Afternoon Edition: 12 January 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 12 January 2025, 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

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news talks edby Newsroom. This is newsfecs. In
this update, sixteen people are now confirmed dead in the
Eton and Palisades fires, according to the Los Angeles County
Medical Examiner. Fire crews continue battling wildfires, with high winds
overnight and early next week expected to threaten progress. So far,
the fires have already burnt through an area bigger than

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San Francisco. CNN's Julia Vargas Jones says there's been growing
frustration at the city's evacuation alert systems, sending people alerts
in error, then following up by telling them not to worry, but.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Now today official saying this is real. As this fire
grows eastward, please heed those warnings.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Do not turn off your alert. Coleton Road in Munuwatu
is closed following a serious two vehicle crash this afternoon,
which has reportedly resulted in serious injuries. Emergency services were
called to the Coleton Road Watershed Road intersection just before
three the afternoon. Diversions are in place and motorists are
advise to avoid the area. Otaga University is aiming to

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give young people the confidence to try out tertiary study
through an immersive program on campus. Four hundred students are
in Dunedin for the thirty fifth year of hands on,
which began today. They'll join a range of research projects
in the Weak Ahead. Convener Lisa Russell says it aims
to give students a taste of university life and.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That will encourage them to come on and do study
at the university, hopefully Atigo, but it's not a.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Targo somewhere else. The Education Minister says bringing instructured literacy
is her greatest achievement of twenty twenty four. Erica Stanford's
spoken of managing a major priority for the government overhauling
the curriculum. The minister says every child starting school will
learn through structured literacy. She says it's going to be
a massive game changer for reading and writing standards in

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New Zealand after thirty years of decline. Miss Stanford says
we're unlikely to see the full effect until students are
sitting in CEO A or out in the workforce, but
the evidence tells her there will be a difference. That's news.
In sport, rain has disrupted proceedings on Day one of
the Australian Tennis Open, Craig Gabriel reports from Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
The first winner at this is Australian Open was the
seventeen year old Russian Mirror Andreva. The fourteen seeded teenager
made quick work of Marie Buskovo Chekia six three six three.
The three covered courts have allowed play to continue and
many other courts have been suspended because of rain. The
second player to move through was last year's Finaless Chetin,
when she had a tough first set before asserting her

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dominance seven sixty six 's one over Romanian qualifier Anka Torderoni,
finishing with an ace wide.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Black Cabs coach Gary Stead has seen enough to include
Ben Sears in the fifteen strong cricket squad for the
Champions Trophy next month in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.
The Pace Bowl has been out of the team for
eight months after a knee injury, but has been playing
for Wellington in the T twenty Super Smash. That's Sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to News Talk

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