{"id":2619,"date":"2023-01-30T17:10:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T04:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T04:10:52","slug":"live-weather-updates-heavy-rain-continues-as-auckland-state-of-emergency-in-fourth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"Live weather updates: Heavy rain continues as Auckland state of emergency in fourth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-sub-nav c-sub-nav--inline \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content__primary u-divider-bottom@until-medium\">\n<div class=\"article article-news article-news-483320\">\n<header class=\"article__header c-story-header\">\n<div class=\"o-kicker\">\n<div class=\"o-kicker__zones\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"o-kicker__time kicker-item\">16 minutes ago<\/span><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"c-story-header__headline\">Live weather updates: Heavy rain continues as Auckland state of emergency in fourth day<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-story-header__meta\">\n<div class=\"c-social\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<nav class=\"c-social__menu\">\n<div class=\"c-social__buttons\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"embedded-media brightcove-video\">\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Auckland principals say the Education Ministry has ordered a week-long shut down of all of the region&#8217;s education organisations.<\/p>\n<p>They say all Auckland schools, early childhood services and tertiary institutes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/483340\/auckland-weather-all-schools-early-childhood-centres-and-tertiaries-to-shut-for-a-week\">must remain shut<\/a>\u00a0for physical instruction until 7 February.<\/p>\n<p>Principals were told the instruction was issued after the National Emergency Management Agency asked the ministry to help minimise traffic on Auckland roads while vital infrastructure is repaired.<\/p>\n<p>The order covers the area from Wellsford in the north to Pukekohe in the South.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland is in its fourth day under a state of emergency due to the flooding and schools were scheduled to reopen between tomorrow and 7 February.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland principals earlier said about 20 Auckland schools were badly hit by flooding on Friday and the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Other schools have slips or grounds contaminated by floodwater, they said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Follow the latest weather updates here:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 minutes ago Live weather updates: Heavy rain continues as Auckland state of emergency in fourth day Auckland principals say the Education Ministry has ordered a week-long shut down of all of the region&#8217;s education organisations. They say all Auckland schools, early childhood services and tertiary institutes\u00a0must remain shut\u00a0for physical instruction until 7 February. Principals [&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-2619","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\/2619","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=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}