 Good morning ladies and gentlemen and thank you very much for coming to Kedron for the daily roundup. I start this morning by making a very sad announcement and it was great sadness that we advise. There has been a fatal traffic crash out on the western road at Tara where a driver of a truck hauling precious water for Condomine has died. That matter is currently under investigation. That tragedy is weighing very heavily on the family and also the residents of Condomine and our thoughts and our prayers are with the family and also the community who this person was working to assist in their time of need. We further details available from police media later. Just to provide an update the Fitzroy River is currently at 9.15 meters remaining steady and now it's a case of waiting for the flood waters in town to flatten out and as it flattens out so the recovery can start to move underway as the water starts to recede. This is a very long flood and in other words the waters will take some time to go down. They're not expected to go down below major flood levels for at least a week and so we're asking people to be patient in that regard. As you're aware last night there was a weather pattern a rogue weather pattern over the Sunshine Coast Burnett area where large amounts of rainfall we believe up to about 200 millimeters in some cases have fallen in the area. As a result of which in the Meribur and Gimpy areas a number of roads have been cut including the Bruce Highway. A number of evacuations were conducted throughout the evening. I am advised that a lot of those people have now returned to their premises and there's some expected inundation of a low number of houses and also some businesses in that area. Police are keeping a very close eye on that along with the other emergency services personnel and the local disaster management groups in both those areas have stood up. They are activated and are meeting and looking at the response in regards to that particular flooding. In St George the current level is rising it slowly it is just over 13 meters. The revised impact for St George is a 13.4 meter height but again an elongated flooding time and it is expected that floodwaters won't recede or start to recede for some days. This will then have ongoing effects down in Deer and Bandy and Thalland and we are advised that the floodwaters in those areas could be around for as long as the end of the month so we're still a long way to go before this state is actually fully in the recovery phase and we still have various parts of the state in different phases of the disaster management system. I'd like to pass over to Warren Britson from emergency management Queensland. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I think it's timely now for us to reflect on what is actually happening around us with our state emergency service volunteers particularly and there's large numbers of those volunteers out there assisting the community and we are strategically managing how we deploy those people. But the weather event that the superintendent just spoke about that happened last night there can be more of those as the wet season progresses so I'm asking the community to prepare themselves for what could happen to them as the wet season continues. Whatever a person can do to prepare themselves in their home will make it much easier on the state emergency service as we get into this wet season. Now I'm not saying that our numbers are stretched at the moment we are strategically managing where we place the state emergency service volunteers and we do have sufficient volunteers ready to assist but if people can help themselves it will make it much easier on my state emergency service volunteers who are extremely busy in particular locations. Today we welcome some people from New Zealand to give our volunteers some more assistance. The minister met them at the airport and they are now on their way out into the southwest region to help communities recover. Thank you. Yes they have the equivalent expertise of our state emergency service volunteers they are all about assisting their community back in New Zealand in times of need and that's what they're going to do here we're shipping them sorry wrong word we are transferring them today to Condomine so that's where they're going to assist our state emergency service volunteers in Condomine. How many? 15 persons arrived from New Zealand everywhere in Queensland we ask everyone to be aware that this is the beginning of the wet season there are many months of it to come yet and anything that people can do to make themselves and their house prepared for a wet season will ease the burden on my state emergency service volunteers. Yes we'll advise that there is a peak of around about 9.3 at the moment the local disaster management groups are meeting to discuss that as we speak and we're expecting to get more details from the disaster district coordinators later today. It is considered to be in that area moderate to major and we're looking very closely at that again a lot will depend on topography and also the impacts of other streams so we're talking with hydrology from the Bureau of Meteorology and also to the local disaster management groups. When is it meant to be on the brick because at the moment I think it's only 6.2 when is it meant to get to that 9 when you're off the market? Do you call that one? Tomorrow. Yes tomorrow thank you. Tomorrow it's almost we don't we don't have a pacific time all we're told is it tomorrow but again as as it starts to move so the measuring stations will pick that up and we'll be able to cage that. In the past when you just hit the merry you seem to go up and down quite quickly when you hit that 9 meter can you tell us the impact that's been in the past? Well that modeling at the moment they've spoken to us that there were five houses and a small number of businesses that were impacted in the previous events we're actually now waiting for revised modeling to look at what this actually means in real terms to to the community. Can you tell us last time that reached that but when it did have that impact of the five houses? That was back in I think 1992 I think they referred to that being the other flood model. And overnight in the South Burnett there were a few communities that it was people I spoke to so they preserved life and leave that property? That's correct yeah there were I think in one particular case 12 people were evacuated from a very small number of homes and they were taken to a place of safety they have since been returned but you're right flood borders do rise very rapidly especially where there has been very heavy and unexpected falls and as my colleagues have indicated this was actually like a rogue storm so to speak which has come in and deposited a large amount of water. We now know that that is currently offshore we are watching that pattern very closely we believe that that pattern may then cross tomorrow up and around the Gladstone area so we're still doing a lot of work in that particular area to keep a track of that particular conveying system. Central Queensland could have at least systems to move through? Okay anything is possible again with the forecast in that far away we're not too sure whether that will impact on the on Central Highlands or on Central Queensland at the moment has been flaked to be just south of Gladstone we're keeping an eye on that and as those messages change so obviously we'll get that out into the community. Can I ask you about this fatal of this driver? Yep. Come to mind I mean if he was trying to save people alive and as long as he's in there it's a tragedy. It is it's a great tragedy and as I said that I think it highlights the the impact on our community where there are so many people not just emergency service personnel but volunteers council workers people trying to undergo their businesses to maintain what is some normality for people and put normality back into people's lives this is a tragedy that is huge and it will have a great impact on the community and the family and so at the start I thought some prayers actually with the family and the community because it is a great tragedy. Oh look I'm not sure about that capacity it only happened this morning and we were advised early before we came to speak to you today. Yes it did yeah no sorry no not water over the right we're not sure about that we do know that the gentleman was actually hauling water for the condomine community which is again a very precious resource although there's a lot on the ground potable water drinking water is a very precious commodity at the moment in these communities. No thank you very much indeed.