Cyclone Narelle makes landfall in far north Queensland

0:00And good morning, Tropical Cyclone Narell has made landfall with residents told to brace for conditions not seen in a century. Let's go live to Jade Richards, who's in Cooktown for us this morning. Jade was the latest. Yeah, good morning, Sally. The Bureau of Meteorology has now confirmed that Tropical Cyclone Narell crossed the coast at about 7 o'clock, a clock. Queensland time this morning, around 50 kilometres north of the town of Cohen as a category four system. And we are starting to see pictures from inside the impact zone. We had some residents send us videos from Portland roads, which is just north of where it's made landfall. And they say that the wind has been strong enough to bring down trees on their property. And it's been pounding on the front door of their home, which they are sheltering inside of. Other impacts have been widespread across the final of Queensland coast. We know that there was a significant storm surge in cans overnight in the northern beaches there. It has been some erosion and water over the roads, but it looks as if the eye of the cyclone

1:03will be crossing over that town of Cohen. It's one of Queensland's most remote communities, about 400 people live there. And last we heard most of them were heading to an emergency shelter to shelter from that storm. Here we're in Cooktown where we seem to have dodged a bit of a bullet, the worst that we had was 70 kilometres wind gusts late last night, but we are no longer in the warning zone. However, the system is now belining across the Cape, and there have been emergency alerts sent out for towns like Arachune and Weeper, so it still has a long way to go. Yep, it certainly does. All right, we'll check back in with you throughout the morning. Thanks for that, Jade.