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Flood kills four, leaves thousand homeless in Australia
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David Piper reports from Bangkok, Thailand
- Duration 1:47
- Date Jan 29, 2013
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We'll deadly floodwaters forcing thousands of people from their homes and this is the scene in -- -- Australia.
Where rescuers already airlifted more than a thousand people from the rising water.
And the flooding is expected to get worse David piper is streaming live from Bangkok David what is the situation that.
I'm off the well spirited tough kid so far -- -- at first that those push -- now is heavy flooding.
The -- sense all of this disaster the moment is around town of -- about seeing Queensland as you said.
People -- to be evacuated from the town of about a thousand people had to skate by going onto rooftops of that -- Concern also a New South Wales the town of Grafton the -- that that fearing that it may break.
And they've actually evacuated that town now and -- Group problems are the moments in the U emergency service is a very stretch that trying to cope with the Moffett.
-- those images remind me of Hurricane Katrina.
With people on the rooftops in the discussion of levees breaking.
How difficult is it for them to get in there and help those people David.
This is quite large operation to -- she managed to get.
Help a thousand people off rooftops by helicopter is a mammoth -- -- -- pretty amazing really and that town of Grafton without -- thus a major challenge they've brought in Neil Australian military now to help out as well and they also have to maybe back.
Patience from the hospital Grafton.
And they're also putting them both to escape towards us a very difficult situation of the moment -- There's that video that little baby being carried out that we watched yesterday.
Safely rescued thank goodness David thank you very much.
