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00:00South East Queensland and northern New South Wales residents face a nervous

00:03wait as tropical cyclone Alfred's arrival is pushed back to Saturday

00:07morning. 10 News First Meteorologist Josh Holt is here at the desk with me for the

00:11latest updates but first let's cross to our reporters on the ground across the

00:15region. We've got Brendan Smith joining us from

00:18Corumbin on the Gold Coast. Brendan what's happening there?

00:23Well Norelda it's really getting worse by the hour as you can see behind me

00:27this massive sand cliff has been, cliff rather, has been formed by that massive

00:31easterly swell. It's carved away so much of the foreshore here at Corumbin Beach.

00:37There's plenty of people still out and about swimming in the ocean despite all

00:41of those warnings and all of the beach closures across the Gold Coast.

00:46We know as well yesterday afternoon here at Corumbin an elderly woman in her 70s

00:51was swept up by a massive surge. She hit her head on the rocks here and was taken

00:55to Gold Coast University Hospital thankfully in a stable condition but

01:00despite this people as I say are still coming to the beaches here. There's so

01:03many cars still driving by at the moment trying to capture a glimpse of all of

01:07this surf break that's been occurring for hours here at Corumbin. We know as

01:12well further north from where I am at Main Beach a record-breaking 16.5 metre

01:18wave was recorded by the Queensland Government measuring systems but as I say

01:23plenty of people still out and about today. They are not heeding the warnings.

01:27It's definitely pretty out there. The storm surge is unlike anything I've seen before.

01:30It's coming right in the car park and over all the rocks so yeah it's

01:34exciting for the kiddies but I think we need to bunker down again soon.

01:37It's pretty crazy. I've never seen anything like it in my life to be honest.

01:41It's getting pretty big so we'll see how it goes.

01:44It's taken a turn that's for sure.

01:46Down in Aralda of course the rain is setting in now. There's said to be more surges when there is that high tide

01:51coming here at about five past one Queensland time. In terms of closures we

01:55know that Coles has closed at least 16 stores across northern New South Wales

01:59and the Gold Coast here on the Gold Coast at Robina and Pacific Pines you

02:04know as well Woolworths is looking to close their stores early as well.

02:08That's Brendan Smith in Corumbin there.

02:11Good afternoon NJ. Well we certainly have seen some big waves in fact early in the

02:15week we were predicting those significant wave heights climbing up

02:18towards that 20 metre mark and as you just heard there with Brendan that is

02:21starting to happen. Now over to Matt Johnston who is here at Snapper Rocks.

02:25What are you seeing at the moment Matt?

02:30Yeah well Josh it is really quite chaotic here this afternoon. Just in the

02:34last few minutes this system has turned on us again. Those unrelenting winds and

02:39rain have started to blast the coast again. We've had to come undercover

02:43where we find 10 News First Queensland weather presenter Liz Cantor.

02:47Liz this system it is just developing by the second. What are the key dangers right now?

02:51Well I think what we're experiencing and what's catching a lot of

02:54people off guard here in southeast Queensland is we're used to very

02:58different severe weather. So we're in the thick of a severe weather season at the

03:02moment but the storms we're used to come through all gangbuster. It goes nuts and

03:07then it stops. Whereas with a cyclone for many people they're experiencing this

03:11for the first time in a lifetime it comes in surges. So if you think of a

03:15spinning circle the worst of weather is on the bottom of that circle the

03:19southern side. We've heard Josh talk about this many times in his coverage

03:23over the past few days. So what we're experiencing for the first time is

03:27surges of bad weather. We get the destructive winds come through, torrential

03:31rain and then a pause. The sunshine comes back out, the winds go. People think it's

03:35all over, they're right to go outside and before they know it they're out and caught

03:40out. Now we are on the border of a gale force wind warning at the moment. So that

03:45means in the next couple of hours we are going to experience destructive

03:49winds that are capable of bringing down trees and power lines. So what we don't

03:53want is people out and about getting caught out in that break in the weather

03:57where they see the sunshine and the calmer winds and thinking you know I

03:59might just pop out for a walk and then before they know it they are stuck in

04:03very dangerous conditions. Yeah well we talk about those very dangerous

04:07conditions. We heard Brendan Smith in the cross just before us was talking about

04:10mammoth seas off the coast. A 16 meter wave off Main Beach earlier this morning.

04:14Is that something that people might you know they're drawn out to look at a

04:18spectacle like that but it is a real danger isn't it? What's driving those

04:21seas as well? Yeah absolutely again so that 12 meter wave off the Main Beach

04:27buoy this morning that was through a surge on that southern side I've been

04:31talking about. So that was the one of the more severe waves that have

04:34come through. On average the waves coming through the northern end of the Gold

04:37Coast at the moment are around five meters. On the southern end it's around

04:40six meters but yesterday off the Tweed on one of those southern surges again we

04:45saw a wave of 15 meters. They are the largest waves ever recorded off these

04:50buoys since records have been kept in the early 1990s. So we are talking about

04:55monster waves. What I do want to establish is we are still seeing

04:59surfers out in the water despite a blanket bend on beaches. At the moment at

05:04Kira there are still multiple jet skis out and surfers out there. There has been

05:09some discussion today about these surfers you know putting the lives of

05:12other in danger. I just want to say these are the big wave surfers that

05:16travel around the world and a lot of the jet skis out at Kira right now are the

05:20same surfers that were on jet skis doing rescues of the northern rivers and

05:25taking people to safety. So these are the best of the best watermen out there

05:29today. Best of the best watermen thank you Liz but still a warning for people

05:33on the coast please do stay away from those open and exposed beaches because

05:37we know as Alfred tracks closer to the coast these conditions they will only

05:40get worse guys. Thank you to Matt and Liz there live on the GC. Let's go to

05:46Georgina Hill now who's in Victoria Point in Brisbane. Georgie there's been

05:50an update from Brisbane Airport.

05:55Narelda, flights are being cancelled up and down Australia's east coast and when

05:59you look at the winds at Victoria Point here on Brisbane's bayside you can see

06:03why the airlines are making this call. So Qantas has suspended its Brisbane

06:07flights from mid-afternoon. People are being urged to check with Qantas if you

06:11do have a flight book to check that exact timing. Jetstar will suspend its

06:16Brisbane flights from midday local time. Virgin will follow suit at four o'clock

06:22this afternoon. Brisbane Airport itself however remains open that's mainly

06:27because it will essentially be turned into a military gateway when we need the

06:32ADF and we need those resources and supplies to come in to the region. Gold

06:38Coast Airport it closed at four o'clock yesterday afternoon and it remains

06:42closed. The Sunny Coast Airport is also still open at this stage but people are

06:47being urged to check with their own airlines to see exactly what's

06:51happening with their flights. Here on Brisbane's bayside it really is a race

06:55against time to get the boats in. We've seen lots and lots of people this

07:00afternoon drag their boats up onto the beach and just secure them if they are

07:04still out to sea. So there's dozens of boats just essentially being put to bed

07:08to sea and just wait out to see what Alfred brings over the next few days.

07:13Thanks for that update Georgina Hilde. Let's bring in Pippa Shear now

07:18who's live in Brisbane's CBD. We saw the sunshine out there earlier this morning

07:22it's now clouding over that rains beginning to pick up but the CBD Pippa

07:27it's like a ghost town at the moment.

07:31Josh it's quite incredible we've just seen those conditions change here in the

07:34last 15 minutes or so and not since 2011 have we seen the entire South East

07:39Queensland public transport system shut down. No trains, no buses and of course no

07:43CityCats or ferries. They've been pulled out of the water as a precaution over

07:47the next few days. More than a thousand state schools and Catholic and

07:51independent schools have closed their doors today and tomorrow. Parents of

07:55course keeping their kids home with them. Now the work sites and crane

07:58operators around the city have been issued with warnings from Workplace

08:01Health and Safety to make sure that their equipment and the work sites have

08:04been made safe including those cranes to make sure they don't hurt nearby

08:08neighbours or infrastructure. Some shopping centres have in fact opened

08:12their car parks removing the boom gates at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. An

08:15issue though that Alfred is also bringing is the fact that 22 lifeblood

08:20blood donation centres have actually had to close their doors for donors and

08:24staff safety. What that means though is that there's around a thousand blood and

08:28plasma donations that they will be short. They have preemptively sent out stocks

08:31to potentially affected hospitals though as a precaution but of course anyone else

08:36who can roll up their sleeves over the coming days they will be most grateful.

08:40Thanks Pippa. They're live in Brisbane at CBD. Yeah we're gonna be talking to

08:44lifeblood a little later in the bulletin. Let's cross into the border of New South

08:48Wales and Chris Campy is in Lismore. Chris the Premier's at the emergency

08:52centre there. That's right Nerelda. Lismore obviously a place that knows

08:58what these disasters look like and they are bracing for another one. We were

09:03going to show you some of the work getting done here in preparation. This is

09:06part of the levy preparation that they do here in town but this went up in

09:09about 20 minutes. The fellas have done a very quick job of it and it is up and

09:14ready now. It's part of their levy protection system. We have heard from the

09:18Premier. His biggest message this morning was that he doesn't want any

09:22complacency. Obviously the slow meandering arrival of Alfred has meant

09:26there is a bit more time for these preparations. That said there are 10 to

09:3115,000 properties in this area that are currently subject to a prepare to

09:35evacuate order. That order could come if conditions worsen and also as that

09:40system comes in it might be slower which could mean more rain, more wind in the

09:45area so that's why they're putting enormous emergency resources into this

09:49area. There's about 2,000 SES already on the ground. 200 energy workers are ready

09:54to go to repair infrastructure. The ADF, SES, fire, police, everybody is here.

09:59They're all and they say they're as ready as they can be having been through

10:04this before. They say the preparation this time has been much more direct, much

10:08quicker. Evacuation centres are open and authorities are urging that if you are

10:12unsure about your property or where you're staying to go to them early

10:16because tomorrow could be too late. Tomorrow morning will be the last time

10:20to prepare before these conditions really come in. Thanks for that Chris,

10:25Chris Campion. Liz Moore there. So let's recap the key points made by the Prime

10:29Minister, the Queensland Premier and New South Wales Premier during today's

10:32emergency briefings in Brisbane, Liz Moore and Canberra. They've confirmed

10:36tropical cyclone Alfred is now tracking to make landfall in the early hours of

10:40Saturday. We overnight saw the system spin around on itself and then it has

10:47resumed its journey into the coast. So exactly where it will hit and when still

10:53remains unknown but all of the modelling continues to show it is coming towards

10:57the coast. Albeit it has pushed into the early hours of Saturday morning.

11:01Authorities say the safest place to shelter for most people is in your home.

11:07And a risk is of course that in slowing up that it increases in its intensity

11:14but at this stage it is still predicted to be category 2 as it crosses onto land.

11:23Let's bring in Josh Holt now, our meteorologist with the latest. Josh tell

11:28us what we need to know. Yeah look there's plenty going on NJ and look

11:31there is starting to get, we're starting to see a bit of confusing messaging come

11:35out which you would expect with a weather system like this crossing the

11:39coast in a place where we don't usually see them. So what I'm going to do is I'm

11:43going to take you through all of it so we're all up to date and we know what we

11:47can expect as we get across the next 24 to 48 hours. What I'd like to do first of

11:51all is just dive into the satellite imagery. Now as you can see we've got

11:55that cloud mass situated off the east coast. Now that is our cyclone, tropical

12:00cyclone Alfred which is now located let me tell you 245 kilometres east of

12:05Brisbane. So it is getting closer, it is not that far off the coast. Now what can

12:11we expect as we move forward? That's what everyone's asking. Well already we're

12:15beginning to see that rain ramp up. In fact I'm just looking at some of the

12:18data that's coming through right now. We're getting rainfall totals now which

12:22have already hit around about 100 millimetres through parts of the

12:25Gold Coast, Kinterland. No surprises there with that area being a little bit

12:29more elevated and even in the far northern rivers in New South Wales there

12:33are some locations they're seeing around about 130 millimetres into the

12:36rain gauge. This is what I want to show you now. This is why we've seen the

12:40timing of when the system makes landfall be pushed back. Now as you can see if you

12:45just cast your eyes to the right of the blue icon there you can see that little

12:50loop-de-loop. That's what Alfred did last night as it was tracking towards the

12:54coast. So sort of backtracked and then started its westerly track again. Now

12:58when these systems do that and those other squiggly lines you can see it

13:02slows up the timing of the system. So that is why we're seeing that time for

13:06Alfred making landfall continually pushed back. As you can see here it is

13:10approaching the coast as a category 2. I want to stress this as well. On the

13:14forecast trap map on the Bureau website some people are falling into the trap of

13:18looking at that category 1 icon. That is when the system interacts with land. It

13:23starts to lose its ferocity. It starts to weaken but it is going across the coast

13:28as a high-end category 2 with those winds gusting near the centre at 160

13:33kilometres per hour. You can see those very strong winds here on the modelling

13:37associated with this system as it tracks towards the Queensland coast. That

13:41gale force wind boundary is starting to push on our coastal areas. Just a few

13:44minutes ago we saw a wind gust recorded at Byron Bay at 93 kilometres per hour.

13:48Obviously we'll talk more about the rainfall as we get through the bulletin.

13:52And Josh the times of danger are as the cyclone is approaching right? Yeah that's

13:56right. A lot of people think when it actually makes landfall. That's not

13:59correct. The gale force wind boundary and also the destructive winds precede the

14:04cyclone itself. So it'll be in the lead-up to cyclone Alfred making landfall

14:09where we see the most severe weather. So we're looking from around about late

14:12morning tomorrow through the afternoon and through Friday evening when we'll see

14:16those widespread damaging wind gusts and that concentration of destructive winds

14:20up around 160 kilometres per hour.

14:26you

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