Northpower dealing with 30 outages as weather hits Northland

Wild winds have cut power to great swathes of the Northland. Northpower is dealing with 30 unplanned outages and it could takes days to get the lights back on in the hardest hit areas. Ex-Cyclone Tam is bringing sustained heavy rain and severe easterly gales, it has Northland the hardest so far, with wind gusts up to 150 kilometres an hour. Northpower Chief Executive Andrew McLeod spoke to Lisa Owen.