Morning Report Essentials for Tuesday 8 October 2024

On today's episode, the government says it's supporting Samoa to understand and mitigate the risks from the fuel leaking out of the Navy's HMNZS Manawanui which sank at the weekend after hitting the reef it was mapping, A Dunedin city councillor says it's worth revisiting the conversation around buying out homes in flood-prone areas, The chair of a controversial Hawke's Bay dam project included in the government's Fast-track Approvals Bill says the current proposal is not the same as a previous iteration that failed to get off the ground, the latest proposal to save TVNZ's ailing finances would see the 1News website scrapped from February.