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Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
1. Man escapes shark in Hawaii, wife remains missing
The search for a missing woman following a shark encounter near the Kihei area of Maui will enter day two once the sun rises in Hawaii this morning. Rescuers responded to the incident shortly before noon Thursday. A husband and wife were snorkeling around 50 yards off the beach when the man spotted a shark swimming around. He made it back to shore, but his wife did not.
BREAKING NEWS | Emergency crews are responding to a reported shark attack in waters near the Kihei area on Maui, Thursday afternoon. https://t.co/c3ZlgJF74Y
— KITV4 (@KITV4) December 8, 2022
2. New footage shows duffel bags being loaded onto Pivot Airlines jet
New exclusive footage obtained by CTV shows duffel bags being loaded onto the plane that was subject to a drug trafficking investigation in the Dominican Republic. The crew recently returned to Canada after being detained in the Central American country for eight months. The footage is vital to the investigation as previous footage had been tampered with and was missing 43 minutes, during which the bags were loaded onto the plane by unknown suspects.
W5 is taken through never-before-seen surveillance video from the night before a Pivot Airlines crew was detained in the Dominican Republic. https://t.co/ltYwzIVFMO
— CTV News Vancouver (@CTVVancouver) December 9, 2022
3. World Cup quarterfinals begin in Qatar
There are only eight teams left at the World Cup in Qatar and that number will be cut in half over the next 30 hours or so. The quarterfinals begin this morning with Brazil against Croatia before Argentina battles with the Netherlands. On Saturday, Portugal is up against Morocco and England will take on France. The semis will take place next week with the third-place match and final set scheduled for next weekend.
Which matchup are you looking forward to most in the quarter-finals?! The action begins again on Friday!#FIFAWorldCup pic.twitter.com/MwE2bVCADw
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) December 6, 2022
4. The ugly Christmas sweater phenomenon got its start at the BC house party
It was 20 years ago that a pair of university students tried on matching penguin sweaters in Coquitlam and started to laugh uncontrollably. Those two men were Jordan Birch and Chris Boyd, who are universally considered as the founders of the ugly Christmas sweater phenomenon. They even own the “ugly Christmas sweater” trademark in Canada.
How celebrating the ugly Christmas sweater went from a B.C. house party to a global phenomenon. https://t.co/V0OWL3eYqh
— CBC British Columbia (@cbcnewsbc) December 9, 2022
5. Historic St. John’s cottage mired in disputes about its fate burns to the ground
The 115-year-old Bryn Mawr Cottage in St. John’s burned down on Friday morning. A cab driver spotted the blaze around 3 am and by the time firefighters arrived at the scene, there was no saving the historic cottage. It’s a building that has been at the centre of much controversy over its fate in recent years. The fire will be investigated by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary.
These photos from Platoon Chief Michael Hall are something else. Bryn Mawr Cottage went up fast. It only took firefighters a few moments to get there after the initial call, and this was what they found. pic.twitter.com/lQnW1sVzFK
— Ryan Cooke (@ryancookeNL) December 9, 2022
Thumbnail photo courtesy of Jeff Wilcox on Twitter.
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