Young people leaving care have death rate four times higher than national average
Young people leaving care have death rate four times higher than national average. 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. This is KRAK 11 News at eight o'clock, I'm Chip Marlowe.
I'm Deb Sarkissian. One man is dead and two women hurt after a police pursuit ends in a crash. We have what we know about that pursuit.
Coming up this hour: a closer look at brain disease in former NFL players — the numbers are worse than we thought. Then Criminal Intent, where back in April of last year Detroit police raided a senior citizen apartment building and found four thousand dollars worth of cocaine and fentanyl.
And Animals, where a fisherman found a heron fighting for its life — that story has now led our countdown for seventeen consecutive hours.
Seventeen hours.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News: the World Desk, where one woman remains in critical condition after that police pursuit crash. We start there in just a moment.
THE WORLD DESK
Good morning. Welcome back to KRAK 11 News. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. You are at the desk early again.
I like the quiet.
You like being the first one here.
We begin this morning with a new report from the United Kingdom that has implications for social services everywhere.
A review released this morning shows that young people leaving the care system have a death rate around four times higher than the general population.
The study looked at outcomes for thousands of young adults who aged out of foster care and other government-supervised placements across England and Wales.
Researchers say the findings point to gaps in support systems once young people reach eighteen and transition out of care.
Four times higher.
The report says the risk increases sharply in the first year after leaving care, which suggests the transition itself is where the system is failing them.
To the western United States now, where firefighters are making progress on that wildfire near Reno, but the weather is not cooperating.
Officials say the blaze is now about one quarter contained, which is an improvement from yesterday, but winds are expected to pick up again over the next two days.
Evacuation orders remain in effect for several hundred homes south of the city, and fire crews are positioning resources ahead of the wind shift expected this afternoon.
That is the Nevada desert in May. Twenty-five percent containment is progress, but those winds can undo a lot of work very quickly.
Reno is in the mountains.
Reno is in a valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada range, which is why the winds coming off the desert matter so much this time of year.
And that is why Deb does the World Desk.
To China now, where officials are warning they will safeguard their interests after the United States imposed broader sanctions on Iran.
The new U.S. sanctions target Iranian oil exports, and Washington has warned it will isolate nations that continue to do business with Tehran.
That puts Beijing in a difficult position, as China buys a significant portion of Iran's oil. Chinese officials issued a statement this morning saying they will take necessary measures to protect their lawful rights.
How much oil are we talking about?
Analysts estimate China imports close to ninety percent of Iran's crude oil exports, which amounts to roughly a million barrels a day.
That is not an easy relationship to replace.
No, it is not. And that is why the language from Beijing this morning was careful but very firm.
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Still ahead this morning on KRAK 11 News, a story that is going to make you check your own security footage twice.
A man in Florida walked into someone else's home, helped himself to breakfast, watched television for two hours, and then left.
The homeowner was upstairs the entire time.
According to the arrest report, the security camera recorded all of it.
That is Criminal Intent in a few minutes on KRAK 11 News.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good morning. Time now for the KRAK 11 Blotter.
We have four Florida Man Tributes this morning, and we are going to Detroit three times.
Senior living facilities, police banners, and a Christmas Eve heist that did not go as planned.
The heist is my favorite.
We begin with our two hundred and thirteenth Florida Man Tribute. Back in April of last year, police in Detroit executed a search warrant at a senior living facility and found over four thousand dollars' worth of cocaine and fentanyl.
Police say they also recovered three firearms and thirty-six hundred dollars in cash. The facility is described as independent living.
Six felony arrests, four misdemeanor arrests. Very independent living.
Also back in March of last year, Shelby Township Michigan. Residents noticed something unusual about new banners promoting the local police department.
The word police was spelled P-O-L-I-E-C-E.
The township clerk told reporters, quote, we seem to do things our way in Shelby Township, so I'm not going to be hard on whoever misspelled it. Let's just fix it.
The banners were replaced.
Back in December of last year, Fort Worth Texas. Two men attempted to steal an ATM on Christmas Eve by dragging it through a storefront window with a metal cable.
Police say they hooked the cable to a pickup truck, drove forward, and left the ATM sitting in the parking lot.
The machine never opened. Surveillance footage shows both suspects fleeing the scene on foot.
Alleged suspects.
Alleged suspects who allegedly left an ATM in a parking lot on Christmas Eve. Fort Worth police are asking for help identifying them.
Also back in March of last year, a Detroit family discovered the headstone of their late loved one dumped on a city street. The memorial had been removed from a cemetery without explanation.
A family friend said, quote, this is not the way you treat the families. The family deserves better.
The cemetery has not commented. The family has retrieved the headstone.
Coming up in just a few minutes, we have Animals. Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life has now led the countdown for seventeen consecutive hours.
Nine million two hundred and forty-six thousand new views in four days.
That is still ahead on KRAK 11 News.
ANIMALS
This is the Good News Desk.
Three videos tonight, counted down from number three.
The KRAK 11 animal countdown ranks videos by how many views they have gained, not their total.
At number three, 120 Pounds of Dog. Hiding From Ice. Behind a Two-Year-Old. Posted by Tiny Boss Big Dog on August twentieth. Four million three hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-two new views in the last four days.
It is unchanged since the last count. YouTube's own trending chart has it at number eleven.
At number two, When Kindness Goes Both Ways. Posted by Windypaws on August twentieth. Eight million six thousand five hundred and four new views in the last four days.
Also unchanged since the last count. YouTube has that one at number three.
And at number one, Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life. Posted by Sassy on August twenty-first.
Nine million three hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven new views in the last four days. That is seventeen consecutive hours at number one.
All three are on the KRAK 11 News Reel. The link is in the description.
Still ahead this morning, we have A Quick Look at Sports. Magnus Carlsen is still unbeaten in the Esports World Cup chess tournament and the Cubs have a walk-off rookie.
That is history in Chicago.
It is. We will have that in just a few minutes on KRAK 11 News.
A QUICK LOOK AT SPORTS
A quick look at sports.
We have got chess, college football, Formula One, and a hard study out of the NFL.
That last one is worth your time.
Magnus Carlsen has won his fourteenth consecutive Esports World Cup chess title. That is fourteen straight victories without a single loss since the tournament began.
Ohio State is ranked number four in Yahoo Sports' preseason college football top twenty-five. The Buckeyes are looking to beat Michigan and make a deep playoff run this year.
Honda says it only realized the full scale of its Formula One problems in January. The team is working to address performance issues ahead of the new season.
And a new study says at least one in four former NFL players who died between twenty-sixteen and twenty-twenty-one had chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Researchers believe the true number could be significantly higher.
Coming up at the top of the hour, we will have the latest on the Reno wildfire and the evacuation orders still in place. That is next on KRAK 11 News.
We will see you then.
Reporting behind this episode
- China warns it will safeguard its interests after US widens sanctions against Iran
- US firefighters say major blaze near Reno about a quarter contained
- Young people leaving care have death rate four times higher than national average
- Over $4,000 in cocaine, fentanyl seized in Detroit senior citizen apartment bust
- Spelling error on Shelby Township police banners grab attention
- Headstone for family's late loved one found dumped on Detroit street
- ATM dragged through storefront in failed Christmas Eve robbery
- Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life
- When Kindness Goes Both Ways.
- 120 Pounds of Dog. Hiding From Ice. Behind a Two-Year-Old.
- Brain disease in dead NFL players 'higher than previously shown'