Hi, everyone. The flannelettes were in hot demand as icy-cold temperatures took hold last night ` minus 10 in Calverton. We're currently feeling the wintry bite of a showery south-westerly flow. The weekend weather is just ahead. Right now, it's 6 o'clock. Due to the live nature of ONE News we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. This is ONE News, with Peter Williams and Wendy Petrie. Tonight ` a widow's torment. Kylee Guy recalls the moment she found her husband had been shot dead. Kylee Guy recalls the moment she found her husband had been shot dead. An armed and dangerous gunman's on the loose after shooting a policeman ` we're love for the latest. Laid to rest in their favourite colours ` hundreds turn out to farewell the NZ triplets killed in a fire in Qatar. And the cool cats that aren't very happy as the snow keeps them chilled and confined at a Christchurch zoo. Kia ora, good evening. The widow of slain farmer Scott Guy broke down as she recalled the morning he was killed. Kylee Guy says she collapsed after hearing the news. And Scott Guy's sister, the wife of the man accused of killing him, also took the stand. Simon Bradwell has been in court. Kylee Guy still wears the symbols of her marriage to Scott Guy, and two years on, she clearly still carries the scars of his death. Here recalling the moment she saw a police officer at their house. We stopped, and we just stood there ` me and Hunter. And then he came down the driveway up to me. SOBS: And then I said, 'What's happened?' Yeah. < OK. Minutes earlier, Kylee Guy and her young son Hunter had heard a motorbike on the property. He got all excited, wanting Dad. < What did he say? < What did he say? 'Dad, bike.' He wanted his dad. < And is that what he said usually, when he heard bikes? Yeah, he ran` every morning he ran down to meet Scott. Yeah. Instead, the bike belonged to someone rushing to the murder scene. I came into the entry, and then I just collapsed. And then I think` And then Hunter started getting upset because I was upset, so I just went down to our bedroom, cuddling him. Ewen MacDonald is accused of killing Scott Guy with a shotgun. His wife, Anna MacDonald, Scott Guy's sister, also took the stand, without a glance at her husband. We weren't allowed to film Ewen MacDonald here in the dock while his wife gave evidence, but the pair didn't appear to acknowledge or even look at each other during her 25-minute appearance. She also battled tears as she d She also battled tears as sh She kept saying, 'Not my baby, not Scotty'. < Carry on. What happened then? Um,... Sorry... < Just take some` take some water. Ewen MacDonald then came running into the house. He looked really pale, and he was shaking, and he'd been crying. Unlike other witnesses, both women were ushered out a side door away from Ewen MacDonald after giving evidence. The court heard that, like Scott Guy's father, Bryan, they'll return to give more evidence later in the trial. Simon Bradwell, ONE News. Police tonight are still hunting an armed and dangerous man who shot at a police officer in Auckland. The gunman was a passenger in a vehicle when he fired at close range while the officer was speaking to the car's driver. Kim Vinnell is following developments and joins us now live for the latest. THIS IS WHERE IT HAPPENED 1AM THIS IS THE MAN HE WAS A PASSENGER POLICE TRIED TO TAKE THE KEYS HE FIRED SHOTS LOOKED LIKE A GLOCK THEY SPED OFF ABANDONED THE CAR POLICE SET OUT DOGS NO SIGN YET KIM, WHAT ELSE CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE WANTED MAN? HE'S KNOWN AS MURRAY THE SCURRY HE IS GANG AFFILIATED ALSO WITH A CRIM SYNDICATE POLICE HAD THIS MESSAGE FOR HIM WE WILL FIND YOU FAMILY SHOULD GIAVE HIM UP WE DON'T WANT ANY TRAGEDY THE POLICE MAN WAS TREATED FOR BURNS Thanks, Kim Vinnell in Auckland. The Police Association won't comment on a leaked memo from its president that claims front-line officers could receive performance-based pay. The letter from Greg O'Connor says police bosses are looking to adjust pay packets for officers, claiming some are overpaid by 20%. Although the Association refused to comment tonight, it says in the letter it's not prepared to accept performance-based salaries. 'Little monkeys', and 'magic children' ` that's how the NZ triplets killed in a Doha Fire were described by their parents. Hundreds of people gathered at St Paul's Cathedral in Wellington today to farewell the two-year-olds. Rebecca Edwards was there. It was a time to remember,... Lillie was our princess. She loved ruffled skirts so she could twirl like a ballerina, and looked gorgeous in tiny leg warmers. ...a time to celebrate,... Jackie was the child who drew on the walls, and when asked, smiled like an angel and said 'Winkie did it'. ...a time to say goodbye. Winkie loved to hold your hand. If he wanted to go somewhere or do anything he would softly take our hands and say, 'Mummy, come on. Mummy, come on.' Two-year-old Willsher, Lillie and Jackson Weekes were broug were broug home to 8 Wellington for their fina One of Jane's favourite quotes is, 'A mother's love is not divided amongst her children, but is multiplied with each child.' We miss them enormously. The triplets were among 19 people killed when a fire broke out in a Doha Mall two weeks ago. Described as three little monkeys, their family say each day with them was filled with happiness and laughter. Our lives will always have a deep hole that once was filled with Lillie, Willsher and Jackson. Lily, Jackson and Willsher, Mummy and Daddy will always love you and the joy you brought to our lives. As three tiny caskets were carried out of the cathedral, balloons in the triplets' favourite colours were released into the sky. Three little lives lost, but never to be forgotten. Rebecca Edwards, ONE News. Hekia Parata has met education groups following her back-down on increasing class sizes. The scrapped policy means other ways must now be found to save more than $110M, which may lead to another battle between teachers and the government over plans to introduce performance pay and charter schools. Here's political reporter Michael Parkin. Hekia Parata may wish she could wind back the clock on her announcement to increase class sizes. Oh, look, you know, it has been challenging. But look, that's part of the whole dynamism of the education sector. A sector that now feels, with the minister backing down, that it has the upper hand heading into talks on school funding and student achievement. There is a certain sense of satisfaction, but I think a sense of relief from the country. Scrapping the funding reforms leaves a $114M hole in the government's books ` money it will now squeeze elsewhere from the education sector. What the government will go and do is talk to the sector, work with others, but find another way of achieving the same outcome. There are always lots of ways to get past Go and collect $200. But this may spark yet another stoush with teacher unions, which say they know what should be cut. Charter schools are going to cost an awful lot of money to develop and introduce. Performance-pay systems are hugely expensive. The education sector may have momentum, but charter schools and performance pay are unlikely to generate the sort of backlash that's clearly needed to get the government to do a U-Turn. The Greens are calling for John Key to stand Hekia Parata down over this debacle. However, teacher unions don't support that. < You'd be quite keen to keep Hekia Parata there < for the sole reason that you've got the upper hand over her, wouldn't you? Well, we have a good engagement with Hekia, and we would look to continue to build that engagement. I'm really focused on how I can be a better and better Minister of Education. There have been lessons to learn here. I will learn them. But her battle with the sector looks set to carry on. Michael Parkin, ONE News. And that battle includes a fight with Auckland University students, who are preparing to lodge a complaint over police behaviour at a protest against education cuts. Demonstrators say officers were overly aggressive, dragging students by the neck and holding them against the ground when they weren't resisting. They also claim one officer wasn't wearing a badge number. Parents and teachers of children with learning difficulties today presented a petition to the Ministry of Education. They want to retain special needs units. Under new rules, students who have what's termed 'moderate needs' will now be taught in mainstream classes. Sharon Fergusson reports. so it was pretty horrendous. My son was miserable. He didn't socialize. And then going into the unit, um, he started to just turn into a normal, happy boy. Ranui School is now in the process of transitioning its special needs students into mainstream classes. The principal here told me the mainstream teachers are being well supported by the specialist learning and behaviour teachers, and she supports the new system. But teachers ONE News spoke to argue that putting a child with special needs into a mainstream class will deprive them of a quality education, disrupt the class and put huge pressure on mainstream teachers. I'm very concerned about it. I think this is an option that we've had at our school for 26 years. It has worked really well for a lot of students. And the parents and family are great advocates of it because they've seen it work for their children. 1 A woman convicted of assault after a supermarket scuffle has been sentenced to 10 months in jail. Cherylly Campbell's attack on two Rotorua supermarket workers was captured on video and went viral on the internet. The jail term was also for charges of driving while disqualified and assaulting a police officer. Taking out the rubbish looks set to get more expensive for some Aucklanders. The council is considering a user-pays system to try and drive down the huge amount of waste being thrown out by householders each year. Ruth Wynn-Williams reports. When you're one of six flatmates, getting rid of waste is no easy job. Nah, we're not very good at it at all, to be honest. And it's set to become more of a challenge, with the council wheeling out changes. Rubbish is an expensive business. It costs a lot to dispose of. More than a million tonnes of waste is taken to landfills each year, and it's piling up. By 2031, it's predicted Aucklanders will be throwing out so much it'll fill back-to-back rubbish trucks from one end of the country to the other. And it's not necessarily the volume that's the problem. It's the cost of that volume going to landfill. The council is set to vote on a new waste management plan, and among the options it's considering is charging to remove household rubbish. It's a user-pays system that'll cost Aucklanders each time their rubbish is collected ` $2.50 for a new 60-litre bin. $5 for a 140-litre bin. That's about the size of the red bin you have now. Or $7.50 for 240 litres ` about the size of your blue bin. We'll end up with a lot more rubbish on the streets. I believe that should be included as a basic core function of the rates. If they gave me a discount on my rates of the same value, I'd be fine, but they won't. Rodney, the North Shore and West Auckland already pay for rubbish bags to get rid of waste. The council says the new system will create consistency, bringing central Auckland and Manukau into line. As one city now, we have to have one plan for the whole city. A new way to deal with waste will be in place by 2015. Ruth Wynn-Williams, ONE News. There's divided opinion over whether a new parking plan for Auckland will be bad for business. Auckland Transport wants to charge between $3 and $5 for an hour's parking in the central city, then $5 to $8 for every hour after. The Employers and Manufacturers Association says retail's already dying in the city and parking will become too expensive for shoppers. But the Heart Of City business group says the plan will increase the turnover of street parks and parking buildings are available for longer visits. The owners of one of the best-known pubs in the country say they'll be back in business in the next couple of months. Wellington's Backbencher pub has suffered thousands of dollars worth of damage in a fire that's also seriously charred a number of its iconic politicians' puppets. Political reporter Jessica Mutch has been at the scene. Last night it was bustling with patrons. Today the Backbencher was filled with firemen. Pretty devastated. The owner says the blaze started in the kitchen. There appears to be some form of accidental combustion that has just turned the kitchen into an inferno. The Backbencher pub is famous for its puppets of politicians. Over the years they've been updated. The bar is right across the road from Parliament and an MPs' favourite watering hole. The puppets cost about $10,000 each. The most-damaged puppet in the fire was Peter Dunne. We were with him when he saw it for the first time. I thought I'd had a bad case of excessive suntan, actually. No overseas holiday needed this year. Unfortunately Peter Dunne is toast, which might have been predicted for a while. But the puppets of John Key and Bill English survived. < The prime minister and the finance minister seem to have got away fairly unscathed. < What do you make of that? Oh, I don't think there is any great prophecy in that. I think, probably, I was nearer the kitchen. The Fire Service say the fire isn't being treated as suspicious. The owner hopes to be open again in a couple of months. Oh, absolutely. Takes more than a fire to knock us back. In the meantime, the filming of the TVNZ 7 show Back Benches,... Big crowd in the audience tonight. Welcome to Back Benches ` live pub politics. ...will be held up the road at the Speights Alehouse instead. Jessica Mutch, ONE News. The Backbencher is a heritage building. There's been a hotel on the site since the 1870s. The one that stands today has been there since 1912. The puppets were brought in when the pub was refurbished in 1990. Looking at our top stories tonight ` an emotional Kylee Guy has told the High Court in Wellington how she collapsed after hearing that her husband scott had been killed. Scott Guy's sister Anna MacDonald, wife of the man accused of his murder, also took the stand. Ewen MacDonald has pleaded not guilty. Auckland police are tonight hunting an armed and dangerous man who shot at an officer early this morning. Murray Toleafoa (30) was in a car when he fired at close range, the officer escaping with gunshot burns. Police warn he shouldn't be approached. And in just a minute, sport ` embarrassment for the All Whites at the Oceania Nations Cup. More on that, plus we also check in with the All Blacks ahead of tomorrow night's test, the king LeBron James saves the Heat in game six of the NBA play-offs, the Russian scream queen zeroes in on a maiden French Open title, and he may be the fastest man on the planet, but he couldn't side step to save himself. Kia ora, welcome back. A year after winning the Supreme Halberg Award, the All Whites have recorded one of their worst results in recent memory. They've been eliminated in the semi-final of the Oceania Nations Cup after an embarrassing 2-0 loss to New Caledonia. Craig Stanaway reports. Nine world cup All Whites in the starting XI against New Caledonia ` 55 places lower than them in the world rankings. They didn't look a side that hadn't beaten us in 36 years. CROWD CHEERS It took Ricki Herbert's side more than half an hour to have its first meaningful shot at goal. The best chance of the first half fell to Shane Smeltz. ...Shane Smeltz, oh, and he's missed it. They were wasteful again in the second half, blowing chance after chance. It was inevitable such poor finishing was eventually going to come back and haunt them. Oh, he scores! Score for New Caledonia on the hour mark! They tried to come back, but New Caledonia were head and shoulders above them. And into injury time they struck again. Can he seal it for New Caledonia? Oh, and he can! It's a real travesty. Probably never been this disappointed before, you know. I think over the 90 minutes is probably a fair reflection. The 2-0 semi-final loss is a massive financial blow to NZ football. Qualification for the last tournament earned NZ $1.8M. Tahiti or New Caledonia now gets that massive financial boost if they win the final. The All Whites' only consolation ` if there's any consolation ` they've at least qualified for the next round of world cup qualifiers. Craig Stanaway, ONE News. The racial abuse that threatens to taint the Euro 2012 football tournament has taken a turn for the worse, after reports black players in the Dutch side were taunted at their latest training in Krakow, Poland. The Dutch had earlier visited the Auschwitz concentration camp. Dutch captain Mark van Bommel claims a group of 500 Polish fans started a chorus of monkey chants and is threatening to take his players off the pitch if the same thing happens in their opening match against Denmark on Sunday. The All Blacks are confident they can make a seamless transition from Super 15 to Test rugby tomorrow. They've completed their preparations for the first international of the year, which will take them back to the scene of their world cup triumph. Here's Stephen Stuart. The traditional captain's run on the eve of a test is a low key affair, but held significance for Richie McCaw today as it was his first time back at the All Black fortress, Eden Park, since last year's final. Time moves on, and once we get to tomorrow night, I think it's just exciting to be back in the All Blacks jersey, playing a test match at home. It's been a while since we've done that. There's been little time to study their Irish opponents this week, but the skipper has confirmed the start of the Steve Hansen era has meant a slightly different approach. The great thing about Steve is he allows everyone else, especially the senior boys, he puts onus on us, especially this part o0f the week, to drive the bus. Eden Park also holds unforgettable memories for Ireland, having upset Australia here during the World Cup in a game many regard as the best of the tournament. But a breakthrough win over the All Blacks tomorrow would top that. It's a strange one, from an Irish point of view, being the only team` top-tier team we haven't beaten, you know. We see ourselves as a very good, a very good squad. Beating the All Blacks is something assistant coach Gert Smal has achieved, but with his former South African side. Now there's even more incentive to knock over the home team. With you guys, having the tag now of being world champions, every team that plays against you wants to beat you. So game on, and you sense McCaw and Co can't wait. Stephen Stuart, ONE News. The wintry Dunedin weather has forced preparations for Sunday's North-South charity rugby match indoors. Appropriately, the South took to the ice this afternoon for a spot of curling, with the temperature outside hitting five degrees. The North Island's controversial selection at fullback is expecting some special treatment from his Southland mates. I've asked a few of them to, you know, just let me through a wee bit, so... I won't return the favour, but I hope they give me the favour. Both teams are promising plenty of running rugby for Sunday's match, which has so far sold fewer than 5000 tickets. NBA superstar LeBron James' Miami Heat have hammered the Boston Celtics, to lock the Eastern Conference finals at 3 all. To add insult to injury, the Celtics were dealt the 24-point loss on their home court and by a player everyone loves to hate. Turns a little jump hook, and it won't go. James comes flying in and throws it down. LeBron James gives meaning to the saying 'one man band'. You know, you gotta continue to put pressure on the defence. And I was able to do that. Trailing 2-3 in the best-of-7 series against the Celtics, the Heat had to produce something special on Boston's home court. LeBron's 45 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists wasn't just special. It was outrageous.. Falling away, gets that to go off the glass. James jab steps on Petrice, and now the jump shot. That's been going in all night long. He played amazing, you know, he was locked in from the beginning of the game. Um, like I've never seen him before. In contrast, Boston couldn't hit the back of a bus. Kevin Garnett and Brandon Bass scored just 12 points each, the Celtics missing 13 of 14 3-point attempts. Rajon Rondo was the leading light for the home side with 21 points. He is so crafty around the basket. The perfect time. Game 7, the decider, returns to Miami on Sunday where experts are split on who will head to the NBA finals against Oklahoma city. One thing's for certain ` if Boston have any hope of playing for their 18th NBA championship, they'll have to find a way to shut down The King. Looking forward to game seven. See y'all im Miami. After four years of ups and downs, Maria Sharapova has reclaimed the world tennis number one ranking, thanks to a dominant semi-final victory at the French Open. A career grand slam now beckons if she can beat the year's most successful clay court player in the final. Glen Larmer reports. When Maria Sharapova's on form, she's hard to stop. Testing serves, powerful forehands and a solid all-round game make her a handful for her opponents. And so it proved for Petra Kvitova in the French Open semi. This was a rematch of last year's Wimbledon final, which Kvitova won. But halfway through the first set she was finding Sharapova a much different prospect this time. That double fault helped Sharapova break to love to win the first set, and by now the tone was well and truly set. Sharapova raced away early in the second. She's not really putting a foot wrong. In the end, a routine 6-3 6-3 victory in 77 minutes. Sharapova into her first French Open final and now just one win away from a career Grand Slam. To be in this stage for the first time in my career, 25 years old, is, um` it's just a great personal achievement. The other semi also came down to willpower. The Italian 21st seed Sara Errani, in the pink, and Aussie Sam Stosur split the first two sets. The decider was a classic. Down 0-3 and 0-30, Stosur showed courage to pull it back to 3-3. But despite the odd awesome shot, her 48 unforced errors proved her undoing. Errani in the end drew on the outstanding form that's taken her to three clay court titles this year to close it out 6-3. I was very nervous, but on the same time I was really focused on the game. The question now ` can Errani do it again against Sharapova in Sunday's final? Glen Larmer, ONE News. Finally in sport, Olympic champion Usain Bolt's had his latest hit out in the 100 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo. The Jamaican wheeled out in some Norwegian version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Bolt, in blue, finally took off in the second half of the race against fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell. CHEERING He finished in 9.79 seconds before promptly running into the over-enthusiastic flower girl, who didn't seem to mind too much. After the break ` Renee's here with a showery start to the weekend. Tonight on Close Up, we've come a long way from being world leaders. ARCHIVE: Opinion polls show that NZers wanted to be nuclear free. But does NZ's nuclear-free stance still matter? Plus, the man with one of the toughest jobs in the country. The more experience you have, the easier it is. Steve Hansen on leading the All Blacks into battle for the first time. Close Up's next. TV ONE. Hi, everyone. It's shaping up to be a cool, showery start to the weekend. We have a road snowfall warning in place for Milford Rd and Lindis Pass. Snow flurries are expected tomorrow morning. Mostly clear skies over NZ and the Tasman Sea, with bits of spotty shower cloud in the south-westerly flow. A cold frontal band can be seen moving up the South Island. And there's lots of lumpy shower cloud deep in the Southern Ocean, loaded with some arctic snow. The cold front moves up the South Island tonight, reaching Wellington around midnight and then fades out across the top of the country tomorrow evening. A second weakening front follows in it's wake, but quickly fades away over central NZ. The last frontal combo moves up the South Island tomorrow, arriving in Wellington about 6pm-news time. An associated low brushing the southeast of the South Island during the early morning brings a spell of blustery southwesterlies, as indicated by the tight isobars moving across the southern South Island. Rain in Fiordland easing to showers early on. Showers for the remaining west side, some heavy and possibly thundery with the front. Showers in Southland and falls clearing Otago. Mainly fine elsewhere, with early frosts about sheltered spots. Brisk southwesterlies. Mainly fine in the east of the North Island. Around midday, showers and a southerly change move through Wairarapa, reaching Hawkes Bay in the evening. Showers in the west becoming more frequent and heavy for a time in the southwest with the next front. However, Wellington escapes most of it, with just the odd shower or two. Westerlies changing southwest. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz On Sunday, a few showers in the west of the North Island, fine in the east. South Island, cold and showery in the west, showers and cold southwesterlies developing in the east, reaching Christchurch late at night. It's shaping up to be a showery start to the new working week. Snow lowering to low levels at night in the southeast of the South Island. On Tuesday, showers clearing and becoming fine in the west of the North Island, cold and showery in the east. South Island, mostly fine in the west and inland, coastal showers in the east and south. Good news for ski bunnies ` Mt Hutt is looking good to go for opening day tomorrow. People heading to the mountain, make sure you're well prepared and always carry snow-chain equipment as conditions can change very quickly up there. And that's your weather. Enjoy your evening. And that's ONE News for Friday. Now here's Close Up.