Midday Report Essentials for Thursday July 19 2024

On today's episode, Mackenzie District Firefighter says driving on State Highway 8 is like Russian Roulette with 6 crashes in the past week and a half, Joe Biden is under intense pressure from Democrats to step down, we go to Tauranga where voting is underway for the first election since 2019, and two New Zealanders have won the world's toughest and longest endurance race, the Yukon one thousand, paddling one thousand miles along the Yukon River through Canada and Alaska.