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Speaker 1: I'm going to get you across the latest on the

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Speaker 1: situation and tired Afiti in Hawks Bay. Now there have

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Speaker 1: been one hundred and fifteen evacuations, Rivers have been surging,

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Speaker 1: roads have been closed all around waid Or. The government

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Speaker 1: is contributing three hundred thousand dollars to the mayor relief

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Speaker 1: funds and wide or hastings and also tired Arfiti Emergency Response.

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Speaker 1: Minister Mark Mitchell is with us now. How much I

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Speaker 1: understand you're on your way to waydo are you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yes, I've been in the Hawks Bay for the

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Speaker 2: day and now I'm peered out to get on NH

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Speaker 2: ninety one of the Air Force Cuny coppers to fly

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Speaker 2: up to Waira is wider.

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Speaker 1: As far as you understand the worst.

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Speaker 2: Hit area, it looks like a yes. On the briefings

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Speaker 2: that I've had, they've been hit very hard by this,

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Speaker 2: without a doubt. But I won't know all the facts

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Speaker 2: until I get on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Is it hard to get comms with them?

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Speaker 2: Is it? I've got coms. I've been speaking with Prage

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Speaker 2: little amit throughout the day, but it has been evolving.

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Speaker 2: When we're talking. First thing in the early hours of

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Speaker 2: this morning, he didn't think that it was been really

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Speaker 2: being too bad, but then obviously daylight hours and as

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Speaker 2: things sort of start to unfold, I think you realize

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Speaker 2: that this town's been hit very hard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how hard has it been hit? Like? How many

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Speaker 1: evacuations are in that town?

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Speaker 2: Well, I know that the Memorial Hall is filled with people.

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Speaker 2: I think the number that I was given was about

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Speaker 2: one hundred people. So you know, houses have been evacuated.

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Speaker 2: It's the swell that's made the big difference as they've

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Speaker 2: been hit very hard. At the same in the Hawk's

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Speaker 2: Bay with with this, with these heavy seas and these

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Speaker 2: six meter swells.

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Speaker 1: Do we okay? So okay? So that's that's the situation.

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Speaker 1: That's that is in wide or world. What do we

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Speaker 1: know about what's going on around it? Everywhere else it's

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Speaker 1: been hit.

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Speaker 2: So just has been hit as well, particularly Tikaraka. They've

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Speaker 2: had flooding there and they've had to evacuate residents from

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Speaker 2: t k I'm heading up to I'll spend tonight with

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Speaker 2: with Amira and I'll be heading up to Gisbon either

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Speaker 2: very late tonight or this thing in the morning to

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Speaker 2: meet with Miya Raheit Stots and her team as well.

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Speaker 1: Are we through the worst of it or is there

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Speaker 1: more bad weather coming?

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Speaker 2: Well that the states of the local states, EVINCI is

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Speaker 2: still in place, and there's another high tide to night

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Speaker 2: at nine o'clock. But I'd just like to say that

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Speaker 2: the mayors have been outstanding. There are several defense teams,

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Speaker 2: our first responders, our police offs. They responded quickly, they

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Speaker 2: stood up very quickly, and because they've done that, they've

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Speaker 2: really protected their communities very well. They'll be very provoctive

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Speaker 2: and so the very strong position to be able to

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Speaker 2: deal with this.

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Speaker 1: The high tide at nine, Are you expecting that to

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Speaker 1: do more damage?

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Speaker 2: Hopefully not, because you know the waters have been receding,

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Speaker 2: But it's just that there's another high tide and the

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Speaker 2: swell is starting to recede as well. So it's just

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Speaker 2: a matter of being cautious and ensure that you know

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Speaker 2: that everyone's been proven about what they're doing and when

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Speaker 2: when it's the right time. Sort of dropped that local

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Speaker 2: set of Mitch.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, best of luck, and I hope

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Speaker 1: that I hope it's not as bad as we're thinking

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Speaker 1: it is. Ms Mark, which all the emergency response minister

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