ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard dies aged 77

Good evening, Wexler County. I'm Chip Marlowe.

And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is the ten o'clock hour. Frank Beard, drummer for ZZ Top, has died at seventy-seven.

Still ahead this hour on KRAK 11 News: the World Desk brings you breaking developments from England's homeless initiative. Criminal Intent covers the Atlanta babysitter case—two children found locked in a trailer in sweltering heat. Happy Animals has the rough sleeping plan that promises everyone in for Christmas.

That's the same story.

And Sports takes you to Los Angeles, where Jeanie Buss is fighting her own family over control of the Lakers. That's coming up this hour on KRAK 11.

But first, the World Desk is next with the death of Frank Beard and what ZZ Top has said about the loss. That's in just a few minutes on KRAK 11 News.

The World Desk.

Gordo, is the globe graphic running in the teal we discussed or did it revert to last week's blue.

We don't have a globe graphic.

We have had a globe graphic for six years, Deb. It rotates.

Beard was in hospice care. The band formed in Houston in nineteen sixty-nine and became one of the defining acts of American blues rock.

Their nineteen eighty-three album Eliminator sold more than ten million copies. Beard was the only member of the band without a beard.

Ironic.

It was deliberate.

The Queen made the comments in a video message recorded for the thirtieth anniversary of Maggie's, a cancer charity with centres across the United Kingdom.

The King resumed public duties in April, three months after Buckingham Palace first disclosed the diagnosis. The specific type of cancer has not been made public, though the palace has said it is not prostate cancer.

Maggie's operates out of hospitals in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, and twelve other cities. The charity provides counseling and support for patients and families.

The Hague.

What.

The International Criminal Court is based in The Hague, in the Netherlands. It has been there since two thousand two.

I said Brussels.

You did.

The European judicial framework operates out of The Hague in the Netherlands. The sanctions target the court's chief prosecutor and two senior deputies in what the administration is calling an effort to dismantle the institution quote, brick by brick.

The court has one hundred twenty-four member states. The United States is not one of them.

The announcement follows ongoing disputes over the court's jurisdiction and its investigations into American personnel. No timeline has been given for additional measures.

Environmental groups have condemned the announcement. Drilling in that region has been a point of contention for years due to its proximity to one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems.

The Brazilian government has called the discovery a significant economic opportunity. The field is still in exploratory phases and no production timeline has been announced.

Greenpeace Brazil released a statement calling the project quote, a direct threat to the Amazon basin and the communities that depend on it.

President Lula has not responded to the criticism. His administration has previously pledged to reduce deforestation while expanding energy production.

Those are often the same thing.

They are not.

Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, a Wexler County man who told police he did not realize the warrant was still active. That is next.

Criminal Intent, coming up.

Good evening, I'm Chip Marlowe.

And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Chip, did you move the teleprompter.

I adjusted it three inches to the left so the eyeline reads cleaner on a two-shot. That's standard blocking for crime coverage.

Crime coverage does not have its own blocking.

If we had helicopter coverage, which we do not, it would show firefighters establishing a perimeter across three city blocks. That gives you a sense of the scale.

We don't have a helicopter.

I'm describing what it would show if we did, Deb. Context.

You're describing a thing that does not exist.

The viewer benefits from understanding the geography of an emergency response even when we lack aerial assets to confirm it visually.

Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, a sea turtle makes a five-thousand-mile journey, and wildcats do something wildcats have never been documented doing. That's next.

Happy Animals.

And now, the good news.

Deb, before we start. The stinger. Did that run in the weight we discussed or did it revert.

It ran.

It ran in which weight.

Five thousand miles. That is — that is remarkable.

There are fewer than three hundred Scottish wildcats remaining in the wild.

And finally tonight, the only animal that ever terrified Steve Irwin.

Parrots.

Still to come: sports. And a question about whether a record that has stood for forty years can finally be broken.

That's next.

Sports.

Gordo, did the scoreboard graphic run in the weight we discussed or did it revert to last week's.

Same weight as last week.

So it reverted.

It never changed.

I sent a memo Tuesday. Three paragraphs. Specific instructions about visual weight for sports graphics.

You sent it to Larry.

Larry forwards everything to Gordo.

Larry's in sales.

Lakers governor Jeanie Buss has now filed court documents attempting to stop her siblings from selling the family's remaining stake in the franchise. Sources say the dispute centers on what they're calling fundamental disagreements about the team's direction and future.

The Buss family has owned the Lakers since nineteen seventy-nine.

Forty-five years of family ownership, now potentially ending over what the filing describes as irreconcilable differences about franchise management.

IndyCar released timelapse footage of the circuit layout. The track runs through the National Mall, past the Washington Monument, sixteen turns total.

That is a significant venue. First time the series has run a street circuit in a capital city since Long Beach moved the route in oh-seven.

Long Beach is not a capital city.

State capital.

Long Beach is not the capital of California.

It's a regional capital in terms of motorsport infrastructure, which is the context I was providing to our viewers who understand the sport at that level.

Sacramento is the capital of California.

Thank you, Deb. The race is Saturday and Sunday, coverage begins at two P.M. Eastern both days.

Fourth is generous given what happened in Ann Arbor last November.

They lost to Michigan thirty to twenty-four.

Third year in a row. At some point a pattern becomes a problem.

The Buckeyes are four and oh all-time against Akron.

A commanding record.

Crow-Armstrong is the first Cub to hit a walk-off home run in a crosstown game since Aramis Ramirez in two thousand eight.

Ramirez did it on a two-one count in the bottom of the tenth with two outs. Completely different situation.

Both were walk-off home runs in crosstown games.

The inning was different.

That is also true.

And that has been the Krak Eleven Scoreboard. Coming up at the top of the hour, we'll have more on the industrial fire in Toledo that has now entered its second day. Firefighters say the blaze is still not under control.

We'll have the latest from the scene when the next KRAK 11 News returns at the top of the hour.

Thank you for watching.

Good night.

Gordo. The weight.

You sent it to sales.

I sent it to the station. Larry has a forward protocol.

Larry's protocol is deleting anything over three sentences.

Then somebody needs to tell me which email address reaches the control room, because I have been using the general station address for ten fucking years.

There isn't one.

There isn't an email address for the control room.

You could walk upstairs.

I sent three paragraphs. Specific instructions. Visual weight matters.