let's speak to rob mcbride who is in port hedland for us on a seemingly very very windy balcony rob veronica is making landfall at any moment.

brunt of the cycle and winds up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour rob mcbride has more from port hedland. so i clone veronica has made landfall with full force it has built out to sea again in strength and intensity and has been battering this long stretch of west australian coastline in addition to its storm force winds it's also been accompanied by a storm surge which has started to inundate the lying areas along this coastline it's a problem of flooding that will be made worse in the coming days by the terentia will rain associated with this weather system some areas are being told to expect several hundred million. it is in the coming days people here were told to expect an extreme weather event that is down what they are dealing with in addition to the flooding in the coming days they will be assessing the damage from this in new zealand a vigil has been held in the city of christ church where a gunman killed fifty people at two mosques under thomas has more from christ church. perhaps as many as twenty thousand people have come out of what is a beautiful autumn evening here in christchurch to remember

another storm cycle in trevor has weakened allowing residents to return home rob mcbride has more from port hedland. so i clone veronica has made landfall with full force it has built out at sea i gave ng in strength and intensity and has been battering. this long stretch of west australian coastline in addition to its storm force winds it's also been accompanied by a storm surge which has started to inundate low lying areas along this coastline it's a problem of flooding that will be very worse in the coming days by the torrential rain associated with this weather system some areas are being told to expect several hundred millimeters in the coming days people here were told to expect an extreme weather event that is down what they are dealing with in addition to the flooding in the coming days they will be assessing the damage from this. democrats and republicans in washington are waiting to find out what is in special counsel robert mona's reports has spent nearly two years investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential campaign that is sation about how much of the report to release lies w

cycle trevor has weakened allowing evacuated residents to return home rob mcbride has more from port hedland . so i clone veronica has made landfall with faint force it has built out at sea i getting in strength and intensity and it has been battering this long stretch of western australian coastline in addition to its strong force winds it's also been accompanied by a stream surge which has started to inundate the lying areas along this coastline. it's a problem of flooding that will be very worse in the coming days by the torrential rain associated with this weather system some areas are being told to expect several hundred millimeters in the coming days people here were told to expect an extreme weather event that is down what they are dealing with in addition to the flooding in the coming days they will be assessing the damage from this soup kitchens for the poor in mexico are being shut down so are other government programs for the most vulnerable present andres manuel lopez obrador says it's part of an effort to stamp out corruption but for many the left wing leaders decision has come as a surprise john hei

particularly dangerous because it's moving slowly and there's a threat of flooding rob mcbride has more from port hedland cycle own veronica has made landfall with full force it has built out at sea a gaping in strength and intensity and has been battering this long stretch of west australian coastline in addition to its storm force winds it's also been accompanied by a storm surge which has started to inundate the lying areas along this coastline it's a problem of flooding that will be very worse it could coming days by the to run chill rain associated with this weather system some areas are being told to expect several hundred millimeters in the coming days people here were told to expect an extreme weather events that is down what they are dealing with in addition to the flooding in the coming days they will be assessing the damage from this the cruise ship that ran into trouble in rough seas off the coast of norway has reached ports nearly five hundred passengers were taken off the viking sky by helicopter on saturday and sunday after issued a mayday call because of engine failure sonia gago has a story. a terrifying v

up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour veronica a study moving along the western australian coast and is expected to head into the indian ocean on tuesday rob a bride sent this update from port had looked. finally after the best part of two days the red alert on this part of the western australia coast has finally been lifted. cyclon veronica has moved further down the coast and is expected eventually to move west words out into the indian ocean it means for the first time in the best part of forty eight hours people can finally leave their homes all that time they have been told to stay put and seek shelter now they can go out and about assess damage to property although there is of course still the danger of flooding in vast parts of this coastal region because of the size of this storm and the way that it has lingered and dumped so much water on this area and is expected to do so in the next couple of days a longer term impact also for the people of northern territory that is cleaning up after the impact of cyclonic trever that site close very fast where the system said to be the size of the state of new south wales dumping a huge amount

rob a bride sent this update from port hedland. finally after the best part of two days the red alert on this part of the western australia coast has finally been lifted. cyclon veronica has moved further down the coast and is expected eventually to move west words out into the indian ocean it means for the first time in the best part of forty eight hours people can finally leave their homes all that time they have been told to stay put and seek shelter now they can go out and about assess damage to property although there is of course still the danger of flooding in vast parts of this coastal region because of the size of this storm and the way that it has lingered and dumped so much water on this area and is expected to do so in the next couple of days a longer term impact also for the people of northern territory that is cleaning up after the impact of cycloid trevor that site closed are very vast where the system said to be the size of the state of new south wales dumping a huge amount of rainfall there are many people for especially from indigenous communities evacuated and now waiting and expecting to go back and rebuild their communities. you know siemens prime

because a cycle own veronica it's expected to come ashore on the north west coast port hedland further north has already felt the force of one hundred sixty kilometers an hour when rob mcbride has the latest from there. people were told to expect a massive weather event it turned out to be as big as anybody here would want what made it all the more unprecedented for australia was that it coincided with a second massive storm cyclonic trouble that barreled into northern territory causing widespread destruction there as here in this part of western australia people were under a cyclon red alert that's a virtual lockdown for the best part of forty eight hours told to stay indoors and seek shelter it was only when that was lifted that people were able to come out and assess the damage and start the cleanup people here are used to cycle owns they had prepared well but this was a reminder that they live in one of the most cycloid prone of australia we've dodged a bullet but you know this is the sort of stuff that happens in this area or end when it does he does it you know it creates a significant amount of damage you know how about people's preparations for this everyone

rain that veronica is bringing with it we've had around one hundred fifty millimeters of rain here we will probably have about the same amount of again before this thing subside sammy wallace you rob the people of being evacuated like how much real danger faces the area. that's right i mean that this is the second cycle of that australia has been dealing with it is fairly unprecedented this very rarely happens the set first cycling event to the cycling traveler has now passed into northern territory but that was a massive system around the size of the state of new south wales hundreds of kilometers across now if that luckily if you like these both psychoses happened in fairly remote areas where not a lot of population but it has to be said that a lot of the population a very vulnerable coming from for example the into just indigenous communities people who have had to be evacuated i think precedented numbers especially in northern territory they haven't been evacuated like that before.

let's speak to rob mcbride who is in port hedland for us on a seemingly very very windy balcony rob veronica is making landfall at any moment. that's right it has already made landfall the stars here at about one hundred kilometers further down the coast from where we are standing at it it is at about this time of the saturday session twenty four hours ago now that the authorities here put into place this site closed red alert that's the alert to tell people basically to take cover there's trouble coming up but much about the time we have been subjected to a run occur in the past twelve hours also pretty sick veronica not a full force it's being out at sea gaining in strength very very slow the east too slowly for many people that's being gradually moving along the coast that is now making landfall if i can just give you a little look here at the shoreline it has actually. come to less while that it was a couple of hours ago we've just gone past the high tide period when we could addition to the high tide we've had the storm surge of an extra couple of meters of water to port is a very low l