Trump says US to scale back military drills with South Korea after it stayed out of Iran war
Trump says US to scale back military drills with South Korea after it stayed out of Iran war. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Happy Animals, Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
Aired 2026-08-17 01:59 UTC · 5 segments · 13 min · complete transcript below
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour.
Tonight we begin at The World Desk where Russia reports at least seven killed in what Moscow is calling the largest Ukrainian attack of twenty twenty-six. We'll have complete coverage and context from the region.
Then Criminal Intent where publishers are deleting games customers have paid for, and a movement is forming to stop them. We'll explain what's at stake and why federal regulators may need to step in.
Later, Happy Animals brings you the story of a foldable phone with an unfoldable price tag. Samsung's newest device costs more than some used cars, and we'll tell you if it's worth it.
That is not a happy animal.
It's a consumer technology story and that's where we run those now.
And in Sports, we remember Tommy John, the pitcher whose name became synonymous with the surgery that saved his career and hundreds of others. He has died at age eighty-three.
All of that this hour on KRAK 11 News. The World Desk is next with the latest from the conflict in eastern Europe, including Moscow's response to the attack and what it means for the region. Stay with us.
I've been running to work.
Since when.
July.
Why have you been running.
My wife left me for a runner, so I'm running after her.
You're fat. Maybe just pick up a new wife. One you can catch.
I will get her back.
That's sweet. I'm sorry to hear about your wife. How long ago did she leave?
About nine years ago.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. This is The World Desk.
Chip.
What.
It's called The World Desk now. Not Action News Eleven.
The stinger says both. I read what the stinger says.
The stinger is wrong.
We turn now to the Korean peninsula, where the Trump administration has confirmed it will reduce joint military exercises with Seoul. The move comes after South Korea stayed out of military action against Iran last month.
President Trump cited his quote very good relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un as a factor in scaling back the exercises. The Pentagon says details of the reduced schedule will be released later this week.
This follows the established Pacific deterrence pattern, where exercises scale when diplomatic temperatures cool in the northern theater.
There is no Pacific deterrence pattern. The decision follows South Korea declining to participate in strikes against Iran, which the President has now acknowledged publicly.
I said that.
You said northern theater.
In Greece tonight, firefighters have contained one of two large fires on the island of Salamina. Two people are dead and hundreds have been evacuated after the blazes broke out Tuesday morning local time.
About two hundred firefighters worked to prevent the fires from converging. Officials say the fires appear to have started separately, though the cause of both is still under investigation. One fire is now under control.
Salamina is in the Saronic Gulf, which is a maritime corridor subject to seasonal wind patterns that can accelerate fire spread across the archipelago.
Salamina is an island near Athens. Wind was a factor.
In Russia tonight, Moscow is reporting at least seven people killed in what officials are calling the largest Ukrainian attack of twenty twenty-six. Russia also launched deadly strikes against Ukraine overnight, sparking fires across the capital Kyiv.
Both sides report civilian casualties in what has become one of the most intense exchanges of the conflict this year. Ukrainian officials have not yet confirmed the scope of their operations inside Russian territory.
In Indonesia, the death toll from Saturday's earthquake now stands at fifty-three, with thousands displaced. Rescue teams continue searching for survivors in what authorities are calling difficult terrain.
Hundreds of homes and public buildings have been severely damaged. The quake struck a densely populated region along the Ring of Fire, where seismic activity is common but infrastructure remains vulnerable.
The Indonesian fault system runs parallel to the Australian tectonic corridor, which creates a convergence zone where these larger magnitude events tend to cluster in the southern volcanic belt.
Indonesia sits on multiple tectonic plates. The Ring of Fire is both volcanic and seismic. There is no Australian tectonic corridor.
It's descriptive.
It's geology.
Still ahead on KRAK Eleven News, Criminal Intent. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced for pandemic relief fraud after claiming to operate seventeen businesses that did not exist. The amount he tried to claim, and what gave him away, in a few minutes.
We'll be right back.
What is that smell.
It's called Executive.
It's called what.
Executive. It's what they wear in boardrooms.
It smells like a hookers hotel.
Exactly.
Chip, you smell like a divorced dad at a Marriott.
Or a Married Dad on a business trip to Vegas.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
The plaque is three inches too far left. I measured it during the break. Three inches, Deb.
We have crime stories.
A Wexler County man appeared in court this morning after attempting to return a stolen rental car using a handwritten receipt with the Budget logo drawn in marker.
Prosecutors say the defendant walked into the Route Forty-Seven Budget location carrying what appeared to be a standard return slip. The vehicle had been reported stolen from the same location nine days earlier.
Staff became suspicious when the mileage exceeded the original rental agreement by four thousand miles and the defendant could not produce identification.
He faces charges of receiving stolen property and attempted theft by deception. Bail was set at fifteen thousand dollars.
In Ohio, a woman has been sentenced to nine months after stealing nearly four thousand dollars worth of specialty cheese over a two-year period.
Court documents show the defendant took only aged cheddar, imported gouda, and specialty blends, avoiding all standard varieties.
She was apprehended after security noted she purchased crackers weekly but never once bought cheese.
That is a pattern.
In Massachusetts, a man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for pandemic relief loan fraud after claiming to operate seventeen businesses that did not exist.
Prosecutors say the defendant received more than six hundred thousand dollars in fraudulent loans. He has been ordered to repay the full amount.
And in Nevada, a suspect fled from officers on Interstate Eighty but was apprehended fifty yards from his vehicle after the pursuit ended when his car ran out of fuel.
Police say the suspect attempted to flee on foot but was located immediately in an open parking area with no cover.
Officers recovered what the sheriff's office is describing as a helicopter's worth of surveillance equipment from the vehicle, though no helicopter was involved in the pursuit.
The sheriff's office has not clarified what a helicopter's worth of equipment consists of.
Still ahead — a Colorado pilot makes an emergency landing to save a dog stranded on a sandbar. The FAA says it was legal. We'll explain why in a few minutes.
That's next.
Should I open With a joke? Or inspirational Story?
For what?
The big Speech I am giving at the Rotary Club.
People like good jokes.
Okay. So. Inspirational Story it is.
Chip...
I will tell the story of when I risked my life to save a fellow citizen in need, How I never even knew who this person was before I helped, but if it were not for me, Linda would not be living the live she is today, because of my actions she is alive.
Stop.
what do you mean?
I know Linda, You gave her twenty dollars to cover her lunch, that is hardly saving her life..
HAPPY ANIMALS
HAPPY ANIMALS.
Deb, I need you to look at the plaque.
I can't see the plaque.
That's the problem. Three inches to the right or we move the desk.
A Minnesota animal sanctuary has successfully rehabilitated and released a bald eagle that spent four months recovering from a wing injury sustained during last winter's storms.
The bird was found near Lake Superior in February and was released Tuesday at the same location where it was discovered.
Sanctuary staff said the eagle gained strength over sixteen weeks and was flight-tested in an indoor aviary before the release.
Just a remarkable animal.
Incredible.
A Washington state couple has opened their home to foster twelve senior dogs after a local shelter faced overcrowding and potential closures.
The couple told reporters they have experience with older dogs and did not want any animals euthanized due to space constraints. All twelve are now in one household.
That is one household.
It's a lot of dogs, Deb.
It is.
An Arizona marine biology center has successfully bred a species of seahorse previously thought to be non-viable in captivity, raising hopes for broader conservation efforts.
The center reports seventeen healthy offspring have been born in the past three months, and researchers are documenting their development to improve breeding protocols worldwide.
The species had not reproduced outside its natural habitat in more than two decades of attempts.
A North Carolina family hiking the Appalachian Trail found a lost dog wearing a collar with no tags and carried the animal six miles to the nearest ranger station, where it was reunited with its owner within four hours.
The dog had been missing for three days. The owner had posted flyers at every trailhead within twenty miles of where the animal was last seen.
Six miles is not a short carry.
It is not.
Still ahead, SPORTS, where a former major league pitcher's legacy is being honored this week in a ceremony that has been forty years in the making.
That's next.
You need to go home.
I'm fine.
You are coughing all over the place.
I am fine, Just read the news and mind your own business.
Calm down... I was only trying to help.
I'm Sorry
No Problem.
Sixty seconds.
Gordo, get me a mask.
I'm not contagious.
I am doing the NEWS as if it were 2020, Masks on
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
We begin with baseball. The pitcher who gave his name to one of the sport's most important surgeries has died. Tommy John was eighty-three.
John won two hundred and eighty-eight games in his career. Pitched fourteen more seasons after the surgery. That's longevity.
He was thirty-one when the ligament tore. Before that surgery, it ended careers.
Now sixty percent of major league pitchers have had it. The man pioneered a procedure that kept an entire profession working.
Golf. Scottie Scheffler won the St Jude Championship in Memphis by twenty-five strokes. Rory McIlroy finished sixty-sixth.
Twenty-five strokes is not a lead, Deb, it's a different tournament.
McIlroy told reporters he felt lost on the course. Shot a final round seventy-three.
Scheffler's been dominant all season. This is his sixth win in twenty-six. That's a network-level stat line.
It's a stat line.
High school sports now. Two teenagers from each state are competing in Washington this week as part of the Patriot Games, celebrating America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Track and field, swimming, basketball. Events run through Thursday.
Fairmont sent two athletes. Jacob Merriman, sixteen, distance running. Claire Pettigrew, seventeen, javelin.
Merriman's from Fairmont West. Pettigrew attends Holy Name.
We'll have results later this week. Both of them earned their spots at regional trials in June. That's representing your county at the national level.
And that is sports.
Before we go. Deb. I'd like to revisit the plaque.
We're at time.
This'll be quick. The plaque should move three inches to the right, or we move the desk three inches to the left to align with it. Either solution works.
The plaque is behind the fire extinguisher.
Which is why alignment matters. If the desk shifts left, the sightline improves from the control room angle, and Gordo can confirm the engraving is visible on a tighter shot.
The engraving no one can see.
I can see it.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, at the top of the hour. Flooding in Indiana has killed multiple people. Some areas received eleven inches of rain in three days. We'll have the latest from the affected counties and what emergency officials are saying about the forecast for the rest of this week.
That's next.
Gordo, can you get a measurement on the plaque-to-desk differential before we go back up?
I can't see the plaque, Chip.
Which is the entire problem we're solving. If you move three feet to your left in the booth, you'll have a clear view of the upper right corner where the mounting hardware is visible.
You want Gordo to move three feet in the control room so he can see a plaque mounted behind a fire extinguisher.
The mounting hardware, Deb. The plaque itself is obscured but the brass bracket catches light from the northeast window between eleven and one-forty.
It's eight at night.
I'm describing optimal conditions.
Optimal conditions for what.
Plaque visibility.
Oh for fuck's sake.
Sixty seconds.
And after the hour I'd like to workshop a sign-off. Something that anchors the whole broadcast. Leaves the viewer with a sense of continuity.
We've been saying 'good night' for ten years.
Good night works. I'm proposing good night plus.
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- Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
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- Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dies at 83
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- Two dead and hundreds evacuated after twin fires break out on Greek island
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