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>>> We go to mississauga next where a late-night shooting left two men fighting for their lives in hospital. Peel regional police were called to the parking lot of settler's green public school on montevideo drive just after 11 o'clock last night. Paramedics say a young adult male and a middle aged male were found with life-threatening injuries. One was taken to a local hospital, the other air lifted to a trauma centre. Our cameras are there live this morning on scene. Police are still investigating. Peel police say they are in contact with the school to ensure that there are minimal impacts here. The school is staying open today, but the parking lot itself will remain closed. Investigators believe this was an isolated incident and the suspect or suspects fled the area. No descriptions have been released. >>> Arrests have been made in a story that we brought you earlier this week. Two teenagers now facing charges after multiple carjackings and a home invasion in the gta. It was around 3:30 on tuesday morning when investigators say three people broke into a home in the yonge and steeles area demanding keys to a mercedes. Police allege the same suspects stole a vehicle hours later from a man filling up gas in missisisuga, and then broke into another home. The suspects were found in markham and arrested after police foot chase. A 19 and 16-year-old are now facing dozens of charges including robbery with a weapon. Officers with still searching for the third suspect. >>> A new survey reveals nearly half of registered practical nursesesre considering leaving the profession. Ceo of we rpn joined us on "bt" this morning to emphasize the need to better support experienced nurses and improve working conditions to ensure quality patient care. >> When you have new grads, new internationally educated nurses, in your system, you need educated -- sorry, experienced nurses who take them by the hand, that sense of judgment that nurses have where they know something is wrong but they don't know why they know it, that comes from experience. If you're losing your experienced nurses, it's not gonna matter how many you bring in. You have to stop the loss of the experienced nurses. >> Tammie: the survey also reveals 80% of respondents have experienced significantly increased stress while the same percentage feel unsupported in their role. The association is calling for legislated nurse-to-patient ratios and competitive nursing wages.

>>> Mississauga residents will have an opportunity to hear directly from mayoral candidates ahead of their june election, exclusively on CityNews 24/7. The debate hosted by food banks mississauga begins at 7 o'clock tonight moderated by our very own mark McALLISTER. Poverty, housing and food security will be key issues for candidates participating in the debate. Remember, you can watch watch this immediately after the 6 o'clock news only on CityNews 24/7. Mississauga residents will be heading to the polls on june 10th. >>> 8:05 here on "bt." let's go from mississauga over to orangeville, that's where we say good morning to frank once again who is live at the blue bird café there. Good morning, frank. >> Frank: good morning! Yeah, we're at the blue bird café just on top. This is the patio at the nest, which is quite attractive. It's beautiful here, of course. Beautiful day, by the way. Beautiful to be in orangeville this morning on a day where we got clear blue skies above us, got rid of the humidity and set to have a daytime high today of 25°. Already with the sun getting higher in the sky, we're quickly warming up. Current conditions at pearson, just into the upper teens right now. But as I mentioned we'll see the high of 25. On the breezy side in the afternoon. Now taking a look over towards tomorrow, 24°. See that sunshine continuing. As we head our way into the weekend, both saturday and sunday, saturday is going to be a little bit wet, but a high of 22. Sunday, similar conditions at 22°. Partly cloudy. It's dry through sunday. Then monday, we get wet and cooler. We're going to be below seasonal, 2 to 5 millimetreso of rainfall monday, temperatures around 18. On tuesday, isolated showers, mainly overcast skies and we're going to continue with cloud cover as we head our way in towards wednesday. Now, as we take a look at the mosquito report today for the next four days in the area of barrie, it's going to be on the low side. Good news in terms of mosques for today. If you're wanding about getting a mosquito forecast for your area, all you have to do is visit off.ca and sign up to have your mosquito forecast emailed directly to you weekly. We're hoping today you enjoy the sunshine, live this morning from beautiful orangeville, ontario, we're going to send it over to you, stephanie henry. [ ] >> Announcer: breakfast television's weather report is brought to you by off, insect rerellant, prevention is the best protection. [ ] [ ] >> Stephanie: hey, frankie! Good morning. Major, major problems on the westbound gardiner. Jordan kurr the fly for us this morning over the problems. Over to you. >> Jordan: five lanes of traffic squeezed into one here. Westbound gardiner west of kipling where the express and the collectors merge, there's a crash here blocking off the end of the collector lanes and the two right lanes in the express. Traffic in the collectors, you can see all the trucks right now and the other cars behind them. They're having to merge into the express early and get to the left lane because of this collision. So there are two vehicles here smashed up. Emergency crews on scene. A few other vehicles a bit further along on the shoulder. That's on the gardiner expressway. It's making the drive out of downtown even worse. The long-term construction downtown and then this here as well. Horrible delays coming out of downtown on the westbound gardiner to west of kipling where we have this problem. Back to you, steph. >> Stephanie: thanks very much jordan. That's what I'm showing the delay through the long-term construction. So again from strachan to dufferin, down to two lanes for long-term maintenance. Jammed from jarvis and then making your way through the construction and then hit this problem that jordan was showingng you and flying over, where you're squeezed into the one left lane and that's the picture that's what it looks like leafing downtown right nono not at all a pretty picture. Right now on the eastbound 401, we don't have too much going on, but we have this problem east of hurontario in the express. Hov lane blocked by a stalled vehicle. Opp is on the scene along with what looks to be a tow truck or mto. Eastbound 401 seeing its typical volume delays highway 6 south to guelph line. Mississauga road to hurontario in the collectors. Find it to be jammed up on the eastbound 401 from about looks like anywhere between mississauga road to hurontario, as well as 410 to east of keele, both in the express and collectors as you make your way through long-term construction at dixon in the left lane. Down to a left lane until the -- do you know that left lane until the end of may. Right now you'll find that we have problems out of our view. We're hearing of some problems along sheppard at bonnington, east of yonge to bayview. Down to a single lane for construction. Her bert to kevin worth is closed for a broken watermain. Get your diy on during the get ready for summer sale at home hardware with deals on paint and power tools only until june 5th. [ ] >> Stephanie: your time now is 8:10. That was a look at your drive. It's a busy one leaving downtown. Please plan accordingly, but also plan to pick up the phone. Over to you guys.

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