Cyclone Narelle: Strong Winds, Heavy Rain, Floods

0:00What's up Sidney? This is Sidney News today, bringing you the city's fastest updates on what is happening now. Cyclone Arrell, one of Australia's strongest storms in years, made landfall in Queensland's Cape York as a category 4 system before weakening and, staring toward the northern territories top end. It's now forecast to hit the northeast coast overnight, Saturday into early Sunday morning as a category 3, between Birney, Birney, and Engloucourt, then. Push inland Sunday and Monday, officials warn of gusts up to 195 kilometers per hour near Birney, Birney, and the Bolwar, with Gail's extending west, plus heavy rain, sparking life-dreatening flash floods and possible storm tides. Residents from Unhaloonby to Port MacArthur are urged to secure property and boats right away, while the defense force has already evacuated nearly one. 150 people from the Bolwar, with hundreds more lined up for flights out. The northern territory is still reeling from severe flooding around Catherine just weeks ago.

1:03It's worse than nearly 30 years, so communities there are bracing for even more water damage as Narell closes in.