 I don't know if it would be about 200. Oh, but isn't John doing it? Or what do you think about it? Now, where's the sun for your wine? Oh, well, let's just find a boat. I can do a normal day tomorrow. They're my three. I think it's alright. People's? This is just about to start. Sorry to keep you waiting, but I guess you don't understand. There's a fever going on at the moment. You guys about alright? Yep. Okay, thank you. The weather situation remains probably the best news, that it's remaining clear that rain is contracting. There was a fair bit of rain just inland from Mackay overnight, but that hasn't caused any significant problems or caused any inflows into the major problem areas. I might just go straight into the key areas of concern at the moment. Bundaberg, the Burnett River at Bundaberg, has peaked at around 9.72 metres, and that level is holding. We expect that that will remain at that level for the balance of today and this evening, and that will start to fall away from tomorrow. To give you a picture of Bundaberg, we're just getting these reports from the ground. The evacuation centre has had 127 people overnight, two evacuation centres. There are approximately 190 houses that have been affected and 40 businesses. I can't give you details around what the damage is. We'll have to wait till water goes down and people can get back in and undertake some inspections of those properties. There's around 1,800 properties without power, but utilities, water, sewage, et cetera, the telecommunications are all okay. So Bundaberg is in the middle of its flood at the moment. If we move on to Emerald, Emerald's currently at 15.6 metres and rising. The peak is expected on Friday at 16.2 metres. What that equates to is a flood of 0.8 of a metre higher than 2008, so this is a very significant event. We expect that 80% of the town will have water through it. Now that doesn't mean that every house will have water over the floorboards, but approximately 80% of the town on current modelling will be affected by floodwaters. The record for Emerald is 15.7 metres back in 1950. So as you can see, this is a pretty significant event. Evacuations at present. There are 92 people evacuated overnight. Planning is difficult. A lot of people are away on holidays, so it's difficult to ascertain how many people are there. The local council is planning for evacuations of up to 2,500 people. The holidays in Emerald will hold up okay. We've taken yesterday a transmission tower in so the local radio station can continue to broadcast messages and we've been using the emergency alert telephone-based warning system to continue to provide messages to the community to contact their local council and keep abreast of what's happening. Emerald Bridge, which was used as a source of access in the last flood. What happens with Emerald is the town gets cut in half and the airport is on the side where most of the people aren't. So we were able to bring things into the airport and then move them across by rail. The rail bridge closed at 8 o'clock this morning. The airport will remain okay. It's high and dry. Roads in the area are closed and Emerald is currently isolated. Coles is inundated, has watered through the store and has closed and Woolworths will probably go under later today or tomorrow. There has been a temporary medical facility established on the eastern side of town, the opposite side to the hospital so that's been staffed and Queensland Health have bought drugs and so on in so that there is access to medical facilities on both sides of town. If we move to Rockhampton. Rockhampton, the Fitzroy River is currently at 8 metres. By Sunday morning, that's expected to be 9 metres. By Tuesday, 9.4 metres. To give you some equivalent, that's around about the flood levels of 1991 and 1956. At the moment, that's the extent of the modelling but that modelling continues to go on as the Bureau of Meteorology gets readings from other rivers that flow into the Fitzroy. The record for your information there is 10.1 metres in 1918. For Rockhampton, utilities are fine. Power is good to 10 metres and the water purification to 11 metres so there's not any expectation that there will be a problem with those. Access will be, the rail closes when the water gets to about 8.5 metres. The road to the airport also closes at around 8.5 metres and the airport gets water on the tarmac somewhere between 8.8 and 8.9. There's been work done on the airport so that's why there's a little variation there. The highway access to the south is lost at 8.4 metres and to the north, again, there's been work done on bridges expected that that will be lost at around the 9.4. So access north at this stage could continue but we're not planning for that to occur. Council is recasting their numbers based on the latest forecast. Their last forecasts were for a flood height of 9 metres and at 9 metres there would be 140 properties with water over the floorboards and 1,000 properties with water into the yards. Currently the local council is undertaking evacuation planning and that will be on the basis of well over 1,000 people that may require support for evacuation. Turning to the evacuation of the Township of Theodore something slightly in excess with 300 people are being housed at Maurer at the moment Department of Communities, other agencies are there to support them. We understand that people are holding up well children are being given activities to do people are being spoken to if anybody requires counselling that service is available Department of Communities are talking through what the future might hold for those people. Clearly they have been through a very traumatic time they've been taken from their homes and as I say from all reports they are holding up remarkably well and we certainly hope that that continues and everything will be done to ensure that those people are supported. On top of that as you understand the extent of this flood is significant there are many small communities that are going to require resupply and that work is being done now as always the work starts at local government area those local governments have their plans in place should access to resources become a problem they will simply make a request through their district run by the police their district disaster coordinator and will identify if resources can be accessed locally if they can't be accessed within the region then a request is made to state we can pull assets from across the state we can pull assets from across Australia if necessary we can go back to the military and request additional assets there are already three Black Hawk helicopters that have been provided for the ADF two of those are currently on route to Emerald to support the efforts there if we need to move people or product from one side of the river to the other they will be there to assist with that in those other communities that have been affected water is continuing to cause us not concern at this stage but certainly it's an issue for us to watch to ensure that quality potable water is available in those places Dolby for example only has probably two days supply left so at the moment we are trucking water into Dolby and that's being used to top up the reservoir there will probably be in the order of 112,000 to 120,000 litres of water trucked in today we will look at other options as to whether water purification may be an option there but if we can continue to truck and that's the most efficient effective way then we'll continue that process if I can just make a plea we have been asking people to ensure that their travel plans are essential we have a situation now at Jinjin where there's probably a thousand cars and more than 2,000 people who haven't planned their trip and are now stuck at Jinjin and they are looking for support so what's happening is that vital services that can be provided to the people who are affected by the flood are now having to be diverted so attention and people and planning needs to be diverted to those people so we implore people roads continue to be cut some of them will be cut for extended periods of time so if you can plan your travel if it's unlikely that you can get through to your destination then stay where you are I'll probably pass to Brett to make some more comment on that Thanks very much Bruce, good morning everyone and also from Kip, thank you for your patience this morning as Bruce correctly pointed out this is a statewide event and it's likely to be sustained for a week or even more than a week so it's a very complex event and we appreciate your patience from a police perspective there's really three issues I'd like to address Bruce has given a very good summary of what's happening around the state the main issues I think from a police perspective are very much around letting people know that we have deployed additional resources from operation support command from state crime operations command far northern and northern regions have also made staff available to go into the towns the most affected by this disaster we have additional police particularly in the Theodore Emerald and Rockhampton and of course our primary interest apart from assisting with the response and recovery is around the protection of property as people evacuate their homes and move into evacuation centres it's important to note that certainly from a police perspective and thankfully have not had any reports of looting but of course one of our main issues is to maintain the security of people's property as they assist us in evacuating to areas of safety the next issue is around New Year's Eve we're appealing to people who are celebrating New Year's Eve to keep their behaviour in check the last thing we want to see is for very important resources to be diverted away from incidents that are otherwise preventable we'd like to think that we've got the community support that we're all focused on this very significant event and the last thing I want to do is have to divert key personnel away from response and recovery duties to attend to disturbances that could otherwise be prevented and we really appreciate your assistance and get a message out the third issue is around transport and travel as we move into recovery and resupply around the state becomes an issue we're very conscious that we may have small windows of opportunity to access major highways as some waters go up and others go down and we're appealing to people to factor the current events into their travel the website 131940 is constantly being updated and we ask people to visit that and to factor into their travel plans the current events if you do have to travel, if a travel is essential think about the