Midday Edition: 02 January 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
On the News Talks headby Newsroom, this is newsfacs in
this update a sense of disbelief in Nelson about a
police officer being killed on the job. Senior Sergeant Lynn
Fleming died and Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsey is now in
a stable condition after an incident at Buxton Square car
park early yesterday morning. A third officer was concust and

(00:26):
two other bystanders were also injured. News Talks headbs Katrina
Bennett has spent much of her life in Nelson and
says this is an unprecedented situation for the city.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
There's a real shock here and a real sadness. It
feels like everybody is sort of bearing responsibility for this,
that this shouldn't have happened, and it should be a
place where people can go out, and especially the police.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Similar horror this morning in New Orleans. Fifteen people are
dead and at least thirty five others are injured after
a terror attack on the city's famous Bourbon Street. Local
police so a pickup truck was driven very fast directly
into a crowd before the suspect was shot dead during
an exchange of gunfire with police. The FBI says the

(01:10):
suspect was a US citizen from Texas, and an ISIS
flag was recovered from his vehicle. Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says
the man was trying to run over as many people
as he could.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
This perpetrator when around our fare page in order to
conduct this he was held built on creating the carnage
and the damage that he did.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Authorities in Nevada are investigating a potential terror attack outside
Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. A person has died
and seven others were injured after a Tesla cybertruck exploded
outside the President Ellect's hotel. The person who died was
inside the truck. Tesla boss elon Mask sees. The Senior

(01:51):
team is also investigating CNN's Veronica Miracles, says. Authorities believe
there is no further threat, but are investigating further leads.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
They don't know exactly why this exploded, if he was
an issue with the car. They said that that car
started smoking before it exploded. They don't know if it
was an explosion because of other nefarious reasons.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's news In Sport, New Zealand white ball cricket captain
Mitchell Satna will stick with the same eleven for the
third and final T twenty International against Sri Lanka today
in Nelson. The black Caps are on the cusp of
a clean sweep after posting one hundred and seventy two
for eight and one hundred and eighty six for five,
and mart Monnui Satana says he wants to reward the

(02:33):
quality of performances thus.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Far White change what's working. I think the balance we've
got at the moments, it's given them an opportunity to
perform and you know, kind of cement to spot and unfortunately,
obviously Nathan Smith and Bevan Jacobs don't get to run
this series, but you know they're obviously future watches for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Stephen Bunting is hunting a maiden World Darts Championship. He's
through to the second semi final of his career after
dispatching Peter Wright five sets to two in their last
eight contest. Bunting meet Luke Littler in the last four
That Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen to
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