Flood evacuation warnings for communities along Hobart's Derwent River. a flood evacuation warning remains in place this morning for multiple communities along hobart's durent river and tens of thousands of properties remain without power after days of wild weather across Australia's Southeast in Tasmania communities remain isolated and several properties have been inundated by flood borders including Leni estate Distillery while in Victoria severe weather warnings have been cancelled however dozens of roads are still cut off and drivers are being urged to take care reporter Selena Ross is in new norol for us morning Steph f is in Melbourne good morning both kicking off with you Selena what's been happening there overnight in the D Valley good morning Michael we are thankfully starting to see a bit of of a reprieve here in the weather it has started to ease off now after quite a really sustained period that we've been seeing over the past week uh that's prompted us to come and explore a little bit further out so we've actually moved from new Northfolk up to the neighboring area of lacklin uh here we're kind of up in the hills now and the ground even though we're in these elevated areas is still so Soden and wet from all that rain that's been coming uh there was water cascading down this hill behind me uh a couple of days ago that uh spilt over a dam that's just over here and then that um spilled over onto the road that cut off uh access for properties that were up the hill over here so they were isolated there and that's been the case for quite a few of the communities around this area um around the dert uh we have a little visitor on the camera here um we're on a property where there's an animal rescue so we'll be talking to the owner a little bit later um but it it really has just been a massive night as well the um the meadow Bank Dam reached record uh flood levels a record of 8 um M and that stayed at the major flood level for between the hours of um midday and midnight uh yesterday so it really was quite a sustained period that it was over that major flood level um we heard from the Tasmania Premier Jeremy rockliffe a little earlier and here's a bit of what he had to say we will assess the damage over the course of the next 24 hours and go from there but most importantly we're looking for an out for people in isolated communities ensuring that people have food uh food relief is so very important we understand there are some uh people in isolated communities that without power for a long time and so we need to ensure that we support uh those people in those communities uh doing it tough so yes there is still this ongoing uh need for people to take care to show caution there are still issues in terms of power outages Telephone outages Internet outages crews are still working to try to do their best to get all those Services back on track so uh hopefully it won't be too much longer but it still could be days before some people are fully back on Deck camera Hogs everywhere Selena photo bomb by cows now you've lived I think it's the first time my trousers have been eaten by a cow while on air it's a first for everything hey let's go to Seth now uh things seem Severe weather warnings cancelled in Victoria. to be coming down there certainly I can't top that Michael but uh as you can see behind me the cleanup job still has a very long way to go this is a cafe that really was reduced to Rubble after those winds ripped through this area late on Sunday night the sces says that there are just over 400 active Jobs still remaining out of more than 4,700 calls for help since 700 p.m. Sunday night and more than 3,300 of those are for trees down more than 1300 for building damage like this behind me and we've heard from the SCS that they've actually got some reinforcements now they've got uh some ground crew from New South Wales about 29 people have just arrived across the border after midnight T they're going to be mainly helping in some of those worst affected areas like gibsland in Victoria's East and also in the southern metropolitan area with Frankston for example really taking a battering but earlier on we heard from Miriam Bradbury she's a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of meteorology and she said that the most intense period was on that Sunday afternoon and evening when that front really ripped through much of the southeast including major parts of Melbourne this is what she had to say we saw some very significant gusts as it moved through with many locations particularly through southern and Central Victoria seeing their highest wind gust for September uh so that included places like uh forcon and Beacon around the port Philip Bay Area which got up to 141 km an hour we had 121 km hour at St Kilda not a September record there but still incredibly strong as that front came through uh but it was more widespread than that Wanga got up to 98 km an hour the strongest Wing gust up that far north Miriam Bradbury they a senior meteorologist at the bureau and we've heard that 41,000 homes and properties still remain without power around the state osnet spokesperson and that's osnet covers mostly the eastern part of the state they have said that this is the longest most severe weather outage basically that the network has ever faced Hillsville for example which is northeast of Melbourne that town is listed as being a critical outage point and around 28 homes aren't likely to see power restored until tomorrow night at the very least now while some of those really severe warnings have now been cancelled things like the coastal Hazard warnings where we saw 8 m swells down in Portland in Victoria Southwest there are still Gale warnings and the bureau and the SC are are both gearing up and bracing for the next major front that's expected tomorrow afternoon okay stiff thank you and Selena we'll be coming back to you on your Bine friends very shortly on the show well Israel's prime minister Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu defiant in the face of pressure to make a hostage deal. Benjamin Netanyahu remains defiant in the face of Massive Internal pressure calling for him to make a hostage release deal with Hamas inside Gaza even the US president's confessed he believes Mr Netanyahu isn't doing enough to Make a Deal Middle East correspondent horn has been at the protest in Tel Aviv for the second day in a row Israelis have taken to the streets to shut down areas in central Tel Aviv in these Mass anti-government protests you can hear them shouting in anger and frustration they've come out in their thousands to protest against the government and what they say is a lack of progress on hostage release negotiations in Gaza some of these people blame the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the deaths of six hostages whose bodies were recovered this week from Gaza hostages which the military says were alive until just days before their bodies were found now this development has really propelled hundreds of thousands of people to try to shut down Israel to pressure the government to make a hostage release deal with Hamas no matter the price and they accused the prime minister of prioritizing Revenge in Gaza over the hostages lives these are innocent people that were abducted from the place that was supposed to be the most um safe for them so we've been here and we feel heartbroken our government does not see us terrible terrible terrible they need to go and we need another government here well it's not only here in Israel that there's criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu the president of the United States Joe Biden has also said that he doesn't believe Mr Netanyahu is doing everything he can to make a hostage release deal which is quite a damning statement in itself Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his actions vowing to continue the war and to keep his troops inside the Gaza Strip the Philadelphia Corridor this is the oxygen and Armament of Hamas there's such a sense of grief and shock and loss and anger here but there's also a determination these people say this is more than about the hostages it's about the future of their country and what they want Israel to be Allison horn reporting back home a teenager has been charged with a Queensland teenager charged with terrorism-related offence. terrorism related offense by the Queensland joint counterterrorism team the Australian federal police says the boy was charged with one count of acts done in preparation for or planning terrorist acts the AFP says there is no current threat to Public Safety the family of a teenage boy missing off the Search to resume for 16yo swept off rocks at SA's Victor Harbor. South Australian coast has been anxiously waiting for news of their son and brother authorities will return to the water of Victor harba this morning as they search for 16-year-old medy Habibi who was posing for a photo when he was struck by a large wave on granite Island on Sunday search and rescue crews continued their search into the early evening yesterday but were hampered by dangerous weather conditions the liberal Liberal Party's Federal Executive to discuss state takeover after candidate bungle. party's Federal Executive meets today to discuss a potential takeover of the New South Wales division the special meeting was called weeks ago in the wake of the party's nomination shambles that saw 140 liberal candidates left off the ballot for next month's local government elections opposition leader Peter Dutton previously said all options are on the table the Bruce highway is expected to Bruce Highway expected to reopen five days after explosion damaged road. reopen tonight 5 days after a fiery truck crash left the highway severely damaged the section of Highway between jinin and kpi has been closed since Friday morning following a truck crash that killed one person and a subsequent explosion the transport and main roads Department says it's working to reopen a single Lane of the highway under Traffic Control by midnight tonight the United workers union is calling for dream world Union calls for Dreamworld to stop handlers entering tiger enclosures. to stop animal handlers entering tiger enclosures in the wake of yesterday's attack a 47-year-old female animal handler was taken to hospital in a aable condition with serious cuts and puncture wounds after being beaten by a tiger at the theme park most zoos and sanctuaries no longer allow handlers to have direct contact with the big cats because they are highly territorial a kakadu National Park tour Tourists warned about crocodile risk at notorious Northern Territory crossing. guard operator says something needs to be changed at a popular crocodile viewing spot or at risks being shut down in recent weeks video like this has emerged of tourists standing at the edge of water at Carl's Crossing despite signs warning of the presence of dozens of saltwater crocs two are guards calling for local Rangers to be deployed at the Crossing to change tourist behavior and prevent an attack