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Speaker 1: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda

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Speaker 1: Bungelung Calcoton woman from Gadigol Country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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Speaker 1: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the

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Speaker 1: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres

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Speaker 1: first peoples of these countries, both past and present.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily os It's Friday,

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Speaker 2: the thirtieth of September.

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Speaker 3: I'm Zara, I'm Billy.

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Speaker 2: It's been called one of the top five most powerful

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Speaker 2: storms to ever hit the US, and Hurricane Ian still

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Speaker 2: has days left before it blows through. It's knocked out

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Speaker 2: power to millions of people and destroyed countless homes. We'll

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Speaker 2: get into Hurricane Ian, the megastorm that's reeking havoc on

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Speaker 2: the Caribbean and the North Atlantic in today's deep dive,

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Speaker 2: but first Billy take us through the headlines.

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Speaker 3: New South Wales Premier Dominic Parrote has called for the

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Speaker 3: mandatory COVID nineteen isolation period to be entirely scrapped. Ahead

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Speaker 3: of a national cabinet meeting today. Parrote said, quote we

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Speaker 3: need to get to the point where we move away

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Speaker 3: from public health orders and that people who aren't sick

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Speaker 3: should get out and about and enjoy life.

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Speaker 2: Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has welcomed agl's

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Speaker 2: decision to shut down its coal fired generators by twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty five, calling it quote a good step forward. AGL

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Speaker 2: announced it would close the loy Yang A station in

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Speaker 2: Victoria in twenty thirty five, rather than the originally scheduled

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Speaker 3: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said it is

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Speaker 3: tracking service stations across Australia amid fears of petrol price

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Speaker 3: gouging following the reinstatement of the fuel excise. HBC chaired

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Speaker 3: Gina Cascottlieb said the watchdog will report price rises that

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Speaker 3: are higher than what is expected and will name specific

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Speaker 3: chains and stations in the event of extreme rises.

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Speaker 2: A treacherous night ahead for Florida as darkness begins to

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Speaker 2: fall a very dangerous and life threatening storm.

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Speaker 1: Hurricane Ian made landfall, tied as the fifth most powerful.

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Speaker 2: Storm ever to hit the United States. Stay off the

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Speaker 2: roads in this part of the state so people at

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Speaker 2: this point should be where they are going to stay

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Speaker 2: to ride out in.

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Speaker 3: Today we're talking about Hurricane Ian. The footage I have

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Speaker 3: seen all over social media has been genuinely shocking. There

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Speaker 3: was one yesterday of a reporter who genuinely looked like

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Speaker 3: he was about to fly away. And it was only

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago that Hurricane Fiona knocked out

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Speaker 3: all of Puerto Rico's power, And now we're hearing that

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Speaker 3: another Caribbean nation, Cuba, has also lost power because of

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Speaker 3: a massive storm. Yesterday, it moved to the US and

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Speaker 3: crashed into Florida Zara. When did we first start hearing

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Speaker 3: about Hurricane Ian.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so late last week we started to hear some

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Speaker 2: rumblings from weather authorities in the southern US and Caribbean

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Speaker 2: nations that a tropical storm was brewing and building power,

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Speaker 2: and that the US state of Florida, which juts out

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Speaker 2: Caribbean Sea, that that was going to be directly in

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Speaker 2: its path. That storm, now called Hurricane Ian and registering

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Speaker 2: at the top of Category four, has become one of

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Speaker 2: the biggest storms in US history. But before it hit

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Speaker 2: the continental US. It also blew through Cuba, and day

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Speaker 2: by day it's just getting stronger.

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Speaker 3: It always sounds really scary when you say it's one

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Speaker 3: of the biggest storms in US history. How strong are

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, as of Tuesday our time, we were hearing

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Speaker 2: and what effect those strong winds would have on your

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Speaker 3: And on top of these really strong winds, that's combined

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, exactly. So waves were surging really high on

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Speaker 2: beginning of this week, Florida's Governor Ron de Santis issued

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Speaker 3: And I want to ask you more about Florida in

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Speaker 3: a second, but you said that it started in Cuba.

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Speaker 3: this has had in Cuba.

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Speaker 2: Cuba's an island nation of about eleven million people, and

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Speaker 2: all eleven million of those people lost power when Hurricane

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Speaker 2: Ian hit and caused the country's electricity grid to basically

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Speaker 2: Cuba's next door neighbor, when Hurricane Fiona hit a couple

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Speaker 2: devastating in Cuba. Again, it can feel abstract when we

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Speaker 2: out for days means that people have no way of

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Speaker 2: their family. And we're not just talking about a couple

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Speaker 2: people here. This has affected a country with a population

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Speaker 2: managed to get some power back online, but it's nowhere

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Speaker 3: We're going to take a quick break, but first here

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Speaker 3: is a message from our sponsors. And what about Florida.

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Speaker 3: What's happened there since Hurricane Ian made landfall.

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Speaker 2: Well, just like Cuba, there's been mass power outages. Over

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Speaker 2: two million people are now without power in Florida. Hurricane

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Speaker 2: Ian has topped out as a category four storms, so

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Speaker 2: which is actually the most severe kind of storm we

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Speaker 2: American National Hurricane Center, category four storms will cause and

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Speaker 2: I quote catastrophic damage, with even quote well built framed

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Speaker 2: homes at risk of severe damage. Several US sources in

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Speaker 2: their coverage of Hurricane Ian are talking about Hurricane Katrina,

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Speaker 2: which is another storm that hovered at that kind of

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Speaker 2: very much feel that the impacts of Hurricane Katrina are

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Speaker 2: So it tells you just how serious this newest hurricane,

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Speaker 2: Hurricane Ian is that US news outlets are drawing these

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Speaker 3: Do we know yet if it will affect any more

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Speaker 2: Well, current predictions from the National Hurricane Center say that

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Speaker 2: Ian is heading north, so areas of Florida, Georgia, and

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Speaker 2: South Carolina have been warned of these life threatening storms

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Speaker 2: and major flooding in the next two days, and then

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Speaker 2: states as far north as Virginia have also been warmed

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Speaker 2: of tropical storm winds which won't dissipate for several days.

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Speaker 2: It's safe to say that the southeastern states on the

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Speaker 3: It wasn't that long ago that we were talking about

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Speaker 3: Hurricane Fiona's impacts on Pottery co And I was actually

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Speaker 3: reading a story today about how Fiona's ongoing effects on

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Speaker 3: the Atlantic Ocean and wind patterns are still causing trouble

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Speaker 3: as far north as Canada. But I want to ask you, Zara,

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Speaker 3: is it normal to have such big, destructive storms so

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Speaker 2: I will refer to the experts on this one, Billy.

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Speaker 2: The World Meteorological Organization put out a statement and said

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Speaker 2: that climate change is expected to increase the proportion of

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Speaker 2: major tropical cyclones worldwide and to increase the heavy rainfall

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Speaker 2: experts say it is definitely becoming more common.

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Speaker 3: Right, Well, it's definitely something that seems like it is

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Speaker 3: not over. As he says, Zara, it feels like something

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Speaker 3: that is going to impact those communities for a very

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Speaker 3: long time to come. We'll absolutely be keeping you updated

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Speaker 3: over on our instagram, The Daily Oz as the storm continues.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us today on The Daily Oz.

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