Afternoon Edition: 10 November 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 10 November 2024, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

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From the news talks had been newsroom, this is newsfacs.
In this update, Donald Trump has officially won all of
the battleground states, further cementing his victory seeing then has projected,
Trump has won the state of Arizona, which holds eleven
Electoral College votes. That brings the president elects total to
three hundred and twelve to rival Kamala Harris's two hundred

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and twenty six to forty two votes. That is more
than what he needed to win. Marco Rubio's former chief
of staff, Matt Terrell, says, we are likely to see
people from Trump's first term joining his administration, as well
as some new faces now. Also things would be people
not just from the government we're Capitol Hill, but from
the private sector as well, and you've seen it of
course with people like Elon must A floodhead Westland Highway

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will likely remain closed for most of this week. State
Highway Sex north of Hearst has been damaged by slips
and flooding, with work beginning tomorrow to clear rock. Ndta
says it could take up to three days to remove
that rock fall, and there's also cracking in the road
at Knight's Point. Frans Joseph experienced its wettest twenty four

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hours in more than four decades. It prompted a state
of emergency for Southernwestland and that has now been lifted.
The climate crisis could widen the gaps and kiwi's private insurance.
Recent modeling has shown more than four hundred and forty
thousand residential buildings are at risk of flooding and more
than one hundred and thirty seven thousand could be uninsurable

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by twenty fifty. Higher risk property owners are being hit
with the sharpest price rises as insurers that lean towards
a risk based pricing method, But new report from the
Hulling Clark Foundation suggests implementing a public scheme to reduce
the costs of rebuilding under insured communities in the long term. Energent,
please you take extra care when swimming at unpatrolled beaches

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after hours. This summer, fourteenagers were swimming at Auckland's bed
Thor's Beach at sunset on Friday when they got caught
in a rip. One of the females had to be
rescued by surf Life Saving And that is news and
Sport and to the past five netbal competition in christ
Church twice. In the Train Final, Martina Salmon has sun

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Case six point goal on full time to see New
Zealand snatch a forty one to forty comeback victory over
South Africa and booked themselves a spot in the Grand Final.
On sky Sport, the Ferns trailed twenty three to nine
at half time, but blew the visitors away twenty two
to nine in the final quarter, only taking the lead
at the death. New Zealand will play Australia in the

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final from at ten past eight. And in women's rugby
league moments ago, the Kiwi Ferns trailed the Jillarus at
twelve zero at halftime in the Pacific Championship final in Sydney.
And that is Sports. I'm Susie Nordquist. For more news,
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