Auckland flooding: Mayor Wayne Brown caught in testy exchange over disaster communications

"Some of the stuff that came from some of those people who wanted to communicate stuff that they didn't know," he said. Earlier, Today FM producer Tom Day tweeted that Brown had refused an interview on Friday morning because "I am playing tennis then anyway". I'm thinking of all of Auckland and it was very hard to get a clear picture of what was happening across all of Auckland. There's no sense communicating if you haven't got clear stuff to communicate." Mayor Brown then left the press conference.