As a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a video posted by the then-president did nothing to stop the violence.

But in unseen footage released today, alternate takes of the video showed Donald Trump railing against the election results.

White House staffers had urged him to record a video encouraging his supporters to go home rather than storm the congressional building.

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But Trump refused to follow the script, veering into his own grievances about the election.

"We had an election that was stolen from us," he said.

"It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.

"This was a fraudulent election. But we can't play into the hands of these people."

He ended the take by telling his supporters he loved them, and that his opponents were "so bad, so evil".

Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a rare Trump critic within the Republican Party, lambasted the former president.

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"President Trump didn't fail to act. He chose not to act," Kinzinger said.

"The president didn't do very much but gleefully watch television during this time frame."

The January 6 committee also released outtakes from a speech he recorded the next day in the wake of the insurrection.

The footage shows Trump struggling to read the autocue and bristling at some of the pre-written speech.

"This election is now over. Congress has certified the results," he said, before stopping himself.

"I don't want to say the election is over," he told someone off-screen.

He also demanded various words be removed from the speech because he was stumbling over them.

"Yesterday is a hard word for me," he said.

"Take the word yesterday out."

Trump also slammed the podium he was standing behind when he read phrases he didn't like.

Democratic congresswoman Elaine Luria issued a scathing conclusion at the end of the hearing.

"President Trump did not then and does not now have the character or courage to say to the American people what his own people know to be true," Luria said.

"He is responsible for the attack on the Capitol on January 6."

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As rioters were storming the building, members of Vice President Mike Pence's security detail were so fearful they left farewell messages for their families.

A witness from the National Security Council told the committee that Pence's team "were starting to fear for their lives".

Rioters came within metres of where Pence was during the storming of the Capitol.

At the time, rioters had been filmed shouting "Hang Mike Pence". A makeshift gallows had been set up outside the Capitol building.

The committee will resume its public hearings in September.

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A man has been found dead in Queensland floodwaters following a search for a swept-away car.

Police confirmed they were called to Brown Street in Nanango, south of Kingaroy, at about 5.30am today after reports a car had entered a body of water.

At about 8.15am, it was confirmed the body of a man had been found in the same area, near Sandy Creek bridge.

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Police this afternoon said the body was believed to be that of a 47-year-old Nanango man.

Divers are still searching for the vehicle.

It comes as a severe weather system is smashing into south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, putting a 1000km stretch of coast under a hazardous surf warning and making flash flooding a distinct possibility.

An emergency alert has been issued for the South Burnett region north-west of Brisbane as flash flooding occurs.

"An Emergency Alert has been issued by South Burnett Regional Council. Flash Flooding is occurring in the South Burnett Regional Council area," Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) said.

"Council advises roads and bridges may be impacted and urges residents to stay off the roads, if possible. Remember, if it's flooded, forget it."

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The heavy rain is also wreaking havoc on the Splendour In The Grass music festival in Byron Bay, where campsites have been flooded.

Senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) Christie Johnson said more flash flooding could occur after bouts of heavy rainfall were recorded overnight.

Up to 115mm has fallen since 9am yesterday at Maleny and just over 50mm in Tallebudgera.

"At this stage we're assessing the need for any warnings for river rises, but there's a lot of water on the road," Johnson said.

"We're really asking people to take care as they travel as well and, of course, never drive through floodwaters."

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Hazardous surf warnings stretch from Fraser Island in Queensland down into the Hunter Coast in NSW as an east coast low swirls offshore.

All beaches in the Gold Coast have been closed with waves of four metres recorded this morning.

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Dangerous wind warnings have also been issued for both states.

Wind gusts up to 70km/h have been recorded on the Gold Coast but the BoM warns this could reach 90km/h.

Johnson said the worst conditions will be felt today "during the overnight period and this morning".

"Look, it is going to be moving away, but probably not straight away," she said, adding heavy surf could continue into the weekend.

"This afternoon, we'll start to see the showers break up a little bit. Then tomorrow that low will start to move away across the Tasman Sea and we will see conditions easing over the course of tomorrow."

"It looks like the Queensland floods."

Festival goers at Splendour In The Grass have slammed event organisers as they are stuck in flooded campsites after day one was cancelled.

Maggie and her friends arrived on Wednesday to try and find a good camping spot, however, they were directed into a flood zone.

She told 9news.com.au organisers warned it was going to flood but told them to pitch a tent anyway.

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"When we were directed, they said it was going to flood, it was like we were the test run," she said.

"Our tents are flooded. Our cars are bogged.

"You'd think when they had the horrible weather like this in 2013, they'd change things. They're so unprepared."

Spirits remain high despite mud fest

Despite the flooding, Maggie and her friends are trying to keep their spirits high and enjoy the festival.

"We're trying to make the best of it, we're trying to keep our spirits up."

James Sark and his friends are also trying to make the most of the event despite their campsite being flooded and their cars being bogged.

"If you've paid $500 you have to strap in," he said.

"Apart from the weather, spirits are still high."

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Main campsite closed by organisers due to floods

Sark arrived at the festival yesterday and waited on the highway for seven hours before arriving at the campsite to find it flooded.

"We're some of the lucky ones. There are some tents that are underwater," he said.

Some festival-goers waited hours to get to the campsite but organisers were forced to stop access to the North Byron Parklands due to the heavy rain and flooding.

Splendour said patrons going to "Accessible, Flashcamp and Tent City" are still accepted at the original campsite.

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Kate, Jarrah, and Aliaska waited more than nine hours on the highway to get to their campsite only to be redirected to what they said is a car park, which is the alternate camp ground at Byron Events Farm at 35 Yarun Road, Tyagarah.

"We were sleeping in the car on the side of the highway," they said.

The trio has been forced to sleep in their car because the new campsite at Byron Events Farm is also flooded.

"It's completely flooded. You can't pitch a tent in a puddle," they said.

They said festival organisers seem to be "scrambling".

"It feels like they have no idea what was going on," they said.

There are free buses between Byron Events Farm and the festival at Parklands for patrons but the group said there is no communication about when the shuttle buses arrive.

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Sark added some volunteers have left the festival due to the chaos which is contributing to staff shortages and fueling the fire.

"The volunteers who are meant to do a day or two of work and then get free tickets to go to the festival, they're just quitting," he said.

"That's what is creating most of the problem."

9news.com.au has contacted the festival organisers for comment.

Council responds and says it's up to festival organisers to fix

Byron Shire Council said it's up to the organisers to "rectify" the problem, which is the flooding and mud, as council has a "limited role" in organising the festival.

"We know there have been very long traffic queues to get into the festival and this has been frustrating for people and has an impact on local residents and businesses," the council said in a statement.

"It's a very professional, well-organised event and the safety of patrons is always the key priority for the organisers.

"It has been extremely wet this year and rain in recent days has no doubt caused the organisers problems in getting vehicles onto the site which resulted in long delays.

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"Council has no doubt organisers are working as hard as they can to rectify problems."

Headliners for the festival include Gorillaz, The Strokes, and Tyler The Creator.

Greg Price set up his camera in the hope that he would capture an aurora from his home in Richmond, Nelson, on New Zealand's South Island, when he "got lucky" and captured a meteor instead.

Taken using time-lapse, a bright green streak could be seen lighting up the clear night sky at 8.06pm local time on Thursday.

Price said he didn't manage to capture the aurora, but the meteor was "a pretty good one".

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"It is really impressive how it lit up the sky bright green for five to 10 seconds."

Comments on social media from Canterbury residents from Halswell to Oxford said they heard a bang and felt their homes shake.

In order for a meteor to be heard, it would need to reach below 60km above ground level, astronomer and retired superintendent at Mt John Observatory Alan Gilmore said.

Based in Lake Takapō village, Gilmore said he didn't see or hear the meteor. They were "very common" but reports of hearing a boom implied it was "quite big", he said.

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Superintendent at Mt John Observatory Nigel Frost said no-one at the observatory saw the meteor.

"It's such a split second thing, so you need to be in the right place at the right time."

Dr Duncan Steel of Xerra Earth Observation Institute guessed the meteor would have been about the size of a football, weighing about 10kg to 20kg.

He said a meteor reaching the ground, producing a meteorite, was very unusual and he did not expect the meteor observed on Thursday to have reached the ground.

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"What you are seeing is the object vaporising at an altitude of 50km down to 30km," he said, which was far higher than a jetliner, which reaches a height of about 10km above ground.

Steel said the Earth was hit by about 100 tonnes of meteoroids per day, but the majority were small (below a millimetre in diameter) which ablated high in the atmosphere, above 80km, and were too faint to be seen.

To see one with the human eye, meteoroids needed to be at least about a pea or marble size, he said.

Meteoroids are chunks of asteroidal matter still in space before it hits the atmosphere. Meteors are the streak of light emitted when the item enters the atmosphere, and anything that makes it to the Earth's surface is called a meteorite.

Price, who is an amateur photographer, previously caught a meteor that streaked across the night sky above Nelson and left a lingering smoke trail.

He captured the meteor on Thursday using his Nikon Z7 camera, with a Samyang XP 14mm F2.4 lens, using a 10-second exposure time and an auto-ISO of 2800.

He reported it to Fireballs Aotearoa, an organisation aiming to recover freshly-fallen meteorites in New Zealand.

This story originally appeared on Stuff and is republished here with permission.

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Australia's birth rate has fallen substantially in the past decade, according to the latest data from the federal government's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

In 2010, 64 women out of every 1000 aged between 15 and 44 gave birth that year. In 2020, that number has dropped to 56.

In 2020, there were 295,796 babies born to 291,712 mothers, meaning there were more deaths than births in the country.

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But so long as Australia keeps taking in migrants, the population will not go into decline, University of Melbourne professor of demography Peter McDonald told nine.com.au.

"That more than accounts for the low birth rate," he said.

"The replacement level for birth is roughly two births for women. We're about 1.5."

Mothers are also getting older.

The average age of mothers giving birth has risen from 30.0 years to 30.9 years.

The average age of first-time mothers is 29.6 years, up more than a year from the previous decade.

One of the biggest influences on that figure is the decline in teenage pregnancy.

In 2010, 3.8 per cent of pregnancies were from teenagers.

In 2020, it was less than half that. 

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"Teenage fertility is almost disappearing in Australia, which is a good thing," McDonald said.

"Teenagers are making better use of contraception and not getting pregnant."

The number of women giving birth older than 40 has also risen.

More than one in three mothers are getting caesarean births.

In 2020, 37 per cent of mothers gave birth by caesarean. 

In 2010, that number was 32 per cent.

Mothers over 40 are substantially more likely to have a caesarean birth.

In 2020, only 41 per cent of mothers had a spontaneous labour.

One in three had an induced labour, and 23 per cent had no labour.

Spontaneous labours have dropped from 56 per cent in 2010.

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A stable or growing population is necessary for a functioning society, McDonald said.

"Suppose we had no migrants. Then the birth rate is low, and so the population starts to fall fairly quickly," he said.

"When the population falls, it falls at the young ages. 

"We get an older and older population. So that's the main issue."

Maternal health has improved in the past decade, with fewer women smoking while pregnant.

"More than nine in 10 of the almost 296,000 babies born in Australia during 2020 were born at term and at a healthy birthweight," AIHW spokesperson Deanna Eldridge said.

"The proportion of mothers accessing antenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy has steadily increased over time from 63 per cent in 2012 to 79 per cent in 2020."

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There has not been a substantial change to maternal mortality, with the number of women dying giving birth fluctuating from year to year.

Fewer than eight women out of every 100,000 die as a direct or indirect result of pregnancy and labour.

Stillbirth and neonatal death rates have remained stable over the past ten years.

Ninety-six per cent of births take place in hospitals, with three in four in a public hospital.

Nearly three per cent gave birth in birth centres, and 0.4 per cent gave birth at home.

About 0.7 per cent gave birth elsewhere, such as on their way to the hospital.

Nearly three per cent of births were multiple births, of which nearly all were twins.

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