Mayors to get powers to overrule local councils on planning decisions
Mayors to get powers to overrule local councils on planning decisions. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Animals, A Quick Look At Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good morning, Wexler County. It is midnight, you are watching KRAK 11 News, and we have got an hour of news from around the world and around the corner.
The World Desk this morning — a sword attack in Sweden leaves three teenagers injured and an eighteen-year-old in custody. We will have the latest from police.
Criminal Intent — back in January of this year, a food delivery robot collided with an ambulance in Hollywood. Our one hundred and fifteenth Florida Man Tribute.
You keep a tally.
I keep a very accurate tally. Animals — the sea urchin video has led our countdown for six straight days now, and I have watched it nineteen times.
And A Quick Look at Sports, coming up in a few minutes — we will explain why a story about a White House aide is filed under sports on our wire this morning.
That is the hour. Let us begin.
THE WORLD DESK
Good morning, Wexler County. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. We have four stories from overseas this morning, beginning with a significant change in planning authority in Britain.
Also this morning, the hotel booking error that could overturn a murder conviction in Australia.
And the humanoid robot video continues to break records of its own.
We begin this morning with news from Britain, where the housing minister has announced mayors in England will now be able to overrule local councils on planning decisions.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook said the new powers are essential for helping mayors effectively deliver housing in their regions, bypassing what he called lengthy local objections.
That is similar to what the Prime Minister has been doing in Parliament.
These are elected mayors, Chip. They already have authority over their regions.
Right. But now they have more of it.
They do. The change takes effect in October across England's combined authorities.
And staying overseas, there is an unusual development this morning in an Australian murder case that could turn on a hotel booking and a table tennis tournament.
Erin Patterson was convicted last year of murdering three people with poisonous mushrooms. But her lawyers say new evidence shows she may have been in a different city entirely when she bought the mushrooms.
How did they find that out?
A hotel register shows someone with her name checking in two hundred miles away on the day prosecutors said she was buying the mushrooms. That guest also bought throat lozenges from the hotel gift shop.
The hotel was hosting a regional table tennis tournament that weekend, and Patterson's defense says she was there with her son, who was competing.
So either she was at the tournament, or somebody else with the same name was buying throat lozenges two hundred miles away.
That is correct. A court hearing is scheduled for next month.
And the humanoid robot that ran faster than Usain Bolt continues to break the internet this morning.
The video from the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing has now been watched forty-four million times.
I have watched it six times since this morning.
You have. The robot ran the hundred meters in nine point three nine seconds, beating Bolt's world record by nineteen hundredths of a second.
It is faster than any human being who has ever lived.
It is. Engineers at the games say the robot uses a completely different gait than a human runner, which may be why it can sustain that speed.
I am going to watch it again when we are done here.
And from London this morning, Britain will begin a new restriction zone program in October for serious violent and sexual offenders leaving prison on probation.
Offenders in the program may be confined to areas of just a few miles, with electronic monitoring to enforce the boundaries.
The Ministry of Justice says the zones will help manage risk and prevent reoffending by keeping individuals away from certain locations or potential victims.
Is this in addition to the parole conditions they already have?
It is. This is a separate layer of monitoring for offenders the courts consider higher risk.
Still ahead this morning on KRAK 11 News, Criminal Intent. A case from Wexler County where the evidence may not be what it seemed.
That is coming up in a few minutes.
Right here on KRAK 11.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Time now for the KRAK 11 Blotter.
Four stories tonight, and the first one involves a robot.
A food delivery robot.
It collided with an ambulance.
This is our Florida Man Tribute for the evening, and it comes to us from Hollywood, California, back in January of this year. An ambulance was transporting a patient to the hospital when it was struck by a food delivery robot.
The robot was carrying someone's lunch order at the time of the collision.
The patient inside the ambulance was not seriously injured. No word on whether the burrito survived.
That makes one hundred and sixteen Florida Man Tributes in forty-three weeks.
I keep the tally.
Back in June of this year, a Pennsylvania woman became one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives. Prosecutors allege Amanda Riley faked terminal brain cancer and told friends and family she needed money for treatment.
Prosecutors allege she used the donations to fund luxury travel to Australia instead.
The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to her arrest. She is considered a person of interest in multiple jurisdictions.
Prosecutors allege.
Also back in June of this year, an Indiana man is facing multiple charges after police say he pulled a gun on a group of teenagers.
Police say the teenagers had called him cute.
That is what authorities say set him off. He allegedly responded to the compliment by brandishing a firearm.
Police allege.
No injuries were reported. He is awaiting trial.
And finally, back in June of last year, a giant metal sphere fell from the sky in Indiana following severe weather. The object was found sitting on the side of a road, about the size of a small shed.
Authorities later determined it was part of a water tower.
It had been ripped loose by high winds and traveled several hundred yards before coming to rest on a residential street. No one was injured.
Coming up in just a few minutes, the sea urchin video has led our animal countdown for six consecutive days, and Chip has a theory about why.
I have watched it nineteen times.
Animals, ahead.
ANIMALS
Time now for the Good News Desk.
Our countdown tonight ranks by how many views a video has gained in the last three days, not the total it has ever had.
Three videos tonight, counted down from three to one.
Starting at number three.
Number three on the KRAK 11 animal countdown, a video posted by Benji Void on the sixteenth of August. Two million four hundred and eighty-six thousand nine hundred and eleven new views.
Number two, a video called When Kindness Goes Both Ways, posted by Windypaws on the twentieth. Four million seven hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred and thirty-eight new views in three days.
And number one on the KRAK 11 animal countdown, a video posted by Nick DiGiovanni on the nineteenth. Five million six hundred and forty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty-three new views.
That is six consecutive days.
It is an extraordinary video.
You have watched it nineteen times.
And I stand by every viewing.
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Still ahead this morning, a quick look at sports. The Brewers are now at forty-five straight wins and Pete Crow-Armstrong has done something no Cub has ever done.
We will be right back.
A QUICK LOOK AT SPORTS
A quick look at sports.
The Brewers are forty-five and oh.
That is not a season. That is a coronation.
The Brewers beat the Cardinals last night, four to two. That is forty-five consecutive wins, a franchise record that started on opening day and has not stopped since.
Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a walk-off RBI in the ninth for the Cubs. That is thirty-four consecutive games, extending his own major league record.
Magnus Carlsen defended his chess title at the Esports World Cup for the seventh straight year, beating Fabiano Caruana three and a half to two and a half.
Seven in a row.
Greatest of all time. Still ahead this morning - the next KRAK 11 News, at the top of the hour. We will see you then.
Reporting behind this episode
- Mayors to get powers to overrule local councils on planning decisions
- The hotel booking mix-up that could free mushroom murderer
- Restriction zone scheme for offenders to start in October
- Food delivery robot, ambulance collide in Hollywood
- FBI hunts most wanted neighbor next door who allegedly faked cancer, scammed loved ones for luxury getaways
- Indiana man allegedly pulls gun on teens after they called him 'cute,' police say
- See it: Giant sphere falls from sky in Indiana after severe weather sweeps through
- Sea Urchin
- When Kindness Goes Both Ways.
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