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First Up for Tuesday 14 February 2023

  • Previous Episode: Monday, 13 February 2023
  • Next Episode: Wednesday, 15 February 2023
  • Willis: preparation much better for Cyclone Gabrielle

    weather politics
    Orewa Beach during Cyclone Gabrielle

    5:49 AM.Let's go now to National's Deputy Leader Nicola Willis.. Audio

  • Tairua on standby during Cyclone Gabrielle

    Civil Defence weather
    Debris left by the high tide rising above the shoreline in Tairua on 12 February, 2023, as sea surges from Cyclone Gabrielle begin to be seen.

    5:43 AM.It's just gone high tide in the Coromandel, as Cyclone Gabrielle bears down on the already flood-soaked region. One of the Coromandel's main roads, State Highway 25A which connects the peninsula's… Read more Audio

  • AK reporter on overnight damage from Cyclone Gabrielle

    weather
    A tree limb lies to the side of a road in central Auckland.

    5:35 AM.Joining Nathan Rarere is RNZ reporter Jonty Dine. Audio

  • Onion growers in Pukekohe try to recover crops after floods

    food rural
    Onions that remain are now trying desperately to dry out.

    5:26 AM.Picture onions washing up on your front lawn, its not a sight you see everyday, but it was the reality in areas of Pukekohe after the January 27th floods. The town famous for vegetable growing took a… Read more Audio

  • Japan: be my Valentine takes on new meaning with chocolate

    world
    Decorative Belgian chocolate truffles in heart-shaped boxes made of chocolate at a sweet shop in the historic town of Unionville, Ontario, Canada.

    5:17 AM.To Japan now where people are getting ready for Valentine's Day. It's a far bigger deal than it is here, and as our Tokyo correspondent Chris Gilbert explains it shines a rather revealing light on the… Read more Audio

  • Metservice update on overnight weather

    weather
    Flooded along Tararu Road in Thames after Cyclone Gabrielle unleased fury overnight.

    5:12 AM.It's been a miserable night for hundreds of thousands of people across the upper north island overnight as Cyclone Gabrielle continued to cut a swathe through the North Island.. So is the worst over… Read more Audio

  • UK: disappearance of Nicola Bulley a mystery

    world
    Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Conservative MP, Rishi Sunak leaves from an office in central London on 23 October 2022.

    5:06 AM.We'll have the latest from around the North Island from Metservice shortly - but first we'll kick off in the United Kingdom, our correspondent Ellie Jay is in London. Audio

  • Previous Episode: Monday, 13 February 2023
  • Next Episode: Wednesday, 15 February 2023
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