Midday Edition: 24 December 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 24 December 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

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the newstalk's head Been newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update. One person's been taken to hospital in a
moderate condition after a car crashed into a house in
New Plymouth. Maryland's emergency services responded to the crash on
Riversdale Drive about nine point fifteen, where the cars buried
in the house. Urban search and rescue is subsequently requested

(00:25):
because of difficulty accessing the occupants. Photos from the scene
suggest the car drove through a fence into the corner
of a home, causing extensive damage to the exterior. Police
are yet to confirm if there are any further injuries.
The nineteen year old who survived two nights missing in
the Upper Hut Bush is thanking the public for messages
of support. Maya Johnston fell from a two story high

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waterfall after going for a walk on Saturday evening. She
spent two nights in the bush before being filmed yesterday.
On social media. Johnston says she'll remain in hospital to
undergo surge injuries. For her injuries, A Give a Little
page has been set up to support her recovery. Plise
are remaining confident in their road patrolling methods as New

(01:09):
Zealand enters another holiday road toll period. The official Christmas
and New Year road Toll begins at four pm today
and runs until six am on January fifth. The last
two periods both reached twenty one deaths, the most since
twenty seventeen. Wrote Policing director Steve Greeley says, the blips
don't take away from the overall difference.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Each year we saw thirty one left deaths compared to
the year before, and tracking this year we're around fifty
left death so that's a really real good indicator that
we're on the right track here.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Up to thirty seven people will now spend their lives
behind bars after being taken off death row. In the US,
Joe Biden's commuted the sentences of thirty seven out of
forty federal inmates and converted them to life in prison
without parole. The three remaining on death row include the
Boston Marathon bomber and two mash Singing N's Kayla Tulshi

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says Biden was a supporter for the death penalty earlier
in his career. The party has moved in a direction
where they have wanted to suggest more sympathy for some
of these individuals who they believe have been wrongly incarcerated.
That's news. I'm Scarlet Swittanovic to sport and a well
wind two months for Bevan Jacobs has been capped off

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with the first call up to the Black Caps. The
Auckland Aces batter, fresh off his shock selection in last
month's Indian Premier League action, could make his debut for
the national side in the first T twenty against Sri
Lanka and Tidonga on Saturday. Jacobs is shuffed at the
call up.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's always something you dream of as a kid then,
especially for me, you know, like it's always something I've
tried to aim for and came a little bit quicker
than I anticipated, but you know, grabbed the opportunity and
I'm just going to be happy to be in that
environment and try and learn heaps.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Team New Zealand boss Grunt Dalton is pushing back against
suggestions that the America's Cup should be a level playing
field when it comes to the use of technology by teams.
Competitors in the America's Cup can design their own boats
within regulations determined by the Cup holder, which Dalton says
makes the event fascinating and that's sport. For more news,

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