Train operator to resume full service on Monday after power outage forces cancellations
Train operator to resume full service on Monday after power outage forces cancellations. 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.
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening. It is eighteen hundred hours and this is KRAK 11 News.
Coming up this hour — The World Desk begins with a murder arrest in London after a house fire kills one and injures eight others.
Criminal Intent follows with our one hundred and forty-eighth Florida Man Tribute — a California incest case from back in April that ended in tragedy when the victim took her own life.
Animals brings you the video that has now led our countdown for fifteen hours straight, and Chip has thoughts about it.
I watched it twice.
And A Quick Look at Sports, where a federal judge has ruled the Trump administration's seventy-five-country visa ban was illegal.
All of that still ahead tonight on KRAK 11 News. We begin with The World Desk.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. Welcome back to KRAK 11 News. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Chip, you've been looking at the international wire.
I have. There's a lot of movement tonight.
Let's begin with Britain. We begin this hour with good news for travelers. CrossCountry rail will restore full service Monday morning after twelve hours of major disruption.
A power outage at the company's control centre forced cancellations across the majority of its UK routes today. Thousands of passengers were stranded at stations from Edinburgh to Plymouth.
That's the north-south line.
It's the main intercity operator. CrossCountry says engineers worked through the night and the network will be fully operational by six a.m. Monday.
Good. Nobody wants to start their week stuck in Birmingham.
From London now. A thirty-four-year-old man remains in custody tonight on suspicion of murder following a house fire in Hounslow that killed one woman and injured eight others.
The fire broke out in west London early this morning. Emergency crews arrived to find flames visible from the street. Eight people were taken to hospital, three of them in critical condition.
Hounslow is near Heathrow.
It's a residential borough in the west. Metropolitan Police have not released the name of the victim or the man in custody. The investigation is ongoing.
And from Britain's political parties, Reform UK says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing if the party comes to power.
The proposal would give preference to workers under the age of thirty who were born in the United Kingdom. Reform says it would apply only to government-funded housing, not the private market.
What's Labour saying?
Labour called the plan unserious and unworkable. A party spokesperson accused Reform of pushing gimmicks and division instead of solutions.
That's strong language from Westminster.
It's an election year.
And an update now from the U.S. northern border. Canadian retaliatory tariffs take effect at midnight tonight. That's our sixth day of trade tensions between Washington and Ottawa.
President Trump said this afternoon that Canada wants the economic benefits of being part of the United States without the commitment. This comes after trade talks collapsed yesterday.
Canadian Prime Minister said he's reluctantly announcing the tariffs.
He accused the U.S. of starting a trade war. The tariffs target American steel, aluminum, and agricultural products. They take effect at midnight eastern time.
Six days. That's a fast turnaround.
It is. And both sides are still calling it a misunderstanding.
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Still ahead tonight on KRAK 11 News, Criminal Intent. A very strange custody case, a lost dog, and a judge who said enough.
The sentencing is tomorrow. We'll tell you why the prosecutor asked for leniency.
That's Criminal Intent, in a few minutes on KRAK 11 News.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I am Chip Marlowe.
I am Deb Sarkissian. Welcome to the Blotter.
We have four Florida Man Tributes tonight. All from earlier this year. All of them genuine.
The first one involves a dog and a shotgun.
Back in May of this year, a dog reportedly triggered a shotgun inside a truck at a Nebraska gas station. The blast went through the vehicle and struck a woman in another vehicle several yards away.
Authorities say the woman was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The dog was unharmed.
No charges were filed.
Against the dog.
Also back in April of this year, San Francisco police pursued a suspected car thief across the city. The chase ended on the Bay Bridge when the suspect stopped the vehicle, climbed out, and went underneath the span.
Police say he hung from beams to avoid capture.
That is not a tactical advantage. That is hanging from a bridge over open water with nowhere to go and the police waiting above you.
He was taken into custody without further incident.
A more serious matter. Back in July of this year, workers at a grocery store in Granada Hills say corporate managers forced them to keep the store open for hours while a deceased customer lay in a bakery aisle.
Employees say they were not allowed to close until a corporate directive came through several hours later. The company has not commented.
And back in April of this year, prosecutors in Ventura County filed felony incest charges against a California man in connection with the alleged assault of his daughter, who died by suicide five months later.
Stephen Vincent Chavez faces a maximum of three years if convicted. The case has drawn criticism from advocacy groups who say the maximum sentence is inadequate.
That is the Blotter. One hundred and forty-nine Florida Man Tributes in forty-three weeks.
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Still ahead tonight, Animals. We have the video that has now gained more than six million views in four days.
We do.
ANIMALS
Time now for the Good News Desk.
Three videos from the KRAK 11 animal countdown. We rank by views gained in the last four days.
All three are on the News Reel, and number one has been there since yesterday morning.
You watched it twice.
I wanted to be sure.
Number three tonight is a video called Check For Context, posted by Benji Void. Two million eight hundred and thirty-five thousand new views.
That title is YouTube's, not ours. We report the count.
At number two, Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life. Posted by Sassy. Three million six hundred and sixty-two thousand new views in four days.
Seven million three hundred and seventy-two thousand total.
And number one, for the fifteenth hour, is When Kindness Goes Both Ways. Posted by Windypaws on August twentieth.
Six million one hundred and ninety-seven thousand new views. Seven million eight hundred and thirty-three thousand total.
It has led our count since yesterday morning.
All three videos are on the KRAK 11 News Reel. The link is in the description.
Still ahead tonight, a quick look at sports. The Brewers have now won fifty-nine in a row.
And Pete Crow-Armstrong is still doing things nobody has ever done.
That is next.
A QUICK LOOK AT SPORTS
Time now for a quick look at sports.
The scoreboard is full tonight.
It is a very good night for Wisconsin sports, Deb.
Lando Norris won the Dutch Grand Prix yesterday for his second consecutive victory this season. He told reporters afterward he does not have the car needed to fight for a championship.
The Brewers beat the Reds eight to one, extending their franchise-record win streak to sixty games. And Pete Crow-Armstrong hit another walk-off RBI for the Cubs in their four to three win over the Pirates. That is forty-eight consecutive games.
Forty-eight games in a row. That is not a streak, Deb. That is a phenomenon.
And Magnus Carlsen defended his chess title at the twenty twenty-six Esports World Cup in Riyadh, beating Hikaru Nakamura three and a half to two and a half.
Coming up at the top of the hour on KRAK 11 News, we will have the latest on the Hounslow fire investigation and Canadian tariffs taking effect at midnight. That is next.
Reporting behind this episode
- Man arrested on suspicion of murder after house fire kills one and injures eight
- Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing
- Train operator to resume full service on Monday after power outage forces cancellations
- Outrage as California dad faces 3-years in incest case after daughter’s suicide
- Dog accidentally fires shotgun, striking woman yards away during chaotic gas station stop
- Wild San Francisco chase ends with stolen car suspect hanging under Bay Bridge
- Granada Hills Vons kept doors open for hours after customer died in bakery aisle, workers say
- When Kindness Goes Both Ways.
- Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life
- CHECK FOR CONTEXT
- Trump administration's 75-country visa ban was illegal, judge rules