Trump pauses new tariffs on Canada and says countries close to a deal
Trump pauses new tariffs on Canada and says countries close to a deal. 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, where South Korea is cutting short its military exercises with the United States after a request from Washington.
Criminal Intent, where a Louisiana man fleeing police made what authorities are calling a catastrophic navigation choice. Happy Animals, where England's housing secretary has a Christmas deadline for the nation's rough sleepers.
And Sports, where firefighters in Ohio are working to contain a major industrial fire.
That last one is not sports.
It's an industrial explosion. We covered it in Sports yesterday.
Still ahead this hour: a rough sleeping plan that promises everyone housed by December, and why South Korea is shortening war games it has run with the United States for seventy years. That's next on The World Desk.
Stay with us.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. We're back.
Gordo, is the globe holding for the full rotation or are we still cutting at three-quarters.
It's rotating.
We begin tonight with breaking developments out of Brussels, where European Union trade ministers are convening an emergency session on the President's tariff framework.
The meeting was called after the seventy-two-hour pause on Canadian goods raised questions about whether similar accommodations would be extended to European partners. Brussels is in the heart of Belgium, capital of the European Union's administrative quarter.
Brussels is the capital of Belgium. The European Union has seven institutions across three cities.
Which are all in Brussels.
Brussels, Strasbourg, and Luxembourg.
No official statement is expected until Thursday.
Turning now to the Korean Peninsula, where South Korea's Defense Ministry has confirmed the joint military exercises with the United States will conclude forty-eight hours ahead of the original schedule.
Officials in Seoul say the decision followed what they are describing as a direct request from Washington. The exercises involve twenty-eight thousand American personnel stationed across the demilitarized zone.
That zone runs along the thirty-eighth parallel, the historic dividing line between North and South Korea established at the end of the conflict.
The armistice was signed at the current border, which follows the front line as it stood in nineteen fifty-three. The thirty-eighth parallel is eighty miles south of that.
Both lines are heavily fortified.
One of them is.
The President announced plans to curtail the exercises earlier this month, citing what he called a very good relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
In London, Queen Camilla has given her first extended remarks about the period before the King's cancer diagnosis was made public in February.
Speaking at a Commonwealth press event, the Queen described the weeks between diagnosis and announcement as among the most difficult of her life, saying the weight of secrecy was shared by only a small group within the household.
That event was held at the Commonwealth press headquarters, which is directly adjacent to Buckingham Palace in Westminster.
Buckingham Palace is in Westminster. The Commonwealth press gallery is inside the Palace of Westminster, one mile east.
Both in Westminster.
The King continues treatment and has resumed a limited public schedule.
We have an update now on the tragedy off England's southern coast, where authorities have confirmed the identities of three family members who died after getting into difficulty in the sea near Shoreham.
A man, a woman, and a teenage girl were pulled from the water Sunday evening. A younger girl remains in critical condition at Royal Sussex County Hospital.
Investigators say the family entered the water during a period of high tide and strong offshore current. Lifeguard services had been suspended for the day due to weather.
The family has asked for privacy.
We'll respect that.
Deb, before we go to break. If someone were watching us cold tonight, no prior knowledge of the desk, would they know we've been doing this together for a decade.
They'd know one of us has.
Meaning.
Meaning we're at time.
Still ahead on KRAK Eleven News: a California burglary suspect spends seven hours trapped inside a wall before the officers who find him explain how they knew exactly where to look. That story and the rest of CRIMINAL INTENT when we return.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Chip has been workshopping a new sign-off for the Blotter.
It's aspirational. Crime doesn't pay — but covering it well does.
That sounds like an internal memo from the eighties.
Tonight's Blotter begins with a story from California, where patience and poor planning intersect in a commercial building in Pleasanton.
A burglary suspect became trapped inside an exterior wall during an attempted break-in. Officers on a coffee break nearby heard muffled cries for help.
Fire crews used specialized extraction tools to remove the suspect after approximately forty minutes. He was treated at the scene and taken into custody on suspicion of burglary and violating parole.
Police said they do not know how long he had been in the wall before officers arrived for their break.
In Massachusetts, a man led police on what authorities are calling a slow-speed pursuit after allegedly stealing a front-end loader from a construction site.
The vehicle reached a top speed of fifteen miles per hour during the chase, which lasted approximately thirty minutes before the suspect was apprehended.
Fifteen miles per hour. Our helicopter footage would show you could have followed this on foot, kept pace with the suspect, possibly overtaken him near the town line.
We don't have a helicopter.
If we did, Deb. The point stands.
From Missouri, police discovered fentanyl concealed inside counterfeit Barbie dolls sold at a discount retail location.
Authorities say the dolls were packaged to resemble legitimate merchandise but contained narcotics in sealed compartments beneath the clothing.
Police said the investigation began after a customer reported the packaging appeared tampered with. No arrests have been announced.
In New York, a traffic stop escalated when prosecutors allege the driver set his own vehicle on fire with passengers still inside.
Police said the driver ignited the fire after refusing to exit the vehicle during the stop. All occupants escaped without serious injury. The suspect faces multiple charges including arson, reckless endangerment, and resisting arrest.
He is being held without bail. And that has been the Marlowe Crime Wrap.
Still ahead, a story that will not involve construction equipment, walls, or criminal charges of any kind. Happy Animals is next.
That's next.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Good news now.
Gordo, the card held for one point four seconds. I asked for two.
We have four stories.
And six-tenths of a second in which to reconsider our production values.
An endangered sea otter pup separated from its mother during a storm off the California coast has been successfully reunited after a three-day search by marine rescue teams.
Monterey Bay Aquarium staff located the pup floating in kelp beds approximately two miles from where the mother was last observed. The reunion took eleven minutes.
Southern sea otters remain critically endangered. Fewer than three thousand individuals along the California coast.
That is exactly the work.
It is.
A dog in Tennessee walked thirty-seven miles over two weeks to return to the family that had recently moved away from their former home.
The bluetick coonhound, named Ranger, was adopted by a new family after the original owners relocated to Memphis. Ranger left the adopting family's yard and was found fourteen days later outside his original home in Cookeville.
The original family has reclaimed the dog and says Ranger will remain with them.
And a colony of burrowing owls displaced by construction in Arizona has been successfully relocated to a protected habitat where biologists report all fourteen birds are nesting.
The relocation took six months of preparation including construction of artificial burrows and the introduction of prey species to the new site.
Burrowing owls are listed as a species of concern in Arizona due to habitat loss.
Still ahead: we will have a story from Sports that involves an actual sport.
That's next.
SPORTS
Sports.
Gordo, the graphic held for one point four seconds again. I timed it. I have asked for two seconds three times now and it is still one point four.
We're on in six seconds.
Six seconds is enough time to fix a graphic hold duration if someone cared about graphic hold durations.
The Freedom Two-Fifty Grand Prix is now just four days out, and this morning IndyCar officials confirmed the full schedule for Washington's first open-wheel race in forty-one years.
Practice and qualifying both Friday. The race is Saturday evening, forty laps on a one-point-seven mile street circuit, and I have been told by someone who would know that this track is faster than Long Beach.
Who told you that.
Someone who would know.
The track has never been raced on.
Which is why Friday's practice session will be critical for setup. Josef Newgarden leads the series with three wins. Scott Dixon is second. Alex Palou third.
College football. Arkansas has confirmed KJ Jefferson will start at quarterback when the Razorbacks open their season September second against Western Carolina.
Jefferson threw for twenty-eight touchdowns and five interceptions last season. Arkansas is picked fourth in the SEC West.
Fourth in the West is not a projection, Deb, it is an insult to a quarterback who put up those numbers with that offensive line.
The line returns three starters.
Exactly.
Golf. The PGA Championship begins Thursday at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. Scottie Scheffler is favored at seven to one. Rory McIlroy second at nine to one. Brooks Koepka, the defending champion, is listed at sixteen to one.
Koepka won last year by two strokes. He has now won five majors. He is sixteen to one. Someone explain that to me.
He missed the cut at the Masters.
One tournament.
In April.
Baseball. St. Louis defeated Cincinnati five to two last night. Nolan Arenado drove in three runs. The Cardinals are now two games above five hundred and sitting third in the Central.
And we are going to check in one more time on a story we have been following all week. Firefighters are still on scene at an industrial recycling facility in Toledo, Ohio, after an explosion Monday night.
The fire is now in its third day. No injuries reported. The cause remains under investigation.
Chip.
It happened near a stadium.
It happened near a residential area.
Fifth Third Field is six blocks away.
This is not sports content.
It is three days running and it is still burning, Deb. That is an athletic fire.
Coming up on the next KRAK Eleven News at the top of the hour, we will have more on the Ohio fire, the latest from the sheriff's briefing on the barn collapse in Wexler County, and a Fairmont family disputing ownership of a boat neither of them has touched in six years.
For Deb Sarkissian, I'm Chip Marlowe. That is the Scoreboard Salute.
It is not called that.
OFF AIR: Did the close land.
OFF AIR: You called the fire athletic.
OFF AIR: I said it was an athletic fire. Athletic as in persistent. As in it has been going for three days.
OFF AIR: That is not what athletic means.
OFF AIR: A fire that goes for three days is demonstrating endurance, which is an athletic quality.
OFF AIR: It's an industrial accident.
OFF AIR: Near a ballpark.
Reporting behind this episode
- South Korea shortens war games with US, citing Washington request
- Three dead after family get into difficulty in sea
- Trump pauses new tariffs on Canada and says countries close to a deal
- 'Difficult' to keep King's cancer diagnosis a secret, Queen says
- 'Everyone in for Christmas' - Burnham unveils rough sleeping plan
- Sacked Ukrainian defence minister calls for presidential election
- Demand for degree apprenticeships in England quadruples in three years
- Firefighters tackle blaze in Ohio after industrial explosion
- Take a timelapse ride along the IndyCar racetrack in Washington