TONIGHT ` THE POLLS WERE WRONG. THE DOUBTERS WERE WRONG. HE WAS RIGHT. DONALD TRUMP SWEEPS TO A SHOCK VICTORY TO BECOME THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF TONIGHT, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. GOOD EVENING. THE UNITED STATES HAS A NEW PRESIDENT, AND HIS NAME IS DONALD JOHN TRUMP. TWO HOURS AGO, DEMOCRAT HILLARY CLINTON PHONED MR TRUMP TO CONCEDE DEFEAT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. IN AN INCREDIBLY TIGHT CONTEST, MR TRUMP DEFIED THE POLLSTERS AND EXPERTS, CLINCHING THE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES OF FLORIDA, OHIO, NORTH CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA. AND THAT WAS ENOUGH TO PUT HIM OVER THE TOP WITH A HANDFUL OF STATES STILL TO BE DECIDED. JOINING ME NOW IS JESSICA MUTCH. JESS, THAT REALLY WAS A ROLLER COASTER RIDE TODAY, WASN'T IT? Very few polls and very few commentators even entertain the idea that this was going to happen, let alone predicted that it actually would. Today we saw the unthinkable and unbelievable happen. DONALD TRUMP WINS THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES. WORDS MANY PEOPLE WEREN'T EXPECTING TO HEAR. AND YET, AS THE VOTES ROLLED IN, IT BECAME CLEAR AMERICA'S MOST COLOURFUL BUSINESSMAN WAS DESTINED TO BE PRESIDENT. CROWD: USA! USA! USA! USA! THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYBODY. SORRY TO KEEP YOU WAITING. COMPLICATED BUSINESS. COMPLICATED. JUST BEFORE GETTING ON THE STAGE, HE GOT THE CALL-UP FROM THE WOMAN HE'S BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST FOR 18 MONTHS. CROWD CHEERS, WHISTLES I'VE JUST RECEIVED A CALL FROM SECRETARY CLINTON. CROWD CHEERS SHE CONGRATULATED US ` IT'S ABOUT US ` ON OUR VICTORY. HE WAS GRACIOUS IN RETURN. HILLARY HAS WORKED VERY LONG AND VERY HARD OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, AND WE OWE HER A MAJOR DEBT OF GRATITUDE FOR HER SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY. I MEAN THAT VERY SINCERELY. OH, WHAT A DIFFERENT SCENE OVER AT THE CLINTON CAMP. SHE DIDN'T FRONT ` INSTEAD SENDING OUT HER CAMPAIGN MANAGER. SEVERAL STATES ARE TOO CLOSE TO CALL, SEVERAL STATES ARE TOO CLOSE TO CALL, SO WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ANYTHING MORE TO SAY TONIGHT. THE RESULTS CAUGHT MANY OFF GUARD. STEPHANIE CUTTER, NERVOUSNESS IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP? UH... LAUGHTER I GUESS THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION. WE ARE HAVING A CONVERSATION NOW THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE TWO WEEKS AGO. IT WAS JUST IMPROBABLE. I DON'T KNOW OF ONE POLL THAT SUGGESTED THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS GONNA HAVE THIS KIND OF NIGHT THAT HE SEEMS TO BE ON TRACK TO HAVING. HIS CAMPAIGN RESONATED WITH PEOPLE UNHAPPY WITH WASHINGTON. OURS WAS NOT A CAMPAIGN BUT RATHER AN INCREDIBLE AND GREAT MOVEMENT. # MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAS BECOME PRESIDENT HAVING NEVER HELD A GOVERNMENT JOB OR BEEN IN THE MILITARY. YOU'RE FIRED. HE AND THE NEW FIRST LADY WILL BE MOVING FROM FIFTH AVENUE TO PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, WHERE DONALD TRUMP WILL BECOME THE 45TH RESIDENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Hillary Clinton was comfortably winning up until the e-mail saga. Was this the point where it all went south? Having it so close to the election and coming out putting her on the front page, putting those wavering voters in doubt, it didn't help. Even without the e-mail scandal, I do think we missed the heading Trump supporters. Even with that shift, she would have been very close to Donald Trump. It took a lot of people by surprise in the way he was tonight in New York. Are we hoping he will be like that as president? People thought he would be a switch and turn from being crazy and provocative into presidential material. Even walking down the stairs, he seemed calmer and waved to the crowd. We heard him sounding very leaderly and very presidential in his speech. people are thinking that he has got. A number of things have been tempered with him. Can we expect him to step back? He is going to have to. As he becomes president and surrounds himself with the best people, they will come in and help them out and become the president he needs to be. He can't go around saying that staff now that he is president. We see Presidents come along and switch tact. Thank you Jessica Mutch. THANKS, JESSICA MUTCH. NOW OUR REPORTER JACK TAME IS NEW YORK AND WAS AT HILLARY CLINTON'S HEADQUARTERS RIGHT THROUGH THE DAY. HE FILED THIS REPORT A SHORT TIME AGO. EVERYTHING HERE IS SWIFTLY BEING PACKED DOWN. THE SEVERAL HUNDRED HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTERS WHO'D PACKED IN THIS EVENING, HOPING TO CELEBRATE MADAM PRESIDENT HAVE HEADED HOME. THEY'RE SHOCKED ` SOME, I WOULD SAY, DEVASTATED. WE SAW SEVERAL CLINTON SUPPORTERS HERE IN TEARS AS THEY LEFT THIS EVENING, REFUSING TO SPEAK TO ANY MEDIA. AND IT'S INTERESTING, ISN'T IT, TO COMPARE THOSE REACTIONS WITH THE EXPECTATIONS OF THOSE SAME PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARRIVED HERE THIS EVENING. THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN TEAM AND HILLARY CLINTON'S SUPPORTERS WHO FILLED THIS SPACE EXPECTED A CLINTON VICTORY. THEY WEREN'T BULLISH. THEY WEREN'T ARROGANT OR COCKY, NECESSARILY, BUT THEY CERTAINLY ARRIVED HERE EXPECTING A HILLARY CLINTON VICTORY. SO WHAT WENT WRONG? WELL, THERE ARE MANY THEORIES. ONE I'VE HEARD TONIGHT ALREADY IS THAT THE FBI DIRECTOR'S DECISION TO SEND A LETTER TO CONGRESS INFORMING THEM HE WAS REINVESTIGATING HILLARY CLINTON'S USE OF A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER, THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO BLAME. ANOTHER ONE I'VE HEARD IS THAT THIS IS SIMPLY A BACKLASH FROM WHITE, UNEDUCATED AMERICA, A PART OF AMERICA THAT PERHAPS FEELS THREATENED BY THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS IN THIS COUNTRY. NO DOUBT THERE WILL BE MANY THEORIES TO COME. BUT THE REALITY FOR EVERYONE HERE WHO CAME EXPECTING TO SEE HILLARY CLINTON IN THIS GIANT GLASS CONVENTION CENTRE, SHATTERING THE METAPHORICAL GLASS CEILING ` IT WASN'T THE CASE. THAT WAS JACK TAME IN NEW YORK. BACK HOME, PRIME MINISTER JOHN KEY HAS SENT HIS CONGRATULATIONS TO MR TRUMP. THE NZ STOCK EXCHANGE SHED AROUND 3.33% IN VALUE. THAT'S AROUND $3.5 BILLION. JAPAN'S NIKKEI DROPPED AROUND 5%. US MARKETS WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING OUR TIME TO GAUGE THE IMPACT. THEY CLOSED BEFORE MANY RESULTS HAD COME IN. AN EXPERT IN WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES SAYS THIS ELECTION WAS NOT JUST SEXIST, AS IS 'NORMAL', IT WAS ALSO MISOGYNISTIC. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY JENNIFER FROST BELIEVES HILLARY CLINTON BROKE THE GLASS CEILING, BUT NOW SHE'S WORRIED THE RESULT WILL DISCOURAGE OTHER WOMEN FROM ENTERING POLITICS. FOR MANY MEN, THE IDEA OF A WOMAN IN THE HIGHEST OFFICE WAS SOMETHING VERY NEGATIVE, AND THEY FEEL A PROFOUND LOSS. THEY ARE LOSING POWER IN THE WAY THE SOCIETY IS CHANGING, AND THIS IS A BACKLASH AGAINST THOSE KINDS OF CHANGES IN THE WORKPLACE, IN POLITICS, IN THE FAMILY. DONALD TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON ARE WHAT WE CALL THE 'BOOMER' GENERATION, THE '60s GENERATION, AND I THINK MAYBE WE JUST NEED THAT SORT OF GENERATION TO LEAVE POLITICS AND LET THE NEXT GENERATION TAKE OVER, AND MAYBE SOME OF THOSE BATTLES OF THE PAST CAN BE MINIMISED. AND THE CAMPAIGN HAS CAPTIVATED OUR COUNTRY, WITH PLENTY OF NZERS AND US EXPATS WATCHING THE RESULTS COME IN. PARTIES WERE HOSTED TO WATCH THE VOTES BE COUNTED IN ALL THE MAIN CENTRES. BUT FOR THE MAINLY PRO-HILLARY CLINTON CROWD, THE RESULT DIDN'T QUITE GO THEIR WAY. THE FESTIVE FEELING QUICKLY TURNED TO HORROR. I FEEL LIKE I'M IN THIS SURREAL NIGHTMARE RIGHT NOW. I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING. I'M GLAD THAT I'M A PERMANENT RESIDENT HERE. I... I THOUGHT AMERICA WAS BETTER THAN THIS. MY GOSH. I DON'T THINK I CAN CALL HIM PRESIDENT TRUMP EVER. I DON'T SEE ANY BEST-CASE SCENARIO. I REALLY DON'T. THE FACES SAY IT ALL. JUST AHEAD ` THEY SAID IT WAS A MUST-WIN LOTTO... AND IT WAS WON. ONE LUCKY TICKET HOLDER IS NOW $44M RICHER. AMERICA MAY HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT, BUT THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE WILDEST IN HISTORY. AND PRINCE HARRY HAS GIVEN BRITISH MEDIA A BROADSIDE OVER WHAT'S HE'S CALLED A WAVE OF ABUSE TOWARDS HIS GIRLFRIEND. WELCOME BACK. IN THE OTHER BIG NEWS OF THE NIGHT, ONE LUCKY POWERBALL PUNTER HAS WON $44M IN A RECORD-BREAKING LOTTO DRAW. THE WINNING TICKET WAS SOLD AT A DAIRY FLAT STORE, NORTH OF AUCKLAND, BUT NO NEWS YET WHETHER THE PRIZE MONEY IS GOING TO ONE PERSON OR A SYNDICATE. AND THE STRIKE JACKPOT WINNER ALSO TOOK HOME A HEFTY $358,000. MORE THAN 2.3 MILLION TICKETS WERE BOUGHT FOR TONIGHT'S DRAW. TWO WEEKS AFTER FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED AT DREAMWORLD, IT'S BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT THE THUNDER RIVER RAPIDS RIDE IS BEING CLOSED FOR GOOD. NZER CINDY LOW AND THREE AUSTRALIANS DIED WHEN THE RIDE MALFUNCTIONED. AMUSEMENT PARK BOSSES SAY, AS PART OF THEIR MOVES TOWARDS RE-OPENING THE PARK, THUNDER RIVER RAPIDS IS BEING PERMANENTLY DECOMMISSIONED. NO DETAILS WERE PROVIDED ABOUT WHEN THE PARK WILL RE-OPEN. MULTIPLE INVESTIGATIONS ARE CONTINUING. PRINCE HARRY HAS CONDEMNED THE BRITISH MEDIA FOR SUBJECTING HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND, ACTRESS MEGHAN MARKLE, TO WHAT HE CALLS A 'WAVE OF ABUSE AND HARASSMENT.' THE PRINCE ISSUED A STATEMENT CONFIRMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP BUT ALSO SAYING HE HAS CONCERNS FOR HER SAFETY. TABLOIDS AND SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE SAVAGED HER FOR NOT BEING BRITISH ENOUGH AND HAVING A CHEQUERED PAST. MARKLE IS A DIVORCED AMERICAN ACTRESS WITH A BLACK MOTHER AND A WHITE FATHER. THE 35-YEAR-OLD IS BEST KNOWN FOR HER PART IN THE TV DRAMA 'SUITS' AND WORKS WITH THE UN ON GENDER EQUALITY. AS WELL AS BEING ONE OF THE CLOSEST PRESIDENTIAL RACES, IT'S ALSO BEEN ONE OF THE WILDEST. IN FACT, IF IT WAS A TV SHOW, CRITICS WOULD HAVE SLAMMED IT FOR BEING UNBELIEVABLE. REBECCA WRIGHT TAKES US THROUGH SOME OF THE MORE MEMORABLE MOMENTS. CLINTON WORE WHITE ` THE COLOUR OF SUFFRAGETTES ` WHEN SHE FINALLY SHATTERED THAT HIGHEST AND HARDEST GLASS CEILING. AND SO THESE TWO WERE THRUST TOGETHER... HE'D RATHER HAVE A PUPPET AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,... NO PUPPET. NO PUPPET. ...AND IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT` YOU'RE THE PUPPET. IT'S PRETTY CLEAR YOU WON'T ADMIT... NO, YOU'RE THE PUPPET. ...THAT THE RUSSIAN... ...FOR WHAT WOULD TURN OUT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST SURREAL PRESIDENTIAL RACES IN MODERN POLITICAL HISTORY. AND DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T JUST RUFFLE FEATHERS DOMESTICALLY. DONALD J TRUMP IS CALLING FOR A TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF MUSLIMS ENTERING THE UNITED STATES. BUT IT WAS TRUST THAT WOULD TURN OUT TO BE ONE OF THE HOT-BUTTON ISSUES FOR HILLARY CLINTON. THE FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE'S USE OF PRIVATE EMAIL PLAGUED HER BID FOR PRESIDENCY. SUCH A NASTY WOMAN. ALL CHANT: LOCK HER UP! BUT THE FORMER FIRST LADY HAD HER OWN TRUMP CARD IN MICHELLE OBAMA, WHO CAMPAIGNED LONG AND HARD. WHEN THEY GO LOW, WE GO HIGH. AND THEN THIS HAPPENED... BUT THIS RIDE WASN'T OVER YET. THERE WAS ONE MORE SURPRISE AHEAD. BUT THIS RIDE WASN'T OVER YET. THERE WAS ONE MORE SURPRISE AHEAD. SECRETARY CLINTON, ANY REACTION TO DIRECTOR COMEY REOPENING HIS INVESTIGATION INTO YOUR EMAILS? YES, THE CLINTON EMAIL ISSUE CAME BACK AGAIN AND SHOOK THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN. IT IS NOT JUST STRANGE ` IT'S UNPRECEDENTED. SHE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY CLEARED, BUT IT SCRAMBLED THE HOME STRAIGHT OF THIS HIGHLY UNUSUAL RACE. REBECCA WRIGHT, 1 NEWS. NOW TO TOMORROW'S WEATHER WITH MONTY PYTHON. FOR WEATHER, SEE TVNZ.CO.NZ MONTY PYTHON'S 'BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE' THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON TONIGHT. THANKS FOR WATCHING. GOODNIGHT. CAPTIONS BY ALEX WALKER AND KATE PARKINSON. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR.