Morning Report for Monday 10 April 2017

6:00 AM.Some flood-affected Edgecumbe residents allowed to return home; mayor defends council as Edgecumbe residents vent frustration; kuia fighting back against meth in Hawke's Bay; three teams cut from… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:08 AM.While a small group of Edgecumbe residents will return to their homes today, plenty more have no idea when they will be allowed to return. Frustrated resident Ricky Pratt talked to our reporter Tom… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.Kuia in Hawke's Bay are holding a hui at a Matahiwi Marae today to discuss the problem of "P" in the region. It follows their first hui last month which highlighted the extent of the drug problems… Read more Audio

6:18 AM."There's simply no funding mechanism for anything other than roads, that's the stumbling block." Greater Auckland's Patrick Reynolds, talks to our Auckland Correspondent Todd Niall about their… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:38 AM.Floodwaters in the rural areas around Edgecumbe are draining away, but many farms look more like lakes, with dozens of paddocks still completely under water. Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Two strong earthquakes struck at the bottom of the North Island within about half-an-hour of each other last night. Audio

6:44 AM.Two South African teams and one Australian team will be cut from the Super Rugby competition. Audio

6:50 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:11 AM.Yesterday about 300 people were given 15 minutes to visit their properties and collect essentials, but the majority of the 1,600 residents of Edgecumbe remain displaced since the Rangitaiki River… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Our reporter Sarah Robson is outside the cordon. She's been in Edgecumbe over the weekend and has all the latest. Audio

7:18 AM.Whakatane Mayor Tony Bonne will be down at the cordon this morning. "People come first and it's all about people. Let's try to get to them and get them back into their homes." Audio

7:41 AM.The US President Donald Trump has won some rare positive media coverage for his missile strike on a Syrian Government airbase last Friday. Comments by his aides suggesting President Trump now wants… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Labour's deputy leader, Jacinda Adern renews calls for inquiry into abuse and neglect in state institutions. Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The Economics blogger and former Reserve bank economist Michael Reddell, says the responsibility for the Official Cash Rate should not sit on the shoulders of just one person - at the moment it's the… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:10 AM.Reporter Tom Furley say sewerage is a major concern for the floodhit region of Edgecumbe. Audio

8:13 AM.We talk to the Bay of Plenty Regional Council Duty Flood Manager, Pete Blackwood. He says they're trying hard to get the water out of Edgecumbe - up to 100 pumps are likely to come to the town as they… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.Primary school principals throughout the country say they are struggling to cope with the number of violent children in classrooms. Audio

8:21 AM.Residents of West Auckland's Oratia say their suburb is the wrong choice for a new water treatment plant. Audio

8:23 AM.Sir Douglas Myers, millionaire beer baron, philanthropist and business advocate died over the weekend. RNZ's Tim Graham talks to contmeporaries of the late business leader about his life. Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:35 AM.Tropical Cyclone Cook is intensifying as it heads toward Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Audio

8:40 AM."It's a big blow," sys the South African rugby writer, Ken Borland. He says people had been hoping that only one team would be cut. Audio

8:45 AM.The first workers to use the government's new pay equity mediation service to argue they deserve more money are having their case heard today. Our reporter Eric Frykberg is at the union that… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Syria expert James Paul says Donald Trump's missile strike against Bashir al Assad's airforce is not particularly surprising given the United States' increasingly belligerent stance toward the Syrian… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.The Maori Affairs Select Committee is currently hearing submissions on its inquiry into how the dead are handled. MPs have heard from some whanau that police and health professions are still failing… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Dozens of iwi members, Department of Conservation staff and volunteers were on Mt Taranaki yesterday when the toutouwai or robin, which was last seen in Egmont National Park in 1905, was reintroduced… Read more Audio