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and why the singapore airport flight descended more than 6,000 feet. Passengers say others hit the ceiling when it happened. In just a few minutes we'll hear from one of the passengers who remains in hospital and who does have those serious spinal injuries. That conversation coming up in about 20 minutes. Here's what else you should know as you start your thursday morning. Experts are warning anyone over the age of 65 to be cautious when they ingest cannabis edibles. There's a new study warning there's been a real rise in hospital visits from that age group because of cannabis poisoning since the legalization in this country. Matt galloway is talking about that on the current today, the risks and the health benefits, 8:37 A.M. this morning, 9:07 A.M. from newfoundland on cbc radio and on the cbc listen app. The hot docs film festival says it's temporarily closing its flagship toronto theatre for three months and laying off staff to address financial difficulties. Jackson weaver is looking into the problems before canada's largest film festival, a piece that's up on our website this morning and on the cbc news app. In case you missed it, canadian nba star alexander is a unanimous selection to the all nba first team. He's one of only two consensus first team selections in the all nba team. The nod means that he's going to be able to sign a super max contract extension worth about 294 million. May I tell you, he's playing for team canada in the olympics this summer. Speaking of a big price tag, more than 150 items from princess diana and other royals are going up for auction in the U.S. in fact, the auction house says it's the biggest auction of its kind since 1997. Recognize any of the hats? Maybe you will recognize this, the blue strapless star gown that she wore for the 1986 premier of the phantom of the opera. It's expected to sell between 2 to $400,000. So that might spark your fancy this morning, a little bit of royal history that you could have at home. This is cbc morning live. Announcer:Closed captioning forthis program is brought to youin part byTour Watch all three episodesofCome and Say G'Day, a paid content series byTourism Australia,onCBC gem. I heard it swallowed an entire family's camping gear. My sister says she saw it playing in the mud. I hear it came from the future! The new Subaru Crosstrek. The true Urban Legend. If you're lost You can look And you will find me Time after time For everything you care about. Intact Insurance. New Head & Shoulders bare. Clinically proven dandruff control with just nine essential ingredients. No sulfates, no silicones no dyes. Dandruff control, minimal ingredients. Job done. ( ) That's a dq Chicken Strip Basket! Oh look at those tasty dq chicken strips. And fries! Plus all the dips! Oh let's order one, right now! Dq. Happy Tastes Good. I'm such a fan of this show. Announcer:Listen to the podcast,Q with Tom Power. The story itself is so unbelievable. The energy wasn't set up for me to thrive in. The presence I feel now is not something that I believed to be possible in the past. So many people thought I couldn't do it. They doubted me. I felt like I like, ripped my whole heart out. I didn't realize how formative 25 to 30 would be. I have to kind of repress my own self doubt. You're one of my favourite interviewers, so, I was pumped. Get out of here. Announcer: q with Tom Power. Available now onCBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. >> Heather: atlantic hurricane season is looming on the east coast. It begins june the 1st. This morning, we'll get the forecast for the season ahead from both sides of the bored. Brett ruskin is getting set for that. Of course, he always covering the storm and hurricane situation on the east, so he's live in halifax on a beautiful day, kind of goes against what we may be hearing about later on today, brett. >> Doesn't feel like hurricane season just yet, heather. And officially it's not. June 1st is kind of the assumed day that the hurricane season officially starts. June 1st to november 30th, typically. Typical is hard to define, though, because last year, we saw a post tropical storm, type storm develop in january! So hard to predict. Hard to make this prediction that's going to be happening today. Again, ten o'clock eastern down in washington, with the national oceanic atmospheric administration and then a couple of hours later, noon eastern, we expect the canadian side of things with the canadian hurricane centre. So what did we learn last year around this time? Well, there was a prediction

between 12 and 17 named storms. So big storms that have that name down that alphabetical list, how did that prediction and that forecast shape up? Well, there was actually 20 named storms last year. So the anticipation last year was that there would be el nino effects would suppress the activity in the atlantic last year, but we saw hurricane lee, for example, that scurried up the coast, that was able to kind of go between new brunswick and nova scotia, not too many damaging effects like we had seen previously were fionna and storms like that. So it will be interesting to see if there is what -- we're seeing indications of possibly a more intense, of a greater, busier season from early indications, so we'll see if that pans out in the official modelling, official predictions, again, set to happen beginning at 10 eastern and then the canadian version at noon eastern today here on news network, heather. >> Brett, thank you very much, live from halifax this morning. Let's talk about more severe weather, matt is here in place of chris for us this morning. It was a wild night in and around toronto, matt, for sure. >> Yeah. Talked about some of the tornado warnings that were issued, heather, and now that severe weather, it was still kind of rumbling overnight those thunderstorms, but now as we take a look into the maritimes, new brunswick in particular, that is going to be the target of the severe weather today. Now, we have also a thunderstorm potential in parts of bc and southern alberta today, non-severe in nature, but just to recap what we saw yesterday. Take a look at the size of this hailstone in this person's hand and we saw some broken tree limbs, power outages as well. Some pretty wicked weather. Now, much nicer in southern ontario today. That was the hot spot yesterday. Things are look google tomorrow as well, until we get into our saturday. Early on we have a bit of active weather moving through, that will be to start the weekend of course so for toronto, a little stormy activity, you notice a temperature drop-off as well as we head into that potentially stormy saturday, fairly active into early next week for toronto and much of southern ontario. Meanwhile, we have some heavy snowfall in parts of northern ontario or not western ontario, I should say, that will be dwindling out as we head into the morning, more showers on our way into friday and lingering into saturday for this part of the country. But, heather, this is where the severe weather takes aim at now. Going to be already some ongoing storms this morning, but it's into the afternoon. That's when new brunswick and a little part of quebec sees the possibility of those severe storms flaring up. So be keeping an eye on that. Some strong wind gusts as well, through. So we have eyes on that. Tomorrow, we'll see the rainfall shift over to newfoundland, not as much storm energy, and for our friday, a pretty nice-looking day for the maritimes. >> The weather update is brought to you by the off cats mosquito forecast, off, prevention is the best protection from [dramatic] Announcer:What's new? What's breaking? What's really going on? Cbc News Network. The Jeep No Limits Eventis here.Which means more trailsto blaze. More challenges to meet. And right now enjoyno payments for 90 days. Get into a Jeep Compass. With best-in-class horsepower. Or Jeep Grand Cherokee,the most awarded suv ever. ( ) Jeep No Limits is here. Time to test your limits. Get up to 10% off msrp for up to eighty sevenhundred dollars in discounts. And no payments for 90 days. Woman: My grandson can choose to be anything he wants to be. Which reminds me: I've got a few choices to make of my own. Welcome to Seniors Choice. How can I help? Hi, I'd like a quick quote, please. If you're a Canadian Resident aged 50-80, you can choose the right amount of coverage for you and your family up to $250,000. That kind of money would help a lot. You can choose to apply over the phone now in just minutes, with no medicals or blood tests, just a few health and lifestyle questions. Wow. That easy? Depending on the coverage you choose, it would be as little as $14.88 a month. That's just 49 cents a day. That's less than I thought. And that money could help my family cover my funeral costs, support my husband's retirement planning or even pay off the loans. I'll do it. Seniors Choice are the #1 Direct Choice for Canadians over 50. To get a free, no-obligation quote, call one of our trusted insurance advisors today at 1-844-834-2722. Or visit seniorschoice.ca. [Ambient Sounds] [Ambient Sounds] [Ambient Sounds] [Ambient Sounds] [Silence] This is her why. What's yours? Discover the science behind managing weight at truthaboutweight.ca. Hi Phil Swift here for FlexSuper Wide Duct Tape.Just check outhow wide this

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>> At least one of the passengers hurt when that singapore airline flight hit extreme turbulence, says the air carrier isn't doing enough to help the victims. We're getting an update this morning from a bangkok hospital that is treating many of the injured. It says 20 people remain in intensive care. More than 100 passenger and crew were hurt when that singapore airlines flight from london heathrow bound for singapore was hitting extreme turbulence over the indian ocean on tuesday. Flight investigators from singapore are leading the probe into what happened. Now, our next guest is one of the 20 who remains in hospital. Bradley richards, you're going to meet him in a moment, he was travelling to bali for a vacation. One of our morning team has a mutual friend in his mother jane, and through jane, we have contacted bradley in his hospital bed in bangkok and he joins me now. Bradley, thank you so much for making the effort to speak with me. Good morning, hello, from canada. How are you feeling today? >> I definitely feel like I'm on the mend. Yeah. And myself, I feel a bit better. >> I hope so. >> My spine still hurts. >> Well, I'm looking at you, and just for as long as you are able to hold the phone, component overexert yourself, but I can see you have a band-aid to the head and a neck place here. Can you describe your injuries to us and how extensive they are? >> Yeah, I mean, like, I'm not too sure exactly how it all unfolded, but I've got lacerations on my skull and it required about 20 stitches, and I've had about 6 fractures on my spine and neck. So I'm a bit unable to move very well at the moment. >> So they've got you immobilized with that brace, and what about -- any other supports on the bed there to keep you from moving? >> No, just in the bed with my neck brace and whatever, just my neck brace on at the moment. But I can still move my legs and my arms, but I can't really sit up or move my head around too much. >> Heather: but that's such good news, I was going to ask you will if you are able to move. So your legs, do you have mobility in the legs and arms despite the 6 semifinal fractures, yeah, fortunately, I don't think there'sfully damage to the nerve. Hopefully I will be able to walk. Hopefully anyway. >> Thankfully, we hope so for you too. Do you need surgery, are they telling you, bradley, at this point? >> I'm unclear at the moment. I have one doctor say that probably won't, but I still actually waiting for the main doctor to come along to give me his prognosis. >> Your mom was telling us that you were asleep when the plane hit the turbulence. Is that right? >> Yeah, I think all remember really from being on the plane, the accident, was just waking up, with my head pouring with blood and lots of people panicking and laying on the floor and luggage everywhere. It was -- it was -- there were medics on board that seemed to be helping people but even some of the crew member were knocked out or ill on the floor. So, you know, the trained medical people were even sort of taken -- as well. >> I was wondering, she also told us you weren't wearing a seatbelt, when you were sleeping, is that right, to your memory? >> I can't actually remember. I think -- I do -- I remember tuck my hands in at some point, so I don't know if it was still on me at the time. I can't -- can't beure of that. I had my arms tucked into it at one point while I was getting cozy because I was cold under the blanket, but I don't know if I had been up since that point or not. I don't even remember it happening. >> Really, so the actual memory of if you must have come out of your seat and you must have hit something, obviously, with the injuries and the cut to your head, but exactly what you hit and what happened, you don't remember at this point. >> I don't have a clue, no. All I know is that -- when I come around, I just saw blood everywhere and my main concern was to get the bleeding stopped and just trying to get off the plane, really, to -- you know, to an ambulance or something. >> That must have been extraordinary to wake up in distress. Was there a lot of pain too, bradley, or just the blood was the main issue? >> Obviously, when you see blood, you sort of go into panic mode. So you're drone listen kicks in. I did obviously notice that my back was hurt and as well, there was a guy behind me, he was quite helpful and he bandaged my head up, obviously, the spinal

injuries straight away, you know what I mean. >> And in terms of a couple of things. So as you said, you woke up, you were sort of conscious and aware of what was going on. I was thinking of what must have been going on in the plane. The pilot ordered that medical emergency and then took some time to land in bangkok. Whatever time tweet 2003 the hitting of the turbulence and then the landing in bangkok, what was that time like with everything going on in the plane somewhat was happening? What were you aware of? >> It was a bit surreal. It was a bit like a movie, to be honest with you. There were people screaming, you know, there was other people remained quite calm and, you know, trying to calm others down, which was good, I suppose. Obviously, there was children on the plane that were crying as well. Yeah. >> And then when you finally did land. >> It all sort of went by. >> It went by. When you finally landed, how did they take you off the plane? Were they aware, they had to be careful for your back or how did you get off that maybe? >> Well, yeah, they were obviously aware I had damage and I told them that my back was hurt bug there were so many people laying on the floor, I sort of had to get escorted out to the door and then they put me into a wheelchair once I -- I sort of walked to the door with assistance and then they put me into like a wheelchair and strapped me in. >> And there you are now in the intensive care unit, I should have said that in the beginning, in that intensive care unit in the hospital in bangkok. How has the care been, the care you have received? >> I think it's actually been really good, whying there's a language barrier as well. So staff have been really helpful. I did have a sort of -- a bit of a stress incident where my back was left by the paramedics in another room and got a bit worked you were about that, but had my camera equipment and my charger and things like that, my phone was going to run out so I didn't have any contact with the outside world, and eventually, the customer service lady come around and she managed to get my bag for me because I could track it inside the hospital. >> Heather: that is good news, you don't want to be -- >> I knew it was there, yeah. >> Heather: you knew it there. In terms of what we've heard from some passengers, you maybe heard me when I was introducing you, they have been saying publicly that they're just not getting unlawful information about what's happening and especially from singapore airlines, would you say that's been the case for you too, bradley? >> Yeah, I mean, all I had in terms of contact was a text message saying my flight had been rearranged and my luggage or something like that. But to be honest with you, I haven't -- haven't really been that interested in the cause of it or whatever. Because my main concern has been my health, just getting out of hospital. But today, just before I come on the phone call actually, the nurse came and said the ceo of singapore airlines is here to actually have a word with all of the customers. >> Really? The ceo of the airline? >> Yeah. Apparently so, yeah. I haven't actually seen him. >> Heather: how do you feel about that? >> Well, I guess it's a nice gestures you know. If it was an accident, I think that can be avoided, if that's the case, I don't know if it was an accident or not yet, as I said, we haven't had any information. But normally, turbulence with the weather, so, you know, it could have been avoided, I don't know, but it's a good gesture of the ceo to come down personally. >> Heather: what are your main -- apart from your health which obviously is a huge concern, but apart from that, bradley, what are your main concerns right now at this point? >> Well, I haven't really are slept much because, like, when I have been tired and trying to sleep, I just have been waking back up in the panic every time I nod off. I don't know if that's my body telling me something or not to sleep, I'm not shoo sure, really, but also, you know, I've got to get home in another 10 to 12 hour flight home, and I'm a little bernard that as well, and, like, I don't really know whether, like, I don't know what the outcome of might have back is going to be after the health care. So I do quite a physical job and slightly concerned about, you know, where that's going to leave me standing because of work. >> And what about being, there I mean, you were going to meet some friends on this -- on this vacation. You are there alone, which to me would be a sort of extra frightening experience about all of this. Is anyone going to be able to come to help you? >> Yeah. My friends have offered their support as well, but also my family and my mom and I think my dad is coming out too, to stay the rest of my stay with me

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