Canada and US say they are finalising a trade deal
Canada and US say they are finalising a trade deal. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Animals, A Quick Look At Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
Aired 2026-08-20 07:48 UTC · 5 segments · 8 min · complete transcript below
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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 on KRAK 11 News: THE WORLD DESK, where Canada and the United States say they are finalising a new trade deal ahead of this weekend's tariff deadline. CRIMINAL INTENT, our Florida Man Tribute to a quiet Atlanta street that became a turnaround point for more than a dozen self-driving cars.
ANIMALS, where the number five video on our countdown has gained another half a million views. And A QUICK LOOK AT SPORTS, where we have a football quiz and five minutes on the clock.
That is a lot of football.
It is five questions, Deb.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News: THE WORLD DESK, where Prime Minister Carney says the talks have made significant progress, but the clock is running.
We will be right back.
THE WORLD DESK
The World Desk.
Good evening. We have updates from three continents tonight, starting with a trade agreement that appears to be coming together just in time.
That would be the North American deal.
It would. And some personnel changes in the British hotel industry that are getting attention on both sides of the Atlantic.
Canada and the United States say they are finalizing a trade deal that could be signed before the weekend tariff deadline. Prime Minister Carney told reporters in Ottawa that significant progress has been made in the last forty-eight hours.
This would be the first bilateral agreement between Washington and Ottawa since the North American partnership dissolved earlier this year.
Since the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ended in March.
That is what I said.
You said partnership.
In the United Kingdom, the chief executive of Travelodge has stepped down following criticism of how the hotel chain handled safety and security complaints from guests. Jo Boydell resigned after nearly four years with the company.
That is the British hotel group, not the American one.
It is the British one. They operate seven hundred hotels across the United Kingdom.
I thought the two companies split in the nineties. Same parent, different regions.
They were never connected. Two different companies with the same name.
That seems like it would cause confusion.
The board says it will name an interim chief executive next week. Boydell had been with Travelodge since twenty twenty-one.
A follow-up now on the Evergrande collapse. Chinese authorities say they have seized all personal assets belonging to Hui Ka Yan, the company's founder, as part of his life sentence handed down earlier this week.
That includes homes, bank accounts, and investments. The seizure is in addition to the sixty-two million dollar fine handed down by the court in Guangzhou.
Evergrande collapsed in twenty twenty-one with more than three hundred billion dollars in debt. Millions of Chinese families paid in advance for apartments the company never finished building.
That was roughly the size of Portugal's economy.
And in Australia, a search that had drawn more than a hundred volunteers and emergency workers has ended. Lily Hooper's body was found in the bush after eight days.
The state premier initially said Lily had been found alive, then corrected the statement an hour later after police confirmed her death.
No cause of death has been released. Police say they are preparing a report for the coroner.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, Criminal Intent. We have an update on a case that has been in the courts for more than two years, and a decision that came down this afternoon.
That is next.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Tonight's lead is not a crime. It is not even local. But it is very strange.
We have been doing a Florida Man Tribute every week for ten weeks now. This one happened in Georgia.
Florida Man is a spirit, not a border.
Back in May of this year, more than a dozen autonomous Waymo vehicles descended on a dead-end street in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. No drivers. No passengers. Just a fleet of self-driving SUVs entering, turning around, and leaving.
Over and over. Residents posted video of what looked like a very polite invasion. The vehicles obeyed all traffic laws.
The company later explained the vehicles were using the dead end as a turnaround point while navigating the area. They have since updated the software.
No citations were issued. You cannot ticket a car with no driver.
You can try, Deb.
In Dover, Delaware, a man was arrested Thursday after police say he walked into a convenience store, filled a shopping bag with lottery tickets, and walked out without paying.
Prosecutors say the tickets were worth eleven hundred dollars. The suspect was identified from surveillance footage and apprehended later that day.
Police said none of the tickets were winners.
That is a very specific kind of bad day.
In Tulsa, a woman faces charges after prosecutors allege she used her grandmother's identity to open seventeen credit cards and charge over forty thousand dollars.
Police say the grandmother reported the fraud herself. The suspect has pleaded not guilty.
And in Portland, Oregon, a man was taken into custody after police say he attempted to steal a marked patrol car while the officer was inside a coffee shop.
Prosecutors allege the suspect opened the driver's side door, sat down, and was attempting to start the vehicle when the officer returned.
Police said the keys were not in the ignition.
The arrest was made without incident. The officer had ordered a decaf.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News—a wild animal spotted inside a Florida grocery store, and the store manager who called it in.
It was not shopping.
ANIMALS
Time now for Animals, the Good News Desk.
We track the animal videos that are gaining the most views across the internet, and this week we have movement at the top.
Not much movement. The number five video is still number five.
It is gaining half a million views every fourteen hours, Deb. That is movement.
The video is called When the Predator is Already Watching You. It gained five hundred sixty-one thousand six hundred seventy-nine views in the last fourteen hours.
Seven point eight million total views since it was posted in August by a channel called Mind Fragments. YouTube has it at number twenty-four on their trending chart.
We rank by how fast a video is growing, not total views. That metric means we see what people are watching right now.
The position has not changed since our last count. Still number five. Still growing.
That sea turtle we told you about last week, the one that swam five thousand miles from Wales to Texas, has been released back into the Gulf.
Researchers say she is healthy and tagged for tracking.
Five thousand miles.
That is an extraordinary animal.
It is.
Scotland recorded its first confirmed sighting of a wildcat swimming. The wildcat was crossing a river in the Highlands and the whole thing was captured on a remote camera.
Researchers say there are fewer than three hundred Scottish wildcats left in the wild.
Coming up in just a few minutes, A Quick Look at Sports, and we have a correction to make about a walk-off home run we told you about last week.
That is next on KRAK 11 News.
A QUICK LOOK AT SPORTS
A quick look at sports.
Tennis, baseball, and a walk-off you will want to see.
That Cubs finish was something.
Tennis from Cincinnati. Sara Bejlek upset world number three Aryna Sabalenka at the Cincinnati Open. Sabalenka was defending her US Open title but fell in straight sets, six-three, six-four.
The Cubs walked it off against the White Sox. Pete Crow-Armstrong's home run in the bottom of the ninth gave Chicago the win, four to three. His first career walk-off.
That is a moment he will remember.
Coming up at the top of the hour on KRAK 11 News: we have the latest on the trade talks between Canada and the United States, and why the weekend deadline matters to Wexler County.
That is KRAK 11 News. Thank you for watching.
Reporting behind this episode
- Canada and US say they are finalising a trade deal
- Founder of collapsed Chinese property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison
- Missing teen hiker found dead in Australian bush after eight-day search
- Travelodge boss steps down after security issues in rooms
- Why a fleet of self-driving Waymo SUVs flooded a quiet Atlanta street
- When the Predator is Already Watching You
- When the Predator is Already Watching You
- When the Predator is Already Watching You
- When the Predator is Already Watching You
- When the Predator is Already Watching You
- Sabalenka stunned by Bejlek as slump continues
- Celtic find value in 'special' Duran - but does ambition reach further still?