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VOCM News Midday Update September 18th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sarah Strickland. Newfoundland Power is at the ready to
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  Speaker 2: respond as a significant windstorm takes aim at the island.
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  Speaker 2: There are wind warnings out for about half of the island,
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  Speaker 2: including the Avalon, Bonavista and Northern Peninsulas, as well as
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  Speaker 2: parts of Central. There's a special weather statement in effect
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  Speaker 2: for the metro region. Peak gusts could be over 100
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  Speaker 2: kilometers an hour late tonight and tomorrow. Spokesperson Glenda Power
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  Speaker 2: says Newfoundland Power is monitoring the wind conditions very closely.
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  Speaker 3: Because Newfoundland Power has offices and crews right across the island,
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  Speaker 3: we're at the ready wherever this storm hits and wherever
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  Speaker 3: it has impact. So our service control center, Our response
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  Speaker 3: teams cross the island. We're ready. They're certainly used to
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  Speaker 3: working in this kind of weather, and we're just ready
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  Speaker 3: to go if our customers need us. You know, hopefully
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  Speaker 3: we won't have any outages, but with the kind of
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  Speaker 3: winds that we're expecting, that very well may be the case.
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  Speaker 2: Now that the Churchill Falls Agreement has been passed in
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  Speaker 2: the House of Assembly, work begins on finalizing it. Key
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  Speaker 2: to getting that process completed is the outcome of the
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  Speaker 2: Quebec election and the will of the next Quebec government
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  Speaker 2: to get it done. Joël Denis Bellevance of La Presse
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  Speaker 2: says the outcome of last night's vote in the House
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  Speaker 2: of Assembly came as a great relief in Quebec. Bellevance
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  Speaker 2: says it's his belief that regardless of the outcome of
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  Speaker 2: next month's election, the deal is likely to go unopposed.
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  Speaker 1: I think the vote in Newfoundland and Labrador is part one,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the election will be part two. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that any government that will take power,
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  Speaker 1: if that's my sense, will try to change the deal
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  Speaker 1: that was signed by Kirsten Frechette this summer.
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  Speaker 2: It's opening night at the Mary Brown Center for the
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  Speaker 2: Q tonight in the regiment's second season in St. John's.
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  Speaker 2: The St. John's Seadogs are in town for a weekend
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  Speaker 2: set tonight and tomorrow night. The regiment enjoyed a very
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  Speaker 2: good inaugural season last year with a playoff run. There
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  Speaker 2: are three Newfoundlanders on the team, forwards Ben Vitch and
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  Speaker 2: Damian Norris, and defenseman Quinn Norman. The regiment play their
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  Speaker 2: first three series at home before hitting the road. Scientists
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  Speaker 2: are heralding the remarkable discovery of a new kind of
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  Speaker 2: wildcat believed to be roaming Bolivia. Sherry Preston reports.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a lion or a tiger, but it is
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  Speaker 4: a new kind of feline. Scientists have unveiled what they
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  Speaker 4: believe could be the first new living feline species in
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  Speaker 4: over a century. The Lepardus tilcaeo is a small cat
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  Speaker 4: native to Bolivia's cloud forests. It weighs around three pounds,
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  Speaker 4: about the size of most kittens, and has a distinctive
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  Speaker 4: spotted pelt similar to a larger leopard. A man had
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  Speaker 4: been keeping it, but as it grew, realized he didn't
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  Speaker 4: have a house cat. He actually had something completely different.
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  Speaker 4: Sherry Preston, ABC News.
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  Speaker 2: And that's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.