Iran faces 'greatest financial offensive ever', says US treasury secretary

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I am Deb Sarkissian. Coming up this hour: The World Desk, with nearly ninety thousand people ordered to leave as a wildfire closes in on Reno, Nevada.

Criminal Intent, with a Florida man who Sheriff Grady Judd says was, and I quote, drunker than Cooter Brown when he tried to take his kids to Disney World.

Back in March of last year.

That is our one hundred and seventy-first Florida Man Tribute. Animals, where a video about kindness has led our countdown for twenty-eight hours. And a Quick Look at Sports, where the Esports World Cup ended with seven million dollars going to a team nobody saw coming.

Seven million dollars for esports.

The prize pool for the whole tournament was sixty million.

Still ahead this morning — The World Desk, where that wildfire is completely uncontained and ten thousand five hundred acres are already gone. KRAK 11 News continues.

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We have four stories this morning, and three of them are about money leaving places where people need it to stay.

That is not an optimistic way to start the hour.

It is an accurate way to start the hour.

Scott Bessent says the United States will sever all economic ties with Iran, and that any nation partnering with Iran financially will also be isolated from U.S. markets.

That is unprecedented reach. The Treasury is going after third-party trade.

It is. Bessent made the announcement this morning in Washington and said enforcement would begin immediately.

Opposition parties say security forces have prevented lawyers and petitioners from entering court buildings in the capital, Lusaka, while preparations for Hichilema's second inauguration appear to be continuing.

That is the southern coast of Africa.

South-central. Landlocked. It borders Congo to the north.

I was close.

You were on the continent.

Completely uncontested fact.

One manufacturing executive in Ontario told reporters this morning, quote, half my business will be gone, as both governments impose tit-for-tat import taxes on goods crossing the border.

The longest undefended border in the world, and right now it is costing people their livelihoods on both sides.

Thirty-nine hundred miles of it. Businesses that have operated across that border for decades are now navigating tariffs they say make cross-border trade unworkable.

The job site Adzuna says the number of graduate vacancies is now the lowest it has been since twenty sixteen, which is going to hit a lot of families hard.

It will. That is four years of university and a very different job market waiting at the end of it than the one students were promised when they started.

Deb, the U.K. has been tightening entry-level hiring across the board. Is this part of that, or is this something separate?

Both. The broader slowdown is hitting graduate recruitment especially hard because those are discretionary hires. When budgets tighten, training programs and junior roles are the first to go.

That is not good news for anyone finishing school this spring.

It is not.

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Criminal Intent is next.

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Forty-three weeks. One seventy-two tributes. Florida remains undefeated.

What have you found for us this morning?

That is tribute number one seventy-two.

Do you remember where you were when you first heard the phrase drunker than Cooter Brown?

I was at this desk, Chip, approximately ninety seconds ago.

Sheriff Judd has a gift for the phrase.

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Six million seven hundred and thirty-one thousand new views in three days.

We will have the full top five in a few minutes.

Time now for Animals.

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Still ahead this morning, A Quick Look at Sports. Pete Crow-Armstrong's walk-off streak is now the longest in modern baseball history, and we will tell you what he said about it.

Stay with us.

A Quick Look at Sports.

Good morning. We have got results from Paris, the Cubs extended their streak again, and Ohio State is in the preseason top five.

Fifty-seven games now.

Fifty-seven games. That is remarkable.

Coming up at the top of the hour on KRAK 11 News — a story out of Zambia where security forces have blocked court access just as the election petition deadline arrives. We will have the details.

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