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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on the suspected mass alcohol poisoning in Fiji · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So if you think it's earlier in New Zealand, you
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  Speaker 1: should think how early it is in Australia. With donad Demayo,
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  Speaker 1: wis good morning to your Donna.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about the Aussies who fell ill drinking the
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  Speaker 1: pinacolada in Fiji.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, for some it would be considered a holiday
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  Speaker 2: from Halbert. What happened was a number of people, about
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  Speaker 2: seven people fell ill after having pina coladas. It was
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  Speaker 2: a fancy resort in Fiji, is the Warwick Fiji. Now
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  Speaker 2: we've heard from an Ossie granddad. His name is David Sandal.
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  Speaker 2: Now he received a phone call from his daughter and
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  Speaker 2: she told him, oh that she and his teenage granddaughter
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  Speaker 2: had been hospitalized. They fell ill after drinking peanut coladas
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  Speaker 2: at this hotel. Now a total of four Ossie's out
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  Speaker 2: of the seven that fell ill were hospitalized. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: a suspected mass alcohol poisoning they're calling it, and investigations
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  Speaker 2: continue into what actually happened. We were waiting for toxicology
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  Speaker 2: reports to come in, but at this stage no suggesting
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  Speaker 2: anything untoward happened. Number quite a few questions still remain,
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  Speaker 2: of course, But when we heard from David Sando. He
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  Speaker 2: said it just sent chills down his spine. And it's
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  Speaker 2: because once he got that phone call. It's because of
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  Speaker 2: what happened in Laos recently and that tragedy where that
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  Speaker 2: left two teenage Ossie's dead. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: he was thinking when he got that phone called. He
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  Speaker 2: was thinking the worst, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And Fiji didn't appreciate him actually mentioning the worst because
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  Speaker 1: as they've striven to point out, it hasn't been nearly
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  Speaker 1: as bad as that, and of course that depended on
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  Speaker 1: the tourism. So we wait for the toxicology report exactly. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty hot, pretty hot on your neck of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sweating as we speak. I really, I really am.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, it's three o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's all well, it's warm. So the call chain has
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  Speaker 2: come through. But yesterday was absolutely a scorture for most
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  Speaker 2: of Australia. Victoria, for instance, recorded its highest DESCENDBRA temperature
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  Speaker 2: in five years and it's impacting South Australia, Northern Territory,
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  Speaker 2: in New South Wales, Queensland. As I Mentionedvictoria, the Weather
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  Speaker 2: Bureau is said that wholly up in Victoria's northwest recorded
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  Speaker 2: wait for it, forty seven degrees mid afternoon. Other places
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  Speaker 2: reached mid forties. That's twelve to twenty degrees above the
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  Speaker 2: December average. Yes, it's really really warm. In Adelaide it
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  Speaker 2: was thirty eight degrees by ten am yesterday. In Melbourne
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  Speaker 2: it reached thirty degrees by nine am and by late
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  Speaker 2: afternoon thirty nine degrees. And of course a lot of
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  Speaker 2: concern for the fire danger and everyone is on a
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  Speaker 2: high alert in the fire services especially thankfully, a mild
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  Speaker 2: you know, relatively you know, anticipated highly anticipated call change
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  Speaker 2: came through last night. The gave a sudden relief.
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  Speaker 1: You stay called.
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  Speaker 2: You can barely sweek, i can barely speak.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so warm. I'm just so much for your time today.
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