DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF MIDDAY, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. WHAT MAORI PARTY CO-LEADER PITA SHARPLES' RESIGNATION MEANS FOR THE PARTY'S FUTURE. WHY EGYPT COULD BE ON THE BRINK OF ANOTHER MILITARY COUP. AND THE BIG NAMES ARE FALLING LIKE FLIES AT WIMBLEDON. THIS TIME IT'S THE WOMEN'S NUMBER ONE SEED. AFTER NINE YEARS AS CO-LEADER OF THE MAORI PARTY, PITA SHARPLES THIS MORNING ANNOUNCED HE'S STEPPING DOWN AND WILL LEAVE POLITICS NEXT YEAR. HE SAYS IT'S NOT THE END OF THE MAORI PARTY, BUT SAYS THE LEADERSHIP STRUGGLE WAS AFFECTING THE PARTY. DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR JESSICA MUTCH WAS THERE AND JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM PARLIAMENT. JESS, HE WANTED TO STAY IN THE ROLE UNTIL HE DIED. WHY HAS HE NOW DECIDED TO GO? But if he said he to stay in this role until he died. He has now decided he wants to stand down. I MADE IT EVERY DAY WITH A HEAVY HEART. I LOVE THIS PARTY, AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE HERE ARE TOTALLY COMMITTED TO THE CONCEPT OF HAVING A LARGE GROUP OF MAORI IN PARLIAMENT. DR SHARPLES IS THE MAORI AFFAIRS MINISTER WILL HAND OVER MINISTERIAL PORTFOLIOS TO WHOEVER TAKES ON THE NEW CO-LEADER ROLE. JESSICA, WHO IS SET TO REPLACE PITA SHARPLES? TE URUROA NUMBER THREE. INDICATED HE WANTS THE JOB, SO I PUT THAT TO HIM TODAY, AND THIS WAS HIS RESPONSE. THAT'S NOT A DECISION FOR NOW; ITS A DECISION FOR THE NATIONAL AGM, FOR THE NATIONAL COUNCIL WILL TAKE THAT UP ` IT'S NOT FOR TODAY. IS THAT A ROLE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE? > AS I SAY, WITH RESPECT TO TODAY, IT'S NOT A DISCUSSION, IT'S NOT A DECISION FOR TODAY. MAORI PARTY AGM HELD IN TWO WEEKS' TIME IN WHAKATANE. SET TO DISCUSS THE LEADERSHIP. THANKS, JESSICA MUTCH LIVE FROM PARLIAMENT. PITA SHARPLES' LEADERSHIP TROUBLES BEGAN LAST YEAR WHEN TARIANA TURIA ANNOUNCED SHE WOULD STEP DOWN AS A MAORI PARTY LEADER AND ENCOURAGED MR SHARPLES TO DO THE SAME. JOANNA HUNKIN EXPLAINS. THEY BEGAN THE PARTY UNITED IN 2004, AND LAST YEAR TARIANA TURIA SUGGESTED THEY END THEIR LEADERSHIP TOGETHER, ANNOUNCING SHE'LL STEP DOWN BEFORE THE 2014 ELECTION. HE COULD CONTINUE TO BE THE MINISTER, AND TE URUROA COULD BECOME THE LEADER. BUT PITA SHARPLES WASN'T HAVING ANY OF THAT. CLEARLY, TARIANA HAS SAID PUBLICLY THAT I SHOULD STEP DOWN. SHE'S QUITE WRONG THERE. IT'S NOT HER POSITION TO SAY THAT. AT RATANA, THE DEBATE INTENSIFIED, WITH PITA SHARPLES HOLDING ON TO THE LEADERSHIP AHEAD OF CHALLENGER TE URUROA FLAVELL. WE JUST HAD A HUI, LIKE WE NORMALLY DO. PITA REMAINS THE LEADER FOR NOW. IS IT A JOB THAT YOU STILL WANT? YOU'VE SEEN OUR STATEMENT, EH, SO THAT'S IT. WHAT WE'VE DONE IS DEBATE AN ISSUE WHICH ALWAYS IS CONTENTIOUS ` IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU'RE PAKEHA OR MAORI. BUT WITH THE SEED PLANTED, SERIOUS CONCERNS BEGAN TO GROW ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE MAORI PARTY AND ITS LEADERSHIP. IT WAS VERY CLEAR IN TWO OF THE ELECTORATES THAT THE YOUTH VOTE WAS DEFINITELY WITH MR FLAVELL. STILL, PITA SHARPLES REMAINED DEFIANT. THE BOTTOM LINE IS I'M PREPARED TO LEAD US UNTIL I'M DEAD. THAT RESOLVE FINALLY WEAKENED AFTER LAST WEEKEND'S IKAROA-RAWHITI BY-ELECTION, WHEN THE MAORI PARTY FINISHED THIRD BEHIND LABOUR AND MANA. IT BECAME CLEAR CONCERNS OVER PARTY LEADERSHIP WERE HOLDING BACK VOTERS. THE QUESTION NOW IS WHETHER THOSE VOTERS WILL BACK TE URUROA FLAVELL. JOANNA HUNKIN, ONE NEWS. THE PUBLIC WILL GET A RARE PEEK AT PARLIAMENT'S SECRETIVE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMITTEE IN ACTION TODAY AS IT BEGINS PUBLIC CONSIDERATION OF CONTROVERSIAL NEW SPY LEGISLATION. THE COMMITTEE WILL HEAR FROM OPPONENTS OF THE BILL TO EXTEND THE POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY BUREAU. ONE NEWS POLITICAL EDITOR CORIN DANN JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM PARLIAMENT. CORIN. AT 3.40 THIS AFTERNOON, KEY, SHEARER NORMAN AND BANKS AND RYALL HEAR SUBMISSION. NORMALLY, THIS IS ALL SECRET. HERE FROM LAW SOCIETY, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY CRITICAL OF BILL. KEY MAINTAINS ITS NOT EXTENSION OF POWERS JUST CLARIFIES THE LAW AND MODERNISE APPROACH TO CYBER CRIME. FASCINATING TO SEE HOW OPPOSITION LEADERS APPROACH THIS. John banks will be there and Tony Ryall takes up Peter Dunne's position. Kim.Com sparked this whole saga. THANKS, CORIN DANN LIVE FROM PARLIAMENT. SIR OWEN GLENN HAS WITHDRAWN HIS APPLICATION TO BE AN AMBASSADOR FOR AN ANTI-VIOLENCE CHARITY. IT FOLLOWS REVELATIONS THE MILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN ONCE FACED AN ABUSE CHARGE IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2002. IT WAS EVENTUALLY DISMISSED AFTER SIR OWEN PLEADED NO CONTEST, MEANING HE DIDN'T PLEAD EITHER WAY. BUT HE DID NOT DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION IN HIS WHITE RIBBON NOMINATION FORM, THE CHAIRMAN CALLING IT 'AN OMISSION OF FACTS'. OWEN GLENN SAYS HE HAS NO HISTORY OF VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN OR CHILDREN. TWO TEENAGERS HAVE APPEARED IN THE WAITAKERE DISTRICT COURT TODAY CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. A 17-YEAR-OLD AND 15-YEAR-OLD HAVE BEEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF A AUCKLAND SCHOOLBOY (15) LAST MONTH. THEIR IDENTITY AND FURTHER DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO STRICT SUPPRESSION ORDERS. THEY'VE BEEN REMANDED ON BAIL TO REAPPEAR IN COURT LATER THIS MONTH. THE CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL IS TRYING TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE LOSS OF ITS BUILDING CONSENT ACCREDITATION ` AN UNPRECEDENTED SITUATION. SENIOR COUNCIL EXECUTIVE PETER MITCHELL IS MEETING WITH STAFF FROM THE MINISTRY OF BUSINESS INNOVATION AND EMPLOYMENT AS LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TRY TO ESTABLISH A NEW PLAN FOR PROCESSING CONSENTS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IT'S HAPPENED, AND CERTAINLY, FOR THE COUNCIL, WE JUST NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WALKING THROUGH EXACTLY WHAT THE APPROPRIATE STEPS ARE. EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY MINISTER GERRY BROWNLEE AND MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHRIS TREMAIN WILL MEET WITH THE CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL TOMORROW. FORECASTERS ARE PREDICTING SEVERE GALES IN WELLINGTON OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS, JUST TWO WEEKS AFTER THE CITY WAS HIT BY A MAJOR STORM THAT SEVERELY DAMAGED INFRASTRUCTURE. METSERVICE SAYS THE GALES, EXPECTED OVERNIGHT AND TOMORROW, WON'T BE AS BAD. BUT WELLINGTON ELECTRICITY SAYS THE WINDS COULD BLOW DEBRIS AND BROKEN BRANCHES ON TO POWER LINES. IT SAYS ABOUT 30 HOMES STILL DON'T HAVE POWER RESTORED, BUT THAT'S MOSTLY BECAUSE RESIDENTS ARE ABSENT AND WORKERS CAN'T ACCESS PROPERTIES. A CHINESE LANTERN IS THOUGHT TO HAVE THE CRISIS IN EGYPT IS DEEPENING, WITH THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT AND HIS OPPONENTS GIVEN AN ULTIMATUM BY THE ARMY. THEY TOLD THE POLITICIANS TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE PEOPLE WITHIN 48 HOURS OR THEY WILL INTERVENE. THE STATEMENT WAS MET WITH CHEERS FROM THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO'VE FILLED CAIRO'S TAHRIR SQUARE AGAIN. THEY'RE CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT MORSI, WHO WAS ONLY ELECTED LAST YEAR. THE BBC'S JEREMY BOWEN REPORTS. PROTESTERS PACKED TAHRIR SQUARE TO CELEBRATE AS SOON AS THEY HEARD THE MILITARY'S ANNOUNCEMENT. THEY HAD A ONE-WORD MESSAGE FOR PRESIDENT MORSI: LEAVE. AND THEY CHANTED IT FOR HOURS. PEOPLE CHANT IN ARABIC IN THIS PLACE, THEY USED THE SAME CHANT AGAINST PRESIDENT MUBARAK. ALL CHANT THE EUPHORIA WAS NOT QUITE AS OVERWHELMING AS IT WAS ON THE NIGHT HE WAS FORCED OUT IN 2011, BUT IT WAS CLOSE. CROWD CHEERS, HORNS BLARE MILITARY HELICOPTERS FLEW PAST, REPEATING LAPS OF HONOUR THAT SENT THE CROWD INTO RAPTURE. TODAY, THEY LOVE THE ARMED FORCES AS THEY DID WHEN SOLDIERS PROTECTED THEM FROM MUBARAK'S ENFORCERS. HERE IN TAHRIR SQUARE, THE ASSUMPTION IS THAT THE ARMY WILL INTERVENE TO GIVE THEM VICTORY OVER THE PRESIDENT. IT MAY NOT BE THAT SIMPLE. THE GENERAL STATEMENT WAS VERY CAREFULLY WORDED. AT NO POINT DID HE SAY MORSI MUST GO. PEOPLE CHEER IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S HEADQUARTERS WAS ATTACKED AND LOOTED. PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND INJURED ON BOTH SIDES. PRESIDENT MORSI'S SUPPORTERS FROM THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ARE OCCUPYING THEIR OWN PIECE OF CAIRO. YOU CAN FEEL A SENSE OF BEING UNDER SIEGE HERE ` A DESIRE TO DEFEND THEIR VISION OF A STATE INSPIRED BY ISLAMIC LAW THAT THE BROTHERHOOD HAS PURSUED SINCE IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1928. MEN CHANT IN ARABIC THEY SAY THEY WANT A FAIR ELECTION AND SHOULD NOT LOSE NOW TO STREET PROTESTS AND ARSON. CAIRO AND ALL OF EGYPT FACE A CRITICAL FEW DAYS. ARABS ACROSS THE REGION ARE WATCHING. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THIS COUNTRY'S FUTURE. WHAT HAPPENS HERE TO THE ARMY, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE WILL SHAPE THE NEW MIDDLE EAST. THE BODIES OF THE 19 FIREFIGHTERS WHO WERE KILLED IN A HUGE WILDFIRE IN ARIZONA HAVE NOW BEEN RECOVERED. THE GROUP WERE PART OF AN ELITE TEAM OF HOTSHOTS WHO'RE SENT IN TO FIGHT THE HOTTEST PART OF THE FIRE. ONLY ONE MEMBER OF THE 20-MAN TEAM SURVIVED. MORE THAN 400 FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL BATTLING THE BLAZE, WHICH HAS A WALL OF FLAMES OVER 6M HIGH. THE ABC'S GINGER ZEE REPORTS. AS THE FLAMES CLIMBED UP TO 20FT, THE 19 HOTSHOTS DEPLOYED THEIR LAST CHANCE ` THOSE EMERGENCY FIRE SHELTERS. THE MEN WHO DIED TRAINED EXTENSIVELY WITH WHAT FIREFIGHTERS CALLED THE SHAKE AND BAKE TENT ` YOU SHAKE THEM TO OPEN, THEN BAKE IN THEM UNTIL THE FIRE PASSES. THE TEAM WOULD HAVE HAD AS LITTLE AS 30 SECONDS TO WRAP THEMSELVES INSIDE. THE GROUP FORMS A TIGHT CIRCLE AND KEEPS THEIR HEADS AWAY FROM THE FIRE. NO MATTER WHAT THEY HEAR, NO MATTER WHAT THEY SEE OR FEEL, THEY HAVE TO MAKE JUST AN ABSOLUTE COMMITMENT TO STAYING WITH THAT SHELTER IF THEY WANNA GO HOME. THE TENTS CAN PROTECT AGAINST FLAMES UP TO 500 DEGREES, CREATING A POCKET OF BREATHABLE AIR. STILL, THE TEMPERATURE INSIDE CAN SOAR TO 200. FIREFIGHTER DAVE LATOUR SURVIVED A DIFFERENT WILDFIRE, HIS TENT PROTECTING HIM FROM THE INFERNO. IT WAS LIKE SOMEBODY CLOSING A DOOR ON THE OVEN ` YOU KNOW, STANDING IN FRONT OF THE OVEN AND JUST SHUTTING THE DOOR ON THE OVEN. BUT YESTERDAY THOSE TENTS WERE NO MATCH FOR WHAT'S BEING CALLED A PERFECT STORM FOR FIRE. BARB LIVES IN YARNELL, AND SHE SAW THE WIND SUDDENLY SHIFT, ESCAPING JUST IN TIME. THE WIND CHANGED, AND THE FIRE WENT WHOOSH. AND I TURNED AROUND, AND THE HOUSE BEHIND ME WAS IN FLAMES, AND THERE WERE EMBERS ON MY ROOF. A NEARBY DRY THUNDERSTORM HELPED FUEL THE BLAZE. THE ERRATIC NATURE OF THE FIRE BEHAVIOUR YESTERDAY ` IT'S DANGEROUS, REALLY DANGEROUS. PAIR THAT WITH A SEVERE DROUGHT AND 100-DEGREE TEMPERATURES, AND YOU'VE GOT ALL THE INGREDIENTS FOR A PERFECT STORM. A CHINESE LANTERN IS THOUGHT TO HAVE SPARKED A MASSIVE FIRE AT A RECYCLING PLANT IN ENGLAND, CAUSING MORE THAN $11M WORTH OF DAMAGE. AT ITS HEIGHT, AROUND 200 FIREFIGHTERS WERE TACKLING THE BLAZE. 100,000 TONS OF PLASTIC RECYCLING WENT UP IN FLAMES, CREATING A COLUMN OF SMOKE NEARLY 2KM HIGH. A DOZEN FIREFIGHTERS WERE TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES AND HEAT EXHAUSTION. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` IN BUSINESS NEWS: WILL THE AUSTRALIAN CENTRAL BANK CUT RATES EVEN FURTHER? AND IN SPORT, ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER STAR GETS KNOCKED OUT AT WIMBLEDON. WHO'S LEFT IN THE RUNNING FOR THE WOMEN'S TITLE? # WITH ME NOW IS MARTIN ALLISON FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. GOOD AFTERNOON, MARTIN. THIS ITEM WILL BE CAPTIONED LIVE. FOR MORE, GO TO ONENEWS.CO.NZ AND CLICK ON 'BUSINESS'. The reality is probably the Australian superannuation fund providers are not ready for it.There is no incentive for them to cooperate. Technically, you can do it. I won't get my hopes up. AUSTRALIA'S RESERVE BANK REVIEWING RATES. COULD THEY BE IN FOR ANOTHER CUT OR NOT? It's unlikely rates will go down. There may be one more rate decrease of another 25 basis points. THANK YOU, MARTIN ALLISON FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. TO MIDDAY SPORT, AND WIMBLEDON HAS THROWN UP YET ANOTHER BIG UPSET WITH WOMEN'S NUMBER ONE SEED SERENA WILLIAMS KNOCKED OUT. GERMANY'S SABINE LISICKI COMING FROM BEHIND TO END THE BIG AMERICAN'S MASSIVE RUN OF VICTORIES. MARK HATHAWAY HAS MORE. WITH 34 WINS ON THE TROT, SERENA WILLIAMS WAS EXPECTED TO CANTER INTO THE QUARTERS, BUT DAY SEVEN WAS AN OFF DAY FOR THE FIVE-TIME CHAMP. 24TH SEED SABINE LISICKI, WHO KNOCKED TOP SEED MARIA SHARAPOVA OUT OF LAST YEAR'S TOURNAMENT PRODUCED ANOTHER BIG-NAME DEMO JOB. SO IT'S LISICKI THAT GETS THE FIRST BREAK. WELL, WELL, WELL, WELL. THE FIRST BREAK TURNING INTO A FIRST-SET WIN, WILLIAMS UNLEASHING HER WRATH IN THE SECOND. NOT ONE UNFORCED ERROR AS SHE TOOK THE SET IN JUST 27 MINUTES. WITH THE GIANT OF WOMEN'S TENNIS SEEMINGLY AWOKEN, WILLIAMS' PROGRESS TO THE TOP EIGHT LOOKED GUARANTEED AT 3-0 IN THE THIRD. BUT THEN CAME THE COMEBACK OF A LIFETIME ` LISICKI CLAWING BACK THE DEFICIT TO NOT ONLY BREAK WILLIAMS' SERVE, BUT ALSO HER SPIRIT. THE CROWD BACKING THE UNDERDOG ON HER SECOND MATCH POINT, PUSHING WILLIAMS AROUND AND EVENTUALLY OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT. MAN: SHE'S DONE IT! THE VENUE, THE OPPONENT, THE RESULT TOO MUCH TO HANDLE. I'M SO SHAKY. I'M SO HAPPY. IT WAS A WONDERFUL MOMENT, WASN'T IT? OH YES. SERENA PLAYED SUCH A FANTASTIC MATCH. SHE'S SUCH A TOUGH OPPONENT. IT'S JUST SUCH AN AMAZING FEELING TO WIN THIS MATCH. A DOUBLE-DUTCH UPSET WASN'T TO BE, HOWEVER, WITH LISICKI'S COMPATRIOT TOMMY HAAS STEAMROLLED BY MEN'S NUMBER-ONE SEED NOVAK DJOKOVIC, WHILE ANDY MURRAY, THE ONLY BRITON LEFT IN THE TOURNAMENT, MADE LIGHT WORK OF MIKHAIL YOUZHNY TO KEEP THE HOME CROWD HAPPY. MARK HATHAWAY, ONE NEWS. FORMER WARRIORS AND NOW PENRITH PANTHERS COACH IVAN CLEARY IS SET TO LINK WITH SOME OF HIS FORMER CHARGES IN A TOP NEW COACHING ROLE. HE'S BEEN NAMED AS THE KIWIS ASSISTANT COACH FOR THE RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP IN THE UK, IRELAND AND FRANCE LATER THIS YEAR. CLEARY BECOMES THE SECOND AUSTRALIAN TO WORK ALONGSIDE HEAD COACH STEPHEN KEARNEY, AFTER WAYNE BENNETT HELPED ORCHESTRATE THE KIWIS' UNPRECEDENTED TRIUMPH AT THE 2008 WORLD CUP. HE'S GOT A WONDERFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH NZ AND WITH KIWIS. A NUMBER OF THE GROUP HAVING WORKED WITH THE WARRIORS. HE'S VERY SUCCESSFUL IN HIS OWN RIGHT. KEARNEY SAYS HE DIDN'T ASK BENNETT TO REPRISE HIS ROLE, AS IT WAS UNLIKELY THE KNIGHTS COACH WOULD HAVE WANTED TO LEAVE HIS BRISBANE-BASED FAMILY FOR TWO MONTHS. AND IN THE NRL, SONNY BILL WILLIAMS PLAYED A PROMINENT ROLE LAST NIGHT AS HIS SYDNEY ROOSTERS HAD A HARD-FOUGHT WIN OVER THE MANLY SEA EAGLES. THE ROOSTERS HELD ON TO WIN DESPITE LOSING TWO PLAYERS TO INJURY, AND SONNY BILL WILLIAMS PROVED TO BE THE GAME MAKER. HE SET UP THREE OF HIS SIDE'S FOUR TRIES. SONNY BILL WILLIAMS. HE GIVES IT TO JENNINGS! SONNY BILL WILLIAMS, THE COLOSSUS, HAS CONDUCTED THE BAND BEAUTIFULLY TONIGHT. THE FINAL SCORE WAS 18-12 TO THE ROOSTERS, MOVING THEM UP TO SECOND ON THE LADDER. KAYLA MCALISTER HAS TOPPED OFF HER WORLD CUP SEVENS VICTORY WITH A WOMEN'S PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD. THE SISTER OF FORMER ALL BLACK LUKE MCALISTER PLAYED A STARRING ROLE IN HER SIDE'S TOURNAMENT WIN IN MOSCOW. SHE PLAYED 16 YEARS OF NETBALL, INCLUDING FOR THE NORTHERN MYSTICS, BEFORE TAKING TO RUGBY RECENTLY. AND MEN'S SEVENS VETERAN TIM MIKKELSON WON THE MEN'S INTERNATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR. AUSTRALIAN CYCLIST SIMON GERRANS HAS JUST BEATEN SLOVAK PETER SAGAN TO WIN STAGE THREE OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE. IN AN EXTREMELY CLOSE FINISH, GERRANS, ON THE LEFT OF SCREEN, INCHED PAST SAGAN TO WIN BY A MARGIN OF LESS THAN HALF A WHEEL. GERRANS IS THIRD OVERALL. BELGIAN JAN BAKELANTS FINISHED 19TH TO RETAIN HIS RACE LEADER'S YELLOW JERSEY. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` I'LL BE BACK WITH THE AFTERNOON WEATHER. AND HOW COULD ANYONE REJECT THIS FACE? WE'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THE HAPPY OUTCOME FOR THIS BABY GORILLA. THERE'S BEEN A HAPPY ENDING FOR A BABY GORILLA IN AMERICA WHO WAS REJECTED BY HER BIRTH MOTHER. LITTLE 'GLADYS' HAS BEEN RAISED BY A GROUP OF HUMANS TRYING VERY HARD TO LOOK AND SOUND THE PART, BUT AS STEVE OSUNSAMI REPORTS, THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING. HARD FOR US TO UNDERSTAND HOW A MOTHER COULD ABANDON SUCH AN ADORABLE LITTLE CREATURE, BUT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO GLADYS ` THIS BABY GORILLA, BORN IN JANUARY AT A BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS ZOO. SHE WAS RUSHED TO A ZOO IN CINCINNATI, WHERE SHE GOT ANOTHER SHOT AT LIFE WITH A NEW FAMILY ` A HUMAN FAMILY. I ALWAYS USE A GORILLA ACCENT WHEN IT TALK TO GLADYS, LIKE,... (HOARSELY) GLADYS. IN CINCINNATI, THE ZOOKEEPERS TAUGHT HER TO CRAWL AND WALK ON HER OWN, HOW TO ACT AND THINK LIKE A GORILLA, AND THEY HAD TO DO IT IN A FURRY DISGUISE. I GROOM HER JUST LIKE A GORILLA, SO I MEAN` I'M NOT KIDDING YA. I'M, LIKE` YANKING THE HAIR. I'M YANKING THE HAIR. I'M PUTTING MY FINGERNAILS IN HER HEAD. AND THE MOTHERS DO IT, SO ONCE SHE GOES IN WITH A MOM, SHE'S GONNA DO IT TO HER, AND WE DON'T WANT THAT TO BE THE FIRST TIME SHE EVER EXPERIENCES THAT. ABC'S MATT GUTMAN GOT UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. SHE JUST PEED ON ME. SO IN JUNE, THEY WERE HOLDING THEIR BREATH WHEN THEY FINISHED THEIR PLAN AND FINALLY INTRODUCED HER TO M'LINZI ` HER NEW MOTHER (30). THEY HOPED FOR SIGNS OF AFFECTION. THEY TOUCHED FACES AND HELD HANDS. THEY SAW ALL THAT AND MORE. HERE'S VIDEO OF M'LINZI HOLDING THE BABY TO HER CHEST AND PATTING HER BACK. TODAY, THE SCIENTISTS SAY THEY'RE CONFIDENT M'LINZI WILL BE GLADYS' MOTHER FOR GOOD. NOW TO THE WEATHER. THERE ARE GALE-FORCE WINDS FOR THE FAR SOUTH AND SOME MORNING RAIN FOR MOST, BUT TE OAMARU GETS A FINE DAY. RAIN ALSO IN THE WEST, WITH MORE STRONG NORTH-WESTERLIES. JUST A FEW SHOWERS IN KAWATIRI. THAT'S WESTPORT, AND IT'S LOVELY IN WHAKATU. GUSTY WINDS FROM TE TIHI-O-MARU UP TO OTAUTAHI, BUT A FINE DAY WINDY IN WAIRAU. THE CAPITAL COPS IT TOO, WITH WILD WINDS. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ THANKS FOR JOINING US. HAVE A GOOD AFTERNOON. CAPTIONS BY FAITH HAMBLYN AND GLENNA CASALME. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT TVNZ ACCESS SERVICES 2013