Midday Report Essentials for Monday 19 August 2024

On today's episode, there's chaos on roads around the motu with a polar vortex smashing the country with wind, rain and snow, Police have been gathering CCTV footage in east Auckland's Pakuranga Heights, where a person was found injured in a vehicle this morning, a former political figure is on trial in Auckland this week, accused of historical sexual abuse in the 1990s, and an overnight Wellington - Auckland train could be making a return, twenty years after it was disestablished