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News at six o'clock, I'm Chelsea Daniels. Reprieve is in sight for the sodden Coromandel Peninsula. An orange heavy rain warning for the region expires at midnight tonight. After days of downpour has caused slips and flooding. Coromandel civil defense controller, Gary Towler says hopefully that'll be the last of the heavy rain for a few days so the region can dry out. The state highway network is open. Although there is a large slip being cleared currently between Coromandel and Fia. So that is under traffic management while the wild weather has seen a lot of event cancellations in the past few days, one has made the call to still go ahead. The Coro Classic Festival will welcome roughly 3000 people to Matai in the Coromandel tomorrow. Director James Bristow says authorities have given the all clear weather woes have wrecked havoc on locals and tourists at Great Barrier Island. Many flights and ferries have been canceled or turned back for numerous days due to low visibility. Roughly 30 holiday makers unable to return home had to sleep overnight in the local school photographer, Mead Norton is there and says transport has been heavily disrupted. Barrier air had two flights this morning come from Auckland and they got all the way out here because we could hear them overhead but they couldn't land because of the disability. Not everyone's worried about the national egg shortage. Newstalk ZB has been checking the egg shelves of several supermarkets. Finding several in Auckland and Christchurch are out of eggs and some in Wellington are running low in stock. Many bakeries and restaurants are reconsidering their egg based offerings. But these people we spoke to on the streets of Wellington say they've found lots of alternatives like scrambled tofu. There's so many more options than having eggs. You can use other things in cooking to bind ingredients together. Can you like aquafaba? There's so many more options. A difficult start to the year for the Royals as Prince Harry continues to cast his relationship with the family into the spotlight in an excerpt from an interview with broadcaster ITV. He says the family have shown no willingness to reconcile in a second trailer released for the upcoming interview. The Duke of Sussex is questioned by news presenter Tom Bradby about his decision to discuss his family's relationships. Wouldn't your brother say to you, Harry? How could you do this to me after everything, after everything we went through? Wouldn't that be what he would say? He'd probably say all sorts of different things. The negotiations don't yet seem to be working as the American political scene is at a standstill the house of representatives has adjourned after an 11th round of failed voting. Republican Kevin mccarthy has failed all rounds.