IT'S MIDDAY, MONDAY THE 5TH OF SEPTEMBER. THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS AND SCHOOL STAFF JOIN FORCES AS THE BIGGEST MEETING EVER UNDERTAKEN BY THEIR UNIONS GETS STARTED. TROPICAL STORM HERMINE STARTS TO GATHER MORE STRENGTH, THREATENING THE NORTH-EAST OF THE US WITH DANGEROUS COASTAL SURGES. AND AUSTRALASIA'S 60 MILLION DOLLAR SCIENTOLOGY HEADQUARTERS OPENS ITS DOORS IN SYDNEY, BUT WHERE ARE ITS STAR MEMBERS? DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF MIDDAY, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS ARE ABOUT TO MEET AT THE AUCKLAND TOWN HALL TO DISCUSS THE GOVERNMENT'S LATEST FUNDING PROPOSAL. OUR TWO BIGGEST TEACHER UNIONS ARE AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL 'BULK FUNDING' DELIVERED TO SCHOOLS ON A PER-STUDENT BASIS, WHICH THEY SAY WILL RESULT IN FEWER TEACHERS AND LARGER CLASS SIZES. THE MEETINGS ARE THE LARGEST EVER UNDERTAKEN BY THE UNIONS, INVOLVING PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS AND SUPPORT STAFF. A SOLO MUM WHO FEARS FOR HER LIFE AND THAT OF HER FIVE CHILDREN HAS TOLD MPS OF HER STRUGGLE TO FIND SOMEWHERE TO LIVE. OPPOSITION MPS ARE HEARING SUBMISSIONS AT PARLIAMENT ON THE FINAL DAY OF THEIR INQUIRY INTO HOMELESSNESS. SARAH, WHO DOESN'T WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED, SAYS SHE'S LIVED WITH HER FIVE KIDS IN ONE BEDROOM, IN A CAR, AND IN A GARAGE AFTER FLEEING HER VIOLENT PARTNER. CASE MANAGERS WHO HAVE TREATED ME LESS THAN HUMAN, WHO HAVE SLAPPED THE HEAD OFF MY HEAD, REFUSED TO GET ON THE WAIT LIST FOR HNZ UNTIL RECENTLY. OTHERS SAY THE HOMELESS PROBLEM HAS GROWN IN WELLINGTON OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS. THE DEFENCE HAS CALLED ITS FIRST WITNESSES IN THE GEORGE TAIAROA MURDER TRIAL IN ROTORUA. THERE'S BEEN MORE TESTIMONY THIS MORNING ABOUT A JEEP CHEROKEE DRIVING NEAR THE SCENE OF THE 2014 KILLING. QUINTON WINDERS IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING THE ROAD WORKER AT A ONE-WAY BRIDGE NEAR ATIAMURI. THE DEFENCE PLANS TO CALL 10 WITNESSES. A MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING AN ARMED OFFENDERS CALL-OUT IN NEW PLYMOUTH THIS MORNING. POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS JUST AFTER 6 FOLLOWING REPORTS OF A DOMESTIC DISPUTE. CORDONS ON CARRINGTON STREET IN UPPER VOGELTOWN HAVE SINCE BEEN LIFTED. STILL NO WORD IF PAHIATUA RESIDENTS CAN STOP BOILING THEIR WATER TOMORROW. OFFICIALS ARE STILL WAITING ON TODAY'S TEST RESULTS TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY TRACE OF E COLI IN THE TOWN SUPPLY. IF THE TEST IS CLEAR TODAY AND TOMORROW, THE TARARUA DISTRICT COUNCIL COULD LIFT THE BOIL WATER NOTICE. THE COUNCIL PUT THE NOTICE IN PLACE AND CHLORINATED THE SUPPLY AFTER E COLI WAS DETECTED LAST WEEK. HERITAGE GROUPS HAVE LOST THEIR FIGHT TO SAVE THE ANIWANIWA VISITOR CENTRE AT TE UREWERA, AS THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BEGINS DISMANTLING IT THIS WEEK. THE 41-YEAR-OLD BUILDING SUFFERED FROM WEATHER TIGHTNESS AND STABILITY ISSUES AND WAS CONDEMNED BY THE COUNCIL AND CLOSED IN 2008. DOC SAYS THE COST TO BRING IT UP TO STANDARD WOULD BE $3M. THE TIMBER FROM ANIWANIWA IS SET TO BE USED IN THE NEW LAKESIDE VISITOR CENTRE. STORM HERMINE IS REGAINING POWER AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE US, THREATENING THE NORTH-EAST WITH DANGEROUS COASTAL SURGES. IT'S ALREADY CARVED A PATH OF DESTRUCTION ACROSS THE SOUTH-EAST SINCE IT MADE LANDFALL OVER THE WEEKEND, KILLING TWO PEOPLE. THE ABC'S GINGER ZEE HAS MORE. BIG BREAKERS TAKING A BITE OUT OF NEW JERSEY BEACHES, ERODING THE SHORELINE IN HOAGIE. IN OCEAN CITY, LARGE WAVES, DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS AND BLUSTERY WINDS BLUSTERING BEACHGOERS' LABOUR DAY WEEKEND. ROUGH WATERS ROCKING PASSENGERS ABOARD THE ROYAL CARIBBEAN'S 'ANTHEM OF THE SEAS', BOUND FOR BERMUDA FROM NEW JERSEY. EATING IN A RESTAURANT, DISHES GOING ALL OVER THE PLACE. FURTHER SOUTH IN PARTS OF POQUOSON, VIRGINIA, NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE UNDER WATER. YOU'VE GOTTA MAKE THE BEST OF THE SITUATION. WE'VE DEALT WITH IT OUR WHOLE LIVES. WE JUST DON'T TAKE OUR CARS OUT IN IT. WOMAN: OH! HERMINE FIRST MADE LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY-ONE HURRICANE EARLY FRIDAY; IT'S 80MPH WINDS BATTERED THE GULF COAST, TOSSING TREES. SMASH! THE GUSTING WINDS EXPLODING AND IGNITING POWER LINES,... CRACK! ...LEAVING THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER. MORE THAN 60,000 IN FLORIDA ARE STILL WITHOUT SERVICE TONIGHT. AND CLAIMING ONE LIFE. FEROCIOUS. ABSOLUTELY FEROCIOUS. PASCO COUNTY JUST NORTH OF TAMPA STILL UNDER SIEGE WITH FLOODWATERS AFTER MORE RAIN FROM A DIFFERENT SYSTEM FELL ON THE ALREADY SATURATED LAND. THE GOVERNOR URGING PEOPLE TO EVACUATE THEIR HOMES. AND HERMINE WASN'T DONE YET, MARCHING NORTH, HITTING GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS WITH TROPICAL-STORM STRENGTH WINDS ` GUSTS TOPPLING THIS TRACTOR AND TRAILER IN COLUMBIA, NORTH CAROLINA, KILLING THE DRIVER. AND IN HATTERAS, THE STORM SPAWNING A TORNADO, DUMPING THESE TRAILERS INTO A CREEK AND INJURING FOUR. A SARCASTIC TWEET AIMED AT CHINA POSTED ON THE US DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY'S TWITTER ACCOUNT HAS FUELLED A ROW AT THE G20 SUMMIT. THE TWEET, WHICH WAS QUICKLY DELETED, READ... 'CLASSY AS ALWAYS, CHINA' AFTER THE US PRESIDENT DIDN'T GET THE RED CARPET TREATMENT WHEN HE ARRIVED IN THE COUNTRY. THERE WAS ALSO A ROW ON THE TARMAC, WHEN A CHINESE OFFICIAL SHOUTED 'THIS IS OUR COUNTRY!' AS REPORTERS AND US OFFICIALS TRIED TO BYPASS A CORDON. PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS CALLED ON THE MEDIA TO NOT 'OVERCRANK' THE SITUATION, INSISTING THE QUARREL HAD NO BEARING ON CHINA-US RELATIONS. TO THE RACE FOR THE US PRESIDENCY, AND DONALD TRUMP'S TRYING A NEW TACTIC, PITCHING TO BLACK VOTERS ON THEIR TURF. MEANWHILE, HILLARY CLINTON'S LOW PROFILE BEGINS TO ATTRACT ATTENTION. HERE'S THE ABC'S MARY BRUCE. DONALD TRUMP MARKING A MAJOR FIRST,... I AM HERE TO LISTEN TO YOU. ...SWAYING ALONG AT A DETROIT CHURCH SERVICE SATURDAY AS HE MADE THAT RARE DIRECT APPEAL TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY HAS SUFFERED FROM DISCRIMINATION, AND THAT THERE ARE MANY WRONGS THAT MUST STILL BE MADE RIGHT. TRUMP DEBUTING A MORE SUBDUED TONE AFTER HIS FIERY APPEALS IN FRONT OF NEARLY ALL-WHITE CROWDS. YOU'RE LIVING IN POVERTY, YOUR SCHOOLS ARE NO GOOD, YOU HAVE NO JOBS. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? TRUMP'S SUPPORTER BEN CARSON SHOWING HIM AROUND HIS OLD DETROIT NEIGHBOURHOOD. WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, IT WAS A VERY PROSPEROUS CITY. CARSON'S MEMORIES OF THE OLD DAYS INTERRUPTED BY THIS BIZARRE MOMENT. MY LUGGAGE. UM, HOLD ON. OK. MEANWHILE, TRUMP'S MOST VOCAL AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTER, PASTOR MARK BURNS, IS ADMITTING HE OVERSTATED HIS RESUME, AFTER THIS CONTENTIOUS INTERVIEW. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU COMING. AS FOR HILLARY CLINTON, SHE'S BEEN NOTICEABLY QUIET ON THE TRAIL, FUNDRAISING WITH BIG DONORS AND CELEBRITIES INSTEAD AND STILL AVOIDING THE PRESS. ALL THE TIME, AS HILLARY'S OUT ON THE TRAIL, SHE'S TALKING TO THE PRESS, HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS. I'M DOING THE SAME. THE LABOUR DAY TO ELECTION DAY STRETCH ` IT'S GOING TO RAMP UP EVEN MORE. NOW, CLINTON WILL BE BACK OUT ON THE TRAIL HERE IN OHIO TOMORROW. BUT STILL NO WORD ON WHEN SHE'LL HOLD HER NEXT FULL-BLOWN PRESS CONFERENCE. IT'S NOW BEEN 274 DAYS SINCE HER LAST ONE. ANGELA MERKEL'S PARTY HAS SUFFERED A BLOW AT THE POLLS, COMING IN THIRD IN REGIONAL ELECTIONS BEHIND AN ANTI-IMMIGRANT AND ANTI-ISLAM PARTY. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S RULING PARTY WAS SUPPORTED BY JUST 19% OF THOSE WHO VOTED, BEHIND THE FAR-RIGHT AFD AND A CENTRE-LEFT PARTY WHICH CAME IN FIRST. THE VOTE WAS SEEN AS A KEY TEST BEFORE GERMANY'S NATIONAL ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR. SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES HAVE RECAPTURED PARTS OF ALEPPO WHICH WERE LOST TO REBELS LAST MONTH, PLACING REBEL-HELD DISTRICTS ONCE AGAIN UNDER SIEGE. TROOPS HAVE RECAPTURED TWO MILITARY ACADEMY SITES IN THE SOUTH AND SEVERED A RECENTLY ESTABLISHED REBEL SUPPLY LINE. THE GOVERNMENT OFFENSIVE WAS BACKED BY SYRIAN AND RUSSIAN AIR STRIKES. AROUND A QUARTER OF A MILLION CIVILIANS ARE LIVING IN THE CITY'S REBEL-HELD AREAS. NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH, MOTHER TERESA, KNOWN FOR DECADES OF WORK AMID THE POOR AND NEEDY IN THE SLUMS OF CALCUTTA, HAS BEEN DECLARED A SAINT. HER CANONISATION CEREMONY WAS HELD IN ROME. THE BBC'S CAROLINE WYATT REPORTS. MOTHER TERESA'S FACE BEAMED OUT OVER ST PETER'S SQUARE, WHERE THE FAITHFUL GATHERED FROM EARLY THIS MORNING. AMONG THEM, MANY NUNS FROM THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY, THE ORDER SHE FOUNDED IN 1950 WITH JUST 12 FOLLOWERS. POPE FRANCIS PRAISED THE EXAMPLE SET BY MOTHER TERESA TO ALL CHRISTIANS, AS HE DECLARED THE BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA A SAINT TO BE VENERATED BY THE WHOLE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE JOY IS STILL VIVID FOR MONICA BESRA, THE WOMAN FROM WEST BENGAL WHO SET MOTHER TERESA ON THE PATH TO SAINTHOOD. SUFFERING FROM A STOMACH TUMOUR, SHE PRAYED TO MOTHER TERESA TO INTERCEDE ON HER BEHALF. TRANSLATOR: IT WAS THE ANNIVERSARY OF MOTHER TERESA'S DEATH, AND THE MEDICINE HADN'T WORKED, BUT I HAD FAITH INSIDE. I PRAYED, AND OVERNIGHT I WAS CURED. EVEN 19 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH, ST TERESA REMAINS AN INSTANTLY RECOGNISABLE FIGURE FOR HER LIFE'S WORK IN THE SLUMS OF CALCUTTA, WHERE SHE SET UP HER HOSPICE FOR THE DYING. IT'S WORK THAT CONTINUES TO INSPIRE MANY HERE TODAY. SHE WAS A SAINT BEFORE THIS HUMAN STAMP WAS GIVEN TO HER. ST TERESA'S CRITICS SAY HER HOSPICES WERE UNHYGIENIC AND THAT SHE TOOK MONEY FROM DICTATORS FOR HER CHARITY. HER SUPPORTERS SUGGEST THOSE CRITICS SHOULD SHOW THE SAME LOVE AND MERCY IN THEIR OWN LIVES AS THEY SAY ST TERESA DID IN HERS. FOLLOWING THE SERVICE THE POPE GAVE 1500 HOMELESS PEOPLE A PIZZA LUNCH AT THE VATICAN. MOST OF THE HOMELESS LIVE IN SHELTERS RUN BY A MOTHER TERESA CHARITY. THEY WERE BROUGHT TO THE VATICAN BY BUS FROM ACROSS ITALY TO TAKE PART IN THE CANONISATION MASS, WHERE THEY WERE GIVEN SEATS OF HONOUR. A MODEL OF THE 17TH CENTURY LONDON SKYLINE HAS BEEN BURNT TO ASHES TO MARK THE 350TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. THE FIRE BEGAN AT A BAKERY IN PUDDING LANE ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1666. FIVE DAYS LATER, 80% OF THE CITY WAS BURNT, BUT LESS THAN 10 PEOPLE DIED IN THE FIRE. THE 120M-LONG SCULPTURE WAS DESIGNED BY AMERICAN BURN ARTIST DAVID BEST. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` HE WAS ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS FOR FIVE DAYS AFTER TAKING HIS WIFE AND KIDS ON A BIZARRE ROAD TRIP FUELLED BY PARANOIA. NEW DETAILS ON THE MOMENT MARK TROMP WAS FOUND. BILLED AS SCIENTOLOGY'S AUSTRALASIAN HEADQUARTERS, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW $60M CHURCH IN SYDNEY. AND IN SPORT THERE'S BEEN A SHOCK UPSET AT THE US TENNIS OPEN, WHERE A TWO-TIME WINNER HAS BEEN DUMPED OUT IN A THRILLER. THERE ARE STILL MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN MARK TROMP'S DISAPPEARANCE, BUT HIS CHILDREN ARE JUST RELIEVED TO HAVE HIM BACK. THE 51-YEAR-OLD IS BEING CARED FOR BY RELATIVES FOLLOWING HIS BIZARRE VANISHING ACT AFTER A ROAD TRIP. CHANNEL NINE'S KIERAN JONES REPORTS. MARK TROMP FINALLY SAFE AFTER FIVE DAYS IN THE WILDERNESS. HIS DISCOVERY NEAR WANGARATTA PROVED TO BE THE PERFECT FATHER'S DAY NEWS FOR HIS ANXIOUS CHILDREN. I WAS JUMPING FOR JOY JUST TO KNOW MY DAD'S OK, AND JUST WANNA THANK EVERYONE. IT'S BEEN A HUGE RELIEF. THESE LAST FEW DAYS HAVE, UH` NEVER` HOPE THEY NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. YEAH. MARK TROMP WENT MISSING ON TUESDAY. BOTH HE AND HIS WIFE WERE CONVINCED THEY WERE BEING FOLLOWED AND QUICKLY FLED THEIR SILVAN HOME EAST OF MELBOURNE. THE PARANOIA SPREAD TO THEIR ADULT CHILDREN, AND AFTER DRIVING ALL THE WAY TO CENTRAL WESTERN NEW SOUTH WALES, THE FAMILY SCATTERED, WITH MARK ENDING UP ALONE AND ON THE RUN. INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL NO CLOSER TO FINDING OUT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. IT IS VERY CONFUSING. I STILL FEEL CONFUSED. IT'S... I THINK OUR STATE OF MIND WASN'T IN THE BEST PLACE. ARMED WITH ONLY JEANS AND A LIGHT JACKET, MARK ESCAPED THE ORDEAL WITH MINOR DEHYDRATION. HE LEFT WANGARATTA POLICE STATION LATE LAST NIGHT. THIS IS WHERE A DISHEVELLED MARK TROMP WAS FINALLY SPOTTED BY LOCALS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF WANGARATTA AS HE WAS FRANTICALLY RUNNING TOWARDS THE AIRPORT. THERE WAS A FELLA RUNNING OUT TOWARDS US JUST ALL IN BLACK. JUST LOOKED A BIT STRANGE, LIKE HE WAS WORRIED OR JUST, YEAH` HE WAS RUNNING FROM SOMETHING. MARK WILL REMAIN WITH HIS BROTHER IN WANGARATTA. HIS WIFE, JACOBA, AND THEIR DAUGHTER RIANA ARE STILL IN HOSPITAL, WITH DOCTORS ASSESSING THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. THOUSANDS HAVE FLOCKED TO THE OPENING OF THE NEW MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR SCIENTOLOGY CHURCH IN SYDNEY WITH THE HOPES OF SEEING STARS LIKE TOM CRUISE AND JOHN TRAVOLTA. THE NEW COMPLEX HAS BEEN DUBBED THE CHURCH'S NEW AUSTRALASIAN HEADQUARTERS. CHANNEL NINE'S SIMON BOUDA HAS MORE. IT'S A CHURCH SHROUDED IN SECRECY. NOW IT'S A CHURCH SHROUDED IN SYDNEY'S LOWER NORTH SHORE. THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY HAS OPENED ITS AUSTRALASIAN BASE IN CHATSWOOD. WHILE THE RESTORATION OF ITS CBD CHURCH TWO YEARS AGO BROUGHT MUCH FANFARE, TODAY WAS MORE FOR FAMILIES. ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO TODAY? STILL, THOUSANDS FLOCKED TO THE $57M COMPLEX IN GREVILLE ST. SOME RISKING THEIR LIVES IN THEIR FERVOUR. CHEERING RUMOURS SWIRLED THAT SCIENTOLOGY'S BIGGEST NAMES, TOM CRUISE AND JOHN TRAVOLTA, WOULD EVEN PUT IN AN APPEARANCE. ARE WE EXPECTING`? AMERICAN ACCENT: OH, I DON'T KNOW. I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR SIX MONTHS. HIS ACCENT MAY HAVE BEEN A HINT. BUT IN THE END, WE SAW NO SIGN OF THEM. THERE WAS, THOUGH, NO SHORTAGE OF SECURITY TO KEEP THE MEDIA OUT. ONE THING IS CERTAIN ` THIS NEW HEADQUARTERS IN THE HEART OF SUBURBIA ATTRACTED FOLLOWERS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. I THINK IT'S JUST GOING TO BE FANTASTIC. SCIENTOLOGY'S BIGGEST AUSSIE NAME, KATE CEBERANO, GAVE A ROUSING RENDITION OF 'WALTZING MATILDA'. # WALTZING MATILDA... # SOME NEIGHBOURS, THOUGH, ARE NONE TOO HAPPY. MANY WE SPOKE TO WERE TOO SCARED TO GO ON CAMERA. OTHERS, THOUGH, WERE A LITTLE MORE WELCOMING. UNTIL WE, SORT OF, MEET THEM AND REALLY GREET THEM, THEN, YOU KNOW. SOME TOLD OF HEARING ODD CHANTS AT ODD HOURS. I'M SURE THEY'LL DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO MAKE SURE THE NEIGHBOURS ARE HAPPY AND THEY DON'T CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS. ALL AGREE THAT THIS COMPLEX HAS CHANGED THE FACE OF THEIR SUBURB. A NEW STUDY REVEALS MANY NZERS UNDERESTIMATE HOW MUCH FILLING THE SHOPPING TROLLEY WILL COST IN OUR RETIREMENT. THE RESEARCH, CARRIED OUT FOR THIS YEAR'S MONEY WEEK, LOOKS AT HOW EVERYDAY ITEMS ADD UP OVER THE 30 YEARS A PERSON SPENDS IN RETIREMENT. ONLY 11% GUESSED CORRECTLY, AT $250,000-$300,000. ARMED WITH THE INFORMATION, AROUND HALF SAID THEY'D INCREASE THEIR KIWISAVER CONTRIBUTIONS, WHILE 1% SAID THEY'D STOCK UP ON GROCERIES. EXPERTS HAVE DECLARED PANDAS ARE NO LONGER ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE STILL CONSIDERED 'AT RISK'. THE INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE ANNOUNCED THE GIANT PANDAS' STATUS HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED TO VULNERABLE, FOLLOWING A 17% POPULATION INCREASE OVER THE LAST DECADE THANKS TO CONSERVATION PROGRAMMES. HOWEVER, THE REPORT SAYS DESTRUCTION OF NATURAL HABITATS ARE A THREAT TO THE SPECIES' SURVIVAL IN THE WILD. IN SPORT ` HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE AT THE US TENNIS OPEN, WHERE FOURTH SEED AND TWO-TIME WINNER RAFAEL NADAL HAS BEEN DUMPED OUT IN THE FOURTH ROUND. NADAL WAS PUSHED TO FIVE SETS BY FRENCHMAN LUCAS POUILLE (22), WHO LOOKED IN CONTROL IN HIS THIRD CONSECUTIVE FIVE-SET MATCH. NADAL HAS 14 GRAND SLAM TITLES BUT COULDN'T MAKE THEM COUNT IN A THRILLING TIE-BREAKER, FALLING 8-6 IN JUST OVER FOUR HOURS. BALLS THWACK, PLAYERS GRUNT CROWD ROARS VIVA LA FRANCE! INSIDE ARTHUR ASHE STADIUM. LUCAS POUILLE HAS DONE THE UNTHINKABLE, TAKING OUT HIS FIRST EVER TOP-FIVE OPPONENT. POUILLE'S UPSET WIN MARKED THE FIRST TIME THREE FRENCHMEN MADE THE QUARTERFINALS AT THE SAME GRAND SLAM TOURNAMENT. HE'LL NOW FACE COMPATRIOT GAEL MONFILS IN THE LAST EIGHT, WHILE JO WILFRED TSONGA ADVANCED EARLIER TODAY. KIWI INDYCAR CHAMPION SCOTT DIXON HAS ROARED TO HIS 40TH RACE WIN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK TODAY. AFTER SETTING A NEW LAP RECORD IN QUALIFYING, DIXON FINISHED 16 SECONDS FASTER THAN THE COMPETITION FOR HIS FOURTH WIN AT WATKINS GLEN IN SEVEN ATTEMPTS. IT'S BEEN ALMOST A SWEEP THIS WEEKEND, AND YOU DON'T GET THESE TOO OFTEN, ESPECIALLY WITH THE COMPETITION LEVEL THAT WE HAVE IN THE VERIZON INDYCAR SERIES, AND I WILL DEFINITELY REMEMBER THIS ONE. BUT THE WIN WASN'T ENOUGH TO GIVE DIXON A MATHEMATICAL CHANCE OF RETAINING HIS INDYCAR SERIES TITLE WITH TWO RACES REMAINING. TO FORMULA ONE RACING, AND THE ITALIAN GRAND PRIX, WHERE BRITISH STAR LEWIS HAMILTON IS RUING A POOR START FROM POLE POSITION THAT SAW HIM DROP TO SIXTH ON THE FIRST CORNER. HAMILTON FOUGHT BACK TO FINISH SECOND BEHIND MERCEDES TEAMMATE NICO ROSBERG, WHO THEN LED THE MONZA CROWD IN A SINGALONG. (SPEAKS ITALIAN) CROWD CHEERS ALL SING TO THE TUNE OF 'SEVEN NATION ARMY' ROSBERG HAS CUT HAMILTON'S CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD TO TWO POINTS WITH SEVEN RACES TO GO. IT'S THE SAME OLD STORY FOR THE WARRIORS. THEY'VE SUFFERED ANOTHER EMBARRASSING END TO THE SEASON AFTER BEING THRASHED 40-18 BY PARRAMATTA AT MT SMART LAST NIGHT. CLUMSY MISTAKES INVITED PARRAMATTA TO SCORE SEVEN TRIES, WITH CAPTAIN RYAN HOFFMAN ADMITTING THE CLUB IS STRUGGLING TO FIND SOLUTIONS. (STAMMERS) EVERYTHING'S THERE, IT'S JUST UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL TO TURN UP... AND HOW THAT HAPPENS, I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE. PLAYERS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN 'MAD MONDAY' CELEBRATIONS IN AUCKLAND TODAY, BUT THEY WON'T WANT TO GET TOO CARRIED AWAY, WITH THE NRL WARNING PLAYERS TO EXPECT RANDOM DRUG TESTS IN COMING WEEKS. KIWI WORLD NUMBER ONE LYDIA KO HAS FINISHED TWO SHOTS OFF THE PACE AT THE LPGA CLASSIC IN CANADA DESPITE A MID-ROUND SURGE. KO MOVED WITHIN A SHOT OF THE LEAD AFTER GOING FIVE UNDER THROUGH FIVE HOLES IN THE FINAL ROUND. IT WAS TOPPED OFF BY THIS EAGLE ON THE PAR-FIVE 12TH. WATCH OUT FOR LYDIA KO, WHO COULD COME FROM BEHIND HERE AND SURPRISE EVERYONE ON SUNDAY. BUT SHE COULDN'T IMPROVE HER CARD ON THE NEXT SIX HOLES, EVENTUALLY FINISHING WITH A FOUR-UNDER PAR 68 TO BE 14 UNDER FOR THE EVENT, TIED FOR FIFTH. GERMANY'S CAROLINE MASSON WITH HER FIRST LPGA WIN. AUSTRALIA HAVE CLAIMED THE INAUGURAL QUAD NETBALL SERIES TROPHY, BEATING THE SILVER FERNS IN A HEATED DECIDER IN MELBOURNE LAST NIGHT. NZ LAUNCHED A SPIRITED FIGHTBACK TO TAKE THE LEAD WITH FIVE MINUTES TO GO, BUT IT ONLY FIRED UP THE WORLD CHAMPION AUSSIES, WHO STORMED HOME TO WIN 60-55. NZ EQUESTRIAN STAR ANDREW NICHOLSON HAS FINISHED A CLOSE SECOND AT THE BURGHLEY HORSE TRIALS IN ENGLAND THIS MORNING. NICHOLSON IS A FIVE-TIME WINNER OF THE EVENT BUT WAS EDGED BY AUSTRALIAN CHRISTOPHER BURTON AFTER INCURRING SIX PENALTY POINTS. YEAH, I'M NOT AS STRONG IN MY HANDS AS I USED TO BE, OR MY LEGS, AND A COUPLE OF TIMES I FELT LIKE I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ENOUGH CONTACT TO DO THE TURNINGS, BUT HE JUST DOES IT HIMSELF. IT WAS STILL AN IMPRESSIVE EVENT FOR NZ, WITH JONELLE PRICE FINISHING THIRD, ONE PLACE AHEAD OF HUSBAND TIM. SIR MARK TODD FINISHED NINTH. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` I'LL BE BACK WITH THE AFTERNOON WEATHER. AND A CREATURE OF THE SEA THAT MIGHT LEAVE YOU SLIGHTLY QUEASY. YOUR WEATHER'S NEXT, BUT FIRST LET'S LOOK AT OUR TOP STORIES ` TEACHER UNIONS WILL MEET AT AUCKLAND'S TOWN HALL SHORTLY TO DISCUSS THE GOVERNMENT'S LATEST BULK-FUNDING PROPOSAL, WHICH THEY SAY WILL RESULT IN FEWER TEACHERS AND LARGER CLASS SIZES. OFFICIALS IN PAHIATUA ARE STILL WAITING ON TODAY'S TEST RESULTS TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY TRACE OF E COLI IN THE TOWN SUPPLY. IF THE TEST IS CLEAR TODAY AND TOMORROW, THE TARARUA DISTRICT COUNCIL COULD LIFT THE BOIL WATER NOTICE. NOW TO THE WEATHER ` STRONG NORTH-WESTERLY WINDS ARE BLASTING THE LOWER NORTH ISLAND, AND IT'S PRETTY WET ON THE SOUTH ISLAND'S WEST COAST. OTHERWISE, THINGS ARE IMPROVING. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ FINALLY AT MIDDAY ` IF YOU'RE JUST SITTING DOWN TO HAVE YOUR LUNCH, IT'S PROBABLY BEST TO LOOK AWAY. A GIANT SLUG HAS BEEN FOUND BY A TV CREW FILMING FOR THE DISCOVERY NETWORK IN CALIFORNIA. ALSO KNOWN AS A 'BLACK SEA HARE', THE SLIMY CREATURE MEASURED IN AT 60CM. THIS ONE WAS RELATIVELY SMALL, THOUGH. THE SLUGS CAN GROW UP TO 90CM AND WEIGH IN AT A WHOPPING 13KG. THANKS FOR JOINING US. THE ONE NEWS HOUR WILL BE HERE AT 6. GOOD AFTERNOON. CAPTIONS BY JUNE YEOW AND JESSICA BOELL. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT ABLE 2016