WEBVTT - Headlines: Morington landslide prompts evacuations

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<v Speaker 1>From the Daily os. I'm Emma, I'm lucy. It's Tuesday,

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<v Speaker 1>the fourteenth of January. Here's what's making headlines this evening.

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<v Speaker 2>Several homes have been evacuated after a landslide destroyed a

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<v Speaker 2>house in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. Emergency services were called to

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<v Speaker 2>McCrae this morning after a home collapse down a cliff

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<v Speaker 2>injuring a local council worker. Vick Emergency has issued a

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<v Speaker 2>landslide alert, warning the slope could continue to move in

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<v Speaker 2>the days ahead. Residents from seven neighboring properties have been

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<v Speaker 2>evacuated from their homes amid the continuing risk, and anyone

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<v Speaker 2>in the area has been urged to stay away from

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<v Speaker 2>the landslide.

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<v Speaker 1>Fire crews in La are bracing for the return of

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<v Speaker 1>dangerous Santa Anna winds as the city's wildfire emergency continues.

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<v Speaker 1>Prolonged guests are expected to bring winds in excess of

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred kilometers per hour to parts of southern California

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<v Speaker 1>over the coming hours and days. The National Weather Service

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<v Speaker 1>has warned the forecasted conditions could lead to explosive fire growth.

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<v Speaker 1>In opposed to x, The Weather Service's La branch set

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<v Speaker 1>its issued red flag warnings for Tuesday, which it described

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<v Speaker 1>as the extreme of the extreme fire weather scenarios. In

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<v Speaker 1>other words, it said this setup is about as bad

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<v Speaker 1>as it gets. Conditions are expected to ease by Friday.

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<v Speaker 1>The fires have killed at least twenty four people and

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<v Speaker 1>burned through thousands of acres of land and property.

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<v Speaker 2>Mystery balls have forced the closure of nine Sydney beaches

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<v Speaker 2>as authorities work to determine their contents. Gray and white

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<v Speaker 2>colored marble sized balls were spotted at several popular swimming

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<v Speaker 2>spots along Sydney's northern beaches, including Manly d Y and

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<v Speaker 2>Curl Curl earlier Today. The New South Wales Environment Protection

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<v Speaker 2>Agency is testing samples of the balls, while the Northern

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<v Speaker 2>Beaches Council is leaning clean up efforts. It comes after

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<v Speaker 2>hundreds of tar balls washed up on beaches in Sydney's

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<v Speaker 2>East last year. Beach goes have been advised to avoid

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<v Speaker 2>the debris.

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<v Speaker 1>And today's good news, a giant pink slug, thought to

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<v Speaker 1>have gone extinct after the black Summer bushfires, has been

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<v Speaker 1>found in a New South Wales National Park. Populations of

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<v Speaker 1>the fluorescent critter, which can grow longer than a human hand,

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<v Speaker 1>have bounced back with some eight hundred and fifty recent

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<v Speaker 1>sidings in an area of northwest New South Wales. It

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<v Speaker 1>comes after the twenty nineteen bushfires in the Alpine area

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<v Speaker 1>killed around ninety percent of all computer slugs according to

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<v Speaker 1>a report by Guardian Australia. Its comeback was tracked by

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<v Speaker 1>citizen scientists thanks to the National Parks and Wildlife Service

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<v Speaker 1>slug Sleuth app.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the latest from the Daily Oz newsroom. If you're

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