 Okay, the body, are we going? Are we? Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, as you would expect, we're going to see a little bit of volatility and information about this cyclone. And the most recent tracking indicates that we will be expecting to see it across the coast a little later, more now around the midnight time. But that is when the eye of this storm will cross the coast. The destructive core of this cyclone will cross the coast much earlier than that, up to three or four hours earlier. The destructive core, that is, the part of this cyclone that will have the winds of up to 280, 300 kilometres an hour, spans the distance of about 150 kilometres. It is five times wider than the same core in Cyclone Larry. Between about 8.30, about now and just after midnight, is going to be the roughest time for people who are living with this event right now. The very early signs of this cyclone are now starting to be felt. We have significant power outages and reports of power lines coming down. We also know that we are going to see very, very high storm surge activity. By way of just to give you some indications, late this afternoon in Townsville, the monitor recorded a maximum wave height at Point Cleveland off Townsville of 6.6 metres. This is the highest that has ever been recorded since measurements began in 1975. Similarly, in Cardwell, we are planning for a storm surge of higher than seven metres over the High Tide Mark, Lucinda Beach four metres and at Cairns around the 2.6 metres mark. These are extremely high levels of water that will come into those towns and inundate all those low-lying areas at a very high level. Very important fact about the storm surge that I want people to understand and you'll hear me talk a bit about at future press conferences. The high tide that we're looking at in about half an hour's time will add to that storm surge. But we will also see a high tide in this region around 9.30am tomorrow morning. It's expected to be quite a high tide and this storm system is so big that we will be experiencing residual effects of high-powered winds still around that 9.30 time and later. What that means is that we could see a second peak of storm surging in all of these areas during and after the high tide tomorrow morning. So if the winds have started to die down and people quite naturally will want to get out and see what's happened to their homes, I can't stress enough that you may be putting yourself in danger if you go out after this event too early. We cannot eliminate the very high likelihood that there will be a second storm surge that will peak sometime around that high tide event tomorrow morning. So people need to be very mindful not to start moving out in about town too early. Not only for that reason, but as I've said earlier, we could have live power lines down and that of course poses a serious threat to life. One of the biggest issues that we'll be watching for overnight tonight is our power transmission system right across North Queensland. And if I could just briefly explain, North Queensland itself has very little power generation. The overwhelming bulk of power generation for North Queensland comes out of central Queensland. It is transmitted through a spine of transmission towers that goes inland behind Townsville, all the way to Cairns. It is then supplied through another spine of transmission towers that goes down the coast from Cairns right down south of Mackay. In Cyclone Larry, that coastal spine saw six transmission towers knocked out and that seriously disrupted power supply in that area. But Cyclone Larry was a category four event. The inland transmission system has never been tested at a category five level. If the transmission lines on the inland spine are disrupted or brought down by this event, it would mean a catastrophic failure of the electricity supply system to the entire north and far north of our state. So if we see any of those transmission lines go out, that will become an absolute critical priority for recovery and we will be doing everything we can to get that fixed as soon as we can. I mention all of that because if it does happen, we could see a failure of electricity supply that would extend potentially to many areas that have not been affected by this cyclonic event and it could extend for a prolonged period of time. So we are planning for an aftermath that may see a catastrophic failure of essential services in an area as highly populated as North Queensland. I think people can appreciate what that might mean in terms of what we are planning for and what we may have to cope with tomorrow and in the days after. We now have 37,000 people without electricity supply. That's because winds have brought down local power lines, not because we've seen any transmission towers down. Most of that or much more than almost half of that is in the Cardwell Innisfail area. So in that area where we expect to see the cyclone cross tonight, you will see the electricity. You can see that already those earlier effects are starting to have an impact. This cyclone, of course, will be checking at first light tomorrow what its impact has been on the areas that it has crossed closest to. But this cyclone is expected to have a life of between two and three days. It is now tracking to Cross Mount Isa as a Category 1 cyclone sometime on Friday. Still tracking as a Category 3 cyclone over the Atherton Table Land and into towns like Georgetown as a Category 3 cyclone 450 kilometres inland early tomorrow morning. So we are still talking about a massive and intensifying event. So we are starting to see the very early impact of this event starting to make itself felt and I understand that everybody who is now bunkering down in North and Far North Queensland will be starting to experience what they will be living with for the next four or five hours. I think we all understand that it will take all of their strength to endure what they are about to experience. I don't think that difficult for any of us to imagine what it might be like to go through four or five hours of listening to 300 kilometre winds tear around our homes to wrench or rain and to be doing that in the dark and potentially without any communications. It will not only take all the strength of those people who are enduring it we as a community, as Queenslanders and as Australians, I think tonight need to brace ourselves for what we might find when we wake up tomorrow morning. Without doubt we are set to encounter scenes of devastation and heartbreak on an unprecedented scale. This cyclone is like nothing that we have ever dealt with before as a nation. The people of North Queensland tonight are bearing the brunt of it and as I said it doesn't take much for any of us to imagine what they might be going through. But we all need to recognise that we will all have to brace for this. It will take all of us and all of our strength to overcome it. I have every confidence that we are capable of that but the next 24 hours I think are going to be very, very tough ones for everybody. It would depend where the transmission tower came down and how easy it was to get into that area and get it back up again. You may recall in Cyclone Larry transmission towers were literally ripped out of their place and bent and twisted. So it does depend on how long it takes to get in there, the state that it's in and how quickly we can get it repositioned. And it also depends on whether it's one transmission tower or many. So this is completely untested. They are built as cyclone-proof as possible but they have never been tested at a category 5 level. That would basically mean not only it wouldn't be a localised problem. It means that we would not be able to get electricity from central Queensland into the north of our state. How far inland is the inland spine that you're talking about? It differs but it's out west of Townsville. So look, anywhere between 100 and 150 kilometres at different points. Thanks Premier. I've just spoken to the disaster district coordinators from Townsville to Cairns. They are telling us that the wind is rising. The streets are clear. The emergency service personnel including police are now bunkered down the same as the rest of the community. It is too dangerous right now in all of those areas for our police crews and other emergency crews to go out. We are not yet receiving calls for assistance from the public related to the cyclone. It is eerily quiet in terms of that area of police operations. I don't expect that to last much longer as the cyclone encroaches on landfall. We are certainly thinking of all of the community and all of the emergency workers in the area right now. Thanks folks. Thank you.