uh ju
st went from there I've ended up as part of the payload recovery team which means the thing goes up 100,000 ft in theory and go somewhere depending on the wind direction and velocity and lands somewhere maybe in a river maybe in the Gulf of St Lawrence maybe somebody's backyard uh and we pick the thing up and try to get it home for dark then if you watch this you'll see that the uh gimbals are moving properly and you can see the image there it's tracking it now it's not perfect my brother Gordon
asked me he knows how much work I'm putting in this and he said David why are you doing this and I couldn't and the I thought about it and really the final answer was it's my destiny it's and so the bottom line is we have a very special place here on Earth the eclipse is one demonstration of that and we should really uh appreciate this and look after our home planet it's an incredible situation that we as human beings uh we're alive we're here on the planet uh we're conscious uh uh and I just t
hink it's we're extremely lucky so it's just uh just it's just uh just that view of uh thinking that we shouldn't take our existence and lives uh uh for granted and and basically Marvel at our life every day and David's hometown of Florenceville Bristol as it's known now will have totality for almost as long as nagara Falls David should have 3 minutes and 20 seconds to capture that Corona coming up B's famous bear emerges from hibernation there's not a lot of bears that look like him the sightin
g many albertans are chasing in our moment this bear is a bit of a celebrity in Alberta they call him the boss and he is the most dominant grizzly in B National Park he's eaten a black bear and once brushed off being struck by a train the return of spring has led to the reemergence of the boss still looking as large and legendary as ever and tonight some of the first sightings of 2024 make our moment there's not a lot of bears that look like him it was just amazing because you go out with the ho
pe that you're going to see them but you never know if you're going to he is massive he's um beautiful like I don't think I've seen a better looking Baron I have seen a few bears and he's always the first one out from what they're saying so typically he's the one you're going to see this time of year he's very iconic and he's kind of like I said a bucket list kind of bear to see it's great he's become celebrity you look at it different ways it's great tourism for B because everybody wants to com
e to B and see them what I fear uh is people get too close to them that that you know that's why we have telephoto lenses on cameras uh you know to keep your distance away from him we just got you know we all have to stick together and and protect the bear and protect the people so tale of the tape 650 to 700 lb is how heavy that bear is about 20 years old and they can move I was going to say lightning quick I get but I mean they can move quickly so you do have to definitely keep your distance t
elephoto lenses as he said are the best way to capture that thanks for being with us you can watch anytime anywhere on the free CBC News app And subscribe to the Nationals YouTube channel I'm mean Hannah maning in Vancouver good night
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