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CNN International: Trump Threatens Trade Bans After Canada Imposes New Tariffs; Funeral Services Getting Underway For Norway's King Harald; Witness Who Was In Van With Man Killed By ICE Speaks Out. Aired 4:30-5a ET

Aired September 09, 2026 - 04:30   ET

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POLO SANDOVAL, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back. I'm Polo Sandoval. The trade war between the U.S. and Canada could escalate even further. President Trump is going beyond tariffs, threatening to enact outright bans on some Canadian goods starting on September 29th.

According to the White House, the ban would block Americans from importing a range of Canadian-made alcoholic beverages, motorcycles, and also whey. President Trump also said that he would prevent major government purchases of Canadian products unless the country offers Americans greater access to its markets. And all this comes after Canada imposed tariffs, retaliatory tariffs, on 20 billion dollars' worth of U.S. products, and this in response to President Trump's previous levies. CNN's Matt Egan with more.

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MATT EGAN, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Canada is punching back in its trade war with the U.S. Last month, it was the Trump Administration slapping steep tariffs on Canadian goods. Now Canada has followed through on its threat to do the same to U.S. goods. So these retaliatory tariffs, they're -- they're starting on the low end at 15 percent and they go all the way up to 50 percent.

They're impacting about $20 billion of U.S. goods. $20 billion is a big number, but remember, this is a massive trading relationship. So this represents a little less than 10 percent of what Canada imported from the U.S. last year. Still, though, that just gives Ottawa even more room to ramp this up if the tariff and trade war continues to escalate.

So, what is Canada targeting? Well, it's a wide range of U.S. industries, including everything from steel and aluminum to dairy, paper, and appliances. The retaliatory tariffs mean that Canada, they just made it more expensive for Canadian consumers and businesses to buy U.S. goods, and that makes it less appealing. And some Canadians, they may end up buying from other countries or buying less from the U.S. and that's the risk from the U.S. perspective, right? That there could be a loss of demand that causes American businesses

to cut hours of workers or even resort to layoffs. Now, obviously, the U.S. economy is much, much bigger than Canada's, but Canada does have some leverage here because it is the number one foreign buyer of goods in most U.S. states, including some key states in the upcoming midterm election, such as Maine, Michigan, and Ohio.

And look, it's not lost on officials in Ottawa that a, the midterms are looming, and b, that polls show that Americans are deeply frustrated with this economy. In fact, Canadian officials have said that they calibrated these retaliatory tariffs with an aim of putting political pressure on the Trump Administration. Now, President Trump, of course, he's been piling pressure on Canada as well.

He's taken a range of actions, including renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, threatening a 50 percent tariff on autos imported from Canada starting on January 1, and then over the weekend, the president threatened to ban Canadian manufacturer Bombardier from selling aircraft in the U.S.

Now Trump complained that the Canadian company, it really lives off of American buyers, companies, airports, and services, and he's complained that Canada has blocked access to its economy for some U.S. businesses, including business jet maker Gulfstream. Now Bombardier put out a statement where they describe themselves as a strong contributor to the U.S. aerospace industry.

The company has noted in the past that they employ about 3,000 U.S. workers and that they use almost 3,000 U.S. suppliers. The subtext there is that yes, U.S. workers could get hurt if the president follows through on this threat. Now, a lot of debate over who is going to win this trade war, but the truth is, economists say no one really wins in a trade war.

There are no real winners. There's just varying degrees of losers, and it's hard to see how this trade battle is going to lower the cost of living or boost the job market. It's easier to see how it could backfire by killing jobs and raising prices on both sides of the border. Back to you.

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SANDOVAL: All right, thank you, Matt. Now to Florida, where federal investigators say that the pilots of an Amazon cargo plane applied full power just seconds before Sunday's deadly crash in Miami. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board plan to interview the pilots of the plane in the coming hours.

Authorities identified the five people when the plane overshot, or I should say, that the five people -- there were five people were killed when the plane overshot the runway and struck the van. They were between 47 and 75 years old and worked for a contract cleaning crew, and five other people were injured, including the plane's two pilots. Here's CNN's Pete Muntean with more.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: The biggest new details here

are coming from the plane's black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder that were pulled from the plane on Monday, analyzed at the NTSB's lab in Washington on Tuesday. The NTSB says the flight data recorder shows that 15 seconds before impact, the pilots of this plane applied full throttle as if they were going to take off again, and then pulled the throttles back to idle only four seconds later.

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The NTSB says it also has good audio from the cockpit voice recorder, but still is stopping short of releasing what was on the voice recorder until they get more context from interviews with the pilots. Those are scheduled for Wednesday. Listen.

JENNIFER HOMENDY, CHAIR, U.S. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD: The cockpit voice recorder contained more than two hours of good quality audio. Now we're interviewing the pilots tomorrow, and we want to hear their account of the accident before we release a readout of the cockpit voice recorder.

CHOON SHIN, NTSB INVESTIGATOR IN CHARGE: Crew accounts and crew interviews will help fill in some of the blanks for us that the crew remembers in terms of actions that they might have done but not verbalized, and so that's something that we need a complete understanding of before we're to analyze what happened with the throttles in this case?

MUNTEAN: The NTSB also plans to interview the chief pilots of 21 Air, that is the contractor that was operating this Boeing 767 cargo plane for Amazon. Of course, there is the sad human toll here. All five killed in that van on the airport perimeter road were Latino men working for an airport aircraft cleaning contractor, the oldest, 75 years old. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy says it's an unthinkable tragedy. Pete Muntean, CNN, Miami International Airport.

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SANDOVAL: Authorities in the Bahamas say that four bodies have been recovered after a small plane carrying a U.S. family went missing on its way to Miami. The five-seater plane you see there took off on Monday from Great Harbor Cay and disappeared a short time later. The family members have told CNN that Mario Lamar, his wife Lily, and two of the couple's grandchildren were on board the plane. Lamar had more than 40 years of flying experience. There were some heavy thunderstorms in the area at the time that the plane disappeared, but it's not yet clear if that weather was a factor.

A trial is currently under way in Mexico. Two years after the murders of two Australian surfers and their American friend. The three men had taken a camping trip when they went missing, and their bodies were found with gunshot wounds several days later. CNN's Valeria Leon with more details on the investigation.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VALERIA LEON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Surrounded by cameras, Debra and

Martin Robinson woke out of a courthouse in Mexico. More than two years after their sons, Jake and Callum Robinson and his American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were killed. The trial of those accused in their deaths is now under way in Baja California. The Australian brothers have traveled to Mexico with Carter Road to surf and camp along the coast, but the trip ended in murder.

The three friends disappeared on April 2024 near Ensenada, about 60 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Days later, their bodies were found at the bottom of a well. Three people were arrested in connection with the killings. Investigators believe the attackers tried to steal tires and other parts from the surfer's vehicle, but according to state prosecutors, the three friends resisted the robbery and were killed.

CNN has reached out to the Baja California Attorney General's office for more details and is attempting to contact the defense teams for those on trial. The killing shocked people in Mexico, Australia, and the U.S. and it sparked protests demanding justice for the three suffers. A fourth person linked to the case was found with one of the victims' phones.

She pleaded guilty to robbery and vehicle theft with violence and was sentenced last November to 20 years in prison. Now, more than two years after the three friends came to Mexico for a surfing trip, their families are back this time waiting for justice. Valeria Leon, CNN, Mexico City.

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SANDOVAL: And there's still much more on the way here on CNN Newsroom. A man who was inside the van when a Houston father was shot and killed by ICE, speaking out for the first time. What went through his mind as he says a federal agent pointed a gun at his head?

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SANDOVAL: Want to get you straight to some of these live images that are coming out of Oslo, Norway. A live picture from -- of the funeral services that are getting underway for King Harald of Norway. Right now, we know the dignitaries from around the world are on hand as the country bids farewell to the Monarch who reigned for 35 years until his death last month at the age of 89.

We know crowds, tens of thousands of mourners, they have paid their final respects in recent days at the King's coffin as he lay in state at the Royal Palace chapel. Again, these live pictures coming out of Oslo, where it's getting close to 11 a.m. A chilling first-hand account of the ICE shooting that killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. The 52-year-old father of three was killed in July during a traffic stop in Houston, Texas. Well, now one of the passengers in the van is describing what he saw

in the seconds before the shooting. CNN's Ed Lavandera brings us this CNN Exclusive and a warning that some of the images in his report are disturbing.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Daniel Tirado Pantoja says he constantly thinks about the moment Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston, and still doesn't understand why it happened.

DANIEL TIRADO, WITNESS IN LORENZO SALGADO SHOOTING: (Foreign Language)

LAVANDERA: He had no reason to shoot in that moment.

TIRADO: Hmm. (Foreign Language)

LAVANDERA: Tirado and his stepdaughter sat down exclusively with CNN to vividly detail what he says happened to Salgado. Tirado and two other men were riding in Salgado's van that July 7th morning. He walked us through the videos that show some of the events that led up to the shooting.

ICE officers pursued Lorenzo Salgado's white van here on Canal Street, and then just a few houses away, he makes a U-turn. The U.S. attorney in Houston has said the fatal shot occurred during this turn. You look closely at the video. You can see two ICE officers appearing to stand around the side of the van.

AARON REITZ, U.S. ATTORNEY, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS: Preliminary information indicates the driver shifted the van into reverse, then forward again, while an officer was partially inside the van or immediately next to it. During this confrontation between federal agents and a group of illegal aliens attempting to flee, one of the officers fired a single shot. That round struck Lorenzo Salgado.

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LAVANDERA: But Tirado tells a different story. There's the truck making the U-turn. He says after the U-turn, Salgado drove back up Canal Street and stopped the van. During this moment in the video, you can see the officers do not appear to be in the van's path. They're chasing it down from behind.

No shots have been fired at this point, and then there's one, two, and a third agent. And this is where the van comes to a complete stop. It's not captured on video that we've seen so far, but Daniel Tirado says this is where the ICE officer fired the fatal shot. For the first time, he's showing us which ICE officer he says fired the deadly shot.

He says that the -- the ICE agent that shot Lorenzo was the first agent here running after the van? ICE officials have not identified the shooter, but said the agent shot Salgado in self-defense. We asked ICE to confirm Tirado's account of where the shooting happened and which officer fired the shot, and if they plan to identify the officer.

A spokesperson refused to confirm or deny, saying in a statement, "Publicizing their identities puts their lives and the lives of their families at serious risk." Tirado says the officers were never in danger, and that what happened next terrified him.

They came shooting, is what you're saying?

TIRADO: Hmm. (Foreign Language)

LAVANDERA: Tirado says he was sitting on a cooler behind the front passenger seat when he saw the ICE officer point his gun through the side window and fire one shot at Salgado. He says the last words he heard Salgado say, "They just killed me." And Salgado's brother told the officer, "You just killed him." He says the same officer then opened the van's back door and pointed the gun at his head.

When the gun is pointed at your face, what are you thinking?

TIRADO: (Foreign Language)

LAVANDERA: He says if the officer just shot and killed my boss, he's going to shoot me too. You thought that was the end right there for him.

ICE has not offered new details about why this happened. The agency initially said Salgado weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over an ICE agent, and that the officer fired in self-defense. The agents were not wearing body cameras.

TIRADO: (Foreign Language)

LAVANDERA: Pure lies, he says. Why don't they tell the truth? More than two months after Salgado's death, it's not clear where the investigation into the shooting stands. Tirado says the officer should pay for what he did so he can suffer what they are suffering.

JUANA DEGOLLADO, TIRADO'S STEPDAUGHTER: I think they're trying to cover for him. They're trying to protect him.

LAVANDERA: What would you like to see happen to that ICE agent?

DEGOLLADO: A lot of things. We need him to get some type of punishment too. We need justice for Lorenzo more than anything. Putting that ICE agent's name out there, making sure he pays in jail or something.

LAVANDERA: You think he should be arrested and charged criminally?

DEGOLLADO: Yes. Of course, yeah.

LAVANDERA: Daniel Tirado says he came to the United States 30 years ago and worked in construction to save money so he could build his parents a home in Mexico. He says Lorenzo Salgado was more than his boss the last eight years; he was his friend.

TIRADO: (Foreign Language) LAVANDERA: He says we weren't hurting anyone; we just wanted to work.

He's angry that ICE officers targeted them instead of criminals.

This interview raises new questions about where the ICE officers were standing when Salgado was shot. We've reached out to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to get clarification.

The U.S. attorney in Houston did provide CNN a new statement saying that Tirado's comments in this interview conflict with earlier statements made to federal authorities, and the U.S. attorney also says that nothing has come to light to change Tirado's original account of what happened. Daniel Tirado spent almost two months in immigration custody. He was just recently released. His lawyer and his family stand by what he told us. They say this entire experience has been incredibly traumatic. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Dallas.

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SANDOVAL: And still ahead here on CNN Newsroom, another art heist in France. This time at a museum in the French Riviera. We'll look at what was stolen and how the thieves managed to pull it off in less than five minutes.

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SANDOVAL: So it's almost 5:00 a.m. in Flushing, New York, where an epic late-night match just wrapped up not too long ago with a stunning finish at the U.S. Open. It was an overnight match, basically. Ben Shelton knocking out defending champion Carlos Alcaraz out of the camp competition in a grueling match that stretched on for more than four hours.

The American securing a spot in the semifinals with a fifth set super tie break. The match set a new record for the latest finish ever at the U.S. Open, keeping fans on the edge of their seats until the very end, as Alcaraz and Shelton battled it out to the point of exhaustion. They finished the 3 a.m. hour. It's insane.

Now to police who are investigating another art heist in France. It took less than five minutes for thieves to steal four paintings from the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera on Tuesday, but as they fled, authorities said that they were forced to abandon two of their paintings. Our Melissa Bell has more on the missing art work and how the thieves pulled it all off.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Thieves have stolen four paintings, abandoning two as they fled from France's Renoir Museum in the latest heist to hit the art world. A large hole can be seen in this wired fence surrounding the museum. The impressionist painters Madame Colonna Romano, worth $2.3 million, and Jeune Femme au Puits, worth $230,000, were stolen on Tuesday, according to local officials in the French Riviera town of Cagnes-sur- Mer, where the museum is located.

The thieves were forced to abandon Portrait de Madame Stephen Pichon and Coco lisant as they fled, according to the town's mayor. He also said the museum's alarm system went off at 5:48 local time, and the police had arrived at the scene five minutes later.

BRYAN MASSON, CAGNES-SUR-MER, FRANCE MAYOR (through translator): They were equipped with, if I may say so, an electric knife or a metal saw, whatever you want to call it. They cut through the bolts holding the frames of Renoir's paintings in place.

The arrival of the municipal police, along with the sirens from the museum and the police, caused the burglars to rush off. They stole only four of the 12 works in the Renoir Museum. They fled by running through the gardens, and it seems dropped two works along the way.

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BELL: In a statement, the mayor's office said that the museum had been targeted quote, by several individuals who were clearly organized, equipped, and well informed, adding that the museum's security system had been triggered as soon as they entered the museum's gardens. The latest heist comes nearly a year after the Louvre was targeted in an audacious raid.

Video footage captured thieves in yellow vests on the second floor of the Louvre after they'd forced open a window, they managed to grab nine priceless items and fled back down a truck, mounted a ladder, all in just four minutes. Police recovered the angle grinder and a torch that were used to force open the window. One piece, the crown of the Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III was dropped and found very quickly, but the eight other pieces remain missing.

French Senator Nathalie Goulet doesn't think the French people understand the magnitude of the problem facing museums.

NATHALIE GOULET, FRENCH SENATOR: Well, I think we opened the Pandora box. I mean, with the Louvre, which was so easy, with a kind of impunity, and nobody was catched (ph), almost. I think it's -- it's like an open door to a new tribe (ph) for other museums.

BELL: Now calls are growing for authorities to help better protect the country's museums to prevent increasingly organized and determined criminals once again striking at the heart of French culture. Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.

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SANDOVAL: Thank you so much for watching the last hour of news. I'm Polo Sandoval in New York. Our live coverage continues with CNN Headline Express.

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