1PM NEWS UPDATE: DECEMBER 9, 2016

Here’s Paul Lobb with a news update.

• There’s been a blow to the Prime Minister’s climate credibility with the nation’s Chief Scientist recommending an energy emissions intensity scheme – just days after the Government ruled one out.
• Two men are being sentenced over an alarming terror plot involving a bomb in Sydney.
• And the first American astronaut to orbit earth, John Glenn, has died at the age of 95. He’d often recalled how the people of Perth switched their lights on as he passed over in the night in 1962.

NBN News tonight at six.