Morning Report for Friday 6 November 2020

6:15 AM.The state of Nevada has released its latest results, with Biden increasing his lead to about 12,000, up from 7500 overnight.

Correspondent from KKOH Radio Neil Fannin speaks to Susie Ferguson from… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.A champion of reo revitalisation has been recognised by the Royal Society for her work in helping more New Zealanders learn the Māori language.

Last night Professor Rawinia Higgins won the Pou Aronui… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:45 AM.The final make up of the 53rd Parliament will be revealed this afternoon, when the results of the special votes are announced at 2pm.

It will be a nervous wait for some, including Māori Party MP… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.In England, a new four week lockdown has begun with people told to stay at home and non essential shops, pubs and gyms ordered to close.

There are strict new rules on mixing with other households… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.In preliminary election results, the cannabis referendum failed to get across the line.

On Friday at 2pm we'll find out whether it might be successful after all now that 500,000 special votes have… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The race for president is razor-thin as voter counts in Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania are still too close to call.

The result could come down to a few thousand votes in one of these key swing… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Donald Trump is leading Georgia by a razor-thin margin with 99 percent of votes counted.

There's a 0.3 percent difference and with 99 percent of votes counted the Associated Press has still not… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.The race in Pennsylvania is getting closer and Donald Trump's lead over Joe Biden is narrowing.

According to the Associated Press Trump holds 50.4 percent of the vote and Biden has 48.4.

It's… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.News outlets have started to call Arizona for Joe Biden, after he picked up 50.5 percent of the vote with 88 percent counted.

Pro-Trump protesters have gathered around the Maricopa County vote… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The National Party's electoral fortunes could go from bad to worse when the results from the special votes are revealed today.

There's almost 500,000 of them, around 17 percent of all votes cast.

… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump by a little under 1 percent in Nevada, with around 12,000 votes separating the candidates.

Joe Shoenmann is the News Director for KNPR and speaks to Corin Dann from… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.A senior police officer says he may have been wrong not to charge the driver of a bus that crashed on Mount Ruapehu killing an 11-year-old girl. 

Hannah Francis died in July 2018 when the shuttle bus… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.The All Blacks have named four debutants to take on the Wallabies in tomorrow night's fourth Bledisloe Cup test in Brisbane, and while it will be a special occasion for all of them, for one player, it… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Three teenage girls are lucky to be alive after being caught in a rip at a Wellington beach.

The girls aged 12 and 13 went swimming in their clothes at Titahi Bay and were quickly swept out to sea… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Students sitting online NCEA exams could soon be policed with software that monitors their movements and detects cheating.

The Qualifications Authority is looking at systems using artificial… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Kanaloa Pasifika has laid a formal complaint with New Zealand Rugby after missing out on a place in the new look Super Rugby competition. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Americans are being urged to be patient while the remaining votes are counted across several states which are still too tight to declare a victor.

The Trump team's legal action has been rebuffed by… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.At two o'clock today Chlöe Swarbrick will find out if she has held on to her Auckland Central seat now that special votes have been counted.

Her success was one of the surprises on election night… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Scientists and scholars gathered in Wellington last night for the annual Research Honours Aotearoa awards.

While Covid-19 put paid to the usual black-tie dinner, the first of what will be three… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Crop growers and meat producers say any ban on coal fired boilers could force New Zealand to raise imports of food.

Dairy giant Fonterra is standing apart from some others in the food sector, saying… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.A top-ranked table tennis player says she's been bullied, had her career sabotaged and been ostracised by officials.

Takaimaania Ngata-Henare, 14, and her family challenged Table Tennis New Zealand… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Online disinformation has increasingly become an issue in elections, and the 2020 US election was certainly not exempt.

Marianne Spring is the BBC's disinformation and social media reporter.

She… Read more Audio

8:50 AM."No scan - no service."

That's what Ruapehu's mayor is proposing for this weekend's Mardi Gras.

More than 7000 people are expected to converge on Ohakune from around the country.

Mayor Don Cameron… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.Bernice David-Goodwin runs a doggy day care with a difference.

She lives on a farm out of Gisborne and every day she and her team swing by city and rural homes in a van to pick up dogs for a day out… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio