MetService Wellington weather: February 9th

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Chris Hipkins holds a post-Cabinet press conference. Video / Mark Mitchell

Police Customs and the Defence Force hold a press conference.

Controversial government policies could be axed today, the death toll keeps climbing from the devastating Turkey/Syria quake & a Kiwi pilot is kidnapped by Indonesian separatist fighters in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

The last Prime Minister to speak with Mike Hosking was Jacinda Ardern in 2021, but now Chris Hipkins joins the show Wednesday morning. Video / Newstalk ZB

L.A.B performed in Whangārei on Saturday. Video / Brodie Stone

Chris Hipkins and Anthony Albanese hold a press conference.

MetService National weather: February 7th - 10th

MetService Auckland weather: February 8th

Sporting Trials in Dannevirke. Video / Leanne Warr

Mayor Wayne Brown on the big Auckland clean up. Video / Auckland Council

Chris Hipkins speaks on the meeting with Anthony Albanese.

Prime Ministers from both sides of the Tasman to meet, another fierce weather system looms and Turkey calls on international help following the deadly quake in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Watch: Tornado tears through Cobden School overnight. Video/ Cobden School.

Former prime minister Dame Jenny Shipley reveals what Waitangi means to her and echoed Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ claim that non-Māori have nothing to fear when it comes to race relations. Video / NZ Herald

Countdown staff confronted thieves as they tried to leave with a loaded trolley. Video / Supplied

Hikoi from Te Rerenga Wairua makes its way to the Treaty Grounds for the first time in five years. Leader Rueben Taipari was determined to revive the tradition. Video / Peter de Graaf

Thousands gathered for the Waitangi Day dawn service, more heavy rain and winds are expected in parts of the country, and China respond after the US shoot down a suspected spy balloon in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Dignitaries and leaders leave the marae after the Waitangi Day dawn ceremony ends. Video / Tania Whyte

The man, who described himself as an 82-year-old returned serviceman, was removed from the Waitangi Day dawn ceremony after disrupting the service to protest. Video / David Fisher

Video footage shows a long queue forming outside the Waitakere Refuse and Recycling Transfer Station in Henderson as Aucklanders dispose of storm waste. Video / Supplied For more details about where and how to dispose of storm waste visit the link below. https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2023/01/disposing-of-storm-related-waste/

Parliamentarians have formally been welcomed to Waitangi with PM Chris Hipkins urging Kiwis to not be afraid to discuss Maori-Crown relations while National Party leader Christopher Luxon labels Treaty 'a little experiment'. Video / NZ Herald

An amazing video shot from a light aircraft on Saturday shows the sheer enormity of the task facing Waka Kotahi to repair the Kopu to Hikuai Road, State Highway 25a on the Coromandel Peninsula. Video / Philip Hart

Politicians address the media from Waitangi.

Dawn service from Waitangi treaty grounds at Te Whare Rūnanga. Video / Whakaata Māori

Focus Live: Emergency Services give update on flood damage

A person has been found dead at a property in the Christchurch suburb of Bryndwr tonight and another person at the same address was rushed to hospital. Video / NZ Herald

The Dutch waka group performs the haka Tangaroa at “Tent City” waka camp in Haruru, near Waitangi, during a visit by new Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni. Video / Peter de Graaf

Eden Park is all cleaned up and back in action for Ed Sheeran's up coming performance. Video / Supplied