Midday Edition: 14 January 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 14 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):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is you're midday
newsfix for Tuesday, the fourteenth of January. Winds are picking
up in LA as fire crews continue to battle raging wildfires.
At least twenty four people have died in the fires,
which have been burning for almost a week. The still
active Palisades, Eton and Hurst fires have now been through

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about one hundred and fifty five square kilometers. That's an
area larger than Hamilton, LA. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley says
they're preparing for conditions to deteriorate. We are not in
the clear as of yet and we must not let
our guard down as we have right now extreme fire behavior.

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David Seymour says he's not once doubted whether his Treaty
Principal's Bill campaign was worth it. Submissions on the bill
close at one pm today, after the deadline was extended
last week due to technical issues with an estimated one
hundred and fifty thousand entries in one day. See more
toll Tim Beverage. There are two main types of opposition.

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The first type is just the absolutely hysterical and really
a tiny minority within Marydom to get up and do
harkers and say you're alive and say you're racist. He says,
the second type still pushes the belief one's race matters
more than their ideas. Confirmation of the difficult time facing
retailers and your figure show from Payment Processor Worldline show

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retail spending increased just zero point eight percent last year.
That's the slowest consumer spending growth in half a decade.
The value of the average sale dropped zero point six percent.
Inframetrics principal economist Brad Olsen says it indicates kiwis are
doing a bit more bargain hunting, but also probably people
that are looking for slightly smaller items not going to

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those big, large, high value items spend because no one
can afford that in this previous economy. A manhunt continues
in Topol for an escape after an escape from police custody.
Last night, thirty year old Samir Derek Valhajam fled a
police transport vehicle outside at Topol District Court at about
six pm. He was wearing green prison issued shorts and

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on orange hi ver's vest. Top O Mayor David Trewaivers
says the courts in the CBD surrounded by mainly commercial
buildings just very adjacent to it, as the Beautiful Boat
Marina at Services Lake Lopol, so there's lots of possibilities.
Of course. Police are asking anyone who sees anything suspicious
to call one one one. A financial reward for the

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return of medical supplies stolen from an air ambulance in Otago.
Life saving items were taken from the Queenstown Rescue helicopter
at Thai Airie Airfield early on Sunday. The aircraft had
just been used to transport a critically injured patient to
Dunedin Hospital. Helicopter's Otago's CEO, Graham Gale, says the stolen

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gear is only of value to their teams, which is
why they're willing to pay to get it back, as
well as for information leading to the culprit. You know
you may talk it. Here's a lazy king k for you.
Just go and get my bag back and give the
name to the place of the person that actually talker
to sport. The Los Angeles Rams have leaned into anything

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normal that they can muster for their inner NFL Wildcard
playoff match against the Minnesota Vikings. The game's been moved
from California to Arizona due to the ongoing wildfires in
the LA region. Former England pace bowler James Anderson has
confirmed he will play on at the age of forty two,
signing a one year cricket contract with his Lancashire county.

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I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the
news Talk zb newsroom.