Powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake kills at least 47 in Indonesia

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News, six o'clock.

This hour: The World Desk with breaking developments from Indonesia, where a magnitude seven point seven earthquake has killed at least thirty-eight people. Criminal Intent: Luigi Mangione pleads guilty in federal court to shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Happy Animals brings you what may be the strangest rescue of the week. And Sports wraps up coverage of the Patriot Games, where one state walked away with more medals than anyone expected.

The Patriot Games wrapped up yesterday.

Coverage continues. Coming up in a few minutes on The World Desk: why the death toll from Indonesia's earthquake is expected to climb, and what rescue crews are facing as they search collapsed buildings in the dark.

That's next on KRAK 11 News.

THE WORLD DESK

This region sits right in the southern Pacific volcanic zone, which makes events like this unfortunately common.

The Ring of Fire encircles the entire Pacific basin. Forty thousand kilometers.

Which is what I said.

The search is focused on three villages where buildings pancaked during the initial shock. Communications remain limited and heavy equipment can't reach some areas until crews clear the roads.

Aftershocks continue to hamper rescue efforts, and Indonesian authorities say they're bringing in additional teams from neighboring provinces to assist with the search.

The strikes came after Hezbollah forces moved into positions along the border zone, extending their operational reach into areas that have traditionally been—

Hezbollah operates in southern Lebanon.

That's the border zone.

The Lebanese health ministry says four children are among the dead. The UN has called for restraint from both sides.

Belgian authorities are calling it the worst wildfire in recent memory. The park sits in the eastern highlands, which share some geological features with the Alpine foothills further south.

Right, the Belgian Alps preserve.

Belgium doesn't have alps.

I said highlands.

No evacuations were ordered, but smoke from the fire was visible from the Dutch border. Investigators believe the fire started from an unattended campfire, though that has not been confirmed.

Smyth was twenty-two. He was studying at the University of Edinburgh and had been traveling through Eastern Europe during a semester break. His family has been notified.

The Carpathians are part of the same mountain system as the Alps, running through what used to be Yugoslavia and extending all the way to—

The Carpathians are a separate range. Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine.

I'm aware of where they are, Deb.

Romanian mountain rescue says weather conditions in the area have been severe, with temperatures dropping below freezing overnight. The exact cause of death has not been released.

Our thoughts are with his family tonight.

They are.

When we come back, we're looking at a case that has Wexler County investigators asking a question they don't often ask: why would someone break into the same house three times in one week?

CRIMINAL INTENT is next.

Stay with us.

Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.

And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Tonight: a thousand pounds of cocaine, decorated with soccer stickers.

Branding. On contraband. The person of interest responsible for that decision is having a very different conversation with their associates tonight.

Police allege.

He walked through security with ten million dollars in stolen art and his own carry-on.

That is the level of operational planning we are dealing with. Three minutes to steal the paintings, and he is detained at the airport holding a duffel bag with a Cezanne in it.

Police say.

Deb. Before we go to break. The thing we covered in twenty-eleven. The Japan earthquake.

We're at time.

Still ahead: Happy Animals. A kitten, some furniture, and a fire department with nothing better to do for twelve minutes. That story when we come back.

Time now for the Good News Desk.

Marine biologists say the dolphin swam away strong and is expected to make a full recovery. They stayed together. The whole time.

Eighteen months.

That's how long it takes.

Fewer than ten thousand.

Which is why the cubs matter.

Coming up in just a few minutes, we'll have sports. The Wexler County rec league championship went to overtime tonight, and you're going to want to see how it ended.

Stay with us.

Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.

Paulson led six to five going into the bottom of the seventh before Ridge scored nine unanswered. Championship baseball right there.

Ridge Hardware was nine and two in the regular season.

Eight and two.

They beat Paulson in week three. That makes nine.

The backstop would kick in automatically if Premier League clubs and the English Football League can't agree on how to split television revenue. Some analysts are calling it the nuclear option.

The consultation period runs through September. The regulator says the backstop is designed to prevent stalemate, not replace negotiation.

Good. Because when you regulate competition, you get what the Soviet hockey team had. Discipline, no personality, and nobody watching.

The Soviet team won seven Olympic gold medals.

Enzo Fernandez was booed by sections of the home crowd after a turnover in the fifty-third minute. Alonso substituted him twelve minutes later. Morgan Rogers came on and scored Chelsea's equalizer in the eighty-seventh.

Rogers was making his first appearance for Chelsea after signing from Aston Villa last month.

First touch, first goal. The blueprint is working faster than anyone expected.

It was his first touch.

Right. Exactly.

The league added two new fields at Morrison Park after the county approved funding in June. First matches are scheduled for late March, weather permitting.

League coordinator says they're still looking for volunteer coaches. Details are on the Wexler County Parks website.

Great opportunity for parents who want to give back. I coached youth soccer for three seasons in the mid-nineties and the kids really respond when you teach them the fundamentals of positioning and field awareness.

You coached T-ball.

I coached both.

For one season. Nineteen ninety-seven. The league has it on file because parents had to sign liability waivers.

The waiver was standard procedure. Every coach signed the same form and it had nothing to do with the incident with the bases.

Coming up on the next KRAK 11 News, at the top of the hour: the Wexler County commission still hasn't passed a budget after a second emergency meeting ran past midnight. Three commissioners walked out. We'll tell you what happens next and what it means for county services starting Monday.

That's the KRAK 11 Scoreboard. We'll see you at the top of the hour.