Thousands of Bonnie Tyler fans line the streets as coffin taken to Swansea home
Thousands of Bonnie Tyler fans line the streets as coffin taken to Swansea home. 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.
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening, Fairmont. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour. I'm Chip Marlowe.
I'm Deb Sarkissian. Five people injured in a campus shooting at Virginia State University. One remains in critical condition. That story leads The World Desk.
Coming up this hour: Criminal Intent brings you developments in the Michigan shooting that left six dead. Happy Animals celebrates World Elephant Day at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
And Sports covers the high school Patriot Games celebrating America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary.
Elephants is not a national story, Deb. It's a zoo event.
It's on the schedule.
Still ahead: multiple suspects remain at large following the Virginia State shooting. The World Desk has new information from campus police in just a few minutes.
THE WORLD DESK
Welcome back to KRAK 11 News. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. We begin tonight with news from Wales.
Thousands of fans lined the streets of Swansea today as the coffin of singer Bonnie Tyler was taken to her family home. Tyler, known for hits including Total Eclipse of the Heart, died last month in a hospital in Portugal.
A voice like that, you don't forget it. She recorded that album in the mid-eighties in London.
New York. Nineteen eighty-two.
Right. New York.
In sports news, England full-back Djed Spence has signed a five-year deal with Inter Milan. The twenty-four-year-old defender moves from Tottenham Hotspur in a transfer that was finalized earlier today.
Inter's had a good decade. That's the Milan club that plays in blue and black.
AC Milan plays in red and black. Inter plays in blue and black.
That's what I said.
It is.
We have an update on the earthquake that struck Indonesia this morning. The death toll has now risen to at least forty-seven people, with dozens more injured. The magnitude seven-point-seven quake hit the island of Flores in the early hours.
Search and rescue operations are continuing through the night. The region is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which experiences frequent seismic activity.
Flores is in the southern Pacific region, which is why it gets hit so hard.
Flores is in the eastern part of Indonesia. The Ring of Fire encircles the entire Pacific basin. Forty thousand kilometers.
All the way around.
That's what encircles means.
In the Middle East, Israeli forces conducted strikes on southern Lebanon today. Eleven people were killed. Israel's military says it targeted what it described as Hezbollah terror infrastructure in response to earlier action against its soldiers.
The strikes occurred in multiple locations across the southern region. No further details have been released by Israeli defense officials.
Lebanon's had a difficult time since the Arab Spring movement back in the eighties.
The Arab Spring was twenty-eleven. Lebanon's civil war was nineteen seventy-five to nineteen ninety.
Different time period.
Thirty-six years different.
And in Virginia, an update on the shooting at Virginia State University. Five people were injured early this morning, one of them critically. Multiple suspects are involved. Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
The university is located twenty-three miles south of Richmond. Classes have been suspended for the remainder of the weekend.
Deb.
Chip.
Remember when we covered the track story there in twenty-seventeen? You wanted to follow up on Marcus Tully.
We did follow up. Second quarter notebook.
You were right about that.
I was.
Still ahead tonight, a man who killed his lodger and hid the body for over five years learns his sentence. That story and more when CRIMINAL INTENT continues.
You're watching KRAK 11 News.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Tonight, the Blotter begins with police officers who forgot that the cameras they use to watch everyone else can also watch them.
Multiple law enforcement officers across the country have resigned after it was discovered they used license plate-reading surveillance technology to track romantic partners, family members, and in one case, an ex-spouse's new boyfriend.
The system is operated by Flock Safety, a surveillance firm that provides automated license plate readers to over five thousand law enforcement agencies nationwide. Each unauthorized search was logged.
The company's founder admitted Flock took too long to notify departments about the misuse, which in some cases continued for months before anyone was disciplined.
The officers resigned. No criminal charges have been filed.
In the United Kingdom, a seventy-three-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for a murder that remained concealed for over five years.
Christopher Wright was convicted of killing his lodger, Richard Dyson, and concealing the body in concrete. He will serve a minimum of thirty-five years.
And in national news tonight, prosecutors allege a class action lawsuit has been filed in California by two drivers who say the AMG logo on their Mercedes-Benz driver's seats caused burn injuries.
The plaintiffs allege the metal logo, which sits in the center of the seat, became hot enough to cause injury during normal use in warm weather.
Mercedes has not yet responded to the complaint, which seeks damages for what the plaintiffs describe as a known design flaw that the company failed to address.
The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last Thursday.
The case of Luigi Mangione continues tonight. He pleaded guilty to two federal stalking charges and read a statement in court related to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
His state murder trial is scheduled to begin September eighth.
We've been covering that case since December. It's important to stay with a story, even when the details are difficult, because that's what journalism is.
It's what the schedule is.
Coming up after the break, we have animals doing things that will absolutely make you smile, and one of them involves baby goats, which Deb has admitted on this broadcast she finds charming.
I did not admit that.
You said they were acceptable.
Happy Animals is next.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Coming up, elephants celebrating their day, mysterious cats appearing in vacant lots, and a kitten who learned an important lesson about curiosity.
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is celebrating World Elephant Day with a special look at the African savanna elephants living in its Elephant Valley.
The park released video showing keepers preparing enrichment activities for the herd, including watermelon treats and specially designed puzzle feeders.
They remember each other. Elephants have been documented recognizing family members after decades apart, and they mourn their dead, and—
World Elephant Day is observed annually on August twelfth.
In Florida, wildlife experts believe someone may be trying to protect burrowing owls using an unconventional method.
Fake cats have been placed in a pair of Cape Coral vacant lots where burrowing owls nest. The cutouts appear designed to deter predators.
Do owls know what cats are?
Apparently someone thinks so.
In Oregon, firefighters in Corvallis responded to a home where a kitten got its head stuck through a hole in a piece of furniture.
Fire crews were able to free the kitten unharmed. The department described it as a curious little kitten who learned an important lesson.
No one is hurt, the kitten is fine, and Corvallis Fire posted a photo showing the rescue crew with the kitten afterward.
Still ahead tonight, we'll have SPORTS, including a developing story out of Richmond that affects two local programs and has contract implications.
Details in a few minutes.
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
We start overseas, where Chelsea played their opening match today and things got uncomfortable for midfielder Enzo Fernandez. The Argentine was booed by sections of his own crowd at Stamford Bridge.
Fernandez has been with the club since twenty twenty-three.
Right, but the fans were making their feelings known today. Elsewhere in that match, Morgan Rogers scored on his first appearance for the club, so that's a bright spot.
Meanwhile, Xabi Alonso is giving us a look at what could be his tactical blueprint for the season. The Bayer Leverkusen manager showed some interesting formations in their weekend fixture.
Alonso took over at Leverkusen in October twenty twenty-two.
He's building something there. You can see the philosophy taking shape. It's what I've always said about the European game, it's about vision, it's about—
They won the Bundesliga last season undefeated.
Which proves my point about vision.
Here at home, Trump's Patriot Games wrapped up this weekend in Washington. Two teenagers from each state competed as part of the celebration of America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary.
One hundred athletes total, competing in track and field, swimming, and basketball events. The final medal count had California in first with eleven medals, Texas second with nine.
Virginia finished with four.
Four medals, which is solid for a state our size. The Games were broadcast on—actually, Deb, did you see the coverage? Because I tried to find it Saturday and—
It was on the streaming service.
Right, but which one? Because I pay for three of them and I couldn't—
The one the government launched for the anniversary.
There's a government streaming service now.
Since March.
Alright. Well. Congratulations to all one hundred athletes. The closing ceremony featured performances and fireworks on the National Mall.
Locally, the Fairmont rec league playoffs continue tonight. Semifinals in both men's and women's divisions. Men's game tips off at seven, Ridge Hardware taking on Paulson Electric.
Ridge Hardware went eight and two in the regular season, but Paulson knocked them out in the semis last year. So there's history there. There's motivation.
Paulson went seven and three.
Seven and three, exactly, so it's anyone's game. And that's what makes playoff basketball so compelling. You can have all the regular season success you want, but when it comes down to it—
Ridge Hardware won last year's championship.
After losing the semi, yes. Different bracket. The point is, tonight's game matters.
Women's semi follows at eight-thirty, Westside Dental against Marion's Catering. That should be a good one. Both teams split their regular season meetings.
Deb, I was thinking. For the finals next week, we could do live updates during the broadcast. Maybe even send someone down there with a camera. Give it the full treatment.
We don't have anyone to send.
We have a field reporter.
Who's covering the planning commission meeting.
Right, but if we moved things around—
The finals are at seven. We're on at six.
...updates afterwards, then. Coming up on the next KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour, we'll have more on that Virginia State shooting investigation. Five people injured, multiple suspects still being sought by campus police.
Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact the tip line. We'll have the latest developments in just a few minutes.
That's the KRAK 11 Scoreboard. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. More news ahead.
Reporting behind this episode
- We learned 5 important things about the economy this week
- Five injured, one critically, in shooting at Virginia State University
- Five people and suspected gunman killed after mass shooting in US
- Watch: San Diego Zoo Safari Park celebrates World Elephant Day
- What to know about Trump's Patriot Games for high school athletes
- Five injured, one critically, in shooting at Virginia State University
- Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, authorities say
- Powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake kills at least 47 in Indonesia
- Thousands of Bonnie Tyler fans line the streets as coffin taken to Swansea home
- Inter sign England full-back Spence from Tottenham
- Family stranded at sea for 16 hours after jet ski capsized in Thailand
- Five people and suspected gunman killed after mass shooting in US
- 'Multiple suspects' after five found shot outside US university dorms
- Trump asks US Supreme Court to allow ballroom work to continue
- Flock boss admits surveillance firm took too long to act over police abuse
- Burnham ‘personally intervened’ over possible early prison release of grooming gang perpetrators
- How Americans deceive ourselves about slavery
- Watch: San Diego Zoo Safari Park celebrates World Elephant Day
- Watch: Mysterious cat cutouts placed in vacant lots as apparent owl deterrent
- Look: Firefighters rescue kitten with head stuck in furniture
- BBC seeks to subpoena Trump's family members in Panorama lawsuit
- Parents of baby girl killed at nursery fear unsafe sleeping ‘rife’ in sector across England
- Builders unearth €9m gold stash sealed in walls of Belgian property
- What to know about Trump's Patriot Games for high school athletes
- ICE detained a Venezuelan soccer pro. His case shows the immigration backlog crisis
- US missionary released following kidnap in Niger, Christian group says
- Three men will be executed on the same day as death penalties rise in US
- Fernandez booed by Chelsea fans as Alonso offers glimpse of blueprint