 As Tuesday draws to a close, we have to acknowledge that it has been an extraordinary 24 hours here in Queensland. What we've seen today is 13 communities affected by a second round of flood events across the south-west and southeast. That brings the total number of communities in Queensland which have been affected by floods since Christmas to a staggering 70. Of those 13 towns affected in the last 24 hours, five of them are being refluttered and re-evacuated for a second time. We have now seen in 24 hours, 1,500 Queenslanders evacuated from their homes and they are being accommodated in evacuation centres established in the last 24 hours. That we have six towns with evacuation centres accommodating, as I said, some 1,500 people. We expect that number to swell throughout the night as Ipswich braces for a high peak in the river of close to 19 metres around midnight and swelling to some 22 metres tomorrow. So 1,500 people out of their homes, many more to follow them through the evening tonight. Unfortunately, we have seen the death toll rise again from 9 to 10 with the tragic death of a four-year-old boy swept away by floodwaters this afternoon at Marburg. The best advice we have at this stage is that this boy's life was lost during an attempt to rescue him and his family. Equally, I'm very disappointed that we've seen the number of people now reported missing rise to 78. Clearly, as we get more information from families who are looking for their loved ones, these numbers are going to fluctuate. But we now have 78 people unaccounted for. We have 10 deaths and we have at least 18 people for whom we hold very grave concerns for their safety. These experiences in the last 24 hours have seen many people either experience themselves or witness horrible trauma. We now have eight five-person grief and counselling teams ready and assembled for deployment into Wumba and Lockyer Valley tomorrow as soon as weather permits. We understand that people have in many instances not only been through traumatic experiences themselves, but they are in evacuation centres anxiously awaiting news of a loved one who remains missing. I wanted to reassure particularly the people of Ipswich and Brisbane this evening that we have every available resource deployed to assist them over the next couple of days in what we expect to be a very serious event. Our police, our fire and rescue, our emergency services have all temporarily ceased all non-essential duties and deployed people directly onto the front line. Major non-government organisations who are critical to this effort such as the Red Cross who are setting up the evacuation centres have also cancelled all standard activities such as first aid courses and the like and deployed all of their staff to the front line of managing this incident. We know that we've seen Queenslanders in dire and awful circumstances throughout the last 24 hours. We know that over the next couple of days many of us are going to be in frightening circumstances. Our emergency services personnel are ready to assist but they need our cooperation. They need us to pull together as a community and they need us to follow their directions. Please make sure you are getting good advice about your suburb. Please make sure you're listening to all media bulletins. Please make sure that you are not out and about on the roads if you do not need to be. If we're all sensible, if we're all calm and if we all pull together then I am absolutely confident that we are here in Ipswich and Brisbane absolutely up to the challenge that we will face in the next couple of days. We have also seen the effort joined by many volunteers from New Zealand including New Zealand volunteers from the Red Cross. There are continuing circumstances unfolding this evening and we will endeavour to make sure that we can keep you up to date as much as possible. I might invite Ian Stewart to make any further comments. Thank you Premier and good evening everyone. Obviously we're preparing now for the next 24 hours, the next phase of this continuing operation. We're focused in two different areas and that is to plan and prepare for what is coming with the flood peaks to Ipswich and ultimately into Brisbane itself. But at the same time we're also preparing tomorrow to get our police and emergency service personnel particularly our specialist USAR staff, Urban Search and Rescue and other skilled operatives into the Lockheed Valley communities particularly Grantham and in the Murfrees Creek area to start the very gruesome task of having to search for what we believe will be a number of bodies. That will be a difficult time for our people and I would plead with the public if you do not need to be in that area keep away, let the emergency services and police go about their job in as much safety as possible. Thank you. You talked about 78 missing Premier, that number has gone up. Is that all in the Lockheed Valley area or is it some people in Brisbane as well? My understanding is that that is all between the Toledo and Lockheed Valley as a result of the incident that we saw yesterday. And you talked also about preparing for continuing circumstances or monitoring continuing circumstances, what about it? What we saw emerge yesterday afternoon was an extraordinary event, the likes of which we haven't seen before and particularly never into Wumba. So all I'm saying is we're now monitoring the weather overnight, we've got people, hydrologists will be working through the night tonight, modelling and remodelling what they're seeing in river systems coming into the Wyvernhoe area. So all of the data that we've been advising people will be continually refined so that we can continue to give you updates throughout tomorrow. We now have a fully operational emergency centre here at Kedrin and as I said the Bureau of Meteorology and our hydrologists are working literally 24 hours. Premier can you give us an update on Wednesday and Thursday and what that's expected to reach? In terms of some level of precision the hydrologists are indicating that they are now reasonably, with a high degree of confidence believe that the Bremmer river in Ipswich will reach 22 metres tomorrow. That is more than one and a half metres higher than the 1974 flood in Ipswich. The 1974 flood saw 1800 homes significantly affected in Ipswich so we can confidently, given Ipswich is now more populated, expect to see more. In terms of the Brisbane River they have a high degree of confidence that we will see it reach at least the 1974 level of 5.45 metres at the Brisbane CBD. In terms of anything over that they would like to wait for 24 hours out from the event to be any more precise than that but they believe that we need to be planning for an event at least as big as 1974 and to be cautious to plan for something bigger than that. In terms of, you said earlier today that modelling can be done in relation to what the Tawumba flood, what kind of impact it would have on Brisbane, can you paint a picture yet of what that might look like for us? To get a sense of the impact of the Tawumba event the Lockyer River comes into the Rivenhoe catchment. On any ordinary day it would deliver around, when it was flowing normally it would deliver about 500 megalitres into that catchment. It is currently delivering about 2,500 megalitres so that's certainly putting much more pressure on to that system and we expect that it will have implications way down the downstream. But it's also been the very heavy rainfall that we've seen today that's contributed to this event. That has been in fact the main problem. The heavy rainfall into the catchment has seen all of those rivers and creeks and tributaries into already saturated ground