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Speaker 1: I'm Ailish Delaney from mma me's twice daily news podcast,

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Speaker 1: The Quickie with Your Headlines for Wednesday, March five. Millions

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Speaker 1: of people are finalizing preparations before Southeast Queensland shuts down

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Speaker 1: as Cyclone Alfred looms. Public transport will come to a halt,

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Speaker 1: with offices and schools closed across the region from Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: Alfred is expected to make land fall late on Thursday

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Speaker 1: or early Friday between Queensland Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast.

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Speaker 1: It'll mark the first time a cyclone has hit the

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Speaker 1: Southeast Coast since Cyclones Zoe struck in nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 1: Alfred is set to bring heavy rain, flash flooding, destructive

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Speaker 1: winds and storm surgeres at its height, with wild weather

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Speaker 1: expected from Wednesday. Seven News meteorologist Tony Orden is on

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Speaker 1: the ground in Brisbane. He says Alfred is one of

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Speaker 1: the strongest cyclones we've seen in the region in a

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Speaker 1: long time.

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Speaker 2: So now it looks quick could potentially be strong category

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Speaker 2: two cyclone, maybe even with some winds pushing up to

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Speaker 2: the equivalent of category three. So last time we had

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Speaker 2: anything even close to this was nineteen fifty four where

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Speaker 2: we had a population of thirty six thousand on the

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast. Now we have four and a half million

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Speaker 2: people in that warning area, so it's a big changing team.

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Speaker 1: Queensland Southeast is in the firing line, with the cyclones

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Speaker 1: predicted arrival on Friday morning coinciding with a high tide.

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Speaker 1: The Northern Rivers region of New South Wales is also bracing,

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Speaker 1: with more than one hundred schools closed and locals urged

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Speaker 1: not to panic. By Around twenty thousand properties are expected

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Speaker 1: to be impacted by flooding in the Brisbane area alone,

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Speaker 1: prompting a warning for locals to consider relocating. Tony says

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Speaker 1: conditions will vary across the warning zone.

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Speaker 2: Up to four and a half million included in the

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Speaker 2: warning area at the moment, it won't be everyone seeing

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Speaker 2: the worst conditions, though I say this will be a

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Speaker 2: very significant event. Having said that, the individual flooding for

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Speaker 2: each catchment won't necessarily be as bad as some previous

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Speaker 2: events like twenty twenty two floods in Brisbane, but we

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Speaker 2: are expecting a wide array of coastal erosion and huge waves.

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Speaker 2: Storm surges are a big issue, especially with expected high

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Speaker 2: tide at two am Friday. If landfall occurs, then we're

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Speaker 2: in a lot of trouble. Then we get into the

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Speaker 2: rain once across as the coast, likely lingering into Saturday again.

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Speaker 2: Flooding is a big issue, especially inland at the Gold Coast,

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Speaker 2: and unfortunately, Liz Moore, we'll have to keep a very

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Speaker 2: close Eyron Thinks for the next couple of days as well.

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Speaker 1: The warning zone spans across two states, from Double Island

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Speaker 1: Point in Queensland to Yamber in northern New South Wales

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Speaker 1: south of Byron Bay. Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Queensland

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Speaker 1: Hinstonland are most at risk of coppying the brunt of

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Speaker 1: the strong winds. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi has flown to Brisbane,

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Speaker 1: promising to urgently deliver a quarter of a million sandbags

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Speaker 1: to Queensland, with the Australian Defense Force now engaged to

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Speaker 1: assist the Queensland government. Heavy lifting helicopters from the nation's

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Speaker 1: fire fighting fleet are also at the ready. Flood releases

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Speaker 1: are likely at Queensland Somerset and wiven Hoe dams in

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Speaker 1: the next two days due to Alfred. With several ungated

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Speaker 1: dams already spilling, flights are expected to be affected, but

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Speaker 1: Brisbane Airport on Wednesday said it was operating as normal

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Speaker 1: while monitoring Alfred's approach. Tony says local communities are preparing

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Speaker 1: to brace for Alfred's arrival.

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Speaker 2: We're seeing evacuation senses, lots of sandbags. For the most part,

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping many areas can get by to spunkering down

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Speaker 2: a bit of food and common sense, tidy up the

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Speaker 2: yard and stay at home. But we will have at risk,

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Speaker 2: especially storm surges become a biggest threat that we will

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Speaker 2: see some more evacuations over the next day or two.

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Speaker 1: A second nurse has been charged over an allegedly threatening

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Speaker 1: video in which he and a coworker talked about refusing

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Speaker 1: to treat and instead killing Israeli patients. Ahmed Rashid Nadea

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Speaker 1: was arrested on Tuesday night and later hit with two

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Speaker 1: charges after being filmed in February in a random video

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Speaker 1: chap and an Israeli activist and online influencer. The twenty

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Speaker 1: seven year old and fellow nurse Sarah abou Lebdeh were

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Speaker 1: recorded in conversation while they were working at Sydney's Bankstown

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Speaker 1: Lidcombe Hospital. Nadea has apologized for the commons, which he

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Speaker 1: described as a joke gone wrong. Nadea was granted bail

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Speaker 1: to face court again on March nineteen. Abou Lebda is

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Speaker 1: due to have her first court appearance on the same date.

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Speaker 1: Both have their nursing registration suspended after the incident and

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Speaker 1: were barred from working the profession anywhere nationwide by Australia's

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Speaker 1: Health Practitioner Watchdog. Scientists aiming to bring back the wooly

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Speaker 1: mammoths say their plan is on track after creating a

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Speaker 1: new species, the wooly mouse. Scientists at US biotechnology company

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Speaker 1: Colossal Biosciences plan to de extinct the prehistoric mammoths by

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Speaker 1: genetically modifying Asian elephants to give them wooly mammoth traits.

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Speaker 1: Colossal focuses on identifying key traits of extinct animals by

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Speaker 1: studying ancient DNA, with a goal to genetically engineer them

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Speaker 1: into living animals to help restore Earth's depleted nature. Now,

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Speaker 1: the team says they have fresh support for their approach

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Speaker 1: after creating healthy, genetically modified mice with traits geared towards

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Speaker 1: coal tolerance, including wooly hair. Outside scientists have mixed views

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Speaker 1: about whether the strategy will be helpful for conservation, and

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Speaker 1: are yet to peer review the research. Jay Z has

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Speaker 1: filed a defamation lawsuit against an anonymous woman who earlier

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Speaker 1: accused him of raping her when she was thirteen. Since withdrawn,

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Speaker 1: civil suit claimed the rapper and music producer Sean Diddy

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Speaker 1: Coombs sexually assaulted her in two thousand at an MTV

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Speaker 1: Video Music Awards after party in Manhattan. Jay Z vigorously

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Speaker 1: denied the allegations, and the case was dropped last month. Now,

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Speaker 1: the rapper is alleging the woman was banking on false

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Speaker 1: and malicious claims for financial gain, and is demanding a

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Speaker 1: jury trial. The lawsuit also accuses her and her attorneys

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Speaker 1: of extortion and of being soullessly motivated by greed. That's

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Speaker 1: your latest news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie,

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