Aid shortages and fears of starvation as Indonesia reels from deadly earthquake
Aid shortages and fears of starvation as Indonesia reels from deadly 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.
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour.
Coming up this hour: The World Desk with aid shortages and growing fears of starvation as Indonesia tries to recover from Saturday's deadly earthquake. Criminal Intent, where a Microsoft executive stands trial for an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving his ex-wife. Happy Animals.
Just Happy Animals.
And Sports, where a boxer from the Pacific island of Tuvalu has made Commonwealth Games history in a way nobody expected. All of that this hour on KRAK 11.
First tonight, The World Desk is up in just a few minutes with the latest from Indonesia, where fifty-three people are confirmed dead and thousands more have been displaced since Saturday's earthquake.
Aid is not reaching the hardest-hit areas fast enough, and officials are warning about the risk of starvation in remote communities cut off by damaged roads. That story is next.
I've got it.
Got what.
The sign-off. Listen. 'That's the news, and that's the truth, and that's Chip Marlowe.'
No.
Why not.
Because you sound like a man selling tires.
ok, How about Thanks, thats news assholes!!
you are so dramatic.
If you could just help, that would be nice.
Sixty seconds.
Well.. thats news assholes!! We will go with that.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Tonight we begin with the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Indonesia.
Indonesia, of course, shares a border with Thailand and Malaysia, making relief efforts particularly complex given the regional coordination required.
Indonesia is an archipelago. It shares maritime boundaries with several nations but no land borders with Thailand.
Maritime, yes. That's what I said.
Aid agencies are reporting critical shortages of food, water, and medical supplies following Saturday's earthquake. Fifty-three people are confirmed dead. Thousands have been displaced.
The quake struck in the early morning hours local time, collapsing buildings and severing supply routes. International relief organizations are now racing against what aid workers are calling a narrow window.
The Indonesian government has requested emergency assistance from neighboring countries and the United Nations is coordinating airlift operations.
To Eastern Europe now, where violence continues along the Russian border.
Ukrainian strikes have killed six people in Russia's Belgorod region, according to the acting regional governor. Among the dead, a fourteen-year-old child. Four others were injured.
Belgorod has been a focal point throughout the conflict, given its proximity to Ukraine's eastern industrial corridor, which has been contested since the early phases.
Belgorod is a Russian city forty kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The contested industrial corridor is in Ukraine.
Which is why proximity matters.
Russian officials have not yet attributed the strikes to a specific Ukrainian unit. No further details have been released.
To Scotland now, where a woman has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting to murder a toddler by administering adult medication.
Laura Docherty was convicted of what the presiding judge called a wicked crime. The judge imposed an order for lifelong restriction, which is Scotland's equivalent of an indeterminate sentence.
The child, whose identity is protected under Scottish law, survived and is now in protective custody. Docherty showed no visible reaction as the sentence was read.
The court heard that Docherty had access to prescription medication not intended for pediatric use and administered it over a period of several days.
Prosecutors argued the dosage levels indicated clear intent. The defense did not dispute the evidence.
She will be eligible for parole review in fourteen years, though release is not guaranteed.
Deb, before we go to break.
We're at time.
Twenty seconds. If someone were watching this segment for the first time, no prior knowledge of the hour, would the Indonesia coverage read as informed?
It would read as coverage of Indonesia.
That's a yes.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News: a man arrested on Route 9 with sixteen identical microwaves. Why investigators say the serial numbers told the whole story. That's Criminal Intent, next.
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Do you believe in prayer.
What.
Prayer. Manifestation. The power of positive thinking.
What did you do.
I sent an email.
To who.
The station owner.
What did it say.
It was meant for you.
Oh god.
Ya, it was late, I was drunk, what can I say.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Welcome back to KRAK 11 News.
Matthew Hargrove remains the standard by which all airport security failures are measured in this newsroom.
He brought a fueled chainsaw through TSA and told them he'd removed the chain.
The chain was still attached. Tonight, prosecutors in Florida are preparing opening statements in a case that makes Hargrove look like a man of caution and restraint.
A Microsoft executive is accused of orchestrating the murder of his ex-wife's former husband. Jared Bridegan was shot multiple times outside his vehicle in February of twenty-twenty-two while his two-year-old daughter was strapped in a car seat inside.
The suspect is alleged to have hired a gunman. Prosecutors say the motive was custody of the children from the previous marriage.
The trial is expected to last three weeks. The child was unharmed.
In local news, Derek Montrose appeared in Wexler County Court this morning for sentencing. You will recall Montrose as the man arrested with sixteen identical microwaves.
All sixteen matched serial numbers from thefts at the Wexler Storage Complex. Judge Henriksen sentenced Montrose to eighteen months and ordered restitution of four thousand dollars.
Montrose told the court he intended to sell the microwaves at a flea market but could not explain why he needed sixteen of them in a single trip.
Police said Montrose's vehicle was, quote, visibly sagging under the weight.
Thomas Kelner, the Fairmont man sentenced last month for operating an unlicensed veterinary clinic out of a laundromat, has filed an appeal. Kelner claims he was denied the right to present expert testimony about his training.
His training was instructional videos. Two dogs died under his care.
The appeal is expected to be heard in October. And Linda Vasquez, who pleaded guilty to coupon fraud involving over four thousand counterfeit coupons, has been ordered to pay seventy-three thousand dollars in restitution to eleven separate retailers.
Vasquez was caught using a coupon bearing the name Dr. Gregory House from the television program that ended in two thousand twelve.
Prosecutors said the coupon offered a hundred percent discount on a cart totaling six hundred and forty dollars.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, a dog that showed up at a fire station every day for six weeks has completed obedience training and now rides along on calls. That story and more in just a moment.
Stay with us.
I'm just saying, you have a wonderful smile.
Marguerite, I'm reporting a carjacking.
And you do it so well, but you look so serious.
Three people were held at gunpoint.
But they're fine now, aren't they.
Deb. Help me.
She's right. You do have a wonderful smile.
I'm hanging up.
Don't hang up, we were just getting started.
HAPPY ANIMALS
HAPPY ANIMALS
I've been sitting forward for forty-seven minutes.
You have.
It makes a visible difference in how the segments read.
The Wexler County Animal Sanctuary is holding a retirement celebration this Saturday from noon to three for three residents who have earned it.
Walter is a goat. He's seventeen. Frances is a sheep, nineteen. And Douglas is a donkey who just turned twenty-two.
They're moving to a pasture with reduced activity and full-time care. The sanctuary asks that visitors not bring outside food for the animals.
Twenty-two years is a life.
It is.
A California wildlife center released six raptors this week after three months of recovery from storm injuries.
Two red-tailed hawks, three barn owls, and one peregrine falcon. The falcon can reach speeds of two hundred miles per hour in a dive.
Two hundred miles per hour. That is faster than most of the vehicles on the interstate and significantly better at turning.
A Pennsylvania fire station has officially adopted a dog that showed up every day for six weeks.
The dog's name is Engine. He completed obedience training and now rides along on non-emergency calls.
Six weeks. He just kept showing up.
He did. And in a few minutes, SPORTS. We'll have the Colts' final preseason matchup and Scottie Scheffler's lead heading into Sunday at the Tour Championship.
That's next.
Take that off.
It's called distinguished.
It's called a sweater vest.
George Will wears a sweater vest.
George Will is eighty-three years old.
Exactly. Timeless.
You look like you teach at a community college.
I could teach at a community college.
Chip, you look like you're about to explain why I got a C-minus.
Well maybe if you'd turned in your assignments on time, Deb.
SPORTS
Sports.
Gordo, is the monitor still tilted.
The monitor is not tilted.
It is four degrees to the left and I would like that corrected before we close the hour because a tilted scoreboard reads as amateur.
Amy Hunt is now the most decorated athlete at the European Athletics Championships after winning her fourth gold medal in the mixed four-by-one-hundred relay.
Great Britain took the title in the first mixed relay ever staged in the competition. Hunt ran the anchor leg.
Four golds in one championship. That is a performance you build an entire career around.
She's nineteen.
Golf. Scottie Scheffler holds a four-stroke lead heading into the final round of the Tour Championship on Sunday.
He shot a three-under sixty-seven on Saturday and has led every round this week.
Four strokes is not insurmountable, but Scheffler has not given anyone room to make a run at him all weekend.
He's won six tournaments this season. This would be seven.
Consistency. That is what separates a player from a champion.
He's also leading the season points race by two thousand.
Well. Yes. That too.
Locally, Purdue defeated Butler seventy-three to sixty-eight on Saturday. Myles Tate had twenty-two points and eleven rebounds.
Tate is averaging eighteen and nine this season. Purdue improves to four and one.
I have been following Myles Tate since his sophomore year, and what impresses me most is his court awareness. He sees plays developing before the defense does.
He also made nine of ten free throws.
The fundamentals.
Lincoln extended their shutout streak to five matches with a two-nothing win over Harrison on Friday.
Emma Vasquez recorded her fifth consecutive shutout. Lincoln has not allowed a goal in four hundred thirty-two minutes.
Seven hours and twelve minutes without a goal against.
Defense wins championships, Deb. It always has. You can outscore a team one night, but if you cannot stop them the next, you will not advance.
Lincoln scored six goals in those five games.
Which. Proves the point.
It proves they also have an offense.
An offense supported by a defense that does not give up goals for seven consecutive hours.
Football. The Colts host the Bengals Sunday at one p.m. in their final preseason game. The regular season begins in two weeks.
And we will have full coverage when the season opens.
Coming up at the top of the hour on the next KRAK 11 News, a Wexler County man arrested for the fourth time this year, and the question nobody at the courthouse seems able to answer.
That is next.
Son of a bitch.
What is it now.
He's mad about all the bad reviews about the station.
Why would anyone leave a bad review.
It's because of the posts I made on TikTok.
What's Tac Tac.
It's an app for kids. But some adults get on there and make fools of themselves.
I see. So Gordo is a social media influencer now.
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