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Covid 19 coronavirus: How are South Aucklanders staying informed? 5 Mar, 2021 03:14 AM 6 minutes to read Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield prepare to give a Covid-19 update. Photo / Mark Mitchell Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield prepare to give a Covid-19 update. Photo / Mark Mitchell John Pulu is one of the best-known television and radio personalities in New Zealand's Pacific community. He not only fronts TVNZ's Tagata Pasifika Saturday morning show, but also hosts a four-h...

Don mann, a retired navy seal team 6 member talked about the stakes here and how difficult, how complicated of an operation it is. >> i've done cave diving, and i'm a rescue diver, and i've never experienced anything as arduous as what these young boils are experiencing. what you feel is a feeling of entrapment. and when you can't see a way out and when you don't see light in a crack in the rock or something you get a feeling of panic. they have a great team rescuing them but they have a lot going against them. they have time going against them, oxygen, food, and water levels rising. ed: the o...

>> don was a seal for 17 years. he's written this book, reminds me of david ignatius. i said, david, why do you always write in fiction? he said because i can give people a lot more of the feel for what's really going on out there if i write in fiction than non-fiction because you don't want to reveal all the details. >> and "hunt the wolf," less than an hour after the attack as rescuers fought through smoke and nauseating smell of burnt human flesh to search for victims, the president of the united states and king of morocco issued a joint statement calling it a heinous crime against both the...

Relates to real life situations that the seals confront and how you're able to intertwine them. >>" hunt the wolf" was loosely based on world events. it doesn't come close to letting out government or military secrets. the characters in the book are based on real seals that i have a great deal of respect and admiration for. the guys doing the operations, you see how they prepare, train for the missions. some go well and some don't go so well. it's like the real world, the fiction, the story we put in here. it's in the middle east and it's loosely based on real world events and there's an adven...

War, knowing they could be sent into harm's way. they trained for years, they're battle hardened, they practiced tirelessly for this mission. and when i gave the order, they were ready. >> that's president obama honoring the seal team 6 members who risked their lives in the raid to kill osama blad i don't know. -- bin laden. don mann is out with a new novel "hunt the wolf." how does the navy find the type of men they find to do what seals do? >> well, you know, right now there's more people who want to be seals than we have room for in the seal teams. it's a great job. it's probably the best j...