WEBVTT - Headlines: Severe heat and fire warnings across eastern Australia

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<v Speaker 1>From The Daily Oz.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Sam Becauselowski, I'm billiefit Simon's.

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<v Speaker 1>It is Friday, the fifth of December. Here's what's making

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<v Speaker 1>headlines this evening.

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<v Speaker 2>Several heat wave warnings and firebands are in place as

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<v Speaker 2>extreme weather continues to impact large parts of Eastern Australia.

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<v Speaker 2>Homes and properties in Victoria and Tasmania have been damaged

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<v Speaker 2>after high temperatures and strong winds swept through both states

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<v Speaker 2>on Thursday. Firefighters in northwest Victoria are working to contain

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<v Speaker 2>a three hundred and seventy hectare bushfire, while conditions have

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<v Speaker 2>eased slightly in Tasmania, where nineteen homes were damaged in

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<v Speaker 2>fires this week. Communities across New South Wales are also

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<v Speaker 2>facing extreme heat, with an emergency warning issued for a

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<v Speaker 2>fire near Dubbo. Severe conditions are expected to continue in

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<v Speaker 2>New South Wales tomorrow as temperatures saw into the low

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<v Speaker 2>forties in some parts of the state. A strong cold

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<v Speaker 2>front is forecast to cross Victoria and New South Wales

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<v Speaker 2>on Sunday morning. Meanwhile, Southeast Queensland is bracing for severe

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<v Speaker 2>storms this weekend.

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<v Speaker 1>Victoria police have shifted focus in their search for Desi

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<v Speaker 1>Freeman with investigators now working to locate the alleged police

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<v Speaker 1>killer's body. Freeman has been on the runs since the

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<v Speaker 1>twentieth of August after he allegedly shot dead two police

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<v Speaker 1>officers in Porpunker, about three hundred kilometers northeast of Melbourne.

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<v Speaker 1>The officers were executing a search warrant at the fifty

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<v Speaker 1>six year old's home at the time of the shooting.

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<v Speaker 1>Hundreds of police have been involved in the manhunt, with

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<v Speaker 1>more than four hundred officers deployed in the hours and

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<v Speaker 1>days after the killings. Police confirmed on Friday that specialist resources,

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<v Speaker 1>including dogs and drones have now been deployed for a

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<v Speaker 1>targeted search of Mount Buffalo National Park. The area was

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<v Speaker 1>previously searched with the aim to locate Freeman. However, teams

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<v Speaker 1>have since focused their search on identifying and locating his body.

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<v Speaker 1>No trace of Freeman has been located as yet. That's

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<v Speaker 1>according to Victoria Police.

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<v Speaker 2>The death toll from catastrophic flooding in parts of Asia

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<v Speaker 2>last week has surged past fifteen hundred, with hundreds of

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<v Speaker 2>people still unaccounted for. Rescue teams are racing to reach

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<v Speaker 2>survivors isolated by the disaster. The updated death toll came

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<v Speaker 2>as meteorologists warned of renewed rainfall across areas of Indonesia

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<v Speaker 2>already reeling from deadly floods. Authorities said eight hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>thirty six people were confirmed dead in Indonesia, four hundred

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<v Speaker 2>and seventy nine in Tri Lanka, and one hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>eighty five in Thailand, as well as three in Malaysia.

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<v Speaker 2>Many villages in Indonesia and Tri Lanka remained buried under

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<v Speaker 2>mud and debris, with eight hundred and fifty nine people

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<v Speaker 2>still unaccounted for in both countries.

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<v Speaker 1>And today's good news for your Friday afternoon. A university

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<v Speaker 1>in the US will spend an anonymous donation valued at

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<v Speaker 1>seventy five million Australian dollars on student fees. The gifts

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<v Speaker 1>will cover the tuition of senior year students enrolled in

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<v Speaker 1>the University of Washington's Medical Lab Science program. The UNI

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<v Speaker 1>said the donation is big enough to support students over

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<v Speaker 1>the next fifty years. Professor and Department chair doctor Jeffrey Baird,

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<v Speaker 1>said it has been a long standing dream to provide

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<v Speaker 1>more financial support to students. We are deeply grateful to

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<v Speaker 1>the donor whose transformative generosity is making this and our

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<v Speaker 1>program's growth possible.

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

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<v Speaker 2>local music missing from your Spotify rap this year.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll be back on Monday morning with another deep dive.

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<v Speaker 1>We've got Billy's interview with National's leader David Little Proud,

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<v Speaker 1>But until then, have a stellar weekend. My name is

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<v Speaker 1>Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calcuttin woman

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<v Speaker 1>We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,

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<v Speaker 1>both past and present.