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December 24, 2024 4 mins
The Morning Edition of News Fix for 25 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks Headby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS at
seven am. I'm Scarlett Swatanovich. In this update, a Waikato
woman who was allegedly carjacked by an escaped prisoner at
Waikato hospital last month says she shocked it's happened again.
Corrections is reviewing both cases after Damon Anderson was filmed
shimmying down a pipe on Monday, reportedly from the eighth floor.

(00:27):
Lachlan Rennie reports.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
The initial escape allegedly saw a prisoner assault two Corrections
officers before threatening chloe mother and stealing her car. She
says she's disappointed after the first incident happened that someone's
escape again. Spring Hill Corrections Facility General manager Scott Walker
says they're looking at what changes can be made to
operational processes once the reviews are complete.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Lisa still searching for a gunman after two people were
shot in west Auckland. The incident happened in Hobsonville late
Sunday night, and both werectims were taken to the hospital
with serious injuries. Please say the investigation is ongoing and
no arrests have been made. They say both victims remain
in hospital. There's a bit of disappointment among retailers over

(01:12):
Christmas Eve, despite it being the busiest shopping day of
the year. World Line data reveals more than six hundred
thousand transactions were recorded yesterday in the peak hour between
midday to one pm. Over ten thousand purchases occurred in
the busiest minute and one hundred and seventy nine in
the peak second retail in Z's Carolyn Young says it's
less than the peaks if the last five.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Years, we're hoping for is to get a bit more
of a boost for Christmas because this is such a
critical time for retailers to build some spear cash for
those difficult months.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
American Airlines is apologizing to passengers for mass flight delays
as thousands travel home on Christmas Eve. The carriers is
the hour long nationwide halt on flights was issued because
of a vendor technology issue. It's posted to its social
media platforms, apologizing for the inconvenience caused by over sixteen
hundred and seventy flight delays and twenty eight cancelations. CNN's

(02:09):
aviation analyst Miles O'Brien says the software is crucially used
by dispatches to measure the weight, balance and fuel of
a plane.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's not software that a passenger would ever see directly,
but it clearly has a huge impact on their lives
and when it fails, the dominoes fall pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Sander's bringing a mixed bag of weather to New Zealand
this Christmas Day. Challs with heavy rain possible are forecast
for the majority of the South Island, particularly the West coast.
The top of the North Island will have a fine
morning before shalls pop up this afternoon. Met Service meteorologist
Claire O'Connor says the lower North Island, Hawks Bay and
Marlborough will be the driest areas. Temperatures are too bad either,

(02:49):
sort of the low twenties. Space not the most funny day.
We are expecting bit of clatter out and to sport.
The Breakers are hoping to deliver the Christmas present. All
of their fans are off to the keyw Wei side
struggled for form since returning from the last international window
with no wins in seven and will be desperate not
to make it eight in Hobart tonight when they take

(03:10):
on the Tasmanian jack Jumpers. Coach Patati Copenhan is confident
the team can salvage something this season.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
As a group, we work hard. These guys, they come
to GM with the right mindset and that's it.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's the only way way to give up. Nobody's giving up.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
We are as a group.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
We know are in the Slam, but we are not
that far away. Tip Off is at eight pm. Melbourne
Cricket ground curator Matt Page has provided some insight into
how the pitch will behave and tomorrow's Boxing Day Test
between Australia and India. He says have been happy with
how it's done in the past couple of tests and
feels there's no need to change anything.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
We've seen three fantastic Test matches so far on three
great pitches. Side For us, it's trying to do something
similar to what we've done the.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Last couple of years and create a thrilling contest. Liam
Lawson's received the best Christmas present of all following confirmation
of his Spot and Red Bulls Formula One team for
the twenty twenty five season. Lawson's back home for the
festive season, but will have to be on his best
behavior following his promotion to race alongside Max Verstapen mar
The twenty two year old will allow himself one day

(04:12):
to splash out. It's a very important role to beans.
I want to be as raally as possible, so yeah,
I might have a cheap day one. I think that's
fair and many of the silver ferns will be training
in between mince Pies and present opening today with a
summer camp looming in the new year, with no Nations
carp in January. The New Zealand Network
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