{"id":2612,"date":"2023-01-30T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2023-01-30T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:14:16","slug":"watch-live-auckland-mayor-wayne-brown-gives-update-on-weather-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"Watch live: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown gives update on weather disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is addressing the media after extensive flooding in the city, 40 properties red-stickered, roads closed and further rain forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/483306\/police-confirm-fourth-person-found-dead-after-being-swept-away-by-floodwaters\">death toll from the floods<\/a>\u00a0in Auckland is four and the city went into a state of emergency after torrential rain hit on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are warning Aucklanders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/483333\/severe-weather-continues-in-north-island-what-you-need-to-know\">to prepare<\/a>\u00a0for more damage as another storm is forecast for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/483302\/wayne-brown-on-flood-reaction-there-may-have-been-some-incorrect-decisions\">Brown<\/a>\u00a0has defended himself against criticism that he did not call for a State of Emergency earlier, saying he followed the advice of the professionals when deciding whether to declare an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>However, today he acknolwedged communication with the public on the disaster on Friday fell short.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I accept that communications including mine and my office were not good enough, especially on Friday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said there would be an independent investigation into the response on Friday, including his own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want recommendations for improvement, and we will act on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown said he agreed that climate change was the reason for the extraordinary weather event.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE\u00a0 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is addressing the media after extensive flooding in the city, 40 properties red-stickered, roads closed and further rain forecast. The\u00a0death toll from the floods\u00a0in Auckland is four and the city went into a state of emergency after torrential rain hit on Friday. Officials are warning Aucklanders\u00a0to prepare\u00a0for more damage as another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}