This week on First Up, we have been bringing you a mini-series of interviews where Nathan Rarere posed the same four questions to three everyday Americans about their reflections of life over the final month of the Trump Presidency. In this morning's final segment we'll hear from Aimee Hoch from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she works as a financial navigator for a cancer programme... and Nathan started by asking her, what impression she thinks Donald Trump gave the world of the United States.

Nate's Mates in the States: Aimee Hoch

News & Politics

On today's episode we hear from Fire and Emergency National Commander Russell Wood on the FENZ review into their response during the Auckland floods and Cyclone Gabrielle, Auckland council issued a Dangerous Building Notice for the City Gardens Apartments on Albert Street, saying its fire safety system isn't up to scratch, Auckland Council General Manager Ian McCormick discusses this, we have RNZ's political editor Jo Moir and political reporter Katie Scotcher on the Political Panel, and we cross the ditch for the latest from Kerry-Anne Walsh.

Morning Report Essentials for Friday 19 April

Some students at halls run by the University of Auckland will refuse to pay their fees from next month in protest at what they say are unjustifiable price hikes. The weekly cost to live in a single standard room at Waiparuru Hall, the University's - and the country's - biggest student residence, jumped from $470 last year to $540 this year. The rent strike is being led by Students For Fair Rent, which says that 8% jump is out of whack with inflation - and beyond the means of students in fulltime study with limited time to earn additional income. Last year Nine to Noon touched on the issue of residential advisors in Auckland University Halls losing their rent reduction. Kathryn speaks to Students For Fair Rent's chair Matthew Lee and Greens co-leader and Auckland Central MP Chloe Swarbrick.

Auckland University hostel students to withhold rent over

A Boeing engineer has given compelling testimony detailing his concerns about how Boeing aircraft are being put together. Sam Salehpour, an engineer with four decades of experience - including 17 with Boeing, yesterday detailed alleged manufacturing shortcuts he felt were being made and how he was shut down by the company after raising them. Boeing is already facing scrutiny after part of a new Boeing 737 Max 9 flown by Alaska Airlines broke off in January, and two deadly crashes of its 737 Max 8 planes in 2018 and 2019. Mr Salehpour told a US congressional hearing the pieces making up Boeing's Dreamliner planes weren't being put together properly and that he'd seen people literally jumping on pieces of triple-7 (777) jets to make them fit. Joining Kathryn is David Slotnick, a senior aviation business reporter at The Points Guy.

Nate's Mates in the States: Aimee Hoch

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