20 years on and many are looking back at the 9/11 attacks in the US.
The terrorist strikes killed almost three thousand people, two of them New Zealanders.
The attack caused former US President George W. Bush to launch a war on terror.
Helen Clark was Prime Minister at the time and says that didn't improve the situation.
She says many groups still operate today and New Zealand has recently felt the effects through the actions of the LynnMall terrorist.
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83 new cases of Covid-19 were announced today. 
Of the new cases, 82 are in Auckland and one is in Wellington - a close contact of a previous case. 
It brings the total number of cases in the outbreak to 496 in Auckland and 15 in Wellington. 
Epidemiologist Michael Baker says he'd like to see each day us looking at how people caught the virus. 
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New Zealand has 83 new Covid-19 community cases today.
It takes our total linked to the Auckland outbreak to 511.
58 links are still being established
There are seven sub-clusters - the two largest are Birkdale, with 68 and Mangere Church with 237 cases.
All others have fewer than 20 infections.
Thirty-four people are in hospital - 32 are stable, and two are stable but in ICU.
Grant Robertson says that these numbers are "cause for cautious optimism."
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ACT party leader David Seymour gives his thoughts on the vaccine roll out, the future of our Covid 19 elimination strategy, and the news that signing into locations has now become mandatory.
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21 more cases in the community today with cabinet to meet tomorrow to deliberate whether New Zealand's lockdown is extended.
But epidemiologist at The University of Auckland Rod Jackson says there's cause for optimism. He says "it's really easy to stop an outbreak" and that we can knock this on the head in a couple of weeks if New Zealander's all follow the rules.
But he also had a dire warning, saying if we open our borders, people could die.
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Epidemiologist and Professor at the University of Otago Michael Baker chatted with The Weekend Collective about why kids are getting sick with the Delta variant.
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The Weekend Collective chatted to National Māori Authority chairman Matthew Tukaki about what Troy Bowker exiting the Hurricanes means.
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National Party leader Judith Collins promised unity to party faithful on Day 1 of their annual conference. But before Day 2 was over, board member David Carter had resigned after issuing a broadside against president Peter Goodfellow. Newstalk ZB chief political reporter Jason Walls gave Tim Roxborogh and Tim Beveridge a blow-by-blow.
 
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ruled out a vaccine pass, and warned us not to expect vaccination targets for reopening like we've seen from Australia. Tim Roxborogh and Tim Beveridge get epidemiogist Professor Michael Baker's thoughts.

Ashwin Naidu runs a travel bubble group on Facebook, and is being inundated with people asking him for advice on how to get a MIQ space.