News for Saturday, July 21st, 2018

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the nineteenth day of this July ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of the news presenters for the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 10:00 p.m. later that day (Byron Day for "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") saying, "It's hell on Earth for firefighters battling massive wildfires in the west. Blazes in Oregon and California have eaten through thousands of acres of land. The flames -- whipped by high winds, fed by tender dry conditions -- however, the infernos aren't keeping some tourists from visiting a popular national park. That story when I join you and Lenise for FOX 10 News at ten. Guys." (note: one of the news presenters for the program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 9:00 p.m. that day appeared to had been a member of the news operation for WALA-TV usually identified as "Lenise Ligon" in its programming before then in recent times). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twentieth day of this July ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) saying, "Now a News 5 update, nine of the seventeen people who died when a duck boat sank yesterday in Missouri were from the same family. And another member of that family says the boat's captain told the passengers not to wear life jackets. Tonight we've learned there is a connection to the duck boats that operate in Mobile. Here's News 5's Peter Albrecht", one of its reporters (a news reporter named Peter Albrecht) saying, "Well those duck boats that operate on Table Rock Lake outside of Branson, Missouri are operated by a company called Ride the Ducks. Tonight, CBS News* reported that Ride the Ducks also operates duck boats in four other U-S locations, including, here in Mobile, but tonight I spoke with Scott Tindle, the owner of Gulf Coast Ducks in downtown Mobile, and he says that is not true -- that Ride the Ducks has nothing to do with his operation. Tindle says he bought his duck boats from Ride the Ducks, and that the boats that you see on land and in the water in Mobile actually came here from Branson, Missouri where yesterday's tragedy happened. Tindle says his boats, though, are actually safer than the ones that run on the lakes up in the Ozarks and here's why" immediately afterwards, some audio of a certain being saying, "Here in Mobile, we have, uh, different coast guard regulations than what they have up there on Table Rock because they are on a non-navigable body of water. Um, those folks operating those vehicles are not actually captains, they're drivers" (while appearing to have had some graphics involving texts such as "ON THE PHONE: SCOTT TINDLE" and "OWNER, GULF COAST DUCKS") immediately afterwards, and the news presenter saying, "And Tindle says his operation always keeps a close eye on the weather and his ducks stay on dry land if weather is threatening. In Missouri. A strong storm developed quickly with winds up to sixty-three miles per hour yesterday evening. Peter Albrecht, WKRG News 5" immediately afterwards (*note: WKRG-TV was usually affiliated with a national TV programming service with a news department named "CBS News" before that Friday in recent times (specifically a service named the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)).