BUT THEY WEREN'T REPORTED MISSING UNTIL 2013 BECAUSE FAMILY HAD THOUGHT THE PAIR WERE LIVING HAPPILY OVERSEAS. REDDY DENIES THE CHARGES. HIS DEFENCE TEAM WILL OUTLINE ITS CASE TOMORROW. WILL HINE, ONE NEWS. IN A 'FIRST OF ITS KIND' PROSECUTION HERE, A KAIAPOI MAN'S BEEN ACCUSED OF ENDANGERING LIVES BY FILMING A FOREST FIRE WITH A DRONE. THE TRIAL'S BEING SEEN AS A TEST OF NEW CIVIL AVIATION LAWS, WHICH THE ACCUSED CLAIMS ARE FAR FROM CLEAR. KIM SAVAGE REPORTS. DRAMATIC IMAGES TAKEN FROM AN AERIAL VANTAGE POINT LANDING THIS MAN IN HOT WATER. SIMON REEVE NOW ON TRIAL AT THE CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT COURT, ACCUSED OF BREACHING CIVIL AVIATION LAW. IN JANUARY LAST YEAR, HE TWICE FLEW HIS DRONE, FILMING A BLAZE AT PINES BEACH AND ANOTHER FIRE A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER. HE PASSED ON THE FOOTAGE TO MEDIA. REEVE'S ACTIONS PROMPTING THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY TO PROSECUTE, ARGUING HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN FLYING IN THE AREA WITHOUT PERMISSION, BECAUSE... THE CAA SUGGESTING HE CAUSED UNNECESSARY DANGER TO NEARBY FIREFIGHTING HELICOPTERS AND THOSE ON THE GROUND BELOW. REEVE DENIES THE CHARGES. HIS LAWYER SAYING THERE WAS NO ENDANGERMENT ` THE DRONE SHIELDED BELOW THE TREE LINE. THE COURT ALSO HEARD REEVE TRIED TO CLARIFY WHAT THE RULES ARE. THIS CASE COULD PROVE A TEST FOR HOW CIVIL AVIATION RULES APPLY TO DRONES. IF SIMON REEVE'S CONVICTED OF CAUSING UNNECESSARY ENDANGERMENT, HE COULD FACE A FINE OF UP TO $10,000 OR SPEND UP TO 12 MONTHS IN PRISON. THE JUDGE-ALONE TRIAL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR TWO MORE DAYS. KIM SAVAGE, ONE NEWS. EMBARRASSING. 'LAZY'. 'GUTLESS'. THE WARRIORS HAVE BEEN LASHED WITH LABELS AFTER THEIR 42-0 PASTING BY THE MELBOURNE STORM. SO HOW CAN THEY COME BACK FROM THE BRINK OF BECOMING THE WORST SIDE IN THE CLUB'S HISTORY? KIMBERLEE DOWNS SPOKE TO ONE OF LEAGUE'S MOST SUCCESSFUL EVER COACHES. IF ANDREW MCFADDEN HAD ANY HAIR, HE'D BE RIPPING IT OUT, AFTER THE SORT OF WARRIORS PERFORMANCE THAT WOULD INFURIATE EVEN THEIR MOST ARDENT SUPPORTERS. THEY'RE FAST BECOMING, IF THEY'RE NOT ALREADY, PROBABLY THE WORST WARRIORS SIDE IN THEIR HISTORY. GRAHAM LOWE'S CONCLUSION IS DRAWN FROM THIS SORT OF EVIDENCE. IT JUST OPENED UP IN FRONT OF HIM! MELBOURNE SCORED FIVE UNANSWERED TRIES IN THE OPENING HALF ALONE FOR A 28-0 LEAD. THAT'S EMBARRASSING FOR THE WARRIORS. DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT PUTTING THEIR BODY ON THE LINE. IT WOULD END AT 42-0, THE WARRIORS' WORST RESULT IN THREE YEARS, WITH MOST TRIES PRECEDED BY DISMAL DEFENCE. IT'S HARD TO WIN ANY FOOTBALL GAMES WHEN YOU'RE NOT PREPARED TO ROLL YOUR SLEEVES UP. YOU CAN SAY FLOWERY WORDS AFTER THE GAME AND SAY YOU'RE DISAPPOINTED AND WHATNOT, BUT AN ENVIRONMENT NEEDS TO BE CREATED WHERE AN UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE IS ALL THAT'S ACCEPTED. AND I DON'T SEE ANY SIGN OF THAT. LOWE SAYS THE WARRIORS HAVE A CULTURE PROBLEM AND AN ACCOUNTABILITY ONE; THAT A POOR ATTITUDE IS REFLECTED IN HOW THEIR LINE ALLOWS EASY METRES. BY THE TIME THE BALL'S OUT HERE, THE WARRIORS SHOULD BE UP HERE. THE WARRIORS SHOULD BE THAT FAR UP. THEY'VE MOVED THIS FAR IN DEFENCE, AND THEY WONDER WHY THEY GET FLOGGED. THE WAY THEY LINE UP IN DEFENCE ` THERE'S HOLES. THE ONLY THING THAT ARE MISSING ARE GREEN LIGHTS. 'COME THROUGH THIS WAY.' THE PLAYERS WERE BLASTED ON THE FIELD BY SIMON MANNERING AND IN THE SHEDS BY THEIR COACH. THAT STAYS BETWEEN US. YOU KNOW, I WAS PRETTY CLEAR I WASN'T HAPPY. WE'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. THOSE BLOKES LAST NIGHT ` THEY WANT TO BE HUNG, DRAWN AND QUARTERED. THEY'RE NOT WORTH FEEDING, SOME OF THOSE PLAYERS, WITH THE EFFORT. BUT THE FORMER ORIGIN COACH BELIEVES THAT LACK OF EFFORT REFLECTS A DEEPER PROBLEM FOR MCFADDEN. IF THEY'RE NOT DOING WHAT HE'S ASKING, THAT TO ME IS A LACK OF RESPECT, FOR A START. SO THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A MAJOR ISSUE GOING ON THERE, BUT I THINK IT'S WIDER THAN THAT. THEY'VE GOT A PROBLEM IN THE WOODWORK THAT NEEDS DISINFECTING. CERTAINLY PLAYER CHANGE HAS BEEN FORCED AFTER TUI LOLOHEA SUFFERED A KNEE INJURY AND MANNERING WAS FORCED OFF WITH A NASTY CUT. OTHERWISE ONLY ONE CHANGE HAS BEEN MADE FOR THE STARTING 13 TO PLAY THE DRAGONS ON SUNDAY ` A SIDE THE WARRIORS HAVE LOST TO 11 STRAIGHT TIMES. KIMBERLEE DOWNS, ONE NEWS. JUST AHEAD ` A MAJOR ESCALATION IN AMERICA'S FIGHT AGAINST ISIS; HUNDREDS OF SPECIAL FORCES DEPLOY TO SYRIA, BUT THE US INSISTS IT'S NOT A COMBAT MISSION. A NEW QUESTION'S RAISED OVER THE DEATH OF PRINCE. DID HIS RELIGION STOP HIM SEEKING PROPER MEDICAL HELP? AND IT SOUNDED LIKE A DUMB IDEA. AND IT WAS. WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS AMERICAN ADVENTURER WHO TRIED TO ROLL TO BERMUDA IN A BUBBLE? AMERICA'S DEPLOYING HUNDREDS OF SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS TO SYRIA IN A MAJOR ESCALATION OF THE GROUND WAR ON ISIS. BUT U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA INSISTS IT'S NOT A COMBAT MISSION. CHANNEL NINE'S TESSA HARDY HAS MORE. IT'S A SWIFT CHANGE OF HEART FROM THE U.S. PRESIDENT. JUST TWO DAYS AGO BARACK OBAMA SAID SENDING TROOPS TO SYRIA TO OVERTHROW PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S REGIME WOULD BE A MISTAKE, BUT NOW THE TROOPS ARE GOING. THEIR TARGET ` SO-CALLED ISLAMIC STATE TERRORISTS. JUST AS I'VE APPROVED ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR IRAQI FORCES AGAINST ISIL, I'VE DECIDED TO INCREASE U.S. SUPPORT FOR LOCAL FORCES FIGHTING ISIL IN SYRIA. UP TO 250 ADDITIONAL AMERICAN TROOPS, MOSTLY SPECIAL FORCES, WILL HEAD TO SYRIA. THAT'S THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF U.S. SOLDIERS THERE SINCE THE CIVIL WAR BEGAN. PRESIDENT OBAMA MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT WHILE IN GERMANY, WHERE HE MET EUROPEAN LEADERS TO DISCUSS SHARING MORE INTELLIGENCE. THE HUNDREDS OF NEW SOLDIERS WILL BOLSTER THE 50 ALREADY FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE, AND IT WILL BE DANGEROUS. A SMALL NUMBER OF AMERICAN SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES ARE ALREADY ON THE GROUND IN SYRIA, AND THEIR EXPERTISE HAS BEEN CRITICAL AS LOCAL FORCES HAVE DRIVEN ISIL OUT OF KEY AREAS. EVEN THOUGH THE PRESIDENT INSISTS THIS ISN'T A COMBAT MISSION ` RATHER, THE TROOPS ARE THERE TO TRAIN AND ADVISE THE LOCAL FORCES ` HE KNOWS, AS THEY DO, IF THERE IS TROUBLE, THEY WILL FIGHT THEIR WAY OUT. RIGHT NOW, THE MOST URGENT THREAT TO OUR NATIONS IS ISIL, AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE UNITED IN OUR DETERMINATION TO DESTROY IT. HE WAS A LEGEND IN LIFE, AND NOW PRINCE'S MUSIC IS DOMINATING GLOBAL CHARTS AFTER HIS DEATH. FANS ACROSS THE WORLD HAVE BOUGHT MORE THAN 650,000 ALBUMS, WITH SONG SALES TOPPING THREE MILLION. ON NZ'S ITUNES CHARTS, THREE OF HIS ALBUMS SIT IN THE TOP FIVE. HIT 'PURPLE RAIN' HOLDS THE TOP SONG SPOT. AS INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUE INTO PRINCE'S DEATH, QUESTIONS ARE BEING RAISED ABOUT HIS CHOICES IN LIFE. THE SINGER, WHO HAD HEALTH ISSUES, WAS A DEVOUT JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, AND SOME ARE WONDERING IF HIS RELIGION PLAYED A PART IN WHETHER HE GOT TREATMENT. CNN'S KYUNG LAH HAS MORE. # LET'S GO CRAZY. # LET'S GET NUTS. PRINCE, THE MEGA POP STAR KNOWN FOR THIS... # LET'S GET NUTS! # ...WAS BEST KNOWN HERE SINGING THESE RELIGIOUS SONGS. THIS IS A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS KINGDOM HALL, ST LOUIS PARK CONGREGATION ` PRINCE'S HOME CHURCH FOR THE PAST DECADE. HE WAS A BROTHER. YOU KNOW, SIMPLY A BROTHER. A BROTHER IN A LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD RELIGION. PRINCE WAS BAPTISED IN 2003 AND EMBRACED IT. THE CONGREGATION INVITED CNN INTO THIS FIRST SERVICE AFTER PRINCE'S DEATH, SHARING STORIES OF A STARKLY DIFFERENT MAN THAN THE ONE WE KNOW. HE NEVER ACTED LIKE PRINCE THE POP STAR? AT THE KINGDOM HALL? NEVER. NO. HIS DRESS WOULD BE VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT I'M WEARING, AS WELL. NOTHING. NO FLAMBOYANT. ELDER JAMES LUNDSTROM SAYS HE BEFRIENDED PRINCE 14 YEARS AGO. TELL ME ABOUT PRINCE AS A WITNESS. HE WOULD GO DOOR TO DOOR KNOCKING ON DOORS JUST LIKE ` YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH WHAT OUR MINISTRY IS? A WOMAN, PROBABLY IN HER EARLY 40S, I WOULD SAY. HE SAYS THIS NICE PRESENTATION, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, THE WOMAN SAYS, 'EXCUSE ME, BUT HAS ANYONE 'EVER TOLD YOU YOU LOOK A LOT LIKE PRINCE?' HE JUST LOOKS AT HER AND SAYS, 'IT'S BEEN SAID.' THIS CONSERVATIVE GROUP ` SOME WHO ADMIT THEY'VE NEVER HEARD OF OR DANCED TO 'LET'S GO CRAZY' ` ARE FIERCELY PROTECTIVE OF THEIR BROTHER AND THE FAITH. THEY TELL US PRINCE LOOKED HEALTHY WHEN HE ATTENDED SERVICES LAST MONTH. PRINCE, LAST SEEN TWO WEEKS AGO AT HIS ATLANTA CONCERT WALKING WITH A CANE, REPORTEDLY SUFFERED FROM HIP PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRED SURGERY. JEHOVAH'S WITNESS MEMBERS FORBIDDEN TO RECEIVE BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS SAY THAT BELIEF HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH PRINCE'S DEATH. WE'RE NOT ANTI-MEDICINE. IN FACT, WE GO OUT OF OUR WAY TO TRY TO FIND THE BEST MEDICAL CARE THAT WE CAN. THE ONLY SOLACE? THE WITNESSES BELIEVE PRINCE WILL RETURN TO THEM. WE EXPECT BROTHER NELSON TO BE RESURRECTED HERE ON EARTH, JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS. POLICE IN CALIFORNIA ARE LOOKING FOR A WOMAN WHO WAS FILMED WALKING HER DOG WHILST DRIVING HER CAR. THE WOMAN COULD BE CHARGED WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY UNDER STATE LAW. STEVE LARGE HAS MORE. THIS LATE-EDITED ITEM WILL BE CAPTIONED LIVE. IT'S A LAZY DOG WALKER AT BEST, BUT A POSSIBLE CASE OF ANIMAL CRUELTY. THIS VIDEO AND CONFRONTATION WAS SHOT OF A WOMAN DRIVING WITH HER CAR TETHERED TOT EH CAR. THE VIDEO GOT THE ATTENTION OF ANIMAL SERVICES. AN ANIMAL SERVICES INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY. THIS LADY IS DRIVING DOWN THE STREET WALKING HER DOG. WHO IS THE WOMAN BEHIND THE WHEEL? IN TONIGHT'S MOST UNSURPRISING STORY ` A MAN TRYING TO ROLL HIS WAY FROM FLORIDA TO BERMUDA IN AN INFLATABLE BUBBLE HAS NEEDED RESCUING HIS JOURNEY WAS CUT SHORT OFF THE COAST OF THE US WHEN HE BECAME DISORIENTED. COASTGUARDS WERE CALLED TO TOW HIM BACK TO LAND. HE'D BEEN WARNED BY AUTHORITIES THAT THE VENTURE WAS UNSAFE. IT'S THE SECOND FAILED ATTEMPT BY THE AQUATIC ADVENTURER. WHILE SUPER RUGBY'S HURRICANES HEAD TO SOUTH AFRICA TO FACE THE LIONS, THE PLAYERS LEFT BEHIND HAVE BEEN PUT TO WORK AT A WILDLIFE SANCTUARY. THEY'VE LENT THEIR MUSCLE POWER TO HELP WELLINGTON'S ZEALANDIA CARRY PLANKS UPHILL TO BUILD A BOARDWALK. NEHE MILNER-SKUDDER OFFERED MORAL SUPPORT AS HE RECOVERS FROM A SHOULDER INJURY. I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY BEEN UP THIS WAY BEFORE, SO IT WAS QUITE COOL, AND, YEAH, WOULD'VE LOVED TO BE HELPING THE BOYS CARRYING THE BIG, HEAVY TIMBER, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, I'M A BIT BROKEN, SO I WAS KINDA SUPERVISING AND POINTING THEM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THE PLAYERS WERE REWARDED FOR THEIR EFFORTS WITH A RARE CHANCE TO HOLD A TUATARA, WHICH MILNER-SKUDDER SAID FELT LIKE A COLD SAUSAGE. THE WINGER'S AIMING TO BE BACK PLAYING DOMESTIC RUGBY IN SEPTEMBER. IN BREAKING NEWS ` AN INQUEST IN BRITAIN HAS FOUND THAT 96 SOCCER FANS WERE KILLED IN THE 1989 HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER BECAUSE OF MISTAKES BY THE POLICE. THE VERDICT IS VINDICATION FOR BEREAVED FAMILIES WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR 27 YEARS AGAINST POLICE CLAIMS THAT MISBEHAVING SUPPORTERS CAUSED THE FATAL CRUSH. JUST AHEAD ` A DROP OF WEATHER TO GO WITH YOUR GOOD NIGHT BAILEYS. AND WE WERE GOING TO SAY THEY ARE GOING WILD FOR THE YOUNG STAR OF THE WILDERPEOPLE, BUT WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT. KIWI MOVIE 'HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE' HAS BEEN SMASHING BOX OFFICE RECORDS HERE SINCE ITS RELEASE, AND NOW IT'S ABOUT TO GO GLOBAL. BUT EVEN BEFORE IT HITS AUSTRALIA AND THE U.S., LIFE HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY FOR THE FILM'S YOUNG STAR. SEVEN SHARP'S REBECCA EDWARDS CAUGHT UP WITH JULIAN DENNISON IN HIS HOMETOWN OF LOWER HUTT. ALARM BUZZES, DOOR OPENS WOMAN: RICKY BAKER. BOY: ALISTAIR. ALISTAIR? I LIKE THAT NAME. IF YOU'VE SEEN THE MOVIE, YOU'LL PROBABLY KNOW... WE'RE AT QUEENSGATE. WHY DON'T WE JUST DO A SELFIE? SELFIES WITH THIS GUY... BACK UP, HOMIES, AND LET GO OF MY UNCLE. ...ARE KIND OF A BIG DEAL. AWESOME. THANK YOU. AWESOME. AWESOME. AWESOME. HOW MANY SELFIES DO YOU THINK YOU'VE TAKEN SINCE THE FILM WAS RELEASED? WELL OVER... WELL OVER 200. LIKE, THERE'S BEEN SO MANY SELFIES. SINCE RICKY BAKER HIT THE BIG SCREEN LAST MONTH, THIS 13-YEAR-OLD'S WORLD HAS A CHANGED A WEE BIT. MORE PEOPLE ARE NOTICING ME. THERE'S BEEN A LOT MORE, LIKE, '(WHISPERS) IT'S RICKY BAKER.' CRACKING $7M AT THE LOCAL BOX OFFICE SO FAR, 'HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE' IS RAPIDLY CREEPING UP TO THE NUMBER-ONE SPOT IN THE TOP KIWI FILMS EVER. LOVE YOU, RICKY! RICKY! RICKY! NOW THE FILM AND JULIAN ARE ABOUT TO GO GLOBAL, OPENING IN AUSTRALIA NEXT MONTH, THEN THE US IN JUNE. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THEIR REACTIONS ` HOW THEY'RE GOING TO LAUGH OR HOW THEY'RE GOING TO REACT TO SOME OF THE JOKES, WHICH WILL BE PRETTY COOL. BUT DESPITE ALL THE GROWING INTEREST IN THE SKUX LIFE OF THIS BAD EGG, THE BOY FROM NAENAE'S FEET ARE STILL FIRMLY ON THE GROUND. MY NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND COUSINS OVER THERE, THEY DON'T THINK OF ME AS FAMOUS, EH. NEEDLESS TO SAY, THOUGH, ALL OF THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING, SO I FIGURED I BETTER GET IN ON SOME OF THAT SELFIE ACTION. UM, I THINK WE'VE FINISHED. (LAUGHS) AWESOME. THANK YOU FOR THE INTERVIEW, BY THE WAY. THAT'S ME DONE. NOW TO TOMORROW'S WEATHER WITH THE FOLKSMEN. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON TONIGHT. THANKS FOR WATCHING. GOODNIGHT. CAPTIONS BY TARIQA SATHERLEY AND JESSICA BOELL.