Salmonella outbreak: What we know so far
Salmonella outbreak: What we know so far. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Animals, Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
Aired 2026-08-19 16:56 UTC · 5 segments · 11 min · complete transcript below
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News.
Coming up this hour: The World Desk, where Florida opens the nation's first museum dedicated entirely to jellyfish. Criminal Intent, where a parachutist carrying the American flag crashes into a scoreboard. Animals, where a catastrophic hotel mix-up sits at the center of Australia's mushroom murder appeal.
An industrial scoreboard crash is not a sport.
And Sports, where the family of a former heavyweight champion speaks out after a tragedy this weekend. Still ahead, we'll tell you which Australian hotel mix-up may have poisoned a murder conviction, and why Wladimir Klitschko says his family is in profound shock tonight.
That's next.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
Deb, before we start. The globe. Behind us. It needs to spin.
The globe does not spin.
It spun in the promo.
That was a different globe.
A salmonella outbreak tied to imported eggs has sickened hundreds across the United States, with federal health officials now investigating cases in seventeen states from California to Pennsylvania.
The eggs were shipped from Mexico, which shares roughly nineteen hundred miles of border with the United States across four states.
Twelve hundred of which is Texas.
The outbreak has no connection to Texas. Health officials are urging anyone who purchased eggs in the last six weeks to check packaging for recall notices.
Symptoms include fever, severe abdominal cramping, and dehydration. Two deaths have been reported, both in individuals over the age of seventy.
The CDC says the strain is consistent with previous outbreaks linked to industrial egg farms in northern Mexico.
Turning now to tennis. Australian star Nick Kyrgios has tested positive for cocaine following a sample taken in January, and the sport's governing body has confirmed a provisional suspension pending a hearing.
Kyrgios has been ranked as high as number thirteen in the world and reached the Wimbledon final in twenty twenty-two, where he lost to Novak Djokovic in four sets.
He's been sidelined with injuries for most of the last two years, and this suspension could effectively end his career at thirty-one, which is still relatively young for an athlete of his caliber.
Thirty-one is not young for professional tennis. Most players retire by thirty-five.
Kyrgios himself once said he didn't want to play into his thirties. He may have gotten his wish.
In the United Kingdom, rail accident investigators have found a track defect near the site of a train derailment outside Lewes that left twelve people injured and shut down service on the Brighton main line.
Lewes is in East Sussex, on the South Downs, roughly forty minutes by car from the Channel crossing at Dover.
Dover is an hour and a half east of Lewes. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch says initial findings show an irregularity in the track surface consistent with metal fatigue.
The line has been in service since eighteen forty-six, which is, I think we can agree, a considerable amount of time for infrastructure to remain operational.
Track is replaced on a rotating schedule. This section was last inspected in December and cleared for use. Network Rail has not said when full service will resume.
Passengers are being rerouted through Haywards Heath.
And in South Africa, former Miss South Africa finalist Chidimma Adetshina is challenging a legal effort to revoke her citizenship and deport her to Nigeria.
Adetshina was born in South Africa to a Nigerian father and a South African mother, which under most Commonwealth systems would grant automatic citizenship.
South Africa uses jus soli, which grants citizenship by birth on South African soil. The government alleges her mother's identity documents were obtained fraudulently in nineteen ninety-nine.
She was forced to withdraw from the Miss South Africa competition last year after the allegations surfaced, and she went on to compete for Nigeria at Miss Universe, where she placed second.
Her legal team says she has lived in South Africa her entire life and has never held Nigerian citizenship. A hearing is scheduled for April.
Coming up. We have new details on the Wexler County arson investigation, and why what was found at the scene has prosecutors calling it premeditated.
That's CRIMINAL INTENT, in a few minutes.
Stay with us.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. Tonight on the Blotter: a lemur on the loose, a scoreboard collision, and a rocket nobody's seen in six weeks.
We begin with what police in Belton, Texas are calling one of the strangest apprehensions of the year.
Officers were called to a residential neighborhood Monday morning to locate an escaped lemur described in the incident report as fast, furry, and refusing to cooperate.
Police say the animal had escaped from a private residence and evaded capture for approximately forty minutes before being cornered near a drainage culvert.
The lemur was returned to its owner. No charges have been filed, though officers did note the animal had not been registered with the city as required under the exotic pet ordinance.
Which is to say: someone in Belton owns a lemur and did not tell the city.
We now turn to what was, four months ago, supposed to be a moment of patriotic celebration at Virginia Tech's spring football game.
A parachutist carrying the American flag as part of a three-person skydiving team crashed into the stadium scoreboard back in April of this year, striking the structure at what witnesses described as considerable speed.
The jumper was treated at the scene and released. The scoreboard sustained minor damage and was operational for the remainder of the game.
Virginia Tech officials say the incident is under review and that all pre-game aerial demonstrations will be evaluated for safety going forward.
In Morocco, a British athletics coach has been sentenced to ten months in prison for sexually assaulting a minor.
Leon Baptiste, who had been listed as missing by U.K. authorities earlier this year, was convicted by a Moroccan court following testimony from the victim and multiple witnesses.
Baptiste is expected to serve the sentence in Morocco. British consular officials have been notified.
And off the coast of Christmas Island, residents say they have spotted something that's been missing since July: a SpaceX rocket booster being towed through open water.
The rocket launched from Texas in July, completed its mission, and crashed into the Indian Ocean as planned. It had not been seen again until this week.
Local fishermen reported seeing the booster under tow by what appeared to be a commercial salvage vessel approximately twelve miles offshore.
SpaceX has not commented on the sighting. The company routinely recovers rocket hardware from ocean landings, though most recovery operations are completed within days of splashdown, not weeks.
Still ahead: Animals. A story that will require Chip to not narrate what the helicopter would show.
The helicopter provides context.
We don't have a helicopter.
That's next.
ANIMALS
Coming up: a sea turtle makes an impossible journey, and a Scottish wildcat does something no one has ever seen before.
Gordo, is camera two favored for every close in this segment. I would like that confirmed before we begin.
We're already in the segment.
Then we'll favor it going forward.
An endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle has completed a five-thousand-mile journey from Wales back to the Gulf Coast, arriving in Texas waters Tuesday morning.
The turtle was found stranded on a Welsh beach in January, treated at an aquarium in Anglesey, and released off the coast of Galveston six weeks ago.
Biologists tracked the journey using a satellite tag. The turtle averaged sixty-two miles per day and never deviated more than fifteen miles from the projected route.
Five thousand miles. No map. Just—
That is an extraordinary animal.
It is.
In Scotland, researchers have documented what they believe is the first recorded sighting of a Scottish wildcat entering water voluntarily.
The wildcat was observed swimming across a loch in the Cairngorms, covering roughly thirty meters before reaching the opposite shore.
Fewer than three hundred Scottish wildcats remain in the wild. This sighting is part of a breeding program tracking released animals to monitor adaptation.
A wildcat that swims. Who knew.
The researchers.
Still ahead: a story from the world of sports that involves neither wildcats nor swimming, but does involve a very large piece of equipment falling from the sky. That's next.
SPORTS
Sports.
Before we start, I would like the graphic to say The Marlowe Scoreboard.
It says The KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
I am aware what it says currently.
Then we're done.
Starting with rugby, where World Cup winner Ruby Tui has signed a one-year deal with Trailfinders Women at age thirty-four.
Tui won the World Cup with New Zealand in twenty twenty-two and has thirty-seven caps for the Black Ferns.
The Ferns. That is a strong name for a national team.
It's a plant.
I understand what a fern is, Deb.
Moving to college football. Ohio State opens its season Saturday against Akron with the Buckeyes favored by thirty-eight points in Columbus.
Ohio State ranked fourth in Yahoo Sports' preseason top twenty-five and expected to contend for the playoff after last year's eight and four finish.
Which was disappointing.
For Ohio State, yes.
For Ohio State.
And in what many are calling the performance of the decade, Magnus Carlsen has defended his title at the twenty twenty-six Esports World Cup in Riyadh, defeating Fabiano Caruana four games to two in rapid chess.
Carlsen is the highest-rated player in chess history and has held the world number one ranking for over a decade.
Many are calling him the greatest of all time.
Many have been calling him that since twenty thirteen.
Well it's being said again.
It is.
Now, we have been following a story out of Oregon where the state has been running what amounts to a real-world study of its nonmedical psilocybin program, and the latest data shows promise for individuals dealing with PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
That is not sports.
It is performance-related.
It is a public health study.
Oregon was the first state to establish a legalized and regulated psilocybin industry. Since then, thousands have participated in what the state is calling a therapeutic framework, and the data suggests measurable improvement in symptoms for participants with PTSD and severe anxiety.
Still not sports.
It is athletic-adjacent.
Chip.
Mental health affects athletic performance. That is documented.
So does breakfast. We are not covering oatmeal.
We might.
We will not.
Coming up on the next KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour, seventeen Iranian nationals charged by the U.S. government with conducting coordinated cyber attacks on American institutions over several years, and we will have reaction from the Department of Justice.
That is next.
This has been The Marlowe Scoreboard.
Reporting behind this episode
- Why positive cocaine test could mean end of Kyrgios' career
- Track defect found on approach to site of Lewes derailment, initial report says
- 'I was born in South Africa', says beauty queen facing legal bid to deport her
- Salmonella outbreak: What we know so far
- Parachutist carrying US flag slams into stadium scoreboard
- Watch: Texas police apprehend lemur on the loose
- 'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast
- 'Missing' athletics coach jailed in Morocco for sexually assaulting minor
- New Zealand great Tui joins Trailfinders
- A real-world study of Oregon's nonmedical psilocybin program shows promise