 Okay, thank you. The Premier is currently visiting the impacted areas in the north and potential will be staying overnight. So I can give an update on some of the damage assessments. I just want to stress that this is a particularly difficult operation. Because of the storm surge, particularly at the high tide this morning, it was difficult to get emergency crews and police into some of the low-lying areas. That is now beginning to happen, so we will get more accurate information about damage in some of these communities. However, we have had Queensland Fire and Rescue aerial crews in the air doing rapid damage assessment on a number of communities. I can provide a bit more detail on some of those and particularly focused on the areas hardest hit where the cyclone crossed in the Mission Beach area. To give you some example, in Mission Beach itself, which is quite a long stretch of beach, there are around 22 properties with major structural damage. In Tully Heads, 21 properties with major damage. 19 described as medium and 12 with minor damage. In the Port Hinchinbrook area, 70 boats in the harbour with major damage to them. Cardwell, which received quite a significant impact. Around 60 properties with major structural damage. 100 described with medium level damage. And 50 with minor damage. I do want to stress, however, that this is aerial surveillance. Until we get people on the ground making direct assessments property by property, they are preliminary assessments. I think that does give an indication that there is quite significant structural damage to properties, particularly in the area where the cyclone crossed the coast. There are a number of communities where it has been particularly difficult to get people in, where we still haven't been able to make assessments. And that includes communities such as Halifax, Lucinda, Talas Beach and Silkwood. However, as the day unfolds, we will get people in there and get more of an impact. But the preliminary assessments, particularly in the area where the cyclone crossed the coast, are showing quite significant structural damage. And as I've indicated earlier this morning, the storm surge actually prevented us from getting people on the ground. In terms of current concerns, we do still have concerns for flash flooding. There is particularly heavy rain in a range of areas. We're keeping an eye particularly on areas such as Ingram and also Garoo. And of course, there will be other areas right across the region where heavy rain is occurring, where flash flooding will occur as the day progresses. The storm surge issue has now eased in communities in Cairns and Townsville. However, the storm surge there was as predicted and ultimately was about half a metre above the highest tide level. And that was in excess of what occurred in many of those communities last night. The overnight shelters, particularly in Cairns and Townsville, are now closing down and people are going home. However, there are a number of communities where people effectively are homeless. Red Cross teams are moving in, in particularly areas such as Tully and Innisfil, Innisfile, where more permanent evacuation centres will be established as the need arises. And that will be happening from this afternoon. The government and federal government have activated personal hardship assistance for those people that are directly affected by the cyclone. And that can be accessed by calling the Department of Communities on 1-800-173-349. In terms of power outages, we're still around 180,000 plus homes without power. There's still not a lot of detail on transmission lines. That's simply because of the fact that they need to be physically inspected and there are still some difficulties getting aerial assets in those areas where the damage is likely to have occurred. So that will be an issue which we'll get more information on as the day progresses. Queensland Health has reopened a Cairns-based hospital emergency department as at 11am this morning. The temporary facility, which was established at Fretwell Park, will continue operating until mid-afternoon. And that will then transition into the operation of the hospital and its current site on the S1R. In terms of calls to the SCS No. 132500, we've had over 1500 calls to that number overnight. We expect that to increase now as people, particularly in areas such as Cairns and Townsville, begin returning to their homes. And additionally, to help cope with what we expect to be a significant demand for SCS resources, there will be an additional 500 SCS personnel flowing into the region by Wednesday, including 100 from New South Wales as the initial deployment. With respect to schools, the advice is that a decision will be made by 1pm today. So simply urge parents to stay tuned to their local radio and also can access the website if they're able to to determine whether the school in their particular area will open tomorrow. And finally, Cyclone Yasi is currently around 385km from Mount Isa, currently is a Category 2 cyclone, but it is weakening into a low-pressure system. But it's still expected to pass over Mount Isa around 10pm tonight. It's still quite a significant storm. I might ask if the Deputy is the Assistant Commissioner wishes to add anything, and then also Bruce, for me and Cure, and I hope you'll answer questions. Thanks, Minister. Good morning. Afternoon, everyone. The Minister has covered the police operation very well. Our operations in North Queensland were hampered to a large degree this morning. It was very difficult to put Rotary Wing Norfix Wing aircraft up to get a thorough assessment. Police got into card well very early this morning. But as the Minister mentioned, because of storm tides had to leave card well straight away for their own safety, they're now back into card well and are doing a more thorough assessment by foot. I'd expect later on this afternoon we'd be in a better position to give better descriptions of the level of damage in that particular community. It's been extremely difficult for the police operations. There's been a large amount of vegetation blocking roads, so it's been very difficult to access some of those coastal communities by vehicle. But I'd expect by later this afternoon we'd have a better description of what's actually the extent of the damage in those communities. Thank you, Minister. The SES have been cutting their way with chainsaws into as many communities as they can. The purpose of this is to get an early assessment of the damage. This is not to start the repair. It's very important that we get an understanding of the extent of the damage so that when the repair crews come in they can be targeted at the areas of most need and that those SES volunteers can make the greatest positive impact in the quickest possible time. So we expect that that will start, that repair work will start from tomorrow when we can get additional resources into the area and those volunteers will be working as always hard for their communities. Thank you. Minister, the 100 people at Cardwell have unaccounted for a view. Chris, what's happened there? I don't have any direct information on that. The System Commission way wishes to add something to that. Thanks, Minister. We heard that issue that was raised. We've got local police talking to local government. I believe the issue was raised by a member of local government. That has not been confirmed that there's 100 people missing. I think one of the challenges for such a massive operation is that whilst it was a roughly 10% of that population who didn't voluntarily evacuate, many, many others, many still choose to evacuate after they have those conversations with police. So as police move back into those communities, they go through that process of reconciling I guess all those who have evacuated and as people return to their communities and as previously stated, I think as police move into those areas as nature allows them to, will be in a better position to give better feedback on that. Do you have any reports of injuries? No, that's a good point. We still don't have any reports of fatalities or casualties or major injuries as a result of this weather event. For such an amazing event, considering what we had here, that must just be amazing. Do you think it's good luck or good management that we've found ourselves in this situation? I think it's a combination of the fact that people have listened to the advice and taken the appropriate decisions to relocate. And obviously there have been a few people in some communities that chose not to and thankfully no harm has come to them on all reports to date. I do stress, however, there are still a number of communities where it's been very difficult to any direct information about. There's still some that we can't get into. So at this stage, we've had no reports of injury. However, I just caution that there are still those few communities that we still haven't been able to get people into. What is the situation with roads? Well, there are a number of roads cut in the area and of course with the heavy rain that's occurring, that would may continue today, particularly with flash flooding. But I can get more detail on that. I haven't got that information on the Bruce Highway at this point. I just stress that there is quite heavy rain, so there will be roads, including the Bruce Highway, that will be impacted by flooding, particularly over the next few hours. Minister, you're talking about 500 ACS personnel getting in there. Do you see a role for the Australian Defence Force, as happened in the Brisbane floods, that will need a few hundred of them as well to augment the ACS start? And is that being worked on? Yes, all of those issues have been worked on at the moment. This initial deployment of ACS is simply to respond to the initial calls that are coming in, but there will be work undertaken today and obviously into the night and over the next few days as the damage assessment teams are able to get in and assess the structural damage, the damage to public infrastructure, all of those issues in terms of Defence Force personnel, additional ACS and others, including rural fire volunteers, all of these resources are being examined in terms of support to those communities over the next few days. You will need to help on the ACS, wouldn't you? Highly likely, absolutely, yes. What's the situation with other access to the North? Well at this stage, my understanding is that the airports are still closed, but those assessments are being made locally through district disaster groups. Any idea when they would be reopened? Not at this stage, I don't think we have any word on that. No, they're still assessing the impact of weather. There is still very heavy rain in much of the North and inland as it moves, but they intend to open them as soon as it's safe to do so. With rail, has rail been cut? I've had no reports that rail has been cut at this stage, however I think that all public transport at this stage in the rail is not operating. Are there evacuation centres? Well, the local disaster group will have those plans in place as a part of their required to have plans for evacuation centres at this stage and hopefully the predictions are correct. The cyclone will reduce its intensity to a low pressure system, so hopefully evacuation centres won't be required. But as is the case with all local disaster groups in Queensland, they are required to have the contingencies available for evacuation centres and they'll be making those decisions throughout the day as they get more information from the Bureau. We saw it in the floods in Brisbane. Are you concerned about looting incidents? There's been no reports of that today. The Assistant Commissioner might like to make some comment on that. I think that's a very good question. It's just part of our standard planning now. Whenever we have an event of this nature, we, when safe, we forward deploy police to look after those issues and that'll be the case with this event as well. The issues of protection of life and property are always Remain Number 1. You talk about, Minister, a long term or a longer term accommodation for those that are homeless in the likes of Tulley. How long do you think you may have to prepare a facility for them? Well, ultimately the evacuation centres are a relatively short term. The Department of Communities will obviously need to identify those people that do require longer term accommodation, as they've done with the floods that have occurred in other parts of the state and they have that planning in place prior to this event to identify firstly those people that can't move back into their homes and then secondly to identify where they can appropriately place them for the longer term. So there'll be the likes of demandables in the community? It may will be existing housing in the community. They've put a lot of time and effort into identifying properties that are available and those assessments are being made today and obviously into the future in the next couple of days. The important thing initially is to get those people, as they discover today, that they can't move back into their homes, into the temporary evacuation centres and then individually assessments will be made as to what longer term accommodation is required. One in three houses either destroyed or lost rooms. There's going to be a lot of people, isn't there, that need to be accommodated in time? Potentially yes and that planning is well underway with that expectation. We've got a state disaster management group later on this afternoon and my expectation is that there will be another briefing then but we'll advise you on that throughout the afternoon. Considering where we were at this time yesterday and we've just been on all the meetings, looking where we are today did it end up as bad as what you had feared or worst case scenario? Oh not at all and I think we're all breathing a sigh of relief. Queensland wide, Australia wide that we didn't get the extent of damage that was predicted. If this cyclone had struck a major population centre and I do stress the people in Mission Beach, Tally and those surrounding communities have had an awfully frightening experience. We can't take that away from them but thankfully no one has been seriously injured. We've had no loss of life but the potential was there. This was the worst cyclone this country has experienced potentially for a hundred years and I think that due to very good planning, a very good response from the local disaster management groups, the state level groups, all emergency services agencies and the councils, we've been able to keep people safe. Our system works in the fundamental principle that the protection of human life is the number one principle. So all of our decisions are based on protecting life that's why we took the worst case scenario and evacuated people from high risk areas and I think that planning and that decision and those in the information that was provided those communities in large part has resulted in no loss of life or serious injury.