Morning Edition: 06 October 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talks headben Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, the Navy's dive in survey vessel hmnz S
MANAWANUI has been grounded off the southern coast of Samour
and the cruise abandoned. The ship. Shannon Johnstone has more.
It happened last night while they were conducting a reef survey.
The seventy eight people on board took life rafts and

(00:26):
are all accounted for. The Defense Forces working with the
Rescue Coordination Center and Air Force P eight has also
been deployed to assist. No updates been issued by the
Defense Force and shortly before midnight the ship tracking website
Marine Traffic was updated around three point thirty this morning
and still reports the ship status as a ground The

(00:48):
cleanup starts in Dunedin today after heavy rain caused widespread
damage over the past few days. The city and Kluther
District remain under a state of emergency, with the Dunedan
Council's focus now I'm getting roads reopened, managing slips and
continuing to assess properties. No more rains expected over the
weekend and river levels are declining. Nine properties have been

(01:10):
red sticked so far. While State Highway one has fully reopened,
council facilities will remain closed today. Civil Defense Controller Rob
West says their welfare center closed up last night and
they'll now focus on the aftermath.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
We're starting to clear the roads slips where we're working
on the major slip out at Maya on West Harbor.
We've managed to get our water back up and running
on their target peninsula.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
More than thirty seven thousand people have reported on Gnett Felling,
a five point seven magnitude earthquake centered near Wellington this morning.
The shake, shortly after five am, was thirty kilometers deep
and situated twenty five kilometers west of the city. Firefighters
report no damage, however, did help one person in the
suburb of Northland whose door had latched itself closed in

(01:56):
the quake, and fire crews are expecting to battle a
blazer in the remote part of Northland for multiple days.
Fire an emergency were alerted midday yesterday to the fire
burning in the gum Field region between Hedequino and Ipada.
There's no threat to structures or people and that's news.
The Sport and Panthers coach Ivan Cleary has no concerns

(02:18):
about throwing Scott Sorenson into the cauldron of an NRL
Grand Final after clearing the penrith Ford to feature against
Melbourne and tonight's decider. The New Zealand internationals been sidelined
for the past month with a hamstring issue. It's been
a gold feast in the English Premier League, with twenty
four goals across the day's first six matches. Liverpool's beaten

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Crystal Palace one nill away to stay top of the table,
Manchester City's beaten Fulham three to two, while Arsenal's cruise
past Southampton three to one, Brentford's beaten Wolves five to three,
west Ham's crushed ip Switchtown for to one, and Lester
City has edged Bournemouth one nil. And Daniel Hilly is
in a tie for twelfth after the third round of

(02:59):
the Alpha Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland, while Sam Jones
is tied for twenty ninth and Kazumi Kubori is in
a share of fifty eighth. And that's sport. I'm Scarlet Swatanovic.
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