DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF MIDDAY, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. WILD WINDS AGAIN CAUSE HAVOC, WITH TRAVELLERS STRANDED AND TREES DOWNED. CONVICTED MURDERER TEINA PORA'S GOING BEFORE THE PAROLE BOARD AGAIN AFTER 20 YEARS BEHIND BARS. AND A CENTURY PLUS A HAT-TRICK FOR BANGLADESH'S SOHAG GAZI. WINDS OF UP TO 150KM/H HAVE BATTERED THE CAPITAL THIS MORNING, WITH THE GALES THAT HAVE CAUSED HAVOC ACROSS THE SOUTH ISLAND SWEEPING UP THE COUNTRY. WE'LL LOOK AT THE DAMAGE IN CANTERBURY SHORTLY, WHERE DOWNED TREES HAVE CUT POWER AND FIREFIGHTERS ARE BATTLING SCRUB FIRES. BUT, FIRST, KRISTIN HALL IS IN WELLINGTON, WHERE THOSE WINDS HAVE PUT TRAVELLERS PLANS ON HOLD. There have been some very strong winds hitting the capital this afternoon. Up to 150 km/h say smetervice. There have been no domestic flights in or out of Wellington airport this morning. WELL, I'VE BEEN IN LINE FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF OR TWO HOURS. < WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW? UH, WELL, WE'VE ALREADY HAD TO STAY AN EXTRA NIGHT, SO NO IDEA. < IS IT JUST YOU TWO? ARE YOU BY YOURSELVES? YEAH. TEAM LEFT YESTERDAY. WELL, I GUESS YOU CAN'T HELP IT, REALLY. BUT, UH, IT DOES LOOK AS THOUGH THEY NEED A FEW MORE CREW HERE, AROUND TO... AROUND TO HELP THE CROWDS. THIS IS JUST... ALMOST THIRD WORLD, ISN'T IT? Unhappy travellers. Wellington airport is advising people to contact the airline and see if they can rebook. The fire service have been very busy across the city. They're preparing for it to get worse this afternoon. Police are warning drivers in Wairarapa to not drive at all A truck was blown over on State Highway 2. The wind will peak at 330 this afternoon and won't let up until midnight. THANKS, KRISTIN HALL IN WELLINGTON. EARLIER IT WAS CANTERBURY BEARING THE BRUNT. WINDS GUSTING UP TO 120KM/H TORE DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES, SPARKING BLAZES THAT FIREFIGHTERS HAVE BEEN BATTLING FOR HOURS. SOUTH CANTERBURY AND OTAGO WERE ALSO HIT WITH GALE-FORCE WINDS. AND DRIVERS HAVE BEEN WARNED TO TAKE EXTRA CARE. HOLLY CARRAN REPORTS. A NIGHTMARE. FOR THE SECOND TIME IN WEEKS, CANTERBURY RESIDENTS HAVE TAKEN A HAMMERING. UNBELIEVABLE, ROARING WIND, LIKE DEFINING WIND. BUT ON TOP OF THAT YOU GET, LIKE, THESE SICKENING BANGS AND YOU JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON UNTIL YOU CAME OUT AND SAW THIS. THE GALE-FORCE WINDS TOO DANGEROUS TO GO OUTSIDE. ROSEY HAD TO WAIT UNTIL MORNING TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE AND CHECK ON HER NEIGHBOUR. EVERYTHING THAT WASN'T DESTROYED THE FIRST TIME CERTAINLY DESTROYED NOW. THE OWNER OF THIS CARAVAN DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR ON CAMERA. HIS HOME IS NOW RUINED. I THINK I'LL MAKE THE BED UP FOR JOE AND HE CAN HAVE THE SPARE ROOM. THE ENGINEERING FIRM UP THE ROAD WORKING ONLY BY GENERATOR. WE'RE WORKING ON A LOG SPLITTER AT THE MOMENT SO ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS CAN ACTUALLY CLEAN UP THE MESS FROM THE SEPTEMBER STORM. SOUTH CANTERBURY ALSO GOT A DECENT BLAST JUST WEEKS AFTER THE WORST STORM IN DECADES RAVAGED THEIR REGION. IF IT WASN'T IT WAS PRETTY CLOSE TO IT, IT FELT WORSE. IT ALMOST BLEW DOORS IN THE HOUSE AND STUFF, SO IT WAS BAD ENOUGH. DOWNED TREES CAUSED MINOR DISRUPTIONS ON THE ROAD. EMERGENCY SERVICES WORKED OVERTIME. HOW BUSY HAVE YOU BEEN? OH, THIS MORNING, VERY. YEAH, CLOCKED UP QUITE A FEW CALLS EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, STILL THIS TIME OF DAY. IT WAS A SIMILAR STORY FOR LINESMEN UP AND DOWN CANTERBURY, WORKING FURIOUSLY TO SERVICE MORE THAN 3000 PROPERTIES WITHOUT POWER. QUITE A LOT OF LINE DAMAGE. A LOT OF TREE DAMAGE AS USUAL. QUITE A FEW WIRES DOWN. GETTING THE POWER BACK ON AS QUICK AS WE CAN. POWER AUTHORITIES HOPING TO RESTORE POWER TO MOST AREAS BY TONIGHT. HOLLY CARRAN, ONE NEWS. THE PAROLE BOARD WILL THIS AFTERNOON CONSIDER WHETHER CONVICTED RAPIST AND KILLER TEINA PORA IS TO BE FREED AFTER TWO DECADES IN PRISON FOR A CRIME THAT HIS VICTIM'S BROTHER DOESN'T EVEN THINK HE COMMITTED. TWO JURIES FOUND TEINA PORA GUILTY OF MURDERING SUSAN BURDETT IN HER SOUTH AUCKLAND HOME IN 1992, BUT HE MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE. LISA OWEN REPORTS. JUST A TEENAGER WHEN HE WAS LOCKED UP, CONVICTED RAPIST AND KILLER TEINA PORA HAS SPENT MORE TIME IN JAIL THAN HE HAS OUT. HIS VICTIM SUSAN BURDETT (39). A CRIME SCENE VIDEO SHOWS THE WEAPON TEINA PORA APPARENTLY USED TO BEAT HER TO DEATH. ARCHIVE: LYING BESIDE THE BODY, POLICE FOUND THE SOFTBALL BAT SUSAN KEPT FOR HER OWN DEFENCE. PORA EVEN CONFESSED TO KILLING HER. THEN CAME A COMPLETE U-TURN. TEINA PORA SAID HE WAS INNOCENT ` A CLAIM HE'S STUCK TO EVER SINCE. TWO JURIES, THOUGH, FOUND OTHERWISE. WOMAN: GUILTY. BUT NOW EVEN SUSAN BURDETT'S BROTHER SAYS CATEGORICALLY TEINA PORA DID NOT KILL HIS SISTER AND PROBABLY WASN'T EVEN AT THE HOUSE THAT NIGHT. PORA, A GANG PROSPECT, COULD BARELY READ OR WRITE, AND JIM BURDETT BELIEVES HE WAS NAIVELY AFTER A REWARD ON OFFER FOR INFORMATION ON THE CASE. BUT THE POLICE HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT THE TEENAGER WAS AT SUSAN BURDETT'S PAPATOETOE HOME WITH THIS MAN, SERIAL RAPIST MALCOLM REWA. REWA WAS FOUND GUILTY OF RAPING SUSAN BUT WAS ACQUITTED OF HER MURDER. REWA HAD BEEN RAPING WOMEN FOR YEARS BEFORE SUSAN BURDETT'S DEATH, AND HER BROTHER NOW BELIEVES THE POLICE WERE GIVEN INFORMATION THAT COULD HAVE IDENTIFIED THE SERIAL ATTACKER BEFORE SHE WAS KILLED. THE INDEPENDENT POLICE CONDUCT AUTHORITY'S INVESTIGATING THE ALLEGATIONS, AND THE POLICE UNION WANTS A FULL INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF PORA'S CASE. LISA OWEN, ONE NEWS. WEEKEND TALKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE FAILED TO END THE STALEMATE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS OVER THE RAISING OF AMERICA'S BORROWING LIMIT. IT MEANS THE GOVERNMENT COULD POSSIBLY RUN OUT OF MONEY IN JUST THREE DAYS' TIME, SENDING SHOCK WAVES THROUGH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. THE BBC'S MARK MARDELL REPORTS. CHEERING TWO SEPARATE MARCHES BY TRUCK DRIVERS AND WAR VETERANS CONVERGED ON THE WHITE HOUSE, NOT TO STORM THE BARRICADES BUT TO THROW BARRIERS AT THE GATE. THEY HAD BEEN AROUND THE WAR MEMORIAL, CLOSED BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. THESE CONSERVATIVES SEE THE LATEST CRISIS AS JUST PART OF A LONG STRUGGLE FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S IDENTITY. REPUBLICANS LED BY HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER HAD OFFERED TO LIFT THE THREAT FOR SIX WEEKS, BUT THOSE TALKS HAVE BROKEN DOWN. THEY SAY THE PRESIDENT WON'T NEGOTIATE. HE SAYS HE WON'T ALLOW THEM TO HOLD THE COUNTRY TO RANSOM. DAMAGE TO AMERICA'S STERLING CREDIT RATING WOULDN'T JUST CAUSE GLOBAL MARKETS TO GO HAYWIRE. IT WOULD BECOME MORE EXPENSIVE FOR EVERYONE IN AMERICA TO BORROW MONEY. UNCERTAINTY IN AMERICA UNNERVES THE WHOLE WORLD. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS ONCE AGAIN OPEN FOR BUSINESS. NEW YORK STATE IS PICKING UP THE TAB, BUT THE SHUTDOWN IS THE LEAST OF ANYONE'S WORRIES. IT'S THE SEPARATE PROSPECT OF THE USA RUNNING OUT OF THE MONEY TO PAY ITS BILLS THAT SEEMS SO ALARMING. IF THERE IS THAT DEGREE OF DISRUPTION, THAT LACK OF CERTAINTY, THAT LACK OF TRUST IN THE US SIGNATURE, IT WOULD MEAN MASSIVE DISRUPTION THE WORLD OVER, AND WE WOULD BE AT RISK OF TIPPING YET AGAIN INTO RECESSION. THE SENATE WILL COME TO ORDER. THE SENATE MEETING IN A RARE SUNDAY SESSION, AND WHILE THE HOPE OF A SOLUTION LIES WITH THEM, THERE'S NO SPECIFIC PLAN ON THE TABLE. THIS IS TURNING, ONCE AGAIN, INTO A VERY AMERICAN CLIFFHANGER. INDIA'S STRONGEST CYCLONE IN 14 YEARS HAS TORN THROUGH COASTAL TOWNS IN THE COUNTRY'S EAST. THE MASS EVACUATION OF MORE THAN 750,000 PEOPLE IS THOUGHT TO HAVE SAVED THOUSANDS THE DEATH TOLL STANDS AT 15. CYCLONE PHAILIN BROUGHT WINDS OF MORE THAN 200KM/H, CAUSING WIDESPREAD DAMAGE AND DESTROYING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF HOMES. AND A TEAM OF DOCTORS IS BEING SENT TO HELP TREAT MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE INJURED IN A STAMPEDE ON BRIDGE IN NORTHERN INDIA. 89 PEOPLE WERE KILLED. RELIGIOUS DEVOTEES WERE MAKING THEIR WAY TO A HINDU TEMPLE FOR A FESTIVAL WHEN A BRIDGE RAILING BROKE, PANICKING THE CROWD. SOME PEOPLE WERE CRUSHED, WHILE OTHERS DROWNED AFTER FALLING INTO THE RIVER. BRITISH POLICE INVESTIGATING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MADELEINE MCCANN IN PORTUGAL HAVE JUST RELEASED THESE COMPUTER-GENERATED IMAGES OF MEN THEY DESCRIBE AS PERSONS OF INTEREST IN THE CASE. THEY WANT TO ELIMINATE THEM OR ESTABLISH IF THEY ARE CONNECTED IN ANY WAY. AND DETECTIVES NOW SAY THE ACCEPTED VERSION OF EVENTS WHEN MADELEINE WENT MISSING IN 2007 HAS CHANGED. THE BBC'S RICHARD BILTON REPORTS. IT HAS BEEN SIX AND A HALF YEARS SINCE MADELEINE MCCANN DISAPPEARED. HER PARENTS SAY IT IS STILL HARD. WHEN IT'S A SPECIAL OCCASION, WHEN YOU SHOULD BE YOUR HAPPIEST, UM, AND MADELEINE'S NOT THERE, THAT'S WHEN IT REALLY HITS HOME. OBVIOUSLY, MADELEINE'S BIRTHDAY, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, BUT WHEN YOU'RE REALLY GETTING` YEAH, IT'S ONLY AT THE BIG FAMILY OCCASIONS, REALLY. I MEAN, THAT'S BASICALLY IT, ISN'T IT? THE FAMILY OCCASION, AND YOU HAVEN'T GOT YOUR COMPLETE FAMILY. IT WAS MAY 2007. THE FAMILY WAS STAYING IN THIS APARTMENT IN PRAIA DA LUZ. HER PARENTS WENT TO A RESTAURANT ON THE COMPLEX. WHEN THEY GOT BACK, MADELEINE HAD GONE. NOW POLICE ARE REVISITING THAT NIGHT, INCLUDING WHAT THEY SAY IS THE MOST DETAILED RECONSTRUCTION OF EVENTS. THE CAREFUL AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TIMELINE HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY KEY. PRIMARILY, WHAT WE SOUGHT TO DO FROM THE BEGINNING IS TRYING TO ROLL EVERYTHING TO` TO ZERO, IF YOU LIKE. TRY AND SORT OF TAKE EVERYTHING BACK TO THE BEGINNING AND THEN REANALYSE AND REASSESS EVERYTHING, ACCEPTING NOTHING. THE CRIMEWATCH APPEAL FOLLOWS TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF WORK FROM THE BRITISH POLICE. IN PORTUGAL, THERE'S NO ACTIVE INVESTIGATION, BUT THERE IS A REVIEW OF THE CASE. CORDONS ARE JUST BEING LIFTED IN CENTRAL DUNEDIN FOLLOWING A GAS LEAK THAT CAUSED WIDESPREAD DISRUPTION THIS MORNING. AN ENTIRE CITY BLOCK HAD TO BE EVACUATED AFTER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS SEVERED A GAS LINE JUST BEFORE 9 O'CLOCK. THERE WERE NO INJURIES, AND THE GAS HAS NOW MOSTLY DISSIPATED. A TEENAGER ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING TWO GIRLS OVER THE WEEKEND WILL APPEAR IN THE CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT COURT TODAY. THE 18-YEAR-OLD FACES TWO CHARGES OF RAPE ` ONE OF A GIRL UNDER THE AGE OF 12 WHOM HE ALLEGEDLY ABDUCTED. POLICE SAY FURTHER CHARGES ARE LIKELY. THE FORMER BOSS OF CHRISTCHURCH CLOTHING COMPANY LANE WALKER RUDKIN HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO FOUR COUNTS OF SERIOUS FRAUD KENNETH JAMES ANDERSON ADMITTED FABRICATING FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS TO OBTAIN TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LOANS. THE WELL-KNOWN COMPANY, WHICH MADE CANTERBURY SPORTSWEAR AND ADIDAS PRODUCTS, WENT INTO RECEIVERSHIP FOUR YEARS AGO WITH DEBTS OF $120M. KEN ANDERSON WAS GRANTED BAIL BUT TOLD HIS SENTENCE WOULD BE YEARS. INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR KIM DOTCOM WILL HAVE TO WAIT TILL TOMORROW TO GIVE EVIDENCE AS PART OF A PRIVATE PROSECUTION AGAINST ACT LEADER JOHN BANKS. RETIRED WELLINGTON ACCOUNTANT GRAHAM MCCREADY ALLEGES THE MP KNOWINGLY RECEIVED DONATIONS FROM KIM DOTCOM DURING HIS 2010 MAYORAL CAMPAIGN BUT RECORDED THEM AS ANONYMOUS. KIM DOTCOM WAS SUMMONED AS A WITNESS, BUT THE HEARING HAS BEEN DELAYED. HIS LAWYER AND BODYGUARD WILL ALSO GIVE EVIDENCE. NEW MEASURES AIMING TO CRACK DOWN ON BENEFIT FRAUD COME INTO EFFECT TODAY. THE NEW RULES TARGET PEOPLE WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF WELFARE FRAUD AND WILL AFFECT AROUND 1500 PEOPLE EACH YEAR. REOFFENDERS WILL HAVE TO HAVE FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS WITH CASE MANAGERS, AND MORE DOCUMENTATION WILL BE REQUIRED. HUNDREDS OF REPLICA POKIE MACHINES HAVE BEEN SET UP IN AUCKLAND'S AOTEA SQUARE TO PROTEST AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT'S SKY CITY CONVENTION CENTRE DEAL. THE DISPLAY, PUT ON BY THE GREEN PARTY, SHOWS WHAT 230 EXTRA POKER MACHINES LOOK LIKE. SKY CITY'S BEEN GIVEN APPROVAL FOR THE ADDITIONAL POKIES IN RETURN FOR FUNDING THE CONVENTION CENTRE. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` WE'LL HAVE YOUR SHAREMARKET AND BUSINESS NEWS. PLUS OUR WORLD CHAMPION SEVENS TEAM HANDS AUSTRALIA A RUGBY LESSON ON THE GOLD COAST. Are your savings gathering dust? DING! Then give them a chance to really grow, because there's a new millionaire created every month. Visit bonusbonds.co.nz to invest now. THE HOUSING MARKETS ALREADY REACTING TO RESERVE BANK RULES ON MORTGAGE LENDING, ACCORDING TO A BNZ SURVEY OUT TODAY. A NET 41% OF REAL-ESTATE AGENTS SAY THERE WERE FEWER FIRST-HOME BUYERS IN THE MARKET LAST MONTH, AND MANY SAY FEWER PEOPLE WERE COMING THROUGH OPEN HOMES. HOWEVER, AGENTS SAY PRICES STILL SEEM TO BE RISING. THAT MAY BE IN PART BECAUSE INVESTORS DON'T SEEM TO HAVE BEEN PUT OFF BY THE NEW DEPOSIT RULES. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE MARKETS NOW. A WITH ME NOW IS ANNE HARE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. THIS ITEM WILL BE CAPTIONED LIVE. FOR MORE, GO TO ONENEWS.CO.NZ AND CLICK ON 'BUSINESS'. AN ANNOUNCMENT FROM SOFTWARE ACCOUNTING COMPANY XERO TODAY? 180 million was raised from US asset management firms. The capital raising and total represents 8% of the shares on issue. The share price is up 9.75% this morning. WE TOUCHED ON THE GROWING CONCERNS IN THE US EARLIER, BUT THE MARKETS HAVE BOUNCED BACK A LITTLE? They have. The Republicans proposal of the budget deal to avert the default has been good for markets. This is the biggest single day gains so far this year. New Zealand's market has been flat this morning. THANK YOU, ANNE HARE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. NZ DISTANCE RUNNER KIM SMITH HAS TAKEN OUT THE PRESTIGIOUS BOSTON ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION DISTANCE MEDLEY FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW. THE LONDON OLYMPIAN WON THE BAA HALF-MARATHON TO SECURE THE NZ$120,000 PRIZE. THE MARATHON IS THE THIRD AND FINAL OF A SERIES WHICH INVOLVES 5KM AND 10KM RACES EARLIER IN THE YEAR. IT'S A HARD SERIES BECAUSE IT'S THREE DIFFERENT DISTANCES AND, YEAH, AT THREE DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE YEAR, SO IT MAKES IT PRETTY CHALLENGING. I WENT OUT PRETTY HARD AND I DROPPED THE OTHER GIRLS AT ABOUT HALFWAY AND THEN ENDED UP JUST CRUISING IN, SO ENDED UP BEING NOT TOO HARD OF A RUN AND SO IT WAS JUST NICE TO WIN. IT'S A GOOD RESULT CONSIDERING SMITH WAS FORCED TO MISS OUT ON THIS YEAR'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DUE TO INJURY. SMITH TURNS HER ATTENTION TO THE NEW YORK MARATHON IN THREE WEEKS. THE WORLD CHAMPION NZ SEVENS SIDE HAS WON THE GOLD COAST RUGBY SEVENS TITLE AFTER OUTCLASSING AUSTRALIA 40-19. AUSTRALIA RACED INTO A 12-0 LEAD, BUT THE KIWIS HIT BACK WITH FIVE UNANSWERED TRIES. THE DOUBLE ROUND WITH FARMER. MIKKELSON, CLARKE MAKES THE TACKLE, AND THERE'S ANOTHER TRY FOR THE SPEEDSTER OUT WIDE, AMBROSE CURTIS. SET PIECE MOVE. SO 40-19 THE FINAL SCORE. ENGLAND CLAIMED THIRD SPOT WITH A WIN OVER SOUTH AFRICA. THE NEXT STOP IN THE WORLD SERIES IS THE DUBAI SEVENS AT THE END OF NOVEMBER. AND THE FIRST CRICKET TEST BETWEEN THE BLACK CAPS AND BANGLADESH IN CHITTAGONG MAY HAVE ENDED IN A DRAW, BUT THERE'S BEEN PLENTY FOR THE HOME SIDE TO CELEBRATE. AFTER SCORING A CENTURY IN THE FIRST INNINGS, SOHAG GAZI THEN BECAME THE FIRST PLAYER IN HISTORY TO BACK THAT UP WITH A HAT-TRICK IN THE SAME TEST. THERE HE GOES. OH, HE'S GOT THE WICKET. OH, HIS MATES HAVE TAKEN IT. THAT IS A TERRIFIC CATCH, AND MY WORLD, THIS IS A TERRIFIC MORNING. HAT-TRICK IN TEST-MATCH CRICKET FOR SOHAG GAZI. GAZI FINISHED WITH FIGURES OF 6-77. NZ DECLARED AT 287/7, SETTING BANGLADESH 256 FOR THE WIN, BUT THE MATCH FINISHED IN A DRAW WITH THE HOSTS 173/3. NOVAK DJOKOVIC HAS BEATEN JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO IN THREE SETS TO WIN THE SHANGHAI MASTERS. THE SERB, LOOKING TO EXTEND HIS WINNING STREAK IN CHINA TO 20 CONSECUTIVE MATCHES, TOOK THE FIRST SET. BUT DEL POTRO STORMED BACK TO TAKE THE SECOND. BALL THWACKS CROWD ROARS DJOKOVIC REASSERTED HIS DOMINANCE AND TOOK OUT THE DECIDING SET IN A TIE-BREAKER. 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 THE FINAL SCORE. FORD'S MARK WINTERBOTTOM HAS WON HIS FIRST BATHURST 1000 TITLE AFTER A DRAMATIC FINISH ON MOUNT PANORAMA. HE MANAGED TO HOLD OFF V8 SUPERCAR SERIES LEADER AND DEFENDING CHAMP JAMIE WHINCUP FOR A THRILLING FINALE. MARK WINTERBOTTOM: WHOO! COMMENTATOR: AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE OF TRYING, MARK WINTERBOTTOM WILL WIN THE SUPERCHEAP AUTO BATHURST 1000 WITH STEVEN RICHARDS! YEAH! THE FIGHT FOR THIRD WAS JUST AS FIERCE, WITH CRAIG LOWNDES EVENTUALLY TAKING THE FINAL PODIUM PLACE. SEBASTIAN VETTEL HAS WON HIS FIFTH GRAND PRIX IN A ROW WITH VICTORY IN JAPAN, BUT HE'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A FOURTH TITLE AFTER FERRARI'S FERNANDO ALONSO FINISHED FOURTH TO KEEP THE TITLE RACE MATHEMATICALLY OPEN. GIEDO VAN DER GARDE AND JULES BIANCHI CRASHED OUT AT THE START, WHILE VETTEL'S CONTACT WITH LEWIS HAMILTON RESULTED IN MINOR WING DAMAGE. BUT THE GERMAN RECOVERED TO TAKE THE CHEQUERED FLAG AHEAD OF RED BULL TEAMMATE MARK WEBBER. SEBASTIAN VETTEL WINS IN JAPAN. IT'S HIS NINTH WIN OF THE SEASON, AND HIS FOURTH WIN IN FIVE YEARS AROUND THIS SUZUKA TRACK. WHAT A RECORD HE HAS. VETTEL IS EDGING CLOSER TO THE F1 CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE. HEARTBREAK FOR THE WELLINGTON PHOENIX IN THEIR FIRST MATCH OF THE A-LEAGUE SEASON. THE HOME SIDE WAS HEADING FOR A 1-1 DRAW BEFORE A DEFENSIVE SLIP-UP COST THEM. A MISTAKE AT THE BACK, AND OFF THE POST. AND NOW IN THE BACK OF THE NET, AND BRISBANE HAS WON IT IN THE DYING MOMENTS. SO 2-1 TO BRISBANE THE FINAL SCORE. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` I'LL BE BACK WITH THE AFTERNOON WEATHER. AND WHY THIS MAN'S ATTEMPT AT SEDUCTION HAS SPAWNED COUNTLESS IMITATIONS. NOW TO THE WEATHER, AND A BIG HIGH NORTH-EAST OF NZ, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, ALL THE ACTION'S COMING FROM THE COOLER SOUTH-WESTERLIES SPREADING UP THE COUNTRY FROM THE SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ FINALLY ` YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A POSSIBLY FOOLISH IDEA IS GOING TO GO VIRAL. IN THE US WHAT STARTED AS A RATHER BIZARRE VIDEO SELFIE HAS TAKEN ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN. HERE'S THE ABC'S GINGER ZEE. IT'S THE MOST POPULAR MEME OF THE WEEK. DO YOU KNOW WHAT A MEME IS? UH, NO. OF A MEME? I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A MEME. I'VE HEARD OF A MIME. A MEME ` NOT JUST A VIRAL VIDEO. IT'S A DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY. BUT IT'S THE FUNNY REMAKES OF THAT ORIGINAL THAT MAKE IT A MEME. OHH, DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY. IT'S LIKE A FUNNY THING THAT GOES VIRAL. THE LATEST FUNNY THING BEING MIMICKED AROUND THE WORLD IS CALLED DRAKE HANDS. IT'S CALLED DRAKE HANDS. PARDON? DRAKE HANDS, ENCOURAGING COUNTLESS FLIRTY, FACE-TOUCHING SELFIES, ALL INSPIRED BY THIS GUY, BRODIE RYAN. A SELF-PROCLAIMED SINGER, SONGWRITER, DESIGNER, PHOTOGRAPHER, PRODUCER WHO MADE THIS ONE VIDEO BECAUSE... HE MET A GIRL. GOT HER NUMBER. WENT HOME AND SENT HER THIS. A SUPPOSED-TO-BE-SEDUCTIVE PEEKABOO MEANT TO WOO HER. THE GIRL THEN SENT IT TO HER FRIEND WHO PUT IT ON THE INTERNET FOR ALL OF US TO SEE. THAT'S IT? KINDA WEIRD. INTENDED HUMILIATION TURNED IMITATION AND INSTANT SENSATION. DRAKE HANDS HAVE INSPIRED A SLEW OF CELEBS. THERE'S THE AARON PAUL. THE DEREK HOUGH. AND THE LARRY KING. THANKS FOR JOINING US. THE ONE NEWS HOUR WILL BE HERE AT 6. GOOD AFTERNOON. CAPTIONS BY JESSICA BOELL AND JOHN LING. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT TVNZ ACCESS SERVICES 2013