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( ) >> Alessandra: welcome back. >>> After less than two weeks after being fired by the toronto maple leafs, sheldon keefe has a new job in new jersey. According to tsn, hockey insider darrin, the devils have signed keefe for four years including the two years owed by the leafs. Keefe succeeds travis greene who was coaching on an interim basis following the firing of lindy ruff in march. Keefe was fired earlier this month after six seasons. >>> The nhl playoffs continued in the big apple as the new york rangers hosted florida panthers in game one of the eastern conference final. >> And they score! Al's tonight florida came out fast, scoring first. With matthew tkachuk scoring his fifth of the playoffs. Florida added two more in the third to win the game 3-0 to take game one of the series. Game two goes on friday at msg in new york city. >>> The and the professional women's hockey league series is all tied up. Minnesota defeated boston 3-nothing in game two last night to even the series at 1 game a piece. Minnesota's nicole hemsly made 20 saves to secure her first post-season shut out. Game 3 is set for friday. >>> And the toronto bluejays were looking for the series win tonight as theyox in the final at rogers centre. >> The chef sends one to deep centre! [Cheers and Applause] gone! >> Alessandra: beau bichette capped it off with a homer the jays won 9-2. The team will now hit the road begining a series with the detroit tigers tomorrow night. >>> And finally tonight, canadian soccer star christine sinclair is getting her own one of a kind barbie. >> When I first saw it I was like holy moley, that's me! >> Alessandra: as barbie celebrates its 65th year anniversary, the classic doll is honouring nine athletes from around the world who have broken airiers in their sport. The company says its goal is to inspire young girls to stay in sports and to fuel their ambition and self-confidence. Other athletes include tennis star venus williams and australian football player mary fowler. Amazing. So inspireing.

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>>> Earlier today, another tornado alert was issued just before 2 P.M. this is what is looked like in the south end of barrie late this afternoon as hail fell throughout the city. Hail is also seen in innisfil this afternoon as scary scene in friday harbour where the footage was captured. Withok at the weather and let's start with the watches and the warnings. And it looks like now those warnings have ended throughout parts of show county. We still have a bit of watches throughout parts of york region, newmarket remains under a severe thunderstorm watch at this moment. And there is your radar system showing you that last three hours. That red there showing you the significance of that storm system that moved through. Bringing that heavy rain and that tornado warning. Forecast coming up. First the temperature, though, 17 in barrie. 22 in orillia. And 17 in collingwood. We'll have more on your weather coming up later in the newscast. >>> A new anti vaping pilot project is being introduced in schools across simcoe county, offering support to kids to stop vaping. As ctv's christian d'avino reports, the project could have an impact here in our region. >> Christian: vaping among youth has increased rapidly across the nation. Hitting school boards here at home. >> I was an elementary school principal for 20 years. I had experience of vaping as young as grade 5. >> Christian: to help with students facing addiction, the simcoe it county catholic school board and the simcoe county district school board will be joining four other boards piloting that will give students access to an app. >> The app basically guides them through wanting to quit. >> Christian: school boards began training staff on how to roll it out last week. A component itself of the province's mandate banning vaping in schools as announced last month. That alongside restrictions on when students can utilize cell phones giving guidance to how students can access the app. >> But only during instructional time. During the rest of the time if they're in school or the students are at home or wherever they are, they are still able to access through the app. >> Canada has some of the highest youth vaping rates in the world. >> Christian: based on the most recent tobacco and vaping survey, 69% of students have never smoked. Quash was developed three years ago to tackle this worsening crisis. It works in two ways. One by the aforementioned app itself and by parents and administrators through educational supports. >> It's a series of web gnars. They can also become become adult facilitator and take a program on our website that allows them to facilitate the quash program. >> Christian: the simcoe county district school board declined to comment. Meanwhile, the simcoe-muskoka catholic school board says it will be rolling out the app in june which will then be extendd into the fall. Christian d'avino, ctv news barrie. >> Alessandra: a heavy police presence closed down county road 21 outside of thornton today. Emergency crews were called to the area for reports after possible body after an investigation took place, police say it turned out to only be a rolled up carpet. And there was no body found. That investigation is now closed.

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