New Zealand plans final rescues soon after cyclone kills 2

New Zealand authorities expect to make the final rescues Wednesday after a cyclone brought extensive flooding and landslides that claimed at least two lives.
Cyclone Gabrielle struck the country’s north on Monday and has brought more destruction to this nation of 5 million than any weather event in years.
Emergency Management Minister Kieran McAnulty said, the body of a volunteer firefighter was retrieved from a landslide that destroyed a flooded house near Auckland on Hawke’s Bay. A fellow firefighter was critically injured by the same landslide.
He said, a woman was also killed by a landslide in the Hawke’s Bay area.
A third body was found late Tuesday on the shore at the east coast town of Napier, but authorities have not attributed the death to the weather.
Authorities said, a weather station in the Hawke’s Bay and Napier region recorded three times more rain over Monday night than usually falls for the entire month of February.