Boy, seven, among four injured after crash in Ireland that killed five teenagers
Boy, seven, among four injured after crash in Ireland that killed five teenagers. 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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Rundown
KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening, Wexler County. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News, and here's what's coming up this hour.
First, The World Desk. Russia and Ukraine exchange deadly strikes as nine are confirmed dead in Moscow in the past twenty-four hours. We'll have the latest from both capitals.
Then, Criminal Intent. Luigi Mangione's state murder trial has been postponed after a federal guilty plea in the CEO killing — we'll explain what that means for the timeline.
After that, Happy Animals brings you the story of a boxer who just won her country's first Commonwealth Games medal without throwing a single punch.
Without winning a fight.
I said what I said. And in Sports, sources say the Lakers' Buss family intends to sell, removing Jeanie Buss from her role as governor. That's a seismic shift in one of basketball's most storied franchises.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, The World Desk takes you to the heart of Spain, where the moon's shadow raced across the country ninety minutes north of Madrid. What it was like to stand in totality.
That's next.
That's my spot.
It's not assigned.
I've parked there for nine years.
Nine years doesn't make it yours.
Well... It's Mine
Just Park next to to your spot it is always available.
Not the Point.
Of what.
that spot has shade and sometimes I take naps in my car mid day, It is the best sleep I have ever had, It is the only place I ever dream. I dream of becoming the Number One anchor in the World, Thats My Spot.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
Before we begin, I've been working on the pronunciation of Infantino for the FIFA story, and I believe I have it.
You've had it for three years.
I've refined it.
We begin tonight in Ireland, where authorities continue investigating a crash that killed five teenagers and injured four others, including a seven-year-old boy.
The vehicle was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the M7 motorway in County Kildare when it collided with another car Saturday night.
The crash occurred near Naas, about twenty miles southwest of Dublin. All five teenagers who died were in the vehicle traveling the wrong direction.
County Kildare is in Ireland's agricultural heartland, known throughout the Balkans for its horse breeding industry.
Ireland is not in the Balkans.
Throughout Europe.
Irish police have not yet released the names of the victims. The four injured remain hospitalized.
In eastern Europe, both Russia and Ukraine are reporting additional casualties from overnight strikes. Moscow says nine people have been killed in the past twenty-four hours in attacks on border regions.
Ukrainian officials report four deaths in the capital region from what they describe as targeted missile attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Neither claim has been independently verified. Both governments have accused the other of escalating attacks as winter approaches in the Balkans.
Ukraine is not in the Balkans.
Eastern Europe, which I said initially.
You said it twice.
In international soccer, FIFA has dismissed a senior official three weeks after he publicly criticized the organization's president.
Kevin Lamour was removed from his position following comments he made questioning FIFA's governance structure and what he called a lack of transparency in recent decision-making.
The comments were directed at Gianni Infantino, who has led the organization from its headquarters in Geneva since twenty sixteen.
Zurich.
Zurich, in the German-speaking canton, where FIFA has maintained its administrative offices for over a century.
The organization has not commented on the circumstances of Lamour's departure beyond confirming that his contract has been terminated.
In the United Kingdom, family members of academic Jason Arday spoke publicly today about what they described as the public cruelty he faced in the weeks before his death.
Arday, who was the youngest Black professor appointed to a full professorship at Cambridge University, died last week. His family said they are still coming to terms with the loss.
A vigil was held in his honor. The university has not released further details.
That's The World Desk. Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, Criminal Intent. A Wexler County man faces federal charges after investigators say he mailed himself across state lines in a refrigerator box.
The box was marked fragile.
That's next.
Stop.
Stop what.
Whatever you're spraying.
It's called Broadcast. It's its a new cologne.
It smells like dick..
Something you are familiar with?
The booth smells like a taco bells bathroom.
I can taste it when I breathe.
That means it's working.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Chip, you're wearing the Windsor again.
It photographs well under the desk lights.
It photographs identically to every other tie you own.
Tonight on the Blotter: a sixteen-year-old California lifeguard is being called a hero after pulling a ten-year-old boy from the surf in what authorities are describing as a textbook rescue under adverse conditions.
Ryder Williams was on duty at a California beach July twenty-fifth when he spotted the child struggling in a rip current approximately forty yards from shore.
Williams entered the water, reached the victim in under ninety seconds, and brought him safely to shore where paramedics were standing by. The entire operation, start to finish, under three minutes.
The boy was treated at the scene and released to his family.
Williams was honored at the White House this week in a ceremony the President called a recognition of everyday heroism, which is a phrase I have been workshopping for the close.
You're workshopping everyday heroism.
In other news. Conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are under scrutiny tonight after Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona called for a formal investigation into what he describes as sailors being unable to access basic necessities.
Senator Kelly, himself a former Navy captain and NASA astronaut, told reporters that multiple sailors aboard the carrier have reported inadequate access to food, water, and medical supplies during recent deployment.
The Navy has not yet commented on the allegations. Senator Kelly says he expects a response within ten days.
We'll continue to follow that story as it develops.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News tonight, a story involving animals that may surprise you, may delight you, and will absolutely justify the music we have chosen to accompany it.
Happy Animals is next.
You can just say the animals, Deb. The happiness is implied.
The segment is called Happy Animals.
That's next.
What is that smell.
It's called Executive.
It's called what.
Executive. It's what they wear in boardrooms.
It smells like a hookers hotel.
Exactly.
Chip, you smell like a divorced dad at a Marriott.
Or a Married Dad on a business trip to Vegas.
HAPPY ANIMALS
Welcome back. This is the Good News Desk.
I would like the animals alphabetized.
The animals.
By species. It would give the segment structure.
A capuchin monkey named Punch has become the subject of worldwide attention after a sanctuary in Costa Rica documented his journey toward socialization.
Punch was rescued from illegal captivity three years ago and has struggled with trust around other primates. Handlers say he has begun engaging in mutual grooming for the first time.
The sanctuary posts video updates twice weekly. Punch's progress has been followed by more than four million people across six platforms.
That is a very small creature who spent three years figuring out whether anyone was safe, and it turns out some of them are.
Four million people.
Researchers say capuchins form social bonds slowly and Punch's timeline is not unusual for a rescue with his history.
Still.
Still.
A glass frog in Ecuador has been photographed with fully transparent skin allowing researchers to observe its internal organs without dissection.
The species is native to cloud forests above six thousand feet and was believed extinct until a breeding population was located last spring.
Biologists say transparency in amphibians is a defensive adaptation that makes individuals harder to track in moving water.
A mantis shrimp off the coast of Australia has been recorded striking prey at fifty miles per hour, generating enough force to crack aquarium glass.
The mantis shrimp has sixteen color receptors compared to three in humans and can see polarized and ultraviolet light.
So it sees better than we do and it hits like a car.
Correct.
Coming up: the scoreboard is different and I would like somebody to say that out loud. Sports is next.
Why is there a bowling trophy on your desk.
I earned it.
It says Most Improved.
That's a category.
Didn't they ask you to leave the league.
They asked me to consider other recreational options.
Because you are a sore loser.
look, I was not mad that I lost the game, I was walking out of the bowling all tripped and my key dragged across the car of Captain of the other team.
And thats how you got the Black eye, From the Captain?
I said... I fell...
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
Deb, I have been thinking about the structure of this segment. The scoreboard is fundamentally different from what precedes it. These are outcomes. Finality. A winner, a loser, and a number that cannot be argued with.
It's sports.
It's clarity. And I would like someone to say that out loud before we begin.
We've begun.
We begin tonight with news out of Los Angeles, where the Buss family, owners of the Lakers for nearly five decades, have announced their intention to sell the franchise.
The sale would remove Jeanie Buss from her role as governor, ending a legacy that began when her father Jerry Buss purchased the team in nineteen seventy-nine.
The Buss family has overseen eleven NBA championships during their ownership.
So the question becomes, who steps in to fill those very large shoes.
Someone with approximately four billion dollars.
That is the estimate, yes.
In mixed martial arts, featherweight contender Max Holloway has questioned why lightweight champion Islam Makhachev has been photographed carrying two championship belts.
Makhachev holds the lightweight title but has been seen with what appears to be a welterweight belt as well, despite never having competed in that division.
Holloway posted on social media asking if fighters are now allowed to just carry belts they did not win.
Makhachev responded by saying the second belt represents his pound-for-pound ranking, which is a designation, not a weight class.
Pound-for-pound is a theoretical ranking. There is no belt.
Well, apparently there is now.
Apparently someone made him one.
In college football, the season is three weeks away and Alabama has moved to number two in the preseason coaches' poll, trailing only Georgia.
Ohio State is third, followed by Texas and Oregon rounding out the top five.
The poll is voted on by sixty-two active head coaches.
And every one of them knows that whoever they rank first in August will not be the team holding the trophy in January.
Georgia won last year.
Georgia was ranked first in the preseason.
So the poll was correct.
In that particular instance.
And in baseball, the Royals defeated the Angels four to nothing behind a dominant performance from left-hander Noah Cameron, who threw a one-hitter with eight strikeouts over seven innings.
Cameron allowed only a second-inning single and did not issue a walk.
The win moves Kansas City to seventy-two and sixty-eight on the season, three games behind Minnesota in the Central.
The Angels fall to sixty-three and seventy-seven.
Deb, before we go. A moment.
We're at time.
The scoreboard is different. These are outcomes. Numbers. The substance of competition distilled down to what actually happened on the field. I would like someone to acknowledge that.
The next KRAK 11 News is at the top of the hour, with more of the stories that matter to Wexler County.
We'll see you then.
You need to go home.
I'm fine.
You are coughing all over the place.
I am fine, Just read the news and mind your own business.
Calm down... I was only trying to help.
I'm Sorry
No Problem.
Sixty seconds.
Gordo, get me a mask.
I'm not contagious.
I am doing the NEWS as if it were 2020, Masks on
Reporting behind this episode
- Russia and Ukraine trade more deadly strikes
- Top Fifa official sacked after Infantino plan criticism
- Jason Arday's family 'still coming to terms' with his death as vigil held
- Boy, seven, among four injured after crash in Ireland that killed five teenagers
- Top Fifa official sacked after Infantino plan criticism
- Sen. Mark Kelly says USS Lincoln sailors 'can't get basic needs met'
- 'He's a real hero' - Trump meets teen lifeguard after dramatic rescue
- Everyone's Talking About Punch the Monkey—Here's Why We're All So Invested in the Little Guy's Journey to Love and Acceptance
- Bizarre nature: 25 weird animals | BBC Science Focus Magazine
- Lakers’ Buss family intends to sell, removing Jeanie Buss from governor role: Sources
- Max Holloway questions Islam Makhachev walking around with 2 belts, Makhachev responds