November 5, 2025 • 10 mins
The death toll has climbed to nine after an explosive plane crash in the US state of Kentucky.
Investigators have boarded the cruise ship that left a Sydney grandmother for dead on a Great Barrier Reef island.
A major counter terrorism operation in Queensland has uncovered illegal assault rifles, explosives and a drone bomb.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning. We begin with breaking news. Shots have been
fired into a home in Sydney's southwest. Emergency crews raced
to the scene at mcquarie Fields shortly before eleven last night,
following reports that two people had fired multiple gunshots before
fleeing the scene. No one was injured. We'll have more
on this story as it develops throughout the morning. The
(00:25):
death toll has climbed to nine after an explosive plane
crash in the US state of Kentucky. Let's go live
now to our US correspondent Maley Hogan. Maley, morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Crash investigators have arrived. They're searching through the rubble. They're
trying to find some answers.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
On they're trying to find pieces of what's left of
that plane. They have been able to find what they
believe is pieces of the engine scattered next to the runway.
They're also asking members of the community if they find
any debris to leave it where it is and give
them a call because it will help them piece together
what went wrong here. So, going through that video, all
of the video that has emerged showing the final moments
(01:05):
of that flight, it does paint a picture as to
what happened. At the beginning, fire was seen coming out
of the left wing and then seconds later it erupted
into that fireball, the fire spreading to a number of
businesses on the ground to taking a direct hit from
that plane. The death toll now sits at nine. Authorities
do fear that that could go up, but they're also
(01:28):
looking for people that are unaccounted for. Those flames hit
businesses and the big problem for authorities is that there
may have been customers inside there, so they're having trouble
piecing together just how many people are missing. They do
believe by the end of the day they should have
a clearer picture of how many victims they have from
this fiery crash.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, just devastating scenes there, Marley, all right, thank you.
Breaking news overseas, the driver has rammed into pedestrians and cyclists,
severely injuring several people. Off the west coast of France.
French police say a man deliberately drove into a crowd
on the holiday island of Ilderon. He then allegedly set
his car on fire before fleeing the scene. French media
(02:11):
are reporting that the suspect was known to police and
may have had a history of mental health challenges. The
thirty five year old man was arrested and could be
charged with attempted murder. At least ninety people have been killed,
many more are missing after a typhoon ravaged towns in
the central Philippines. More than four hundred thousand people have
had to flee their homes. The death toll is expected
(02:33):
to rise the storm rapidly gathering strength as it now
heads towards Vietnam. Mushroom murderer Aaron Patterson wants a retrial
based on what her lawyers call six substantial miscarriages of
justice and a jury irregularity. Among her grounds for appeal
the fact that the twelve jurors in her trial was
(02:53):
staying at the same hotel as the lead investigator and
also members of the prosecution team. Pattison also claims that
she faced unfair and oppressive cross examination. The fifty one
year old is serving life sentences for the murders of
three people after serving up a beef Wellington laced with
deathcat mushrooms. Popular gaming apps Roadblocks, Discord and Twitch could
(03:16):
still be blacklisted under Australia's world leading social media ban.
The Online Safety Watchdog says that it won't have a
set and forget attitude towards the list of sites banned.
It follows the announcement that Reddit and live streaming platform
Kick will be off limits to teenagers under the age
of sixteen come December ten. OPTA suspects foul play after
(03:40):
it was hit with yet another network outage. Mobile calls
and data services went down in the Port Stephens area
after a communications tower was damaged. It remains unclear if
calls to Triple zero were affected. Police are investigating whether
someone deliberately sabotaged the tower. Services have since been restored.
(04:00):
Investigators have boarded the cruise ship that left a Sydney
grandmother for dead on a Great Barrier Reef Island. The
Coral Adventurer is docked in cans and an investigation into
possible safety failings that led to the death of eighty
year old Suzanne Rees is now underway. Rehees died when
she was left behind on Lizard Island a week into
(04:21):
her two month voyage. Another search is about to begin
for missing four year old Gus Lamont in the South
Australian Outback. Police are planning to return to the remote
property where he was last seen for the fourth time.
Gust disappeared from a sheep station near Junta more than
a month ago.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There is no.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Evidence of foul play at this time that, as I've
said publicly before, we are still open to any possibilities.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Police say the next search will be based on evidence
collected during previous visits, including from high tech drones. Melbourne
cold case detectives have made a breakthrough in a mystery
that's haunted the family of a young mother, Melinda Freeman
since nineteen ninety one. A suspect for decades, her husband,
Craig Freeman, has now been charged with Melinda's murder.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Has waved to me through the window there the brunt
night broad.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
As all I stopped and.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Got any idea who may have been responsible for the
death of war No.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The sixty three year old grandfather, who since remarried, was
arrested in Greensboro, three years after a multi million dollar
reward was announced for information into the case. A major
counter terrorism operation in Queensland has uncovered I legal assault rifles,
explosives and a drone bomb. Several homes were raided from
(05:47):
the southeast to the north. Police have charged four men
and three women, alleging that they were attempting to traffic
twenty kilogram's worth of explosives. There now before the courts
in Brisbane, Beanlee, Townsville and also Bowen. There were fresh
questions for Victoria's police chief this morning over his use
of the force's air wing. Two weeks ago, he was
(06:09):
forced to apologize for taking the police chopper to Tasmania
for a conference, insisting it was one of only two
times he's ever used the aircraft. Now it's been revealed
he took another undeclared flight returning two police headquarters from
Avalon Airport, and News Corp is reporting that he and
his wife went up for a joy ride at the
start of his tenure in the top job, A hero
(06:31):
in his SpongeBob themed undies has helped catch an alleged
crook on the run. He took down an alleged carjacker
in a dramatic citizens arrest north of Perth. The father
and his two sons pinned the man down for thirty
minutes after catching him inside their car.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So I just grab them, try and wrestle and scuffle
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Ended up searching his pockets and found that he had
a pocket knife quite significant size.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
The suspect is facing a dozen charges and has been
refused bail. The survivor of an aggressive and hard to
detect skin cancer has bravely shared his story about the
deadly disease. After undergoing major reconstructive surgery, the cancer is
now at bay, but he wants his life changing experience
(07:18):
to act as a warning to others.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Paul Thompson is as tough as they come, a boiler maker,
former pilot and an avid sailor, but now at fifty
nine years old, he's in the fight of his life.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm not going to die. I refuse to die.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He was diagnosed in twenty twenty with squamous cell carcinoma,
a form of skin cancer. It lay dormant for two
years before spreading aggressively.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
They said that we may need to take your eye
and I said, well, do I have a choice? They
said you do. I said, well, I'll telle.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
They Gamble Surgeons operated for twelve hours, removing most of
his right cheek bone and upper teeth. They used parts
of his rib to hold up his eye socket, completely
rebuilding his face. But it wasn't enough.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And when I looked on their faces. They're completely gry,
and I thought this is not good. I was pretty
much going to see God.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Desperate for a lifeline, Paul's doctors offered a clinical trial
for immunotherapy.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
There was a new drug on the market. He responded
amazingly well. Today sameplmab has become almost a standard of
care for square of cell cartinomas.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Paul's later scan show his disease has halted, but given
its severity, there is no guarantee. Now he's dedicating his
time to educating and warning others about the dangers of
skin cancer.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It takes five minutes to apply a fifty plus sunscreen
and a few dollars for full ribbon hat. You don't
want to end up.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
This simple advice to avoid an extraordinary, verily difficult battle.
Sam Pabland seven News.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Anthony Abernezi has been branded a liar. During a heated
question time clash, Treasurer Jim Chalmers accused the Opposition of
spreading lies about the government spending when Liberal MP Alex
Hawk unleashed on the Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No no, no, no, you are hopeless. You are hopeless
and the liar and the liar lying to the Australian PAP.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Both Charmers and Hawk were instructed to withdraw their accusations.
It's been revealed that former NRL star Trent Meron allegedly
stole thousands in crypto from his own former Dragon's teammate
cade Ellis. Thirty six year old Maren is accused of
stealing one hundred and forty thousand dollars worth and investing
it in an ice bath business. Miren was taken into
(09:50):
custody on Tuesday after police raided a home at Barrack
Point near Woollongong. It will face court next month. Cheeky
quaker's on Way's Row Nest Island have become the unwelcome
tag alongs. On a camping holiday, a Perth local got
the shock of her life on zipping her tent to
find a large group of the mussy bules.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
There's no way, God, God. The video has been watched
almost seven hundred thousand times, with some saying leaving food
out in a tent is a rookie mistake. Time to
check Thursday's weather now in Brisbane mostly sunny, heading for
twenty seven degrees, the same in Sydney with a top
(10:37):
of twenty five camber, mostly sunny, twenty four for you
in Melbourne today, mostly sunny, a top of twenty five,
mostly clardy in Hobart twenty degrees, mostly claudi. Also in Adelaide,
heading for a top of twenty six perth, a possible
thunderstorm about twenty five for you, and a clearing shower
in Duha with a top of thirty four degrees
Good morning. We begin with breaking news. Shots have been
fired into a home in Sydney's southwest. Emergency crews raced
to the scene at mcquarie Fields shortly before eleven last night,
following reports that two people had fired multiple gunshots before
fleeing the scene. No one was injured. We'll have more
on this story as it develops throughout the morning. The
(00:25):
death toll has climbed to nine after an explosive plane
crash in the US state of Kentucky. Let's go live
now to our US correspondent Maley Hogan. Maley, morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Crash investigators have arrived. They're searching through the rubble. They're
trying to find some answers.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
On they're trying to find pieces of what's left of
that plane. They have been able to find what they
believe is pieces of the engine scattered next to the runway.
They're also asking members of the community if they find
any debris to leave it where it is and give
them a call because it will help them piece together
what went wrong here. So, going through that video, all
of the video that has emerged showing the final moments
(01:05):
of that flight, it does paint a picture as to
what happened. At the beginning, fire was seen coming out
of the left wing and then seconds later it erupted
into that fireball, the fire spreading to a number of
businesses on the ground to taking a direct hit from
that plane. The death toll now sits at nine. Authorities
do fear that that could go up, but they're also
(01:28):
looking for people that are unaccounted for. Those flames hit
businesses and the big problem for authorities is that there
may have been customers inside there, so they're having trouble
piecing together just how many people are missing. They do
believe by the end of the day they should have
a clearer picture of how many victims they have from
this fiery crash.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, just devastating scenes there, Marley, all right, thank you.
Breaking news overseas, the driver has rammed into pedestrians and cyclists,
severely injuring several people. Off the west coast of France.
French police say a man deliberately drove into a crowd
on the holiday island of Ilderon. He then allegedly set
his car on fire before fleeing the scene. French media
(02:11):
are reporting that the suspect was known to police and
may have had a history of mental health challenges. The
thirty five year old man was arrested and could be
charged with attempted murder. At least ninety people have been killed,
many more are missing after a typhoon ravaged towns in
the central Philippines. More than four hundred thousand people have
had to flee their homes. The death toll is expected
(02:33):
to rise the storm rapidly gathering strength as it now
heads towards Vietnam. Mushroom murderer Aaron Patterson wants a retrial
based on what her lawyers call six substantial miscarriages of
justice and a jury irregularity. Among her grounds for appeal
the fact that the twelve jurors in her trial was
(02:53):
staying at the same hotel as the lead investigator and
also members of the prosecution team. Pattison also claims that
she faced unfair and oppressive cross examination. The fifty one
year old is serving life sentences for the murders of
three people after serving up a beef Wellington laced with
deathcat mushrooms. Popular gaming apps Roadblocks, Discord and Twitch could
(03:16):
still be blacklisted under Australia's world leading social media ban.
The Online Safety Watchdog says that it won't have a
set and forget attitude towards the list of sites banned.
It follows the announcement that Reddit and live streaming platform
Kick will be off limits to teenagers under the age
of sixteen come December ten. OPTA suspects foul play after
(03:40):
it was hit with yet another network outage. Mobile calls
and data services went down in the Port Stephens area
after a communications tower was damaged. It remains unclear if
calls to Triple zero were affected. Police are investigating whether
someone deliberately sabotaged the tower. Services have since been restored.
(04:00):
Investigators have boarded the cruise ship that left a Sydney
grandmother for dead on a Great Barrier Reef Island. The
Coral Adventurer is docked in cans and an investigation into
possible safety failings that led to the death of eighty
year old Suzanne Rees is now underway. Rehees died when
she was left behind on Lizard Island a week into
(04:21):
her two month voyage. Another search is about to begin
for missing four year old Gus Lamont in the South
Australian Outback. Police are planning to return to the remote
property where he was last seen for the fourth time.
Gust disappeared from a sheep station near Junta more than
a month ago.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There is no.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Evidence of foul play at this time that, as I've
said publicly before, we are still open to any possibilities.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Police say the next search will be based on evidence
collected during previous visits, including from high tech drones. Melbourne
cold case detectives have made a breakthrough in a mystery
that's haunted the family of a young mother, Melinda Freeman
since nineteen ninety one. A suspect for decades, her husband,
Craig Freeman, has now been charged with Melinda's murder.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Has waved to me through the window there the brunt
night broad.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
As all I stopped and.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Got any idea who may have been responsible for the
death of war No.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The sixty three year old grandfather, who since remarried, was
arrested in Greensboro, three years after a multi million dollar
reward was announced for information into the case. A major
counter terrorism operation in Queensland has uncovered I legal assault rifles,
explosives and a drone bomb. Several homes were raided from
(05:47):
the southeast to the north. Police have charged four men
and three women, alleging that they were attempting to traffic
twenty kilogram's worth of explosives. There now before the courts
in Brisbane, Beanlee, Townsville and also Bowen. There were fresh
questions for Victoria's police chief this morning over his use
of the force's air wing. Two weeks ago, he was
(06:09):
forced to apologize for taking the police chopper to Tasmania
for a conference, insisting it was one of only two
times he's ever used the aircraft. Now it's been revealed
he took another undeclared flight returning two police headquarters from
Avalon Airport, and News Corp is reporting that he and
his wife went up for a joy ride at the
start of his tenure in the top job, A hero
(06:31):
in his SpongeBob themed undies has helped catch an alleged
crook on the run. He took down an alleged carjacker
in a dramatic citizens arrest north of Perth. The father
and his two sons pinned the man down for thirty
minutes after catching him inside their car.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So I just grab them, try and wrestle and scuffle
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Ended up searching his pockets and found that he had
a pocket knife quite significant size.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
The suspect is facing a dozen charges and has been
refused bail. The survivor of an aggressive and hard to
detect skin cancer has bravely shared his story about the
deadly disease. After undergoing major reconstructive surgery, the cancer is
now at bay, but he wants his life changing experience
(07:18):
to act as a warning to others.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Paul Thompson is as tough as they come, a boiler maker,
former pilot and an avid sailor, but now at fifty
nine years old, he's in the fight of his life.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm not going to die. I refuse to die.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He was diagnosed in twenty twenty with squamous cell carcinoma,
a form of skin cancer. It lay dormant for two
years before spreading aggressively.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
They said that we may need to take your eye
and I said, well, do I have a choice? They
said you do. I said, well, I'll telle.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
They Gamble Surgeons operated for twelve hours, removing most of
his right cheek bone and upper teeth. They used parts
of his rib to hold up his eye socket, completely
rebuilding his face. But it wasn't enough.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And when I looked on their faces. They're completely gry,
and I thought this is not good. I was pretty
much going to see God.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Desperate for a lifeline, Paul's doctors offered a clinical trial
for immunotherapy.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
There was a new drug on the market. He responded
amazingly well. Today sameplmab has become almost a standard of
care for square of cell cartinomas.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Paul's later scan show his disease has halted, but given
its severity, there is no guarantee. Now he's dedicating his
time to educating and warning others about the dangers of
skin cancer.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It takes five minutes to apply a fifty plus sunscreen
and a few dollars for full ribbon hat. You don't
want to end up.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
This simple advice to avoid an extraordinary, verily difficult battle.
Sam Pabland seven News.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Anthony Abernezi has been branded a liar. During a heated
question time clash, Treasurer Jim Chalmers accused the Opposition of
spreading lies about the government spending when Liberal MP Alex
Hawk unleashed on the Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No no, no, no, you are hopeless. You are hopeless
and the liar and the liar lying to the Australian PAP.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Both Charmers and Hawk were instructed to withdraw their accusations.
It's been revealed that former NRL star Trent Meron allegedly
stole thousands in crypto from his own former Dragon's teammate
cade Ellis. Thirty six year old Maren is accused of
stealing one hundred and forty thousand dollars worth and investing
it in an ice bath business. Miren was taken into
(09:50):
custody on Tuesday after police raided a home at Barrack
Point near Woollongong. It will face court next month. Cheeky
quaker's on Way's Row Nest Island have become the unwelcome
tag alongs. On a camping holiday, a Perth local got
the shock of her life on zipping her tent to
find a large group of the mussy bules.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
There's no way, God, God. The video has been watched
almost seven hundred thousand times, with some saying leaving food
out in a tent is a rookie mistake. Time to
check Thursday's weather now in Brisbane mostly sunny, heading for
twenty seven degrees, the same in Sydney with a top
(10:37):
of twenty five camber, mostly sunny, twenty four for you
in Melbourne today, mostly sunny, a top of twenty five,
mostly clardy in Hobart twenty degrees, mostly claudi. Also in Adelaide,
heading for a top of twenty six perth, a possible
thunderstorm about twenty five for you, and a clearing shower
in Duha with a top of thirty four degrees
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