On today's episode, bad weather has been battering Te Tai Rawhiti and Hawkes Bay leading to states of emergency being declared in the small community of Te Karaka near Gisborne, further south in Wairoa, and in the coastal settlement of Haumoana near Hastings. There's heartbreak in Gisborne after the bodies of three fisherman missing since Monday wash ashore at Mahia and Lauren Dickason who was found guility of murdering her three young daughters in Timaru in September 2021 is being sentenced in the High Court in Christchurch.
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