Indonesia Earthquake
Indonesia Earthquake. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Happy Animals, Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
Aired 2026-08-15 15:49 UTC · 5 segments · 11 min · complete transcript below
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening. This is KRAK 11 News, the top of the hour. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Five people injured in a shooting at Virginia State University early this morning. One victim remains in critical condition.
We begin this hour at the World Desk with developments from Virginia. Then, Criminal Intent: the Lindsay Clancy trial continues as her psychiatric providers take the stand. Happy Animals brings you a Florida lottery winner who's moving north. And Sports covers what organizers are calling the Patriot Games.
High school athletes competing in celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
First tonight: Virginia State University reporting multiple suspects involved in this morning's shooting. Police have not released a motive or confirmed any arrests.
Still ahead on the World Desk: what investigators know so far and what they're not saying. That's coming up in a few minutes on KRAK 11 News.
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THE WORLD DESK
Good evening.
At least forty-seven people are confirmed dead after a magnitude seven-point-seven earthquake struck the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia early Saturday morning.
Search and rescue teams are working through collapsed buildings in the coastal region. Officials say the death toll is expected to rise as more areas become accessible.
Flores is in the eastern archipelago, approximately one thousand miles from Jakarta.
That's the northern part of the country, correct?
Eastern.
That's what I said.
Five people were injured in a shooting at Virginia State University early Saturday. One victim remains in critical condition.
The university says multiple suspects were involved. Campus police are reviewing security footage and asking anyone with information to come forward.
Classes have been suspended through Monday while the investigation continues.
In Lebanon, eleven people were killed in Israeli strikes on the southern region. Israel's military says it struck what it describes as Hezbollah terror infrastructure.
The strikes were described by Israeli officials as a response to an earlier action against its soldiers. No details on that incident have been released.
Lebanese authorities are confirming casualties but have not identified the victims. This is the third such strike in the region this month.
Fourth.
On a much lighter note, a family of three was rescued off the coast of Thailand after sixteen hours adrift at sea. A father and his two young sons were clinging to their capsized jet ski.
The jet ski ran out of fuel approximately two miles off Koh Samui. The family drifted overnight before a fishing vessel spotted them Saturday morning.
All three were treated for dehydration and exposure but are expected to make a full recovery. Thai maritime authorities are reminding tourists to check fuel levels before heading out.
Solid advice.
We went to Cancun in twenty-seventeen. I made a checklist. Three pages, laminated. Fuel was item seven.
We didn't rent a jet ski.
The principle applies.
And in South Korea, opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has proposed direct talks with North Korea to formally end the war that has been frozen since the nineteen fifty-three armistice.
Lee is running for president and says he would meet with North Korean leadership directly if elected. The Korean peninsula has been technically at war for seventy years.
Seventy-two years.
Close enough.
It isn't.
South Korea's current government has not endorsed the proposal. Analysts say any formal peace treaty would require approval from China and the United States as signatories to the original armistice.
Deb, before we go. That thing you said about the checklist. I kept a copy.
We're at time.
We have ninety seconds.
We're at time.
Coming up next, CRIMINAL INTENT. A Wexler County man is facing charges after police say he left something crucial behind at the scene. That's ahead.
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CRIMINAL INTENT
Coming up: the world's worst burglar, a concrete tomb, and why license plate cameras are getting police officers fired.
We begin tonight with an Ohio man who has been charged with breaking and entering after leaving what prosecutors are calling the most helpful evidence in the department's history.
Police say the suspect entered a convenience store in Akron through a broken window, took approximately two hundred dollars in cash and cigarettes, and left behind his wallet.
The wallet contained his driver's license, two credit cards, and a loyalty card for the same store.
He was arrested four hours later.
In South Yorkshire, a farmer has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of thirty-five years for killing his lodger and hiding the body in a barrel filled with concrete for more than five years.
Christopher Wright, seventy-three, was convicted in Sheffield Crown Court of murdering Richard Dyson. Prosecutors said Wright shot Dyson and dismembered his remains.
The body was discovered in a concrete-filled barrel on Wright's property in twenty twenty-four, more than five years after Dyson was reported missing.
Wright will be eighty-four before he is eligible for parole.
Nationally, multiple California police officers have resigned after using license plate-reading cameras to track romantic partners, according to reports confirmed by Flock Safety, the company that operates the system.
Flock Safety operates automated license plate readers in more than three thousand jurisdictions across the United States. The CEO acknowledged the company took too long to detect the abuse.
The system is designed to track stolen vehicles and persons of interest in active investigations.
Police say the officers used it to track former partners and romantic interests.
In Massachusetts, testimony continued today in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of killing her three children in twenty twenty-three. The defense is arguing severe postpartum mental illness.
Jurors heard testimony from psychiatric providers, friends, and family members about Clancy's mental health treatment in the months before the deaths.
Prosecutors allege the killings were deliberate. The defense argues Clancy was in a state of psychosis brought on by medication and untreated postpartum depression.
The trial is expected to continue through the end of the month.
You know, Deb, we've been doing this a long time. Four thousand six hundred and twelve hours, by my count. And I think we've gotten pretty good at knowing when to hand off.
You're using numbers to avoid saying something else.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News: a dog who knows more commands than most people, and why a parrot in Wisconsin is being called a hero. Happy Animals is next.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Time now for the Good News Desk.
A dog named Wild Thang has been crowned winner of the World's Ugliest Dog contest in Santa Rosa, California. Eight-pound Pekingese, twelve years old, survived distemper as a puppy.
The disease left him with permanent muscle damage and dental issues. His owner says he paddles instead of walks.
He paddles.
That is the best thing I have heard all week.
In Michigan, a Florida man visiting the state won three hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars playing Fantasy Five. Daniel Cortez says he's moving to Warren permanently.
Warren, Michigan in January versus Florida in January, that is a choice.
It's his choice.
And a columnist in the UK is writing about the complicated grief that follows the death of a beloved pet. Helena Wilkinson says the emotions can be overwhelming and include guilt alongside the loss.
She writes that people sometimes feel they need permission to grieve an animal the way they would a person.
They don't.
No.
Coming up in just a few minutes, we'll have sports, including a high school basketball team that just set a state fundraising record by washing cars for eleven straight hours.
That's next on KRAK 11 News.
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
We begin with something extraordinary happening in Washington. Two high school athletes from every state are competing in what's being called the Patriot Games, part of America's 250th anniversary celebration.
One hundred kids. Fifty states. The best of the best representing their home turf in track, field, and team events. It's the Olympics, but for high schoolers, and it's pure Americana.
It's a promotional event organized by the White House.
It's a celebration of youth athletics.
Those are not mutually exclusive.
I would have loved something like this when I was their age. The pride of representing your state on a national stage, the camaraderie, the discipline. These kids are learning what it means to compete.
You ran the four hundred meter in high school.
I did.
You placed seventh at regionals.
There were eight runners.
Moving on. In soccer news, ICE has detained a Venezuelan professional player, highlighting the massive backlog in the U.S. immigration system. Homero Calderón was taken into custody while his case remains in limbo.
Calderón has been waiting on his immigration hearing for eighteen months. The backlog now exceeds three million cases nationwide, and this detention puts his professional career on hold indefinitely.
The average wait time for an immigration hearing is now four years.
Four years is an entire World Cup cycle.
It is.
Overseas, Ireland's Kate O'Connor is leading the heptathlon at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham with just one event remaining. She holds a commanding lead heading into the final 800 meters.
Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the defending champion, is out of medal contention after struggling in the javelin. O'Connor needs only to finish the 800 to claim gold for Ireland.
The heptathlon has seven events over two days. O'Connor has won four of the six completed.
That is dominance. Seven events, two days, and she's been the best athlete on the track in four of them. That's what we call leaving no doubt.
She hasn't won yet.
She will.
Probably.
Deb, you remember when we covered the state track finals in twenty-seventeen? That kid from Northfield who false-started twice and still won the hundred?
Marcus Tully.
You said he had it before the gun even went off the third time.
He ran a 10.4.
You wanted to do a follow-up piece on him the next year.
I did.
We ran it.
We did.
That's the KRAK 11 Scoreboard. Coming up at the top of the hour on the next KRAK 11 News, we'll have the latest on that magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Indonesia. The death toll now stands at forty-seven, but officials say that number is expected to rise.
Rescue crews are still working through the night. We'll bring you updates as they come in.
Stay with us.