 Good afternoon everyone. The latest forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology has tropical cyclone Nathan crossing the Queensland coast just north of Cooktown in the morning of Friday, the 20th of March. Preparations are continuing both at the local level and district level. This morning we've had our disaster management group meeting for the district where the number of contingencies, planning and forward deployments were discussed and they are well and truly under way. What are those preparations? The number of the government agencies are forward deploying our resources. The Queensland police will be having a number of officers placed in the communities around Cooktown and north of Cairns in Port Douglas and How many crews are we expecting and also from the wider emergency services we're seeing more crews flown in? From the policing perspective we've got an additional 37 police arriving today from down south. They will assist and bolster the policing numbers in those communities to make sure that we've got more than enough police in the areas to reassure the community and also to respond and assist as required. The local and district groups in the far north here are well versed in cyclone preparations and every year we increase our knowledge and improve our responses and I can very clearly state that the responses from all government agencies has been top shelf and the local disaster management groups are well and truly lined up and in the full throes of planning for the event. It's slightly different, maybe a higher level of alertness compared to the cyclone threat from last week? Yes, I think that's a fair statement. We rely on the great information we get from the Bureau of Meteorology and Nathan when he approached the north Queensland coast last week was predicted to do a U-turn and head back out to sea and that's indeed what occurred. This time all modelling indicates that there will be the crossing at a category three level at this stage and so all agencies are very much keenly focused on making sure that we've got the resources in place to be able to respond to any issue that arises out of that. Friday will be nine years on from Larry as well and this storm is looking pretty similar and it's build up quite calm at the moment and looks like it will intensify rapidly over the next few days. I guess what are the chances of that happening at a nine year anniversary? Well we are right in the middle of the wet season for the far north here and as you said it will be the nine year anniversary on Friday. I can say that the response and preparation from all departments and agencies and local level is top shelf and will be very much focused on providing the assistance to the community to respond to it. That all forms part of the planning at the local level. The decisions as to open a place of refuge or the shelters themselves is a matter at that local level. Should that occur I can assure everyone that there will be assistance provided from the state level in the staffing of those centres. Storm surge is a concern but the local levels and the district level are well aware of the predictions and are taking that into account as part of their planning process. The decisions for evacuations rest firmly at the local level in the first instance. As you'd appreciate we've still got a little way to go with the modelling and a little bit out so those decisions as to whether or not that will occur will be made in the coming day or so. The watch zone is still from, with that watch zone so large are you focusing all your efforts just on trip down or is there a wider view? No absolutely we're looking at the entire area that is given to us by the Bureau of Meteorology while the forecast mapping is firming up to being just north of Cooktown for the crossing we are very much ensuring that we've got sufficient resources right across the potential zone. We would much rather be safe in our planning than sorry afterwards.