Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Billy Fitzimons.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, the ninth of January. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: Three people are missing in central Victoria and many properties
Speaker 2: have been destroyed as out of control bushfires have escalated
Speaker 2: today in catastrophic conditions. There are dozens of fires statewide,
Speaker 2: including a bushfire around the town of Longwood, putting thousands
Speaker 2: of residents under threat. Conditions have been described as one
Speaker 2: of the most dangerous bushfire days the state has seen
Speaker 2: in years. A major heat wave has swept across Australia's southeast,
Speaker 2: with temperatures reaching forty three degrees in Melbourne and up
Speaker 2: to forty five degrees in parts of Inland Victoria.
Speaker 1: Today, federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people
Speaker 1: outside a hospital in Portland in the US state of Oregon.
Speaker 1: It comes one day after an immigration officers shot and
Speaker 1: killed a woman in her car in the US west
Speaker 1: state of Minnesota. According to Homeland Security, the agents were
Speaker 1: conducting a targeted vehicle stop and one agent fired a
Speaker 1: shot when a driver quote attempted to run over the
Speaker 1: law enforcement agents. The driver and passenger then drove off.
Speaker 1: Police found the two shooting victims nearby with gunshot wounds.
Speaker 1: Their conditions were not immediately known, but they are believed
Speaker 1: to be alive. Portland Police Chief Bob Day has called
Speaker 1: for calm during a period of what he called heightened
Speaker 1: emotion and tension in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2: Nick Kurios has announced he will not play singles at
Speaker 2: the Australian Open, ruling himself out of a likely wildcard.
Speaker 2: The Australian was tipped to receive one of the three
Speaker 2: remaining wild cards from Tennis Australia. However, he announced on
Speaker 2: social media today that he would only play doubles with
Speaker 2: fellow Australian to Nazi Kokanakas at the tournament, which gets
Speaker 2: underway on the eighteenth of January. Multiple wrist and knee
Speaker 2: surgeries have limited Curios to just seven singles tour matches
Speaker 2: over the past three years, with his ranking currently at
Speaker 2: six hundred and seventy.
Speaker 1: And today's good news, twenty one year old Ossie Teagan
Speaker 1: Croft will play Rapunzel in Disney's live action Tangled. Croft
Speaker 1: is best known for playing Rachel Roth, also known as Raven,
Speaker 1: on the HBO MAC series Titans, which ran from twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty twenty three. Before that, she starred on
Speaker 1: Home and Away but Entangled. Croft will be appearing alongside
Speaker 1: Milo Mannheim, who will be playing the role of Flynn Ryder.
Speaker 1: The release date of the movie is not yet known.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from The Daily OL's newsroom. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for something else, you can catch up on this
Speaker 2: morning's Deep Dive, where we explain the sober Curiosity movement
Speaker 2: and why more young people are drinking less.
Speaker 1: We will be back on Monday with the next Deep Dive,
Speaker 1: but until then, have a brilliant weekend.
Speaker 2: Bye. My name is Lily Madden and I'm a proud
Speaker 2: Arunda Bunjelung Calkatin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily oz
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Speaker 2: the first peoples of these countries, both past and present.