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welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. 100 people are confirmed dead at a mosque in pakistan. nine people have been pulled out alive from the rubble after monday s suicide bomb attack. saudi arabia almost double the number of executions it carries out despite promises to reform. auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month s worth of rain fell on new zealand s largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24 hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last ....
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And particularly around the auckland area by a zone of convergent winds. and those winds squeezed together to create a line of thunderstorms thatjust happened to go straight across the auckland area bringing that torrential rain. there is slightly better news for auckland on the cards as we head through wednesday and into thursday because that same zone of convergence is going to be pushing east which means the heaviest rain, 100 millimetres, will be falling around the bay of plenty where we could see some flooding but at least through thursday it should be a little drier in auckland. well, we can speak now to rachael kelleher, who s the duty controller at auckland emergency management in auckland. great to get you on the programme in the first instance but give us a sense of how the operations, the effort to rescue people, is going right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight right now where you are? we were fortunate overnight that right now where you are? we were fortuna ....
Mayor Wayne Brown has tonight declared a state of local emergency in the Auckland region.
This declaration reflects the extent of damage, displacement and ....