Tairua on standby during Cyclone Gabrielle

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 east and west coasts, is impassible due to a massive slip. And Emergency Management Minister Kieran McAnulty said yesterday that helicopters are on standby should the storm completely cut of the Coromandel's east coast. Our reporter Leonard Powell is in Tairua He was out in the wild weather yesterday and filed this report.