Midday Edition: 10 January 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 10 January 2025, 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 news Talks Headby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, the number of people dead in Los Angeles
County remains uncertain, as about two thousand buildings are reduced
to rubble and ash. Five people are confirmed dead in
one hundred and eighty thousand are under evacuation orders, with
the five wildfires collectively burning over eleven thousand tech tes.

(00:27):
The properties of many alist celebrities have been destroyed, including
those belonging to Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman, and Billy Crystal.
La County Sheriff Robert Luna says they'll better understand the
extent of the devastation. In time, we will be able
to bring in canines and other things to help us,
hopefully not discover too many fatalities. That's our prayer, but

(00:48):
this is a crisis. Back home, fire cruise are working
to establish a containment line around the scene of a
vegetation fire east of Funga Ray. The blaze broke out
in a gully now on a Rahi yesterday afternoon. All
evacuated residents have returned to their homes and there are
no ongoing road closures, but foreign emergencies asking people to
take care driving near the fire site. The Northern Advocates

(01:11):
Denise Piper sees firefighters have been dealing with a difficult
landscape that's very steep, and there's scrub and gorse and
old tota and things like that that's been fueling the fire.
Jimmy Carter will be remembered for making significant steps towards
peace in the Middle East. Hundreds are packed into Washington's
National Cathedral to mourn the thirty ninth US president, who

(01:34):
died last week at the age of one hundred or
five living US presidents attended the service before officials began
transporting Carter's body to his home state and final resting
place in Georgia. The Prince of Wales is wishing his
wife a happy forty third birthday. Princess Catherine's been celebrating
with her family at home and Windsor. It follows a

(01:55):
tough year in which she's received abdominal surgery and chemotherapy
treatment for cancer. ITV's Nina Hossain says William's written a
heartfelt note to Kate, calling her the most incredible wife
and mother. Prince William posted, the strength you've shown over
the last year has been remarkable. That's news in Sport.
Novak Djokovic has revealed a venomous chapter in his life.

(02:18):
The Dennis Players claimed as food was poisoned by lead
and mercury during his twenty twenty two detention hotel stay
in Melbourne prior to deportation on the eve of the
Australian Open for refusing to vaccinate against COVID. The thirty
seven year old, as told GQ magazine, food contamination was
the only way such levels of heavy metals could be
in his system. Djokovic will bid for a record setting

(02:41):
twenty fifth Major from Sunday in Melbourne. The debut of
the Tiger Woods and Rory McElroy back Tomorrow's Golf League
drew nine hundred and nineteen thousand viewers on ESPN and
the United States. That was without the co founders playing
The indoor extravaganza put into perspective the audience's love archer
than any live broadcast from the previous two seasons, and

(03:03):
more than last week's PGA Tour opener in Hawaii. That's Sport,
I'm Jody Gill. For more news, listen to News Talk
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