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would have been a lot more difficult to get through this time. I wholeheartedly believe that they really changed this experience for me. >> My daughter nora wanted to understand my new job. The last 14 years I was an insurance company lawyer but now I work for mcgillvary law, a firm that represents people who've been injured in accidents or had their disability claims denied. Nora didn't quite understand that last part. She did understand that now I work to help injured people receive justice. I love making sure that people are treated fairly. Nora likes that too. That's why I joined mcgillvary law. Welcome back to the tv evening news hour. The impacts of abuse against young people can last a lifetime. But identifying an addressing it especially for educators can be extremely challenging. Today the province announced $200,000 for an online training program called to commit to kids for grades 12 to 7 to 12 teachers to address sexual violence. >> So it's a resource that we providing to teachers and administrators in our schools that's going to allow them more information and the availability of this resource and when in terms of protecting children against violence, against sexual violence and understanding how to deal with these instances in school should they arise. So right now we have a incredible uptake of this program already. Several of our administrators, principals and guidance counselors have already done the course and they speak very highly of it and the content of it and how they can use it in their schools as a resource. What type of training will be offered through the course? Will it be identifying gender violence, gender based violence or will it be identifying maybe people who've been victimized by this? >> I think it's both a little bit of both. It allows teachers the resource to identify a particular child who may have that need and how they can interact appropriately and allows them then to be able to resource out if another source is needed to support that child. >> Tell us about how this need was identified for educators. You know and I know you can't speak specifically about things before the courts but I'd be remiss not to ask about marcus hicks and the allegations against a teacher in our school system for sexual violence. Did did the educators come to you and say we need help here, we need more resources for our kids? >> Why this part of our ongoing conversations with our partners at the M.T.A. this is something that we identified as an issue. You know, unfortunately sexual violence is something that is more prevalent now in our society than ever before. And our school system is not immune to that. So identifying that as was a need was a priority for us and how we could meet the needs of teachers and administrators and students in our schools. And as we know, children are vulnerable to extremely vulnerable to gender based violence. And this is just one part of it. And with that agreement so over the course of four years, 13.6 million has been secured for newfoundland and labrador and that will go through stakeholders in gender based violence on the front lines. Indigenous led led initiatives as well for gender based violence because as we know indigenous women and girls and two spirited people experience sexual violence at much higher rates than non-indigenous. >> Doctors at the children's hospital of eastern ontario are using artificial intelligence to help diagnose rare disorders. The eye scans record and flagged patients for genetic testing. >> Cctv's judy tran takes a closer look at that technology. For years the wistar family have been searching for the cause of the developmental delays in their ten year old son anthony. >> As balance is very poor as well as being able to retain information and grasp everyday small task and knowledge is was very challenging. >> Doctors initially thought the delays were due to complications from surgery anthony had as a baby. He was born with excessive fluid around his brain. After more than 100 visits to the hospital and being bounced from one specialist to another, anthony was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. Changjiang son syndrome. >> There's about only 400 people in the world known with this disease right now as we speak. Anthony was actually the first one diagnosed with this disease in north america. >> There are 6000 rare genetic diseases. Anthony's diagnosis may not have happened if he wasn't flagged for testing. You're an A.I. algorithm, chino

named it. Think rare. It was developed by scientists working with tech experts. It's kind of a nudge. It's not we're not replacing the doctors where we're kind of helping them with some of these digital tools. >> For this pilot project, researchers use the algorithm to analyze ten years of data consisting of more than 250,000 patient records. Of that number, 15 people were flagged as having potential rare genetic diseases. >> A.I. is allowing child doctors to diagnose rare disorders in kids much earlier so families can get help faster. >> If you don't have a specific diagnostic code attached to you in the health in the educational system you're often not given enough resources. It took 2 or 3 years to develop its A.I. algorithm. >> But it doesn't have plans to monetize it. Instead it wants to give it away for free to other children's hospitals. Julie chen ctv news, ottawa. >> Tonight's weather brought to you by janes and those who the it's okay to get help with your debt. Start with free video advice from our team at jane's knows where the.ca. >> Welcome back to the bay arena and bay roberts at these songs stages and seafood festival runs all the way through sunday tonight. >> Tomorrow night's events they are sold out but if you're interested in doing some events this weekend there's a fish cake championship on sunday visit bay roberts dot com the music in here right now is great and the food smells lovely now weather wise out there today certainly a decent day tomorrow we're going to see some rain. The weather for from tropical but today the us national hurricane center unveiled their forecast for the 2024 hurricane season and hurricanes in atlantic canada. We are no stranger to them. So what does the forecast look like? Well, right now according to the national hurricane center there is an 85% chance we have an above normal hurricane season. There is a 10% chance of a near-normal season and only a 5% chance of a below normal hurricane season too. >> So what does that actually mean with respect to storms named storms and major storms? Well, here we go. They are forecasting up to 25 named storms. The average is 12 so more than double that potentially. They're expecting 8 to 13 hurricanes. The average is six and up to seven major hurricanes which is anything over a category three. The average for those in a given year is typically three. What are the names of this year's hurricanes going to be? Well, here they are alberto, beryl, chris debbie ernesto. Francine gordon. Helene isaac joyce kirk wesley . Milton. Nadine. Oscar. Patty. Rafael. Sarah. Toni. Valerie and william. So we'll see when we get our first named storm of the season. There is a bit of a tropical wave on the go right now but there are currently no tropical storms and tropical systems that are expected to form in the next couple of days. So they keeping a close eye on the tropics because anything that forms we always need to watch it closely. >> You're in atlantic canada. You're probably forecast for newfoundland and labrador so nothing tropical with respect to those temperatures but a little better by the time next week rolls around. But between now and then we have some rain to get through tomorrow and for some areas on saturday and to saturday evening, a nine day trend will show a little bit of an improvement in those temperatures across portions of eastern newfoundland with temperatures coming into the teens as we move into next week. >> Can we have just a moment and I have lost the connection with my weather graphics so I can stall or I can try and work it and it's I can't see them so I'm just talking to our server operators right now. I don't know what I don't know exactly what we're what we're going to be showing so why don't we go back to the studio and either I'll do the five there at the end of the forecast at the end of the newscast or offset the forecast real quickly once we get through. But I lost the internet connection to here folks in bay roberts so I don't exactly know what I'm talking about. So we're going to toss it back to toni mike in the studio for now and we'll try and get this technical glitch worked out in the time being. >> Mike and toni, back to you for now in the stanley cup playoffs, edmonton takes on dallas tonight in game one of the western conference finals. Meanwhile, florida panthers beat the new york rangers in game one of the eastern conference finals last night. >> Here are the highlights. Three minutes later good stuff for failing to catch kenny snipes it past the horseshoe circuit for the first goal of the series for it is his fifth this postseason it's one not the panthers great and schneider one goal in 37 career playoff games on a breakaway chance keep it up the series from sit off the post great chance for rangers down one nothing after one sergei bobrovsky has given up two goals or less in his

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