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Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2023
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Gisborne urged to conserve water
15 Feb 2023Gisborne residents have been urged to conserve water, with the main supply damaged in the storm.
Tairāwhiti Civil Defence controller Ben Green talks to Lisa Owen. Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Long wait for Hawke's Bay roads to reopen
15 Feb 2023Cyclone Gabrielle has gone but her legacy is the most catastrophic weather event in living memory.
The storm left parts of the upper North Island resembling parts of a jigsaw.
Wairoa is essentially… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Muriwai community grieves firefighter killed in slip
15 Feb 2023The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle has reached four. Three people, including a child, have died in Hawke's Bay and a volunteer firefighter has been found dead trapped in a house in Muriwai, in… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Gisborne cut off - latest details
15 Feb 2023RNZ reporter Kate Green is in Gisborne and joins Lisa Owen with the latest details.
The HMNZS Manawanui is sailing from Auckland with supplies destined for Tairāwhiti, and will deliver water supplies… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Thousands stranded in Hawke's Bay
15 Feb 2023Thousands of people are stranded in Hawke's Bay without power, phone service, dwindling supplies and many are trying in vain to contact their loved ones.
Our reporter Lauren Crimp and cameraman Angus… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Latest update from PM Chris Hipkins
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins speaks at Parliament on the latest efforts following Cyclone Gabrielle. Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 15 February 2023
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Coromandel areas on day four with no power
15 Feb 2023Parts of the Coromandel have had a fourth day with no power.
Thames-Coromadel Civil Defence Controller Garry Towler talks to Lisa Owen Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Wairoa cut off, supplies running low
15 Feb 2023Wairoa is completely cut off, and hundreds of people have had their homes swamped with water.
Mayor Craig Little says they desperately need help. Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: 'She disappeared underwater, under the house'
15 Feb 2023A woman is still missing in Hawke's Bay after the Eskdale property she was housesitting was suddenly inundated with floodwaters early on Tuesday morning.
The owners of the house, Maik Beekmans and… Read more Video, Audio
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
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Paeora vets use cows' oral drenching pumps to clear floodwater
14 Feb 2023Now here's a story of a bright moment of ingenuity in today's tempest. The vet clinic in Paeroa flooded overnight, but early this morning, staff quickly grabbed the gear used to treat cattle to clear… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds of flood evacuees in Hastings
14 Feb 2023Hawke's Bay has been pumelled by rain today - forcing a number of evacuations.
At least 90mm fell in the region - turning roads into rivers and leaving residents on rooftops.
Reporter Lauren Crimp… Read more Audio
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Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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