 Now hold them for two seconds hold them for two seconds Have you got a mic on that thing? I have I can hear that, yeah They're standing at the door, they're standing at the door I'm going to cue someone, just here I might, we want to get this guy out, sorry, sorry We want to get this guy out, yeah, no, no, no, no, no We're not cueing on the right, let's go Okay, all set guys Well, thank you, the Premier's asked me to provide this update She's currently continuing with her briefing of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence So I can give you the latest information in terms of the Brisbane River The latest advice from the Bureau is the river is currently at 3.66 metres and is expected to rise overnight and peaking tomorrow morning at 4am and then again at 4pm at 5.5 metres which means that the river height currently throughout Brisbane has another 2 metres to rise So the advice to people in low-lying areas is that you should be acting now The peak will be arriving in the Brisbane City and beyond around 4am upstream, but peak will be earlier So we need people to be taking the advice now, acting now and evacuating those low-lying areas and moving to higher ground or to other evacuation centres These figures, or these flood heights again to put them into perspective are equal or worse than the 1974 flood levels and we just cannot stress enough the importance of people following the advice of emergency agencies and to get out of their properties now if they're in those low-lying areas to stress the point, upstream of the city, the peak will come earlier So this will happen in the early hours of the morning and we don't need people struggling at midnight to take the actions necessary, we need them to start now and at the latest by this afternoon to be either out of their properties or close to it In terms of Ipswich, at 11am the peak in the river was 19.25 metres and that's expected to rise a little under a metre higher to around 20.5 metres later today So whereas many people in Ipswich area have already evacuated we've got close to a little short of a metre to rise So again, critically important that people in areas which are affected or about to be affected should have moved or should be going now A couple of other issues which are impacting on the capacity of emergency services to respond there are significant numbers of people calling triple zero unnecessarily For matters such as moving furniture we simply cannot have our triple zero lines caught up with people calling for trivial matters Triple zero is for life-threatening emergencies only The best advice for people who need assistance with moving or emergency situations from an SES point of view is to call the SES number 132500 and if there are police matters of a non-urgent nature we ask people to call 131444 So again, I repeat, far too many people are calling triple zero and tying up our emergency lines we need them to, if they need assistance to call 132500, the SES line or 131444, the non-urgent contact number for the police To clarify a matter which was raised earlier SEM4 Stadium is not on fire There was a fire in two transformers in an isolated part of the building and that matter is now well in hand and taken care of And an update on the Lockyer Valley situation we currently confirm as was the case this morning that there are 10 people confirmed deceased but thankfully the numbers of missing persons or listed as missing persons has reduced now to 67 I just want to stress that that number will move upwards and downwards over the coming days as police get reports and either confirm or otherwise the existence or whereabouts of individuals So we still do have grave concerns for a significant number of people and search and rescue operations will obviously be continuing in the Lockyer Valley area but again to confirm 10 people confirmed deceased and 67 listed as missing at this point I might ask the Deputy Commissioner to say a few words and then we're happy to answer questions Minister, thank you As we've previously mentioned the state coroner is now in Twomba and he will be touring the affected sites in the Lockyer Valley this afternoon We will provide further advice on the progress of the search and rescue effort in that Lockyer Valley during the course of this afternoon and we do believe that we will be able to give you significant updates this afternoon I'm certainly happy to take any questions that you may have There are a significant number of, as the Minister said triple O calls, some of those are quite genuine and some are for rescue situations We have water police active in the Brisbane River as we speak and in the flooded areas but obviously we are also dispatching police as those calls come in The details of specifics I don't have right at this moment but if you are aware of them I'm certainly happy to get you information on specific matters Assistant Commissioner, at the moment we just got a message that fire crews are trying to evacuate a complex in St Lucia about 100 people there Does that annoy you that that is happening now that those 100 people could have moved some time earlier and they've left it now for you guys to almost be furnished to remove us from? I think the clear message and it is the message that the Premier and the Minister have made a number of times over the last couple of days do not wait, act now, evacuate And I think just to reiterate that point this is precisely the situation as to why we need people to take notice of the messages we are giving them now The peak will come in the very early hours of tomorrow morning 4am in the city area but further upstream a lot earlier So anyone in any area which might be affected needs to be taking action now and to move to higher ground move to family and friends if possible or to an evacuation centre critically important that we do that so we don't unnecessarily tie up emergency service resources Do you think a lot of those people are just simply out of communication and nothing really may have happened to them it's just that breakdown at the moment? Look we are very hopeful that that is exactly the case but we are treating each case as a missing person and obviously we need to investigate every one of those reports to our satisfaction until we locate that person I would imagine that there will be people on that list for many days to come yet Do you think you will recover everybody's potential? Well certainly over time we hope that we can take that list down to zero so that we do know the location of it and the placement of each of those people who we are currently investigating Could I also just mention the issue of people going into areas sightseeing Look I cannot stress enough the sightseers and people who are doing things having events tonight particularly in the Brisbane area who are in safe areas if you could please consider the issue of distracting emergency services personnel we need the whole community to work together on this issue we do not need any incident that is taking police and emergency services personnel away from the front line duties of rescuing people in this very very drastic situation that we are facing with the floods Thank you