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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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Friday, 17 February 2023
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Significant number of schools flood-damaged
17 Feb 2023A significant number of schools in Tairwahiti and Hawkes Bay have been flood damaged in the cyclone and it will be up to each of them to decide when to open. The Ministry of Education says it… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Mud covering vines in Esk Valley - PM Hipkins
17 Feb 2023At Parliament Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is giving an update after visiting Hawke's Bay again today. [embed]… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 17 February 2023
News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6320650925112 Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Update on road closures for Friday afternoon
17 Feb 2023For the latest on the roads in the area, Waka Kotahi's Mark Owen has the details. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6320647458112 Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Unison update on power outages
17 Feb 2023Thousand of households in Hawkes Bay still without power four days on and desperate to know when they might be hooked back up. Danny Gough from electricity company Unison talks to Lisa Owen. [embed]… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Pakowhai residents return to devastation
17 Feb 2023Days after their properties were inundated with rapidly rising floodwater, residents of Pakowhai, between Hastings and Napier, are returning to devastating scenes. For many, it's still too early to… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Emergeny alert in Gisborne as water fails
17 Feb 2023The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle has risen to eight and is expected to climb. Gisborne residents have been told to use water only for drinking and flushing the toilet due to a failure in a water… Read more Video, Audio
Thursday, 16 February 2023
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Trucker helps get supplies to East Coast
16 Feb 2023Trucks are getting food, water and fuel to cut-off townships along SH2 between Ōpōtiki and Te Karaka.
There are multiple hazards on the stretch of road, which is still closed to the public Steve… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Growers urge more NZDF to Hawke's Bay
16 Feb 2023Send more Defence Force personnel - that's that the plea from Hawke's Bay Fruit growers whose crops and livelihoods have been decimated by floodwaters.
Some are trying to salvage fruit - still… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Some Gisborne residents feeling abandoned
16 Feb 2023The Prime Minister has spent the day in Tairawhiti visiting some of the regions devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle.
However, many residents feel the government abandoned them in their time of need.
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Cyclone Gabrielle: Tairāwhiti, Wairoa urged to conserve power
16 Feb 2023Households in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa are being urged to conserve what power they have, if any.
Lines company Eastland Network says multiple serious faults and major access issues - means 4500… Read more Video, Audio
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Cyclone Gabrielle: West Auckland homes still trapped by slips
16 Feb 2023To Auckland now and some residents in the Titirangi area are still dealing with no power or water, roads closed and limited cell phone coverage.
But it's two major slips that have trapped residents… Read more Video, 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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