 Well, damage assessments are continuing across the region, particularly in those areas which were most impacted by the crossing. It has been hampered somewhat by significant weather over the last 24 hours and from today, but as of tomorrow we'll be endeavouring to get more air assets into the air to make those assessments and support them with ground assessments as well. So that's an ongoing issue. Yassi is continuing westward, however it is weakening. It is moving towards Mount Isa and is expected to be there in the early hours of the morning. Throughout today we've been working particularly with the smaller communities on the way to Mount Isa, places such as Julia Creek, Hewenden, Richmond. I just to make sure that their disaster plans are in place and they can respond to any issues which arise. But thankfully the clear message is that the communities are well prepared and the cyclone is weakening as expected to be a low by the early hours of the morning. Since the event began, the region from Cairns to Air has experienced around about a half a metre of rainfall. We are expecting around two to three hundred millimetres more rain over the next 24 hours plus. So there is significant localised flooding and isolation issues in a number of communities in the region. That includes places like Ingen where there is localised flooding and it is in fact cut off at this very moment. Also communities such as Garoo which regularly flood during heavy rain periods. And also the Macrossan Bridge is expected to be cut to night, isolating or cutting off the road access to Charter's Towers. So again there has been a lot of work undertaken this afternoon and overnight and into tomorrow to support those communities. However, it is important to note that the localised flooding that is occurring will be short lived and it is hoped that it will be cleared by the weekend. There have been some significant power issues across the region. We are currently looking at around 180,000 homes without power. Ergon advises us that by tomorrow it is hoped that around 55,000 customers will be back online. However, there is still a significant number of issues which need to be addressed both with the transmission line. It is hoped that aerial access is available tomorrow to conduct the inspections of several hundred kilometres of line and there are also a large number of faults and issues being reported in the distribution network system which need to be addressed as well. That leads to some issues with water supply. Places such as Townsville, Magnetic Island have reported issues in terms of power supply to their water plants. It is not so much an issue with the plants themselves. But we are advised that both Ergon and the local authorities are confident that that power can be restored and the water supplies in those regions can be attended to in a satisfactory manner and that also extends to the cassowary coast areas such as Innesvale. So those issues are being addressed. In terms of extra resources into the area, over the next 24 hours there will be an additional 154 police moved into the region to support existing resources and they will be deployed as it is possible into those communities particularly that have been heaviest hit to ensure safety and security in those regions. In terms of SES deployments and calls on their services, there have been around 2,000 jobs have been recorded since the event last night. Around 580 of those related to roof damage. So there is a significant workload there for the SES volunteers and by Wednesday we are expecting that around 500 additional SES volunteers will be in the region supporting the local resources including around 100 from New South Wales. I might leave it at this point and maybe ask the Deputy Commissioner to say a few words and then we are happy to answer some questions. Thank you Minister very much. Certainly one of the great challenges we are having right at this very moment is still getting access to some of these areas. There are issues with rain, there are certainly issues with roads and safe passage of those roads. At one stage today we had to remove our people out of Cardwell because of the second surge so there was that issue as well in terms of making sure we understand exactly what is happening in the areas, the damage and then being able to provide that back to the central areas to manage the restoration of other services into those areas. And certainly I would ask Bruce Grady to also comment on those issues from the rapid assessment teams. But we would ask people not to be complacent, road safety is a key issue and I know that I have said this many, many times but we have significant challenges with the roads at the moment particularly with the flooding that is now occurring up in the north of the state. We don't want to divert very precious resources to be dealing with minor bingles, that sort of thing. So we would ask people please take care on those roads, drive to the conditions and allow our people to get on with the task at hand which is to help those people who have been very badly affected by the damage caused by tropical cyclone Yasi. And what happened to the 100 people that were on account of the poor at Cardwell? Can you talk us through that? Certainly I'm happy to. There was a comment made by a local leader in that Cardwell area. It related to a comment that he believed that there were about 100 people who remained in Cardwell who didn't evacuate and he was concerned for their welfare. We are working with formal missing person reports and right at this very moment there is only one and possibly two actual reports of missing people and we are investigating both of those. Are they both in Cardwell? Just like the previous events where we had the flooding in Lockyer and in Tuomba, we are hampered in those investigations by the fact that we have many mobile phone towers and much of the mobile telephony which is actually damaged and not working at the moment and we are very hopeful that with the restoration of those services, any missing person will be able to be identified very quickly. Are there only two missing people in the whole vicinity or is it only two in Cardwell? No, to my knowledge there are two missing persons in that Innisfail area and that includes Cardwell. They are officially listed as missing? We are investigating two reports of males who are missing in that area. Can you say ages or anything else like that? I'm sorry. Can you say ages or any other details? No, both are males. That's all I know at the moment. Did they stay in their homes in that area? No. Sorry. I don't know in relation to one. One is related to a person who was allegedly at a boat at the start of the incident. So are they both in that area? No, these are two separate matters. Are they both from the Innisfail area? Yes. Ian, have you got contact with helicopters in the town's beach? So have you accessed everyone? I cannot comment on the coverage yet into all of those areas. It is very difficult to get into some of those areas. And again, I'm going to ask Bruce Grady to comment on overflights in terms of rapid assessment. Thank you. Thank you. Look, access continues to be a problem. We have SES with chainsaws cutting their way through to access some of these more remote communities. Concurrently, whilst we've had windows of opportunity, we have helicopters with technology to be able to take video streaming of the area to give us a better idea of damage. That allows us to be a little more strategic in where we attempt to cut in. We're being hampered by weather both in the air and on the ground and that will continue to be an issue. As we move forward, this will be a long and tedious process of attempting to restore some of these properties. Whilst the weather remains as it is, the safety of our SES volunteers and others as always will be paramount. So we have to do this slowly, systematically and safely. But you can be assured that we will have as many people as is needed to get this work done as quickly and safely as we possibly can for this community. Look, not at this stage. We have sketchy pictures of this. We're trying to build that profile by a number of different sources. So as we get in, we'll do some quick assessments around what we believe the damage to be. We'll try and match that with any flyovers that we do to get that assessment. And when we can get teams in, we have highly trained Queensland Fire and Rescue Service personnel, USAR trained teams that will go in and they'll undertake a rapid damage assessment where they'll go and make a detailed assessment of each property and be able to feed that through. Which communities are isolated at the moment? At the moment, there are some beachside communities around the Cardwell area that is still difficult to access. We're hampered at the moment as the power has gone out and mobile phone towers are powered by batteries. We're slowly losing those towers. So mobile communications is difficult. We're trying to establish radio communications in the area as well. How many people are in these beachside communities? Look, they were subject to evacuation but we're unsure as to how many as we had in Cardwell. Is there only those small communities around Cardwell? Is there anywhere else in that zone that you're trying to get to? We're also around Ingram. We're trying to get to those coastal communities, Halifax, Lucinda and so on. We don't have any reports yet of how successful they've been. It seems like there's a sway of places you haven't gone into yet. There are. Will you still try to get into them this evening or is nightfall going to happen with that? Nightfall, whether that will create dangerous conditions. As we say, we're trying to cut our way through with debris, over roads. We're not going to have people out operating chainsaws in the rain at night. Can I just get you to clarify that the two missing men will search for them? Does that include in some water? No, what I said is that we are making investigations in relation to that. I didn't say necessarily we had people out in the field walking around searching for these. What we believe is that we will undertake our inquiries and hopefully we'll locate them alive and well somewhere. Absolutely. I mean, this is very reminiscent of what occurred in the Thornbrun Locker Valley incidents where large numbers of people from, in fact, all around the world were actually reporting their loved ones as missing persons because they simply couldn't contact them by their normal methods. And at one stage, if I remember rightly, the figures were up around in the 500 mark that we were actively trying to get. We had specialist teams of investigators who were undertaking the normal inquiries through friends, relatives, neighbours, that sort of thing. And we were able to locate many of those very, very quickly. But this will be a tedious task because, as Bruce rightly said and as the ministers alluded to, there are a lot of people who live in those communities. Many evacuated. Some did not. And we will be looking for official reports of missing persons to prioritise our investigations and ultimately our searches of those areas. Any injuries at this stage? There's been no reported injuries at this stage. Of course, there will be people with minor cuts and abrasions, but thankfully we've had no reports of significant injuries to date. Well, I think as we've said a number of times, given the severity of this event, that is an amazing outcome. But again, I just reiterate there has been a tremendous amount of effort to inform communities about the risks and their decisions needed to be made to get people out of harm's way that's been taken. And we can only tribute a lot of the reason for that lack of injury to people cooperating with authorities and the right decisions being made to get people out of harm's way. Well, the advice that we receive, particularly in places like Townsville, is that Ergon are confident that they can get the power to those places through measures such as generators tonight and maintain water supply. Well, this is similar to the damage assessment of residences. We have had the benefit of aerial observation teams today and ground-based teams giving us preliminary assessments of the extent of damage in a range of communities in terms of public infrastructure that again is going to be an ongoing matter over several days. We know there's been significant road damage in a number of areas and to public buildings, but that ongoing assessment is really something which will unfold in the coming days. We've put a precise figure or something which gives an extent of that damage at this stage, other than that we know things, for example, as damage to the roof of the hospital at Ingham and places have also suffered damage to school buildings as well. I don't have any further update than what's already been provided early today. Can you tell us where the specialist EMQ rescue troppers have been? Bruce can help us out with that. We moved the helicopters out of the danger zone. Two of those craft have gone back in and been tasked at this stage with minor jobs. You have to remember that our craft are significant assets that are set up for aeromedical and major search and rescue. There have been no tasks of that nature and there are certainly other rotary wing assets that are better able to perform tasks such as resupply and ferrying people around to keep those significant assets available should they be required for search and rescue or aeromedical. Thank you.