IT'S 7 SHARP. THE DANGER OF COASTLINE. A SCHOOL HOLIDAY TRAGEDY. WE'RE LIVE IN MT MAUNGANUI. PLUS THEY'RE A CRACK TEAM... WE CAN STILL DO ALL OUR WORK AND DO THIS AS WELL. ...PUTTING BROKEN MEMORIES BACK TOGETHER. NOTHING WORTH DOING HAPPENS EASILY. AND STANDING BY THEIR MEN. CLAMOURING WHEN A GOOD WIFE GOES BAD. ONE NEWS CAPTIONS BY FAITH HAMBLYN AND JUNE YEOW. DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF SEVEN SHARP, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. Welcome to 7 sharp. Mike hasn't quit. He's sunning himself on a tropical beach. He absolutely will be in a slinky number. today because we have the hit back from our friends across the Tasman. We called out the today show for calling LordE australAsian. HERE'S WHAT CAUGHT OUR EYE TODAY ` AMERICAN OFFICIALS ARE FRANTICALLY TRYING TO TRACK DOWN ANYONE WHO HAD CONTACT WITH A TEXAS MAN WHO HAS EBOLA. HE COULD HAVE BEEN INFECTIOUS FOR SEVERAL DAYS BETWEEN RETURNING TO THE STATES FROM WEST AFRICA. AND PERHAPS THIS GUY IN FLORIDA SHOULD HAVE PUT DOWN HIS CAMERA AND GOT AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS. LOOK AT HOW CLOSE THAT LIGHTNING STRIKE IS! JUST ACROSS HIS GARDEN! AND, WITH HALLOWEEN APPROACHING, FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE WORLD'S HEAVIEST PUMPKIN. IT WEIGHS JUST A SMIDGE OVER 951KG. THAT'S MORE THAN THIS HONDA CIVIC. THE BIG STORY TONIGHT IS THE MISSING 5-YEAR-OLD BOY IN MT MAUNGANUI. POLICE ARE STILL OUT SEARCHING FOR HIM AFTER A BIG WAVE SWEPT HIM OUT TO SEA. THEY WERE PLAYING ON THE FORESHORE WITH HE AND TWO OF HIS COUSINS. AND UNFORTUNATELY A LARGE WAVE HAS COME IN AND SWEPT ALL THREE OF THEM OUT INTO THE SEA. THE TWO YOUNG GIRLS HAVE MANAGED TO MAKE THEIR WAY BACK TO SHORE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE 5-YEAR-OLD BOY IS STILL MISSING. EMMA KEELING JOINS ME NOW LIVE FROM MT MAUNGANUI. EMMA, WHAT'S THE LATEST ON THE SEARCH? No encouraging news. No sightings and no word on the five-year-old boy. Behind me in the surf club very tired lifeguards and police. They are just about to stop the search now at nightfall. They will figure out what to do tomorrow morning. A long day for them and for the family waiting for news. Two girls in hospital. How typical is that for someone to be swept off the shoreline the? Not at all. A lifeguard said to me it's a big surf beach. Waves pounding beside me. It's been a huge serve today, but it's one of those freakish things. A freak wave has taken him today. There have been a lot of rescues out here today in that serve. A lesson to be learned here to not turn your back on the sea. You can never tell when that rogue wave might hit. Here in Auckland we have piha which is a horrible place to go with big serve. It's a family area here. Everyone can walk around the bottom of the mountain. Shelly Beach you can go and collect shells. It's one of those freakish things. Typically it safe that you can never tell. Horrible news. THANKS for the update. We hope for a miracle in the next few hours. A lot of viewers very familiar with mount Maunganui. That's if looks really big. So many people wear around and the boy was being watched and they still couldn't get to him. We will keep you up-to-date. THE DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF TERRORISM IS THE USE OF VIOLENCE AND THREATS TO INTIMIDATE AND INDUCE A STATE OF FEAR. FEAR CAN BRING OUT THE UGLY IN ALMOST ANYONE, AND IN AUSTRALIA RIGHT NOW THE DARK SIDE IS REARING ITS UGLY HEAD. IN RECENT DAYS, AUSTRALIANS HAVE WATCHED AS THE THREAT OF TERROR HIT HOME. WE NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING. SOME HAVE ARGUED THE RESPONSE WAS DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE THREAT. POLICE BRUTALITY, POLITICAL HYSTERIA. THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY'S NOT NEW TO THIS SORT OF HEAVY-HANDED RAIDS. EITHER WAY, THE RAIDS HAVE EXPOSED A NASTY SIDE TO THE LUCKY COUNTRY. MOSQUES HAVE BEEN TARGETED. STAFF AT THIS ISLAMIC SCHOOL WERE THREATENED BY A KNIFE-WIELDING MAN. AND IN MELBOURNE A WOMAN WAS BASHED ON THE TRAIN ` THE VICTIM OF A RACIAL ATTACK. RIGHT NOW IS A TIME FOR CALM. BUT WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS ALMOST A DAILY OCCURRENCE,... COUNTER-TERRORISM RAIDS MOVE TO MELBOURNE. ...IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE THAT PEOPLE ARE SCARED. THE WHOLE POINT OF TERRORISM IS TO PREVENT US FROM BEING OURSELVES. AND WITH THE DUAL THREAT OF TERROR AND ALL-OUT SURVEILLANCE STATE,... OUR LAWS ARE BEING CHANGED TO MAKE IT EASIER OT KEEP POTENTIAL TERRORISTS OFF THE STREETS. ...IT'S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE A CHANGE IN THIS CLIMATE OF FEAR. THE LEVEL OF OUTRAGE IN AUSTRALIA IS REALLY STARTING TO REACH FEVER PITCH WITH PEOPLE BEING PUBLICLY ABUSED FOR BEING MUSLIM, OR EVEN LOOKING REMOTELY MUSLIM. ONE SUCH MAN COPPING FLAK, A GOLD COAST-BASED KIWI, LUCAS POLLARD. I SPOKE TO HIM AND HIS DAD A SHORT TIME AGO. ALL RIGHT, CRAIG AND LUCAS POLLARD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. LUCAS, CAN YOU TELL ME, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT HAPPENED? WELL, I WAS DRIVING TO GO PICK MY BROTHER UP FROM KARATE, STOPPED OFF AT A SET OF LIGHTS DOWN ON THE GOLD COAST. SOME GUYS IN A CAR PULLED UP NEXT TO ME, STARTED CALLING ME MUSLIM, SAYING THAT IF THEY'D SEEN ME WALKING ON THE STREET THEY WOULD'VE RAN ME DOWN AND CUT MY HEAD OFF. I TURNED AROUND AND SAID, 'I'M NOT EVEN MUSLIM. I'M FROM NZ.' THEN THEY REPLIED WITH, 'YEAH, WELL, AFTER WE GET RID OF THESE MUSLIMS, 'YOU GUYS ARE NEXT.' DO YOU THINK IT WAS YOUR BEARD? YEAH, PROBABLY. IS IT THE SORT OF THING YOU'VE EVER EXPERIENCED ON THE GOLD COAST BEFORE? NAH. WELL, I'VE HAD THE ODD AUSTRALIANS WALKING AROUND, TELLING ME TO GO BACK TO MY COUNTRY, COS WE'RE TAKING ALL THEIR JOBS, BUT NOTHING LIKE THAT. CRAIG, WHAT'D YOU THINK WHEN LUCAS CAME AND TOLD YOU? I WAS ACTUALLY QUITE DISGUSTED WITH THE WHOLE THING. I DIDN'T THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE GOING ON AT THAT LEVEL OVER HERE. I THINK THAT IT'S STARTING TO ESCALATE A LOT MORE. I'VE HEARD OF A LOT MORE VERBAL ABUSE RELATED TO BASICALLY ANYONE WHO'S NOT REALLY CONFORMING TO WHAT THESE REDNECKS WANT. I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN IN THE MALLS WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABUSED FOR BEING MUSLIM AND WEARING BURQAS. IT JUST SEEMS TO BE ESCALATING TO A LOT HIGHER LEVEL NOW. LUCAS, HOW HAS IT AFFECTED YOU SINCE? FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, I DIDN'T REALLY DRIVE MY CAR. I JUST STAYED HOME, AND IF I HAD TO DRIVE, I'D DRIVE DAD'S CAR COS THEY MIGHT NOTICE IT AGAIN, AND I'LL BE BY MYSELF OR I'LL BE WITH MY GIRLFRIEND OR MY LITTLE BROTHER. FOR THE WEEKEND, I STOPPED WEARING MY SILVER FERNS JUST COS OF THAT REASON. YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TEMPTED TO SHAVE YOUR BEARD? NAH. I'VE GOT A FEW MATES THAT HAVE GOT` THEIR BEARDS ARE PROBABLY THREE TIMES AS BIG AS MINE, AND THEY'VE ALL CUT THEIRS OFF JUST COS OF WHAT HAPPENED. I SUPPORT HIM 100%, AND WE REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO CHANGE OUR LOOK AND APPEARANCE JUST TO PLEASE A SMALL MINORITY OF PEOPLE. You shouldn't. You obviously can't characterise all of the Australian is because of this one-off incident. There is a red neck streak in some parts of Australia. COMING UP ON SEVEN SHARP ` WHEN BEING THE GOOD WIFE GOES BAD. THE BEST SPOUSAL DEFENCE MOVES. PLUS ` A REAL CRACK UP. JENNY'S VERY FUNNY. SHE TALKS ABOUT IT LIKE AN ADDICTION. THE HABIT PUTTING CHRISTCHURCH'S BROKEN MEMORIES TO GOOD USE. IT'S A COMPLETELY SLOW LABOUR OF LOVE. BUT WHEN IT'S FINISHED, IT'S GOING TO BE ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT. The death rayin the studio. An invisibility device. This is going over my he'd already. Concave and convex they needed a phone book to get it going. After all my rants about the irrelevance of phone books! We'll get to that soon. KAREN PRICE ` WE HAVE TO SAY WE FEEL FOR HER A BIT TODAY. AFTER ATTACKING HER HUSBAND, DAVID CUNLIFFE'S, RIVALS AND CRITICS ON TWITTER, EVEN SHE'S ADMITTED IT WASN'T THE BEST IDEA. BUT WE CAN KIND OF SEE WHERE YOU WERE COMING FROM, WHEN A LOVED ONE'S ON THE DEFENSIVE. ALL YOU WERE TRYING TO DO WAS STAND BY YOUR MAN, DEFEND HIM FROM WHAT YOU THOUGHT WERE UNFAIR ATTACKS. TURNS OUT YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY. MAN: HERE'S TO THE LADIES, THE FAIR AND THE WEAK. BUT WHO DARES CALL THEM WEAK? AH, YES, THE 1950S ` THE DECADE OF THE TWIST, THE ERA OF ELVIS, THE AGE OF THE HOUSEWIFE. MAN: WHERE DO THEY FIND ALL THAT ENERGY? OK, SO, TIMES HAVE CHANGED A BIT, BUT ONE MANTRA STILL REMAINS # STAND BY YOUR MAN... REMEMBER BILL CLINTON'S ALLEGED INDISCRETION? I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN. HILARY STOOD BY HER MAN. THIS IS PART OF A CONTINUING POLITICAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST MY HUSBAND. THEY WERE PESKY CHEATING RUMOURS THAT GOT POSH SPICE'S NOSE OUT OF JOINT TOO. I THINK THAT A FEW GIRLS WANTED TO LAUNCH A MODELLING CAREER, SO DECIDED TO DRAG DAVID'S NAME INTO THAT. BUT COME ON, GUYS ` A COUPLE THIS IN SYNC WITH THEIR FASHION CANNOT BE BROKEN. NOW, KANYE NEEDS NO HELP GETTING INTO TROUBLE. HE PROVED THAT DURING HIS RECENT CONCERT IN AUSTRALIA. TWO PEOPLE BACK THERE DON'T WANNA STAND UP. IS HE IN A WHEELCHAIR? AWKWARD. HE WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR. BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP KIM FROM STANDING UP FOR HER MAN. LET'S FACE IT, THOUGH ` POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA IS EASY. TAKING A PIE FOR YOUR HUSBAND IS A REAL SIGN OF TRUE LOVE. # STAND BY YOUR MAN # AND SHOW THE WORLD YOU LOVE HIM. # I don't know about the pie, but the whole Twitter account I was considering doing that with Hosking. Where are all the means standing up for the women? They don't need to, cause the women don't need help. Helen Clark didn't need help. MORE THAN FOUR YEARS AFTER CHRISTCHURCH WAS SHAKEN APART, WE WANT TO SHOW YOU A NOVEL WAY OF PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER. THOUSANDS OF BROKEN MEMORIES HAVE COME TOGETHER TO TELL A NEW STORY FOR THE CITY. MIKE THORPE WITH FLORA AND OTTO. WHEN CHRISTCHURCH WAS PICKING UP THE PIECES, JENNY COOPER WAS SORTING THROUGH THEM. AND ThIS IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BUCKETS ` IT'S GOT ALL THE HANDLES. AND EACH AND EVERY PIECE HAS A STORY TO BE TOLD. A LITTLE TEASET WHICH WAS A WEDDING PRESENT TO MY GRANDPARENTS 90 YEARS AGO AND THEN GIVEN TO ME 32 YEARS AGO ON MY WEDDING DAY. IT IS IN PIECES. THOSE SHATTERED MEMORIES ARE NOW BEING BROUGHT TOGETHER IN A VISION OF CERAMIC UPHOLSTERY. I THINK MY PARTNER THOUGHT I WAS MAD. UNTIL` AND THIS HAS CONFIRMED IT, HAS IT? MEET THE CRACKED TEAM OF VOLUNTEERS. JENNY COOPER, JENNY COOPER AS WELL, SHARON, MARIE AND HELEN. THE THING ABOUT WOMEN IS` OH GOD. OH, HERE WE GO. NO, WELL` NO, THIS IS GOOD. THIS IS A GREAT START. NO. WE CAN STILL DO ALL OUR WORK AND DO THIS AS WELL. SO NO ONE'S SUFFERED, HAVE THEY? NEAR STRANGERS BEFOREHAND; INSEPERABLE NOW. KINDA LIKE A SOCIAL MOSAIC. THEY CAN'T HEAR YOU. DO YOU LIKE THEM? UH... DEPENDS ON THE DAY. < WHAT ABOUT THESE PEOPLE? ARE THEY ALL RIGHT? OH, THEY'RE JUST HANGER-ONERS, REALLY. ALL LAUGH JENNY'S VERY FUNNY. SHE TALKS ABOUT IT LIKE AN ADDICTION. SHE SAYS, 'I HAVE TO GET MY CHAIR FIXED, 'SO I SNEAK IN AFTER WORK AND DO AN HOUR ON THE CHAIR.' THE CHAIR IS FLORA ` OVER 2 TONS OF MEMORIES AND MORE THAN SIX MONTHS IN THE MAKING. IT'S VERY VERY SLOW PROGRESS, AND IT'S A COMPLETELY SLOW LABOUR OF LOVE. BUT WHEN IT'S FINISHED, IT'S GOING TO BE ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT. FOR HELEN, IT ALREADY IS. THE PROJECT HAS BEEN A BEAUTIFUL DISTRACTION. WE LOST OUR HOME OF 48 YEARS. AND THIS HAS JUST BEEN MARVELLOUS TO BE INVOLVED IN SOMETHING CREATIVE AND LOVELY. IT'S HELPED A LOT. WHAT'S MORE FRUSTRATING? MOSAIC OR EQC? LAUGHTER WHIMSICAL MUSIC WE NEVER ENVISAGED THIS. AND IF WE'D KNOWN HOW LONG THIS WAS GONNA TAKE US, WE MIGHT'VE BALKED AT DOING IT. BUT NOTHING WORTH DOING HAPPENS EASILY. < WILL THE NEXT PROJECT BE A TWO-SEATER OR A THREE-SEATER? (LAUGHS) EVERYONE PITCHES IN HERE. EVEN ME. RIGHTO. HERE WE GO. THAT SIDE IN THERE. YEP. JUST THERE? YEAH. YOU NEED WEE FINGERS. AND WITH THAT, I FELT ACCEPTED INTO THE GROUP. I DUNNO, MIKE. UNTIL YOU'VE BEEN THORUGH ONE OF OUR MENOPAUSE DISCUSSIONS, YOU'RE NOT REALLY THE INNER SANCTUM. WELL, MAYBE IT'S BETTER TO STAY IMPARTIAL. SO WITHOUT ANY FUTHER HELP FROM ME, FLORA WAS FINISHED, TRANSPORTED AND PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC. ALL: 10, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX, FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE! (CHEER) APPLAUSE FLORA AND OTTO. HOW SUITE. That's really cool. You're very lucky I'm a way of menopause too., made Mike feel uncomfortable. NEXT ON SEVEN SHARP ` KNOW WHO THIS IS? OF COURSE YOU DO, AND HE MAY BE AWAY RIGHT NOW, BUT AFTER THE BREAK, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE HIM ACTUALLY DISAPPEAR. IT'S NOT MAGIC, IT'S SCIENCE, AND IT'S AMAZING. PLUS WE HAVE ANOTHER BONE TO PICK WITH SOME AUSSIE TV HOSTS. IT'S GONNA BE WORLD WAR III BETWEEN US AND THE AUSSIES. ALL GROAN WELL, LET'S FIRE UP, YOUNG FELLA. WHAT? ARE YOU 12 YET? LAUGHTER YEP, THIS SAGA'S SHAPING UP TO BE AS LONG AS 'LORD OF THE RINGS'. NOW, THE EAGLE-EYED AMONG YOU HAVE PROBABLY NOTICED THIS RATHER IMPRESSIVE BIT OF MACHINERY HAS JOINED US ON SET. YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN STORIES FLOATING AROUND THIS WEEK ABOUT AMERICAN SCIENTISTS WHO CLAIM TO HAVE INVENTED AN INVISIBILITY DEVICE. YEP, A BIT LIKE THE CLOAK FROM HARRY POTTER, WHICH HARRY USES TO GO PLACES HE SHOULDN'T AND HIDE FROM PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL HIM, ETC. WE THINK THAT'S COOL, SO WE GOT ON TO THE VERY CLEVER PEOPLE AT AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY TO SEE IF THEY COULD MAKE ONE FOR US, AND THEY HAVE! WITH US NOW IS EHSAN VAGHEFI. Thanks for coming in. How does this work? What is it exactly? It's an elegant use of optics. Two telescopes. Looking through one telescope into another. There is a focus light hair and everything around it isn't visible. It's like a blind spot in the middle? Can you show us how it works? Absolutely. So that's not just the gap in between your fingers? No. It's an optical illusion, is that right? Very true. Very clever use of optics. I've got to say the invisibility and research is getting more advanced than this. We're not at the Harry Potter staged just yet. Please make Mike Hosking disappear. I'll give it my best shot. Even half. Just the mouth. Almost. The producers says as we stab a hole in the middle of his face, he will disappear. The future of this is eventually we will be able to make actual people disappear. Thanks for showing us. NOW, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT AUSSIE TV HOSTS. THEY TRIED TO CLAIM LORDE; WE CALLED THEM OUT. AND IT SEEMS THEY DID WHAT ALL THE BIGGER BULLIES DO WHEN CONFRONTED ` THEY GOT PERSONAL. IT'S GONNA BE WORLD WAR III BETWEEN US AND THE AUSSIES. ALL GROAN WELL, LET'S FIRE UP, YOUNG FELLA. WHAT? ARE YOU 12 YET? LAUGHTER EH? DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL? CAN WE HAVE KYLIE? THEN ALL'S FORGIVEN. WELL, WE'LL TAKE THE ALL BLACKS AND YOU CAN HAVE KYLIE. HOW'S THAT? OBVIOUSLY EVERYONE ON THE PLANET KNOWS THAT LORDE IS A KIWI. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S A TIME FOR AUSSIES AND KIWIS TO THROW THEIR ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER AND PUT HANDS ACROSS THE DITCH AND` THEY SHOULD BE PROUD THAT WE WANNA CLAIM HER. They just called you 12. I'm just devastated, Toni. My message to Karl as the youth is nothing to be wished away. He had his 50th birthday not long ago. 50th? Goodness me. If they claim the all blacks, then we get the Australian cricket team. Will take the moral high ground and leave it there. JUST ON DAVID CUNLIFFE'S WIFE SETTING UP THIS ANONYMOUS TWITTER ACCOUNT ` CLEARLY IT WAS A CRAZY THING TO DO ` SHE'S ADMITTED THAT ` AND, YES, THERE'S AN EXPECTATION THAT POLITICIANS BE HARDENED TO CRITICISM AND THE TROLLS, BECAUSE IT GOES HAND AND HAND WITH THE JOB, UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM. BUT I CAN SEE HOW TOUGH IT MUST BE, AS THE PARTNER OF SOMEONE GETTING PUBLICLY SLAMMED, TO BITE YOUR TONGUE. I MEAN, WHO WANTS TO SEE THEIR LOVED ONE GETTING TORN TO SHREDS ON A DAILY BASIS? YOU MIGHT REMEMBER FORMER ALL BLACK REUBEN THORNE'S WIFE CALLED UP TALK BACK RADIO A WHILE BACK TO VENT HER FRUSTRATION WITH THE ALL BLACKS SELECTORS. AND EVEN GRAHAM HENRY'S WIFE, RAEWYN, WAS COMPELLED TO EMAIL MURRAY DEAKER AFTER HIS BOOK CAME OUT ON HER HUSBAND. IT'S USUALLY NOT HELPFUL, AND IN DAVID CUNLIFFE'S CASE, COULD REALLY HARM HIS CHANCES OF RE-ELECTION. BUT IT'S HUMAN NATURE TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND IT. FINALLY TONIGHT, GOOD NEWS. I'M PAUSING MY PHONEBOOK CRUSADE FOR THE TIME BEING BECAUSE I WANT TO WHINGE TO YOU TONIGHT ABOUT SMOKING. I WENT FOR A JOG/WHEEZE UP MT EDEN TODAY. IT WASN'T PRETTY. THERE WERE NO WINNERS. BUT AS I STAGGERED BACK DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE, I HAD TO NEGOTIATE A PACK OF TOURISTS ALL MILLING ABOUT, DRAWING ON CIGARETTES. I KNOW WE'VE BANNED CIGGIES IN WORKPLACES AND BARS AND THAT THE COST OF A PACK COMES OUT ABOUT THE SAME AS A MORTGAGE FOR A THREE-BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE THESE DAYS, BUT MY OTHER HOME, NEW YORK CITY, HAS GONE FURTHER. YOU CAN'T SMOKE IN CENTRAL PARK. YOU CAN'T SMOKE IN ANY PARK. THEY FIGURE, AFTER ALL, PEOPLE GO TO THE PARK FOR A BIT OF FRESH AIR. WOULD IT BE SUCH A DUMB IDEA HERE? FOR THOSE OF US WHO COUGH AND SPLUTTER QUITE ENOUGH AFTER 15 MINUTES OF MODERATE EXERCISE? I CAN'T SEE THE HARM. THAT'S SEVEN SHARP. KA KITE ANO. CAPTIONS BY JESSICA BOELL AND ASHLEE SCHOLEFIELD. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR.