French tourist dies in Death Valley after car gets stuck in mud
French tourist dies in Death Valley after car gets stuck in mud. 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. This is KRAK 11 News at twenty-three hundred hours. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Here is what we are covering this hour on KRAK 11.
The World Desk — Canada is looking at options to hit back in a trade dispute, and some of those options would hurt. Criminal Intent — an Australian prisoner serving life for murder is suing the state of Victoria over a ban on Vegemite.
He says it violates his right to Australian culture.
Animals — a fisherman found a heron fighting for its life, and that video has now led our countdown for eight consecutive hours. And A Quick Look at Sports — Penn State made headlines this week for a cocaine bust, but the real risk on college campuses is something else entirely.
Still ahead tonight — The World Desk. Canada sells seventy percent of its goods to the United States, but that does not mean it has no leverage. We will look at what Ottawa could do that would actually hurt.
That is next on KRAK 11.
THE WORLD DESK
This is KRAK 11 News, Fairmont and Wexler County. Good evening.
Good evening. We have four stories tonight, beginning in California and ending in China.
You organized them geographically.
I did. It helps.
We begin with news from California's Death Valley, where a French tourist has died after his car became stuck in the salt flats during extreme heat.
The sixty-eight-year-old man was found dead yesterday. Temperatures in the area reached one hundred and sixteen degrees Fahrenheit.
Death Valley is in Nevada.
California.
That makes more sense with the heat.
Park officials say visitors should carry extra water, stay on paved roads, and avoid hiking during the hottest part of the day.
The trade dispute between the United States and Canada has new developments tonight, with Canadian officials responding to American tariff proposals.
Canada sells roughly seventy percent of its goods to the United States, but officials say they have leverage in energy, critical minerals, and automotive parts.
The automotive corridor runs through Ontario and the Great Lakes region.
It does, and also through Michigan and several border states that depend on integrated supply chains.
Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng says any retaliation would be targeted to minimize harm to Canadian workers while applying pressure where it counts.
In France, the final count is in from that tornado we reported earlier tonight. More than forty people injured, several villages damaged.
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques region, near the Spanish border in the southwest. Homes destroyed, roofs torn off, power lines down across multiple communities.
Tornadoes are not common in that part of Europe.
They are rare, but the region has had severe weather warnings all week. Emergency crews are still assessing the full extent of the damage.
And in China, the factory robot workforce continues to grow. More than two million industrial robots now operating, the highest concentration anywhere in the world.
This is not the humanoid robot story. These are the machines assembling cars, electronics, and textiles at a pace that is outstripping every other manufacturing economy.
I had this filed under automation in the Pacific Rim.
You did.
Industry analysts say China is adding robots faster than any other nation, driven by labor costs and demand for precision manufacturing in electronics and vehicles.
The question being asked is whether this accelerates production or whether it displaces workers faster than new jobs can absorb them.
That is the world desk tonight.
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Still ahead tonight, Criminal Intent. A case out of New England that went cold for eleven years, and the phone call that brought it back.
In a few minutes.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. This is the KRAK 11 Blotter.
Two hundred Florida Man Tributes and we are still finding new ways to get arrested.
Tonight we have a lawsuit, a laser pointer, a kiss cam, and unidentified aerial phenomena.
That is a very specific category.
We begin tonight with our two hundred and first Florida Man Tribute. Back in November of last year, an Australian prisoner serving life for murder sued the state of Victoria over its ban on Vegemite in prisons.
The prisoner claims the ban violates his right to Australian culture.
Prison officials say Vegemite can be fermented into alcohol, making it a security risk.
The complaint alleges deprivation of cultural identity.
Back in November twenty twenty-four, a carnival worker in Riverview pointed a green laser at a Hillsborough County sheriff's helicopter while it was in the air. Deputies tracked him from above and arrested him.
The suspect told deputies, quote, I was just being stupid.
He was charged with misuse of a laser lighting device.
Back in July of last year, a tech company CEO and his HR chief were caught on a Coldplay concert kiss cam. Both scrambled to hide. The CEO had praised her hiring in a company press release months earlier.
The moment went viral.
The company has not commented publicly.
And back in July of last year, a new report showed over sixty UFO sightings reported in New York state alone this year. The report included a full list of towns where sightings were documented.
No comment from the towns.
That is two hundred and one Florida Man Tributes in forty-four weeks.
We are proud of that number.
I stand by it.
Still ahead tonight on KRAK 11 News: a fisherman finds a heron fighting for its life. The rescue that followed has been watched by millions. Animals is next.
Stay with us.
ANIMALS
Time now for the Good News Desk.
Tonight we are counting down the three animal videos that gained the most views in the last four days.
And the heron is still number one.
Eight hours now.
Number three is a video called 120 Pounds of Dog. Hiding From Ice. Behind a Two-Year-Old. Posted by Tiny Boss Big Dog. Three million seven hundred and ninety-three thousand new views.
A hundred and twenty pounds.
Behind a two-year-old.
Number two is a video called When Kindness Goes Both Ways. Posted by Windypaws. Seven million six hundred and thirty-five thousand new views in four days.
And number one for the eighth consecutive hour is Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life. Posted by Sassy. Eight million four hundred and sixteen thousand new views.
People care about that heron.
They do.
All three of those are on the KRAK 11 News Reel and the link is in the description.
Coming up in just a few minutes, a Quick Look at Sports. The Cubs have a new record holder and he is twenty-two years old.
We will be right back.
A QUICK LOOK AT SPORTS
Time now for a quick look at sports.
Results only tonight.
The way it should be.
Magnus Carlsen has defended his chess title at the twenty twenty-six Esports World Cup. That is now seven consecutive titles for the Norwegian.
Seven in a row. Undoubtedly the greatest of all time.
In tennis, Heather Watson is through to the third round of U.S. Open qualifying after winning her match today in straight sets.
And Pete Crow-Armstrong remains the youngest Cub in franchise history with a walk-off hit after last night's four-to-three win over the White Sox.
Twenty-two years old and he is already in the record books.
Still ahead at the top of the hour, the next KRAK 11 News with more from Wexler County and around the world.
Good night from all of us here at KRAK 11.
Reporting behind this episode
- How Canada could hit back to hurt the US economy - and Trump
- French tourist dies in Death Valley after car gets stuck in mud
- Moment tornado tears through southern France
- Beyond China's humanoid robots, a quieter machine revolution is unfolding
- Prisoner sues over Vegemite ban, citing right to Australian culture
- Over 60 UFO sightings reported this year in NY, new data shows l List of towns
- Video: Riverview carnival worker arrested for pointing laser at HCSO helicopter: ‘I was just being stupid’
- Alleged affair between CEO and HR chief caught on Coldplay kiss cam
- Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life
- When Kindness Goes Both Ways.
- 120 Pounds of Dog. Hiding From Ice. Behind a Two-Year-Old.
- Penn State bust put focus on cocaine but on most campuses the big risk is alcohol