Trump pauses new tariffs on Canada and says countries close to a deal

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, where President Trump announces a three-day pause on new Canadian tariffs. Criminal Intent, where a witness refuses to answer questions in the Tupac murder trial.

Happy Animals, where rough sleepers across England will be offered housing by Christmas. And Sports, where the Lakers' Jeanie Buss moves to block her own family from selling the team.

Happy Animals is about homeless people.

It's a housing story, and housing stories run there.

That's next.

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

And I'm Deb Sarkissian.

Before we begin, I want to note that we are now pronouncing Damascus with the emphasis on the second syllable, consistent with network standard. I sent the memo Tuesday.

You sent it to Larry in sales.

Larry works closely with the production team.

Larry sells Buicks.

Ottawa is the Canadian seat of government, located in the nation's industrial heartland along the Great Lakes trade corridor.

Ottawa is the capital. Toronto is the industrial center. The Great Lakes are three hundred kilometers south of Ottawa.

Either way, negotiations continue.

Bermondsey is in southeast London. The Thames Valley is fifty miles west of the city.

The important thing is the firefighters are on site and making progress.

London Fire Brigade says crews arrived within six minutes of the first call. The fire involves approximately three thousand tons of waste material, and smoke is visible across several boroughs.

No injuries have been reported. Residents in the immediate area are being advised to keep windows and doors closed while crews work to contain the blaze.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. The facility handles mixed recyclables including paper, plastics, and metal. Officials say the building was fully staffed when the fire started.

We'll continue to follow that story as information becomes available.

The airbase is located approximately forty kilometers from the Syrian capital. Damascus is condemning the strikes and has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council.

Damascus, the Syrian capital, sits at a strategic crossroads between the Mediterranean corridor and the interior oil-producing provinces.

Damascus sits in southwestern Syria near the Lebanese border. Most Syrian oil production is in the east, near the Iraqi border.

Either way, tensions remain high across the region.

The U.S. State Department issued a statement Wednesday afternoon calling for restraint from all parties. Israel has not officially commented on the strikes.

We will bring you updates as they develop.

Deb?

Yes.

Did the Damascus pronunciation read as authoritative? Because I have been working on the vowel placement and I believe it matches what you would hear on a network international desk.

It read as Damascus.

Still ahead, a Fairmont man is facing charges after what investigators are calling one of the county's most unusual theft attempts in recent memory.

Deputies say the suspect tried to steal a riding lawn mower from a hardware store by disguising it as a shopping cart. That story is next in Criminal Intent.

The mower retails for four thousand dollars.

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

And I'm Deb Sarkissian.

Gordo, is the scoreboard graphic holding the full second and a half now or did we revert to the old timing.

We're about to read the blotter.

I would like confirmation before we begin the segment that the technical specifications I outlined in Tuesday's memo have been implemented across all lower-third assets.

The pawn shop employee became suspicious when the suspect attempted to sell fourteen bills, all bearing the same serial number.

The suspect told police he believed the aging process would, quote, enhance authenticity and market value, unquote. He is charged with attempted fraud and is being held on five thousand dollars bond.

Which is fifty of his bills.

The witness became combative during cross-examination and declined to answer approximately forty percent of questions posed by defense attorneys. A person of interest in a nineteen ninety-six homicide case does not simply refuse to testify.

Prosecutors allege. The witness is a witness, Chip. The defendant is Duane Davis.

Allen has pleaded not guilty. The ex-wife and her husband have also been charged and are awaiting separate trials. The state is expected to present forensic evidence and witness testimony over the next two weeks.

Still ahead, a story you will want to see.

We have footage of an animal doing something no researcher has ever filmed before in the wild. That is coming up in Happy Animals.

It involves water.

That's next.

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

And I'm Deb Sarkissian.

Gordo, is the graphic holding for the full second and a half now, or are we back to the abbreviated timing we discussed last week?

The graphic has held for exactly one second for ten years, Chip.

Industry standard is one-point-five. I sent Gordo the breakdown.

Fewer than ten thousand nesting females of this species remain in the world.

Every one of them that makes it home is—

—is a conservation milestone.

She's nesting on Padre Island as of this morning.

Good for her.

Biologists say the swimming behavior suggests territorial expansion into new habitat areas.

An animal that was gone, deciding it has places to go.

Still ahead tonight, sports.

That's next.

Sports.

Gordo. The scoreboard graphic. Is it holding for the full second and a half now or are we still at industry standard.

We're at one second.

The stake represents approximately eleven percent of the team. The Lakers are valued at seven point one billion dollars.

Control of an NBA franchise is about legacy, Deb. Monaco runs cars through the streets. Long Beach runs cars through the streets. Washington will run cars through the National Mall and that puts them in the conversation.

It's about seven hundred and eighty million dollars.

The circuit runs through the National Mall, past the Capitol, eleven turns over one point seven miles.

Monaco has run seventy-nine times. Long Beach forty-eight. Washington starts at zero but that's how every classic begins.

Monaco started in nineteen twenty-nine. Washington started Thursday.

I'm talking about trajectory.

I'm talking about dates.

This season they play Michigan November twenty-second in Ann Arbor.

Ryan Day is coaching for his job. Fourth-ranked team, five-year contract extension, and the only game that matters is the one he hasn't won since two thousand nineteen.

He's won fifty-six games in five years.

None of them were Michigan.

No. None of them were.

He's twenty-two. The last Cub to do it was Ryne Sandberg, who was twenty-four.

Sandberg went to the Hall of Fame.

After sixteen more years.

And that has been the Scoreboard Summary.

It was the scoreboard.

The summary is the part where I summarize.

You read four scores.

Still ahead on the next KRAK Eleven News at the top of the hour: a Fairmont business owner says the city's new sidewalk permit system has cost him three weeks and eleven separate forms. We'll have that story, the county budget hearing, and whether tomorrow's forecast finally brings rain.

That's next.

Gordo, I need an honest answer. Does the graphic hold feel network now or does it still feel local.

It feels like one second.

Network sports graphics hold for one point five seconds minimum. ESPN holds for one point seven. Fox Sports holds for one point eight on featured matchups.

We're not ESPN.

We could hold like ESPN.

We hold like Fairmont.

Gordo, if I sent you the Nielsen data on viewer retention rates correlated to graphic hold times—

I wouldn't read it.

It's twelve pages.

Jesus Christ, Chip.

Half a second makes a difference.