Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
Rescuers search for survivors of powerful 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 2026-08-16 03:52 UTC · 5 segments · 10 min · complete transcript below
Rundown
KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening, Wexler County. Krak eleven news at the top of the hour. I'm Chip Marlowe.
I'm Deb Sarkissian. The death toll from the Indonesia earthquake continues to rise tonight as rescuers search for survivors in West Java. We have the latest from the Red Cross on the ground.
This hour on Krak eleven: The World Desk brings you developments from Indonesia and updates on Hurricane Lala approaching Hawaii. Then, Criminal Intent. A veterinarian accused of murder, caught on security cameras in disguise.
Happy Animals examines a surge in secondhand book sales that may be feeding artificial intelligence. And Sports covers the Patriot Games, two teenagers from every state competing for America's two hundred and fiftieth.
Happy Animals is about books tonight.
It's a flexible format.
Still ahead on The World Desk: rescuers race against time in West Java. Hundreds of buildings destroyed. Thousands displaced. And Hawaii braces for a storm that has never happened before.
Stay with us.
THE WORLD DESK
Coming up next: the world desk.
We begin with Indonesia, where the death toll from Saturday's earthquake in West Java province has now risen to fifty-three. That is six more than we reported at the top of the hour.
The Red Cross has shelters up for about four thousand people. West Java is close to the capital, so response has been fast.
West Java is one hundred and twenty kilometers from Jakarta.
That's what I said.
Australia and Singapore have both offered aid. The rapid assessment we mentioned earlier is complete and teams are now coordinating supply distribution to the hardest-hit areas.
In the Middle East, those overnight Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon we reported earlier killed eleven people. Israel says it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after earlier attacks on Israeli soldiers.
The strikes hit multiple locations across southern Lebanon near the border zone. That border is ninety-five miles long.
And in Hawaii, Hurricane Lala continues to track toward the Big Island. The National Weather Service has updated its forecast and Lala is still category one with sustained winds of ninety miles per hour.
Governor Green activated the National Guard earlier today and evacuation centers in Hilo and Kona are open. Worst-case scenario calls for up to twenty-five inches of rain on Big Island.
The Big Island has not seen a direct hurricane hit since they started keeping accurate records in nineteen forty-nine. That is seventy-five years of close calls.
The last hurricane to make direct landfall on any Hawaiian island was Iwa in nineteen eighty-two, and that hit Kauai.
Which is also in Hawaii.
It is.
In Virginia, police are still searching for multiple suspects after five people were shot outside a residence hall at Virginia State University early Saturday morning. Officers responded around one-thirty A.M. local time.
All five victims are reported in stable condition. University officials have not confirmed whether those injured are students. The campus remains on lockdown pending an all-clear from police.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Virginia State Police immediately.
In the United Kingdom, a Somali man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing at a hotel used to house asylum seekers. Police have not released the suspect's name or age.
The victim is receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. The hotel's location has not been disclosed by authorities at this time.
That is the world desk for this hour.
Deb, before we go to break. That soup you brought in twenty-nineteen. Was that homemade or did you pick it up somewhere?
We're at time.
I just think it would be nice to know if you made it yourself or if there's a place in Fairmont that does a good chicken noodle because I have been looking.
We are at time, Chip.
Right.
Still ahead on KRAK Eleven News, Criminal Intent. A Wexler County veterinarian is facing charges tonight involving disguise, security cameras, and a scheme prosecutors say was eighteen months in the making.
That story is next.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Tonight on the blotter, a Tennessee town can finally breathe easy after a month-long manhunt for a suspect who is cold-blooded, approximately four feet long, and scaly.
An Asian water monitor lizard was taken into custody in Wartrace, Tennessee this week after evading capture for twenty-eight days. The suspect was known to frequent residential areas and showed no regard for property lines.
The lizard was reunited with its owner. No charges have been filed.
Well, you can't prosecute instinct, Deb. The animal was simply doing what nature intended, which in this case was terrifying an entire neighborhood for four weeks.
Nature did not intend for it to be in Tennessee.
In Oregon, a veterinarian has been accused of murder in a case that prosecutors say involved disguises, stalking, and extensive planning. Dr. Steven Milner is charged with killing Kenneth Fandrich, the husband of a former employee.
Security cameras captured footage that detectives say was critical to identifying the suspect. Milner has not entered a plea.
Back to the strange, a Chinese man has broken the world record for spinning hula hoops while suspended upside down. The new record is thirty-three hoops, all spinning simultaneously around his body.
That is more hula hoops than most people can lift.
It is a testament to human achievement, Deb. This man looked at the laws of physics and said, not today.
He obeyed every law of physics. That is why the hoops stayed on.
Also from the world of competitive recreation, an Idaho man has set his second Hungry Hungry Hippos world record, this time playing solo. David Rush cleared all the marbles in fourteen-point-six seconds.
Rush previously set the record with his family. This was faster.
You know what they say about hungry hippos. The fewer players, the more marbles per person, the faster the—
Don't.
Coming up in just a few minutes, we have animals who did not evade capture for a month, did not require security footage, and are looking for homes right here in Wexler County.
Happy Animals is next.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Time now for the Good News Desk.
A retirement community in Japan is teaching seniors parkour to help prevent falls and injuries. Participants are learning to vault over low obstacles, roll safely, and navigate courses designed by professional instructors.
The program reports a forty percent reduction in fall-related injuries among participants over six months. Japan has one of the world's oldest populations.
That's wonderful. That's people staying in their lives longer.
Closer to home, a Wexler County woman adopted a senior dog after her own retriever passed away in March. The dog, a twelve-year-old beagle named Walter, had been at the shelter for seven months.
The shelter says senior dogs wait an average of four times longer for adoption than puppies.
Walter's new owner says he already knows his name and prefers the couch to the dog bed. Good for Walter.
And a Fairmont woman is teaching her African grey parrot the color brown. Edison already knows six colors correctly but keeps identifying brown objects as orange.
To be fair to Edison, brown is just dark orange.
No it isn't.
His owner says Edison is making progress and may have brown mastered by summer.
Coming up, we have an update on tonight's World Desk. Plus, what's happening in sports.
That's next on KRAK 11 News.
SPORTS
Sports.
We begin tonight with a historic night in Rome. Dina Asher-Smith is now the most decorated British woman in European Championship history with nine medals total after Great Britain swept both relay finals today.
The men's four-by-one-hundred team won gold with a time of thirty-seven point-nine-two seconds. France took silver, Italy bronze.
That's two relay golds in one night. When you have that kind of depth across the program, you're not just winning meets, you're building dynasties.
It's one championship.
A historic one.
That part is accurate.
Closer to home, the Fairmont Hawks took on Riverside in varsity baseball last night and came up short. Final score seven to three, Riverside. Hawks fall to four and six on the season.
Three errors in the sixth inning. That's where it came apart.
You can't give a team like Riverside that many chances and expect to stay in it. The fundamentals matter, especially this late in the season when every game counts toward seeding.
They play Oakmont on Wednesday.
Big game. Oakmont's five and five, so if the Hawks can clean up the defense, they're right back in the playoff conversation.
If.
Well, yes, it's conditional, that's why I said if.
You did.
Over in the NBA, the draft lottery took place this afternoon. The Washington Wizards secured the number one overall pick. Detroit gets the second pick, Portland the third.
Wizards finished the season fourteen and sixty-eight.
Worst record in the league. You tank that hard, you better hit on the pick or you've wasted two years of a rebuild.
The draft is in June.
Cooper Flagg is the presumptive pick, though I've heard some noise about the kid from France. Either way, Washington needs to make a decision and commit, because if you overthink this kind of thing, you end up with analysis paralysis and the moment passes you by.
They have six weeks.
I'm just saying you can overthink it.
You can.
In college football, spring practice is wrapping up across the country. Alabama held their A-Day game on Saturday. Crimson beat White twenty-four to seventeen in front of seventy-one thousand fans in Tuscaloosa.
Seventy-one thousand people attended a scrimmage.
It's Alabama. They take their football seriously down there. You want to see what the offense looks like under the new coordinator, you show up in April. That's fan commitment.
The season starts in September.
Deb. That thing you said earlier, about the if. I wasn't trying to —
We're at time.
We have ninety seconds.
Coming up on the next KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour, we'll have an update on campus security at Virginia State following Saturday's shooting. Five students remain hospitalized, and the university says new protocols are now in effect.
Plus reaction from local law enforcement on what those protocols could mean for schools here in Wexler County.
That's the next KRAK 11 News, at the top of the hour.
Thanks for watching.
Reporting behind this episode
- Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
- Security video helps lead to a masked killer who tried to hide the crime
- Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
- What to know about Trump's Patriot Games for high school athletes
- Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
- Multiple suspects at large after five shot at Virginia State University, police say
- Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, authorities say
- Arrest after stabbing at a hotel used to house asylum seekers
- Morocco detains dozens of migrants trying to cross into Ceuta, reports say
- Hawaii braces for potential first direct hit by a hurricane in 34 years
- Security video helps lead to a masked killer who tried to hide the crime
- Fact-checking Trump's claims as he rolls back some recommended vaccines
- Look: Large lizard caught after nearly a month on the loose in Tennessee
- Watch: Man spins 33 hula hoops while upside down to break world record
- Watch: Idaho man goes solo for his second Hungry Hungry Hippos world record
- What Next For Nigel Farage After The Clacton By-Election?
- Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
- Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
- The Polygamist's author says women see themselves reflected in her Netflix hit
- I wish I had been a more rebellious teenager, says Bella Ramsey
- How is parkour helping these seniors avoid injuries?
- Why are 'human fridges' being sold in Japan?
- What to know about Trump's Patriot Games for high school athletes
- Are robotaxis finally here?
- 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
- ICE detained a Venezuelan soccer pro. His case shows the immigration backlog crisis
- Hunt wins third gold as Asher-Smith makes history