Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon
Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. 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 2026-08-16 02:55 UTC · 5 segments · 11 min · complete transcript below
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Coming up this hour: The World Desk with the search for survivors in Indonesia after a powerful earthquake kills forty-seven and destroys hundreds of buildings.
We're tracking a surveillance company CEO apologizing after law enforcement officers allegedly abuse the technology. Happy Animals has France blocking a social media ban for children.
Happy Animals.
And in Sports, robotaxis are finally available for hire in some American cities after years of development. That's the full hour ahead on KRAK 11 News.
Still ahead on The World Desk: officials in Indonesia say a rapid assessment is under way to determine the full extent of the damage from Tuesday's earthquake.
We'll have that when we come back.
THE WORLD DESK
Welcome back.
We turn now to international developments. In southern Lebanon, authorities say eleven people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight. Israel's military says it struck what it describes as Hezbollah terror infrastructure in response to earlier action against its soldiers.
This is in the southern region, near the Israeli border, where tensions have been escalating for weeks.
The border is ninety-five miles long.
That's the contested portion. The full border is longer.
The full border is ninety-five miles long.
We'll continue to monitor that situation. The State Department has not yet commented.
In entertainment news, Ariana Grande begins a ten-date run in London tonight. It's the UK leg of what her team is calling a farewell tour. Grande says after these shows she will be stepping back from public life.
She's been dealing with a lot personally. This is probably a good move for her, career-wise and otherwise.
The tour was announced before the personal matters became public.
Right, but the timing works out in her favor now that everything's out in the open.
We have no information about what prompted the decision.
Fair enough. Tickets for the London shows sold out in under four hours. The O2 Arena holds twenty thousand people per night.
In Indonesia, the death toll from Saturday's earthquake has now risen to fifty-three. That's six more than the initial count we reported earlier tonight. Rescue operations continue in West Java province where officials say the rapid assessment is now complete.
That's near Jakarta, where the population density makes rescue efforts particularly challenging.
West Java is one hundred and twenty kilometers from Jakarta.
Which is why I said near.
One hundred and twenty kilometers is seventy-five miles. Jakarta has a population of ten million. The affected area does not include the capital.
The humanitarian concern is obviously the same regardless of proximity to the capital. Hundreds of buildings destroyed, families displaced, and rescue teams are still pulling survivors from collapsed structures.
The Indonesian Red Cross says temporary shelters have been established for approximately four thousand people. The government is coordinating international aid offers from Australia and Singapore.
In Hawaii, the Big Island continues to prepare for Hurricane Lala. We reported earlier that forecasters are calling this the first potential direct hit in thirty-four years. The National Weather Service has now updated its rainfall projections.
In a worst-case scenario, the storm could dump up to twenty-five inches of rain. Lala is currently a category one hurricane with sustained winds of ninety miles per hour.
The last hurricane to hit the Big Island directly was Iwa in nineteen-eighty-two. That storm caused over two hundred million dollars in damage.
Iwa hit Kauai.
It hit multiple islands in the chain.
Iwa made landfall on Kauai. The Big Island has not taken a direct hit from a hurricane since accurate record-keeping began in nineteen-forty-nine.
Well, they're about to. Governor Green has activated the National Guard and opened evacuation centers in Hilo and Kona. Landfall is expected late Sunday night Hawaii time.
We'll have updates as conditions change.
Deb, before we go to break. That soup you brought in twenty-nineteen. You made that yourself, didn't you.
We're at time.
We have ninety seconds.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, a Wexler County man faces his third felony charge this year after allegedly breaking into the same convenience store twice in one weekend. That story is next in Criminal Intent.
We'll be right back.
CRIMINAL INTENT
We begin the blotter tonight with an urgent situation in Portland, Oregon.
Two suspects entered a TriMet transit station Tuesday afternoon, evaded multiple barriers, and briefly boarded a public bus before fleeing on foot.
The suspects were goats.
Two animals of interest, Deb. No one has claimed ownership. Transit police are reviewing surveillance footage to determine their point of origin.
They got off the bus and left.
In Washington D.C., the bomb squad closed two blocks of rush hour traffic Tuesday after a suspicious device was reported outside Engine Company Seven.
The object was identified as an adult toy. The street reopened after forty minutes.
MPD says the item was, quote, left unattended. No charges have been filed. They are not actively searching for the owner.
A high school football player in Maumelle, Arkansas made an unusual discovery Monday when he put on his helmet before practice.
A venomous cottonmouth snake was hiding beneath the padding. The student noticed movement, removed the helmet, and the snake was safely relocated.
That is the second snake story out of the region this week. A woman in Lebanon, Tennessee captured video of a snake slithering across the hood of her car while she was driving.
The animal had apparently been living under the hood. She pulled over, the snake dropped into the grass, and she continued to work.
Which is more than the suspect did.
The CEO of Flock Safety issued a public apology Tuesday after multiple reports that law enforcement officers allegedly misused the company's surveillance technology.
Flock announced operational changes in response to the allegations. No criminal charges have been filed.
Deb, you bring the snake story every time.
I read what the wire sends.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News: a museum that took ninety years to build, toys you thought were gone forever, and the woman who kept them all.
That's next.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Time now for the Good News Desk.
A blind golden retriever in Fairmont has a new companion. Seven-year-old Maple lost her sight last year to glaucoma, and her family adopted a three-month-old puppy named Scout who now acts as her guide.
The family says Scout learned the layout of their home in two days and now walks alongside Maple on every trip through the house and yard.
That is... that's just remarkable. A puppy that young knowing exactly what to do.
In other animal news tonight, the Wexler County Animal Shelter held its first adoption event of the year Saturday and found homes for eighteen cats and dogs.
The shelter says that's the most successful single-day event they've had in four years. They're planning another one for June.
And we have an update on Captain, the dog we told you about last month. His owner has completed installation of a new fence and Captain has not been cited since April twenty-third.
Three weeks without incident.
Progress is progress, Deb.
It is.
A Wexler County woman is teaching her parrot to identify colors, and the bird has learned six so far. The parrot, a ten-year-old African grey named Edison, can now correctly name red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and purple when shown colored cards.
His owner says she's working on brown next, but Edison keeps calling it orange.
Coming up in just a few minutes, we'll have scores from around the region and a look at what could be a very wet weekend for high school baseball. That's Sports, next on KRAK 11 News.
Stay with us.
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
Manchester United wrapped up their preseason tonight with a four-two loss to AC Milan in Poland. Marcus Rashford made his return to the squad after missing the previous three friendlies.
Rashford played sixty-three minutes. No goals, two shots on target.
That's what you call getting your legs under you. AC Milan's new manager Ruben Amorim is installing a three-four-three system and it showed. High press, vertical passing, exactly what you want to see in August.
They conceded four goals.
In a preseason friendly.
Four to two.
Chelsea drew one-one with Fulham yesterday at Stamford Bridge. Xabi Alonso's first home match as manager. Enzo Fernandez was booed by sections of the Chelsea support during warmups and again when he touched the ball in the first half.
The crowd turned after his tackle on Morgan Rogers in the thirty-fourth minute. Rogers scored his first goal for Aston Villa on the counter six minutes later.
Alonso pulled Fernandez at halftime, brought on Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, and Chelsea equalized in the seventy-first. A point's a point but you do not want your home crowd turning on a player in August.
Or any month.
Amy Hunt won her third gold medal today at the European Athletics Championships in Rome. Great Britain took gold in the women's four-by-one-hundred relay with a time of forty-one point nine-seven seconds. Dina Asher-Smith anchored the team and became the first British woman to win nine European Championship medals.
Hunt won the one hundred meters and two hundred meters earlier in the week. She runs in tomorrow's four-by-one-hundred final at two-fifteen Eastern, going for a fourth gold.
A quadruple. Only three athletes have ever done that at a single European Championships. Hunt's twenty-two years old and she is chasing history in Rome tomorrow afternoon.
The final is at two-fifteen. We will have results on the five o'clock hour.
Now. Remember that story we did about the robotaxis? The future-is-now, self-driving cars for hire, supposed to revolutionize transportation?
We covered that an hour ago.
I am setting up context. The robotaxi story has a sports angle nobody's talking about. These cars are fully autonomous, no driver, and they are operating in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles right now. What does that do to the athlete commute?
Nothing.
Professional athletes drive themselves to practice, to games, to team facilities. A robotaxi means they can review film on the way in, get treatment, make calls, and arrive fresh. It is a competitive advantage.
Professional athletes have drivers.
Not all of them.
The ones making enough to care about a competitive advantage do.
Ten years from now we will look back and say the robotaxi was the moment transportation became part of the training regimen. Mark it down.
We will not say that.
You watch.
I am watching right now and it is not a sports story.
We have covered stranger.
We have.
Coming up on the next KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour, we will have an update on the Wexler County youth soccer league's fundraising drive. They are closing in on their goal for new equipment and the raffle results will be in. That is next.
Thank you for watching.
Good night.
Reporting behind this episode
- Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
- Flock CEO responds to abuses of its surveillance technology
- France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
- Are robotaxis finally here?
- 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
- BBC seeks to subpoena Trump's family members in Panorama lawsuit
- Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, authorities say
- Ariana Grande leaves problems at home as her tour hits the UK
- Flock CEO responds to abuses of its surveillance technology
- Trump dismisses concerns about conditions on US aircraft carrier
- Watch: Snake slithers across hood of moving car in Tennessee
- Watch: D.C. bomb squad identifies suspicious device as adult toy
- Watch: Two loose goats visit Oregon transit station, board bus
- Look: High school football player finds cottonmouth snake inside helmet
- France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
- Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule
- Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers
- 'Unprecedented' rain in Japan kills eight people
- Instagram accounts fuelling Ceuta crisis with paid advice for help to cross
- Zambia vote counting resumes after pause over alleged attacks on polling staff
- Are robotaxis finally here?
- ICE detained a Venezuelan soccer pro. His case shows the immigration backlog crisis
- Hunt wins third gold as Asher-Smith makes history
- 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