#Australia: Wildfires, drought, LA Nina. Scott Mayman, CBS News
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🗓️ 4 March 2023
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#Australia: Wildfires, drought, LA Nina. Scott Mayman, CBS News.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/bushfire-out-of-control-north-east-of-melbourne-victoria-warnings-updates/07383837-8c36-416b-b969-67dd0bedb91f
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| 0:00.0 | S.O. wants to help you use your car a little less by hoping on your bike a little more, |
| 0:04.5 | especially for those shorter trips, like the popping out for a pint of milk trip. |
| 0:09.8 | Or the off-to-pick up the kids' trip, or even the Friday night chippy trip. |
| 0:16.0 | And to make the swap easier, every day S.O. is giving away an e-bike and 10,000 |
| 0:20.5 | nectar points that you could spend on cycling gear. Could you do a journey differently? |
| 0:24.9 | Search S.O. thoughtful driving to find out more. |
| 0:27.7 | See terms and conditions at s-o.co.uk. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Bachelot. A La Niña is leaving Australia, but not yet. |
| 0:34.4 | It is summertime and there are cyclones, we call them hurricanes. |
| 0:38.5 | There's one large one heading perhaps for New Zealand after one large one pummel New Zealand. |
| 0:44.8 | Scott Maiman of CBS News is here to tell us about New Zealand's bad run of luck. |
| 0:50.5 | Scott, there are thousands of people still missing from the earlier cyclone. |
| 0:55.3 | Reported dead last time I checked was 11, but that number is not certain because of the missing. |
| 1:01.9 | What is now bearing down on New Zealand? And where is it now? Good evening to you. |
| 1:09.2 | G'day John. You would think New Zealand has some kind of curse or something at the moment. |
| 1:14.7 | Let's talk about this new cyclone bearing down on New Zealand at the moment. |
| 1:19.8 | If it does keep its car track, it's just swept through Vanuatu and the Pacific Islands. |
| 1:26.0 | Hit its south. Now of course cyclones, they've got a mind of their own. |
| 1:30.0 | It couldn't have been a turn west for east or back north, who knows. |
| 1:33.8 | But at this state, it was category four after earlier being seen as the category three cyclone |
| 1:41.6 | destructive winds. And this is a concern for the people of New Zealand. |
| 1:47.9 | As we've just mentioned, there was cyclone Gabriel that hit just a couple of weeks ago. |
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