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  • a new storm threat is right now brewing off the coast of Queensland with tropical cyclone you'II see bringing torrential rain, damaging winds and huge swells along the east coast.

  • This is New South Wales cleans up from a destructive downpour.

  • At this hour, tens of thousands of homes are still without power, with road and rail networks buckling during the heaviest falls in three decades.

  • You have a team cut covering all of these every angle this morning in Queensland and New South Wales from first to Brisbane, where we find today Queens and reported Just Millwood, just you've got some breaking news for us.

  • That's right, Tracy.

  • Good morning to you.

  • Police urgently seeking assistance to find a man and woman missing the floodwaters in Danang.

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  • That will last seen it around 8 p.m. Pushing their black Ford Falcon along the Burnett Highway.

  • That car has now been found abandoned with no try.

  • So the man and woman so police urgently seeking assistance to track them down.

  • There were dozens of rescues right across Queensland years today around 10 here in the southeast.

  • One elderly man needed to be rescued from Bo Hell Road here at will along, and it's easy to see why this water is really flowing quite quickly across this road.

  • There were also a number of rescues in two.

  • Wamba Gregor's Crake received 100 millimeters in just one hour.

  • So this morning the people around Gregor's Craig will be experiencing some flash flooding before all of that water flows back down to like y Ivanhoe.

  • And as we go to air this morning, yet another emergency warning is in place for Adobe.

  • The Mile Creek picked it around 3.2 meters on Sunday.

  • And while it's not going to get that high again, the weather bureau says people in that area should expect flooding of somewhere between two and three meters.

  • So there is going to be some look, look, excuse me, some low level inundation.

  • As for cyclone your way, say well, it is currently far off the Queensland coast did.

  • It is still in Fiji and waters, so we're not feeling it to fix just yet, but it is expected to slowly move towards the Queensland coast on.

  • While it isn't expected to give us a direct hit, we will see some big swell as a result of Cyclone USC.

  • As for the rest of today, the weather bureau says much of the same.

  • Quite a clear, hot and humid day before we see some more thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.

  • And the advice to everyone heading on the roads this morning is to take it easy.

  • Do not come into flooded waterways, which is what we're saying.

  • I might just get my cameramen if you can, to turn around here.

  • This is what we're seeing this morning Trucks driving through floodwaters.

  • So this, of course, is the advice.

  • Definitely.

  • Do not do that.

  • Yeah.

  • Good advice and data, right?

  • Just thank you, MME.

  • Or than a day after the massive storm slash Sydney, tens of thousands of residents a still without power and it could go on for days.

  • Today, Sydney reporter Brianna Scully joins us from chipping.

  • Norton is Sydney's southwest.

  • Brianna, this is a major headache.

  • How many homes are still in the dark, Tracy?

  • Also, it has confirmed more than around 59,000 homes are still without power this morning and unfortunately, customers are being warned they could be in the dark until the end off the week.

  • Now that the sun has come up here in chipping Norton, we're starting to see ah lot more of the damage he by the Jordan River this morning.

  • Taik a look in peace It looks like a rubbish tip.

  • There's everything from water bottles, basketballs, car tires, so much rubbish on destruction here, branches and debris.

  • And even over here.

  • If you take a look, there's a canoe just picking out here in the mud.

  • It's stuck in there.

  • There is so much cleanup to do here today.

  • The S yes, has not stopped working.

  • They've responded two more than 500 calls for assistance overnight, bringing the total number of calls to more than 12,300 since this storm started.

  • So obviously they'll be evaluating evacuated areas like this today.

  • And as you can see, there's a lot of work to do.

  • Try saying you're busy.

  • Few days in data, right, Brianna, Thank you.

  • Let's go now to Gabrielle Boyle, who's on Nepean River in Sydney's West Gabby River levels and damn levels on the rise.

  • They certainly are.

  • Tracy, I want you to take a look at the Nepean River as it is this morning.

  • A muddy, murky, fast moving miss.

  • But Nobody is complaining about that brown murky water because we absolutely needed it here in Sydney, of course, we've been on water restrictions for several months now because our damn levels have bean just so low.

  • So this is very, very welcome.

  • Flood water, I can tell you that many of the creeks and rivers in and around this area are flowing into war.

  • A gamble dam, which, of course, is the main drinking supply for Sydney, I can tell you were a gamma dam is up about 20% and with rain forecast in the next few days, it could rise even further.

  • As for drinking catchments right across the Sydney Basin will they're up to 64%.

  • That's a 22% rise we've seen since the end of last week.

  • An extraordinary amount of rain falling in such a small amount of time.

a new storm threat is right now brewing off the coast of Queensland with tropical cyclone you'II see bringing torrential rain, damaging winds and huge swells along the east coast.

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