Person killed by branch as weather chaos batters country

It's been a day of weather chaos throughout the country, with gale force winds and heavy rain battering parts of the lower north and west of the South Island. Gusts reached 148 kilometres per hour at the Remutaka Summit, around 145 kilometres at Mt Kaukau in Wellington today. One person has been killed after being hit by a falling branch and another has been injured. Reporter Ellen O'Dwyer spoke to Lisa Owen.