Hawaii braces for potential first direct hit by a hurricane in 34 years
Hawaii braces for potential first direct hit by a hurricane in 34 years. 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
It's the top of the hour. You are watching KRAK 11 News, Fairmont's number one rated newscast, this is our tenth year at this desk, and we have got a full hour ahead.
The World Desk — eleven dead in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. Criminal Intent — an escaped python burns down a middle school in Virginia. Happy Animals — a black bear goes for a swim in California. And Sports — the Patriot Games continue on the National Mall.
Eight classrooms.
What.
The python damaged eight classrooms. The school is not burned down.
Still ahead — The World Desk has the latest from Lebanon, where the strikes happened in response to what Israel describes as action against its soldiers. We will have that in a few minutes.
THE WORLD DESK
THE WORLD DESK
Hawaii is bracing for what could be its first direct hurricane strike in thirty-four years. Category one Hurricane Lala is tracking toward Big Island with sustained winds of ninety miles per hour.
The Big Island has only seen three direct hits in recorded history. The last one was nineteen ninety.
Nineteen ninety-two.
Either way it's been a long time. Forecasters say worst-case scenario puts twenty-five inches of rain on the island in forty-eight hours.
Emergency services have opened twelve shelters and the governor has activated the National Guard. Landfall is expected late Sunday night local time.
To Indonesia, where officials say the death toll from yesterday's earthquake has reached forty-seven and rescue crews are still pulling survivors from collapsed buildings.
A rapid assessment team is cataloging damage to over four hundred buildings. Most of the casualties are in a twelve-block radius of the epicenter.
Indonesia gets about seven percent of the world's earthquakes because of its position on the Ring of Fire.
Thirteen percent.
The point is it's a geologically active region and these events are not uncommon there. Rescue operations are expected to continue through the weekend.
To Britain. A consultation period on backstop funding rules for English football clubs closes in six weeks. The proposed regulator would increase funding to lower league teams by two hundred million pounds annually.
That's three point three percent of the Premier League's six billion in annual revenue, which doesn't sound like much when you put it that way.
It's two hundred million pounds.
Right. The backstop would guarantee that funding even if the Premier League objects. Public comment on the proposal remains open until the end of April.
And Amy Hunt won her third gold medal at the European Athletics Championships this afternoon, putting her one event away from a historic quadruple. The four-by-one-hundred relay final is Sunday.
No British athlete has ever won four golds at a single European Championship. Hunt's already taken the hundred meters, the two hundred, and the four-by-four relay.
And Dina Asher-Smith anchored that relay. She's now the most decorated British athlete in European Championship history with twelve career medals.
That's what happens when you trust the people you're running with. You hand it off and you know they'll finish what you started.
They practice for four years.
I'm aware.
Are you.
The final airs live Sunday morning on the European Athletics broadcast. We'll have results for you Monday.
To Virginia. Police have released the names of two of the five people shot outside residence halls at Virginia State University early this morning. Both are students. Both are in stable condition.
The other three victims have not been identified. Multiple suspects remain at large and police say the investigation is active.
The university has not announced whether classes will resume Monday. A vigil is scheduled for Sunday evening on campus.
We'll stay on that story. Still ahead, two men walk into a Fairmont pawn shop carrying the same stolen television. Neither one knew the other had it. That's CRIMINAL INTENT in a few minutes.
One of them had the box.
We're back in ninety seconds.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Coming up: a python with an alibi, a tortoise who walked twelve miles, and a treadmill runner who may have lost her mind.
We begin tonight with what fire investigators are calling the strangest arson case in Virginia history. A python escaped its enclosure at Forest Middle School, knocked over a heat lamp, and started a fire that damaged eight classrooms.
Firefighters said the python is not a suspect. It's a witness.
The snake, whose name has not been released, is six feet long and was being kept in the school's science lab. Investigators believe it escaped sometime after midnight and was attempting to reach a heat source when it knocked over the lamp.
The school district says the snake has been recovered and is unharmed. Eight classrooms sustained smoke and water damage. No injuries were reported.
Classes resume Monday. The snake will not be in attendance.
In Manitoba, a fifteen-year-old African spurred tortoise who escaped two weeks ago was found at a nature preserve more than twelve miles from home. The tortoise, named Molly, was located at Oak Hammock Marsh on Tuesday.
Twelve miles. In two weeks. That's point eight five miles per day. This is a person of interest who wanted to be found.
Molly's owner said the tortoise has no history of escape attempts and they're not sure how she got out. She was returned home in good health.
Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead Friday at a home in southwest London. He was thirty-seven. Police said there are no suspicious circumstances.
Arday became Cambridge's youngest Black professor in twenty twenty-three. He had recently been accused of plagiarism in multiple academic papers. The university had not completed its review.
Back to the blotter. A fitness influencer broke the Guinness World Record for running one hundred miles on a treadmill. She completed the distance in twelve hours, forty-seven minutes, and ten seconds.
She's forty-four years old. The previous record was thirteen hours, two minutes.
Twelve hours on a treadmill. No scenery. No weather. Just you and the machine and the miles. That is not a crime but it should be investigated.
Guinness confirmed the record on Tuesday. She completed the run in California.
Still ahead tonight: we have good news about animals who are not setting fires or walking to other provinces.
Happy Animals is next. We'll tell you about a rescue that happened in under an hour and did not require a helicopter.
That's a tease, Deb.
It's accurate.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Time now for the good news desk.
A pet goose in Fort Bend County, Texas is being called a hero after waking a family to alert them their barn was on fire early Thursday morning.
The goose, named Goosey, made enough noise outside the family's bedroom window that they woke up and saw flames. All livestock were evacuated safely.
The goose knew. Knew something was wrong, knew where the people were, and did not stop until they were awake.
Fire Marshal says the barn is a total loss but the house was not damaged. Goosey is fine.
In Sierra Madre, California, a large black bear stopped by a backyard pool Wednesday afternoon and went for a swim while the homeowner filmed from inside.
The bear spent about twelve minutes in the pool, got out, shook off, and walked back into the hills. No damage to the property.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife says bears use pools to cool down during heat waves and residents should stay indoors if one shows up.
The homeowner said the bear was polite.
That is the standard we are using now.
Coming up, a story out of high school sports that involves a record nobody saw coming and a decision that has parents on both sides of the issue.
That's ahead on SPORTS.
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
We begin with what was supposed to be preseason football. Chelsea drew one-one with Fulham at Stamford Bridge under new manager Xabi Alonso, who is building something we have not quite seen the shape of yet.
Morgan Rogers scored on his first appearance for Chelsea. He was signed from Middlesbrough for eighteen million pounds in June.
There was also some drama in the stands. Enzo Fernandez was booed by sections of the Chelsea support. No word yet on whether that continues into the regular season, but it is not the start you want when your manager is trying to install a system.
The system appears to involve Morgan Rogers.
That is one way to quiet the boos.
Staying overseas. Amy Hunt won her third gold medal at the European Athletics Championships in Rome this afternoon. She took the two hundred meters in twenty-two point one eight seconds, her second individual gold of the week.
Hunt has now won the hundred meters, the two hundred meters, and ran the anchor leg on the four-by-four relay. She is one event away from a historic quadruple.
The four-by-one-hundred relay final is Sunday morning on the European Athletics broadcast. If Great Britain wins, Hunt becomes the first athlete in championship history to win four golds in a single meet.
And Dina Asher-Smith, who anchored that four-by-four relay earlier this week, now has twelve career European Championship medals. That is the most by any British athlete in any sport.
Twelve medals across four championships.
Now, Deb, I have been thinking about this. If Hunt wins tomorrow, she will have done something nobody has ever done. That is the definition of greatness. You cannot teach that level of performance under pressure.
You can teach it. They train for four years.
Right. Well. We will see Sunday morning.
Back here at home, the Patriot Games wrap up this weekend in Washington. Medal ceremonies are scheduled for Sunday night on the National Mall with performances from three military bands and what organizers are calling a tribute to the American spirit.
Two hundred high school athletes representing all fifty states competed in track, swimming, and basketball as part of the celebration of America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
The games have been running since Tuesday. Final results and a full medal count will be released Sunday night after the ceremony.
Two teenagers from each state. That is four hundred total participants, not two hundred.
I said two hundred athletes.
Two from each state is four hundred.
Organizers said two hundred in the release.
Then organizers cannot count.
Moving on. In oddball lottery news, a Maryland man bought two identical tickets for the same Pick Five drawing last week. Both tickets won fifty thousand dollars, for a total prize of one hundred thousand.
The man told lottery officials he plays the same numbers every week and accidentally bought a second ticket with the same numbers for the same drawing.
That is not an accident. That is a system. And the system worked.
The system is called buying two tickets.
Still works.
And finally tonight, police in Ecuador have seized one thousand pounds of cocaine. The packages were hidden in a truck's false bottom and each one was covered with stickers of Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland.
Police released video showing the packages spilling out from the compartment. No arrests have been announced.
I do not know what is stranger. Using Haaland's face as a brand, or the fact that somebody thought that was good marketing.
It is evidence now.
That is the KRAK 11 Scoreboard. Coming up at the top of the hour on the next KRAK 11 News, we are tracking Hurricane Lala as it continues toward Hawaii's Big Island. Landfall is expected late Sunday night local time with sustained winds at ninety miles per hour.
The National Guard has been activated and twelve shelters are open. Worst-case scenario is twenty-five inches of rain in forty-eight hours.
We will have the latest tracking and what residents need to know before landfall. That is next on KRAK 11 News.
We'll see you at the top of the hour.
Reporting behind this episode
- Watch: Woman completes 100-mile treadmill run in record time
- Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, authorities say
- Watch: Escaped python starts fire at Virginia middle school
- Watch: Large black bear takes a swim in California resident's pool
- What to know about Trump's Patriot Games for high school athletes
- Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, authorities say
- Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
- Multiple suspects at large after five shot at Virginia State University, police say
- Hawaii braces for potential first direct hit by a hurricane in 34 years
- Hunt wins third gold as Asher-Smith makes history
- The Papers: UK-made drones 'strike Russia' and 'phone theft Britain'
- Watch: Escaped python starts fire at Virginia middle school
- Look: Escaped tortoise found after 2 weeks, over 12 miles from home
- Jason Arday, Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism, is found dead
- Are robotaxis finally here?
- State Department spokesperson on Iran war and U.S. visa revocations
- Watch: Large black bear takes a swim in California resident's pool
- Watch: Pet goose hailed as a hero for alerting sleeping family to barn fire
- VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event
- South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North
- Many Canadians are boycotting the US, so this is where they're travelling instead
- Five years after the Taliban swept to power, does the West have any influence?
- 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
- Rashford returns as AC Milan highlight issues facing Carrick
- Fernandez booed by Chelsea fans as Alonso offers glimpse of blueprint
- Maryland man buys two tickets for one lottery drawing, wins twice
- Police seize 1,000 pounds of cocaine with stickers of soccer star