Morning Edition: 03 January 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news talks had been newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is newsfacs in this update. Security is being ramped
up in New Orleans following yesterday's terror attack. A US
Army veteran from Texas drove a pickup truck into crowds,
killing fourteen people and entering dozens more before he was
killed in a shootout with police. Authority said appears to
be unrelated to the deadly explosion of a Tesla cybertruck

(00:28):
outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas. Louisiana Governor Jeff
Landry says the city is on heightened alert as it
prepares to host the Sugar Bowl college football game today
and the Sugar Bowl next month.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
We've got an active criminal investigation going on, while we're
also continuing to secure the city in preparation for three
o'clock kickoff time for the Sugar Bowl.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
A man's been charged with murder, attempted murder, and six
other charges over the death of Nelson police officer Lynn Fleming.
She and fellow Senior Sixergeant Adam Ramsay were hit by
a vehicle in the early hours of Wednesday. He is
now in a stable condition. A candle at vigil as
planned for this evening and a moment's silence will be
held at Nelson Cathedral this Sunday. The Holiday road toll

(01:14):
has ended with twelve people losing their lives on the road.
That's well down from last year's figure of twenty two.
Jacob Jones reports.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
The first death was recorded on Christmas Eve at eight pm,
when a motorcyclist died after a crash of the car
on todong Is Lloyd Street. The last recorded death was
a cyclist who was killed in a crash with a
vehicle on State Highway twenty nine at around ten thirty
yesterday morning. The number follows a low annual toll for
twenty twenty four, the lowest per capita since the nineteen twenties.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Wellington's Oriental Bay beaches due a fresh batch of sand.
The Inner City beach is man made, with Wellington City
Council replenishing the sand every ten years and shifting the
sand from west to east each year to combat its
natural movements. Its last oppositive new sand was in twenty
fifteen and the Council's now investigating the procurement of new sand.

(02:06):
That's news in sport. Cricketer Jacob Duffy claims the absence
of Tim Southey has given him an opportunity to flourish
for the black Caps. The right arm pace bowler was
the player of the series in the two to one
T twenty win over Sri Lanka, topping the wicket table
with eight at an average of eight point twenty five
and an economy rate of five point five. Duffy says

(02:27):
consistent match play has helped Agnes Colletti, who was the
world's oldest living Olympic gold medalist and a Holocaust survivor,
has died aged one hundred and three. The Hungarian gymnast
topped the podium five times out of games, first at
Helsinki in nineteen fifty two and four more times at
Melbourne in nineteen fifty six. Colletti was born in Budapest

(02:48):
in nineteen twenty one. She won her first national championship
in nineteen forty, but was banned from the sport later
that year because of her Jewish origin. The Hungarian Olympic
Committee claim she escaped deportation to Nazi concentration camps by
hiding in a village south of the capitol with false papers.
That's sport. I'm Jody Gill.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
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