Checkpoint for Friday 10 February 2017

5:00 PM.Watch Friday's full programme here. Video

5:07 PM.Rescuers have spent the day trying to refloat about 100 whales stranded at Farewell Spit, while about 400 others have died in the country's worst whale stranding since 1918. Video, Audio

5:09 PM.Five hundred volunteers headed to Farewell Spit to attempt to rescue 100 stranded whales. Cindy Mosey travelled from Nelson with her two children to help. She describes the scene. Video, Audio

5:13 PM.Project Jonah is co-ordinating the response to the whale rescue operation at the top of the South Island. Its general manager Daren Grover talks to John Campbell. Audio

5:16 PM.The US Appeals Court has declined to block a lower court's ruling against US President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven countries. US Correspondent Simon Marks joins Checkpoint. Video, Audio

5:25 PM.A Whangarei family has been living in a motel for more than six months, costing the government nearly $40,000, because they can't secure a private or state home. Zac Fleming reports. Read more Video, Audio

5:28 PM.Cruise ship passengers wandered around Dunedin's Port Chalmers in shock today after a gas cylinder explosion killed a crew member on board the Emerald Princess. Video, Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:38 PM.All Black Patrick Tuipulotu has been cleared by a second drug test after he failed a test in November last year. Audio

5:45 PM.Willie Jackson speaks to Mihingarangi Forbes about the response to his Labour candidacy, including from Labour MP Poto Williams, who publicly criticised the announcement. Audio

5:52 PM.An Auckland mother has reached out on a social network to ask for friends for her 12-year-old daughter with special needs. Video, Audio

5:56 PM.A controversial Auckland artwork, which resembles a state house and cost $1.5 million, will be unveiled to the public for the first time this weekend. Tom Furley reports. Video, Audio

6:07 PM.Rescuers have spent most of today trying to save as many whales as they can from a mass stranding of more than 400 whales at Farewell Spit. Video, Audio

6:09 PM.Department of Conservation's head of marine species and threats, Ian Angus, is co-ordinating a team taking samples of the whales to find out why so many of them have died. Video, Audio