Why too many people are choking to death - and what you can do about it
Why too many people are choking to death - and what you can do about it. 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.
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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.
Coming up this hour: The World Desk brings you testimony from the Tupac Shakur murder trial, where a witness describes the night that changed hip-hop forever. Criminal Intent examines a contract dispute that has attorneys on both sides calling for mediation.
Happy Animals features a very good dog who is now officially very good at her job, and Sports covers a track star who just won four gold medals and quoted a film from two thousand.
The film is from nineteen seventy-nine.
Still ahead on The World Desk: a Las Vegas police officer testifies that Tupac Shakur refused help after being shot four times, and told authorities exactly six words. Those words, when we return.
Why is there a bowling trophy on your desk.
I earned it.
It says Most Improved.
That's a category.
Didn't they ask you to leave the league.
They asked me to consider other recreational options.
Because you are a sore loser.
look, I was not mad that I lost the game, I was walking out of the bowling all tripped and my key dragged across the car of Captain of the other team.
And thats how you got the Black eye, From the Captain?
I said... I fell...
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. We begin tonight with a public health warning from the United Kingdom.
Medical experts in Britain are raising alarms about a preventable cause of death that claims hundreds of lives each year.
Too many people are choking to death because bystanders do not know how to intervene. The Royal Society for Public Health says most deaths occur in care facilities and private homes where trained personnel are not immediately available.
The British Red Cross is launching a nationwide training program targeting senior care workers and family members. They're calling it a basic life skill that should be as common as knowing how to dial emergency services.
The Heimlich maneuver was introduced in nineteen seventy-four. Fifty years later, most witnesses still do not attempt it.
Which is a training issue. The British government is working with hospitals across England to standardize instruction.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The program covers the entire United Kingdom.
Right. All four regions of Britain.
From eastern Europe tonight, Russia has expanded its warnings to the United Kingdom over Britain's continued military support for Ukraine.
This follows yesterday's statement from Moscow regarding unmanned aerial vehicles. Tonight Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Britain's involvement has, quote, crossed multiple red lines.
The UK Ministry of Defence released a statement saying Britain stands, quote, shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine and will continue to provide defensive assistance as long as necessary.
Which brings the total number of warnings from Russia to the UK this year to fourteen.
Twenty-two.
I was counting formal diplomatic protests.
Those are twenty-two.
In Switzerland tonight, FIFA has dismissed senior official Kevin Lamour following public criticism of the organization's president.
Lamour, who served as head of member association development, questioned FIFA President Gianni Infantino's plan to expand the Club World Cup to thirty-two teams. He called the proposal financially unsustainable in remarks made three weeks ago at a development summit in Zurich.
FIFA released a statement saying Lamour's departure was by mutual agreement, though Lamour himself has not commented publicly. The expanded Club World Cup is scheduled to begin in twenty twenty-five.
Twenty twenty-five is eight months away.
Which is why the question of financial sustainability is urgent. Lamour was raising a scheduling concern.
Lamour was raising a money concern. FIFA operates on a four-year budget cycle and the expanded tournament is not funded.
That is also a scheduling concern.
From Washington tonight, President Trump says the United States will substantially reduce joint military exercises with South Korea. This is new detail on a policy shift the president first announced yesterday.
The president cited his, quote, very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and said the exercises are, quote, expensive and provocative. South Korea was not consulted before the announcement.
The exercises began in nineteen fifty-four, one year after the armistice. They involve approximately twenty-eight thousand U.S. troops stationed in South Korea and have been held annually for seventy years.
The president said the reduction will save, quote, hundreds of millions of dollars and demonstrate good faith to Pyongyang. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to brief Congress on the new training schedule next week.
South Korea's Ministry of National Defense issued a statement tonight calling the exercises, quote, essential to regional stability. Seoul is requesting immediate consultations with the Pentagon.
Which is standard diplomatic protocol when a joint training schedule is revised.
Standard protocol is consulting before the revision.
Still ahead tonight, a Wexler County man is facing charges after a traffic stop uncovered evidence of multiple felonies. We'll have that story and the rest of the night's local crime coverage when KRAK 11 News continues.
That's Criminal Intent, in a few minutes.
Do you believe in prayer.
What.
Prayer. Manifestation. The power of positive thinking.
What did you do.
I sent an email.
To who.
The station owner.
What did it say.
It was meant for you.
Oh god.
Ya, it was late, I was drunk, what can I say.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
Gordo, is the gavel in shot.
There is no gavel.
There is a gavel. I brought it from home. It establishes the segment.
You are not a judge.
Tonight on the Blotter: a Pennsylvania man is facing federal charges after authorities say he tried to sell a bald eagle on social media for two thousand dollars.
The suspect posted photographs of the bird online, police said. Fish and Wildlife opened an investigation when the listing was reported by multiple users.
The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act prohibits possession of any part of an eagle, living or dead, without a federal permit. Maximum penalty: two hundred fifty thousand dollars and two years.
He listed it next to a lawnmower.
He did.
Missouri police have arrested a man they say was caught when his vanity license plate led investigators directly to him after a theft at a sporting goods store.
Police say surveillance showed the suspect's vehicle leaving the scene. The plate read, quote, MRCHEAP, end quote, and was registered to a single address in the county.
Officers recovered merchandise valued at three hundred seventeen dollars. The suspect is charged with misdemeanor theft.
And you save seventeen dollars.
You don't.
In New Hampshire, a driver faces multiple charges after state police say he led troopers on a chase exceeding one hundred miles per hour before crashing near the Maine border.
Police allege the suspect refused to stop for a marked cruiser on Interstate Ninety-Five and continued through three towns before the vehicle left the roadway in Waterville.
The driver is charged with criminal operating under the influence, reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, and eluding an officer. No injuries reported.
The weapon was the car.
The statute defines it that way.
Police in multiple states are warning parents about a social media trend they're calling the door-kicking challenge, in which participants kick in residential doors and post about it online.
Authorities say at least four incidents in the past week match the pattern. In one case, police say, a homeowner fired through the door, believing the home was being invaded. No one was struck.
Prosecutors say participants could face charges including criminal mischief, trespassing, and if someone is injured, assault.
Still ahead tonight on KRAK Eleven: a sea otter is using tools in ways researchers say they have never documented before. That story and more in Happy Animals, next.
You're watching KRAK Eleven News.
Why is your car booted.
Clerical error.
How many tickets.
Allegedly nine.
Allegedly.
I dispute four of them.
That still leaves five.
Five is not nine, Gordo.
Five is still enough to boot your car.
I am busy reporting the news. Gordo, Pay the Tickets and I need to borrow your car at four thirty.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Good news at the top of the hour.
I am sitting forward for this segment.
You're sitting forward.
It is my natural posture for good news.
Punch the capuchin is going outside.
The Fairmont Wildlife Rehabilitation Center confirmed this afternoon that Punch has been cleared for outdoor enclosure time beginning Monday. Twenty minutes daily, with staff supervision.
Punch met every safety milestone ahead of schedule. The center says his behavioral progress has exceeded expectations in every category they track.
That is — that is genuinely wonderful work by everyone involved in that little guy's recovery.
In other animal news tonight.
Maple the golden retriever begins pediatric wing visits Friday at Fairmont Regional. Twice weekly, nine a.m., rotating between two floors depending on patient load.
The hospital says Maple has completed all certifications and will be accompanied by a licensed handler at all times. Parents have the option to request or decline the visits.
And researchers in Sumatra have documented the first known case of a wild orangutan treating her own wound with medicinal plants.
The orangutan applied plant paste to a facial wound and the injury healed completely without infection. Scientists say this is the first documented self-medication by a great ape in natural habitat.
The behavior suggests knowledge passed between generations. Researchers observed her select specific leaves and chew them into a paste before application.
That is remarkable. Coming up after the break — we have sports.
You're watching KRAK Eleven News.
Take that off.
It's called distinguished.
It's called a sweater vest.
George Will wears a sweater vest.
George Will is eighty-three years old.
Exactly. Timeless.
You look like you teach at a community college.
I could teach at a community college.
Chip, you look like you're about to explain why I got a C-minus.
Well maybe if you'd turned in your assignments on time, Deb.
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
Gordo, is the scoreboard centered.
The scoreboard has been the same for six years.
We begin with the Rams. ESPN has released its Future Power Rankings, and Los Angeles moves up to fifth overall. That's three positions higher than last season's eighth-place finish.
The ranking considers three-year outlook, not current standing. The Rams finished nine and eight last year.
Which is why the future ranking matters, Deb. The projection is what separates programs on the rise from programs managing decline.
It's August.
In basketball, the Lakers' ownership structure is changing. The Buss family intends to sell the team, and that sale will remove Jeanie Buss from her role as governor. Sources confirm the family has retained financial advisors.
The Buss family has owned the Lakers since nineteen seventy-nine. Jerry Buss purchased the team for sixty-seven and a half million dollars.
Current valuation estimates put the franchise north of six billion. That's nearly ninety times the original investment over forty-seven years.
The team has won eleven championships under Buss family ownership.
In mixed martial arts, Islam Makhachev is defending his practice of carrying two belts. Max Holloway questioned why Makhachev walks around with both the lightweight championship and the BMF belt. Makhachev responded that he earned both.
The BMF belt is ceremonial. It's not a championship belt.
It's presented in the octagon after a sanctioned bout. That makes it official hardware.
It's presented by a celebrity. The lightweight belt is presented by the athletic commission.
Both went home with the winner.
In track and field, British sprinter Amy Hunt capped the European Athletics Championships with four gold medals. Hunt won the hundred meters in ten point eight-seven seconds, the two hundred in twenty-two point one-one, and anchored both relay teams to victory.
No sprinter has won four golds at a single European Championships before. The previous record was three.
Hunt is twenty-three. She's entering her prime at exactly the moment British athletics needs a successor to Dina Asher-Smith.
Asher-Smith is twenty-eight and still competing.
Which is why I said successor and not replacement.
And that is the Chip Check.
It's the scoreboard.
Coming up next, the next KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour. A Pennsylvania man is in federal custody after investigators say he tried to sell a bald eagle on social media. The asking price, and what he listed it next to, when we return.
That's next.
Did the closer read.
The closer read like someone trying a catchphrase.
The Chip Check. It's efficient. It's branded. It tells the viewer what they just received.
It tells the viewer you've named the segment after yourself.
Marv Albert had Marv-elous. Stu Scott had boo-yah. Every network voice has a signature sign-off that audiences associate with authority.
Those were organic. They happened over years. You workshopped yours in the break.
All branding starts somewhere, Deb.
Thirty seconds.
The Chip Check started in your car on the way in.
That's still somewhere.
Reporting behind this episode
- Russia warns UK over supplying drones to Ukraine
- Why too many people are choking to death - and what you can do about it
- Fifa official sacked after Infantino plan criticism
- BBC breaks down Trump's latest shift on North and South Korea
- 'Are you not entertained?' - Hunt enters stardom with iconic quadruple