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Speaker 2: A recovery operation is underway after a landslip at a

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Speaker 2: mountain long and Nuwi campground. Information is still being collected

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Speaker 2: as to how many people may be trapped in that landslide.

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Speaker 2: It is a significant event. On the line right now

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Speaker 2: is news Talks Heb's Brian Kelly BK. Very good afternoon

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 3: Good day guys. How are you doing good?

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Speaker 4: Think you can you describe what you're seeing at the

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Speaker 4: holiday park? BK?

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Speaker 3: Well, right now there's a press conference underway with all

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Speaker 3: the emergency personnel Mayor of Tarang and Marty Drysdale, the

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Speaker 3: MP two MPs for the Bay of Plentyer here, Mark Mitchell,

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Speaker 3: Fire and Emergency and basically they're just describing what is

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Speaker 3: going on at the moment. We're nearly four hours from

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Speaker 3: when the incident happened and at this stage still there

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Speaker 3: is no confirmation of how many are missing. There's all

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Speaker 3: sorts of numbers being banned around, but they can't confirm

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Speaker 3: that at the moment. And then probably five hundred meters

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Speaker 3: down the road from where the press conferences. Is the

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Speaker 3: scene by the mount hot pools you would have probably

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Speaker 3: you know, anybody knows this area, Malo Mount mong Nui

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Speaker 3: is quite a sacred, sacred place, very popular for tourists.

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Speaker 3: The camping ground has been here for decades and decades

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Speaker 3: has been very very popular. But that's all going to

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Speaker 3: change after what happened. What happened this morning.

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Speaker 4: So can you describe the mood that you're seeing on

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Speaker 4: the ground via BK.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty somber. The Mount Surf Club families are in

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Speaker 3: there that were affected, because I believe there are children

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Speaker 3: that are involved that are missing as well. So the

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Speaker 3: police are doing a great job. They're here on mass

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Speaker 3: In fact, I don't think I've ever seen so many

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Speaker 3: police cars. We were at them out at nine point

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Speaker 3: thirty just after it happened this morning, and the number

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Speaker 3: of emergency vehicles that went through was quite phenomenal. The

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Speaker 3: campground has been virtually emptied out and as I speak

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Speaker 3: to you now, I can see cars coming, caravans out,

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Speaker 3: bringing mountain bikes out. Everybody. It's been evactivated from the campground.

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Speaker 3: There's a very very large truck with it. It's just

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Speaker 3: coming tow an Ocean Beach road that'll be heading towards

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Speaker 3: the side because it's a it's a big slip, it's

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Speaker 3: a massive slip, and they've got to be very very

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Speaker 3: careful on just what happens there.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely they do. Bekay, can you can you describe this

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Speaker 2: slip in a little bit more detail, what part of

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Speaker 2: the camp sites did it, did it happen in, and

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Speaker 2: roughly how big are we looking at and how many

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Speaker 2: potential tense caravans may have been in that pathway if

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Speaker 2: you know the.

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Speaker 3: Area at all. It's towards Pilot Bay, which is on

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Speaker 3: the opposite side to the ocean. So the mount hot

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Speaker 3: pools very very popular. They've only been upgraded in the

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Speaker 3: last few years. Quite a tourist attraction, so it's kind

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Speaker 3: of above that in factor. This morning when the slip

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Speaker 3: came down and actually carried a camp a van into

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Speaker 3: the hot pools itself in one of the large camp

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Speaker 3: of vans actually ended up inside the hots it's a

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Speaker 3: big next slip. With all the rain that we have had,

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Speaker 3: very very many brown condition so the slip is probably

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Speaker 3: under me high roughly, haven't been too close to it,

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Speaker 3: but it's a pretty big slip. And the number of tents,

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Speaker 3: caravan even cars. It is quite scary.

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Speaker 4: Really now, as you see before, it's a very famous campsite.

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Speaker 4: I've spent a lot of time there and it just

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Speaker 4: doesn't seem like the type of place that a slip

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Speaker 4: would happen. How much surprise is there that this has

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Speaker 4: happened from locals BKA.

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Speaker 3: Well, the amount of rain we had in the past

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Speaker 3: twenty four hours. I believe I heard a story just

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Speaker 3: a short time ago on the one o'clock news that

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Speaker 3: it's the most rain that's been recorded in the history

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Speaker 3: of rain being recorded in this area. So it's a

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Speaker 3: phenomenous amount of rain. In fact, the first piece of

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Speaker 3: land to go was on the ocean side, which is

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Speaker 3: the path that takes me up to Manui. If you

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Speaker 3: ever climbed up that path, beautiful step, lovely path being

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Speaker 3: wiped out, absolutely wiped out. That happened overnight. But then

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Speaker 3: you know this morning at nine point thirty, nobody basically

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Speaker 3: saw this coming and apparently the raw, the noise of

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Speaker 3: when it did start sliding, with large trees and so

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Speaker 3: on bringing it down was very, very scary. Indeed, as

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Speaker 3: we speak of just mentioning that very very large digger

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Speaker 3: has now been taken around in front of the high

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Speaker 3: rises on the ocean side to the site on real

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Speaker 3: b kay.

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Speaker 2: And what is the weather like looking now? Is it

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Speaker 2: starting to ease up somewhere?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rain's dawn, although it's gray and overcast at

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Speaker 3: the moment, but certainly it's not raining at the moment,

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Speaker 3: the hell well of it and what it was yesterday,

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Speaker 3: that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: Are there any other areas of concern around about the

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Speaker 4: Mount Monganui total area?

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Speaker 3: Not at the stage, although these things sets you out.

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Speaker 3: I mean the mountain brew sticks alside. So she had

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Speaker 3: simple teas rupted down just checking on the land stability

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Speaker 3: and so on. So they'll be watching with interest, you know,

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Speaker 3: what they can do and what may or may not happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian, it is a horrific and scary event for

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Speaker 2: a lot of people and obviously the people a mout

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Speaker 2: Mong and Neuwi as well. It's been an incredibly tough

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours. Really, thank you to you for coming

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Speaker 2: on the show and you stay safe and we'll.

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Speaker 3: Talk again soon, pleasure mate.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: That is News Talks edb's Brian Kelly.

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