Canada and US say they are finalising a trade deal, but details remain murky
Canada and US say they are finalising a trade deal, but details remain murky. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Animals, Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening, Wexler County. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour.
Here's what we're covering this hour. The World Desk: Canada and the United States say a trade deal is close, but neither side will say what's actually in it. Criminal Intent: two brothers in Colorado are accused of mishandling more than a hundred bodies at a funeral home back in June of this year.
Animals: a pet bunny is climbing the YouTube charts and nobody will tell us why. And Sports: an industrial fire in Toledo, Ohio has firefighters working around the clock after an explosion Monday night.
The Toledo fire is not sports.
Coming up on The World Desk: the deadline is this weekend, the tariffs are real, and nobody in either capital will say what happens if they miss it. That's next.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening.
The globe is not spinning.
I wasn't going to ask.
We begin tonight with trade negotiations between the United States and Canada as both countries race to finalise a deal ahead of a new weekend tariff deadline.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described the talks as showing significant progress, though neither side has released specific details of what has been agreed.
This is the third extension since negotiations began in February. Both sides have cited agricultural tariffs and lumber exports as the primary obstacles to reaching a final agreement.
The tariffs would take effect Saturday at midnight if no deal is reached.
And that is a hard deadline because it is legislated through the Commonwealth Trade Compliance Act.
Canada does not have a Commonwealth Trade Compliance Act.
It is federal.
Croatia has arrested a Ukrainian man believed to have been involved in the twenty twenty-two sabotage operation that destroyed sections of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Croatian authorities say the man was one of the scuba divers who planted explosives on the underwater pipelines connecting Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea.
The arrest is the first in connection with the attack, which occurred in international waters approximately fifty miles southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm.
German and Swedish investigators have been working with Croatian officials for the past eighteen months.
The operation required technical dive training and access to commercial-grade explosives, which narrowed the suspect pool considerably.
None of that is in the wire.
It is context.
It is speculation.
A murder investigation is underway in west London after nine people were taken to hospital following a fire at a residential property early this morning.
One woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The other nine victims are being treated for smoke inhalation and burns.
Metropolitan Police have not released the cause of the fire but confirmed that detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are leading the investigation.
The London Fire Brigade was called to the scene at four thirty-seven this morning local time.
That is ten thirty-seven p.m. Fairmont time.
We are five hours behind London.
Correct. Ten thirty-seven.
Eleven thirty-seven.
I stand by the number.
When we return, we will have a closer look at a crime that has baffled investigators for months and now has a suspect in custody.
A man who may have been living under an assumed name right here in Wexler County is now facing charges that could put him away for thirty years.
Criminal Intent is next.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Welcome to the Blotter.
Tonight's lead story comes to us from the annals of things you should not lose but somehow did. Back in June of this year, Uber released its annual Lost and Found Index, and the list includes an ankle monitor, a set of grillz, and human hair.
The company says smartphones and wallets remain the most commonly forgotten items. The ankle monitor was left in a vehicle in Miami.
Which raises the question: if you are wearing an ankle monitor, and you somehow leave it in an Uber, what sequence of events led to that outcome?
The report does not say.
Also on the list: a set of grillz, a viral Labubu plushie, and what the company describes only as human hair.
Moving to Colorado. Back in June of this year, two brothers were arrested and charged with one hundred twenty-five counts of abuse of a corpse. Former Pueblo County Coroner Brian Lee Cotter and his brother Christopher Aaron Cotter are accused of mishandling dozens of decomposing bodies at a funeral home they operated.
A judge set bond at one million dollars each. The case is ongoing.
In New York. Back in March of this year, a German tourist filed a lawsuit against a Manhattan taco restaurant, claiming its green salsa was too spicy and caused health issues. The suit seeks one hundred thousand dollars in damages.
The restaurant, Los Tacos Number One, has not commented publicly. The plaintiff alleges the salsa was served without adequate warning.
The salsa is green.
An American Airlines flight descended into what multiple passengers described as chaos back in June of this year after a traveler allegedly bit another passenger and attempted to fight others onboard. The incident occurred midair on a Sunday morning flight.
Police say the suspect was taken into custody after the aircraft landed. Prosecutors allege multiple counts of assault.
American Airlines has updated its in-flight conduct policy in response.
That is the Blotter. Still ahead: an animal story that has somehow broken the internet twice in one week.
It involves a deer, a camera, and twelve million people who could not look away.
That's next.
ANIMALS
Coming up after the break, the Good News Desk.
Deb, I need you to look at something when we're done here. The chair is doing it again.
The chair is fine.
It's two inches lower on the left side. I have been sitting at an angle for forty minutes.
An endangered sea turtle has completed a five thousand mile journey from Wales back to the Texas coast, where marine biologists first tagged it in twenty twenty-three.
The turtle is a Kemp's ridley, the world's most endangered sea turtle species. Fewer than one thousand breeding females remain in the wild.
Researchers say the turtle followed magnetic fields across the Atlantic Ocean to return to its original tagging location.
Five thousand miles. Through open water. And it knew exactly where it was going.
It followed magnetic fields.
Still.
Conservation researchers in Scotland are reporting what they believe is the first documented sighting of a Scottish wildcat swimming across open water between islands.
Scottish wildcats are functionally extinct in the wild. Researchers estimate fewer than thirty-five individuals remain outside captive breeding programs.
The sighting was recorded by a conservation camera on the Isle of Mull. Researchers say the cat was moving between islands when it was captured on camera.
Which means there are more of them than we thought.
Or the one that's left can swim.
And on YouTube's Pets and Animals chart, a video titled Her Pet Bunny is a Kung Fu Master is holding at number five with over three million views.
The video was posted August fourteenth by a channel called Girly Reacts. It has not moved on the chart since it was posted.
The baby deer video is still number one at twelve million views. The bunny dropped from three to five earlier this week, but it is holding.
Coming up: a top-five college football team opens in three weeks and their starting quarterback still has not been named. That's next.
You're watching KRAK 11 News.
SPORTS
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Time now for the Krak 11 Scoreboard.
We're going to start where the real story is tonight, and that is Ohio State football.
The Buckeyes are ranked fourth in Yahoo Sports' preseason top twenty-five and open their season September seventh at home against Akron.
Kickoff is three thirty eastern, which is two thirty local, and I think this is the year they finally break through in the playoff.
They said that last year.
And the year before that they were right up until they weren't, which is how sports works, Deb.
Moving to chess. Magnus Carlsen defeated Arjun Erigaisi three and a half to two and a half to win the twenty twenty-six Esports World Cup chess title.
Five hundred thousand dollars in prize money. Commentators are calling him undoubtedly the greatest of all time.
In Formula One, Honda's technical director has acknowledged the team only realised the full scale of its problems in January.
They are tenth in the constructors' championship. Zero points through fourteen races. That is not a slump, that is a structural failure at the engineering level.
In Major League Baseball, Pete Crow-Armstrong's walk-off single gave the Cubs a four to three win over the White Sox Monday night.
The Cubs have now won six straight over the White Sox, and I maintain that Crow-Armstrong moment would have been elevated if Gordo had spun the globe like I asked.
The globe does not spin on command.
It spun Tuesday.
In European football, FC Barcelona have completed the signing of Rodri from Manchester City for sixty-five million pounds.
That is the third-largest transfer in Barcelona's history and they are betting everything on a midfield rebuild that may or may not work by the time the Champions League knockouts begin in February.
And that is the Krak 11 Scoreboard for Tuesday night.
Still ahead on the next Krak 11 News at the top of the hour, we will have the latest on the Toledo industrial fire, an update from Alaska on the primary results, and developing news out of the Congo.
That's next. I'm Deb Sarkissian.
And I'm Chip Marlowe. Thank you for trusting Krak 11 News.
Did that land?
Did what land.
The structural failure line. Honda's not in a slump, they're in a structural failure. That's analysis.
It's a car that doesn't work.
It's fourteen races without a single point, Deb. That's not bad luck, that's systemic collapse at the design phase, and someone at ESPN is going to notice I said it first.
Someone at ESPN is covering fourteen other racing series and has never heard of Fairmont.
Gordo, did the structural failure line read as network-level sports analysis or local?
It read as a man who thinks saying structural makes him an engineer.
I stand by it.
Reporting behind this episode
- Canada and US say they are finalising a trade deal, but details remain murky
- Murder investigation launched as nine taken to hospital after fire
- Ukrainian man arrested in Croatia over Nord Stream pipeline blasts
- Brothers accused of mishandling dozens of decomposing bodies at Colorado funeral home
- Tourist sues New York taco joint over spicy salsa: Reports
- Chaos erupts on American Airlines flight as unruly passenger allegedly bites fellow traveler midair
- Uber's latest lost and found list includes ankle monitor, grillz and human hair
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- Her Pet Bunny is a Kung Fu Master 😭
- Her Pet Bunny is a Kung Fu Master 😭
- Her Pet Bunny is a Kung Fu Master 😭
- Her Pet Bunny is a Kung Fu Master 😭
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