First Up - The Podcast, Thursday 16 February

On today's First Up pod - At least four people dead and thousands homeless across Tairawhiti, Hawke's Bay, Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel; Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni joins us in the aftermath of the most catastrophic weather event in living memory; we're in the Coromandel town of Tairua where some residents will spend a fifth day without power and an animal charity builds a greyhound kingdom to provide temporary shelter to Auckland pooches displaced by the cyclone. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!