roofing while waiting to safety her future like many others is something she finds difficult to contemplate i am from now on life will be difficult i will need food i will need shelter he's crying for food now but i don't know what he will be crying for when we go back. these people are getting three meals a day and access to medical care so safe and sound and driving they have no idea when they'll be able to go back to their homes that is if they have a home to go back to. the massive emergency operation involves dozens of countries and it's costing more than fifty million dollars but the focus is now changing at the moment the they cute phase of risk is pretty much over those people needed to be lifted out of raging water. people and trees and the top of causes most of that is as as as those people most of those people have been risked their artwork the think the focus area at the moment is relief getting that relief to the people who

need it is now an urgent priority for cholera and other diseases break out the situation is improving but there are still risk of further flooding sadly the risk of flooding is ever present and ultimately we have red alerts now on two of the major rivers one is a busy flowing in from zimbabwe to the sea and the other is the breezy river which is a short fat flat river which floods very easily as already battle saturation of the germs are full so we're facing multiple routes that won't affect these people their concern is their next meal and how to rebuild their homes their communities and their lives. well that was tony betty reporting for us from beirut. and now to a strain which is being hit by the second big storm in today's psychotronic across as the northwest coast at port hedland a day early as i can travel hit a remote part of the north coast it's moving slowly and bringing a storm surge. let's speak to rob mcbride who is in port hedland for us on

a seemingly very very windy balcony rob veronica is making landfall at any moment. that's right it has already made landfall the stars here at about one hundred kilometers further down the coast from where we are standing at it it is at about this time of the saturday session twenty four hours ago now that the authorities here put into place this site closed red alert that's the alert to tell people basically to take cover there's trouble coming up but much about the time we have been subjected to a run occur in the past twelve hours also pretty sick veronica not a full force it's being out at sea gaining in strength very very slow the east too slowly for many people that's being gradually moving along the coast that is now making landfall if i can just give you a little look here at the shoreline it has actually. come to less while that it was

a couple of hours ago we've just gone past the high tide period when we could addition to the high tide we've had the storm surge of an extra couple of meters of water to port is a very low lying area that we've been now watching gold along this coast to the surface but crashing over into those lying areas here beyond the coast road but we are expecting in the coming days quite a lot of flooding which is going to be exacerbate the poles by the rain with all of these storm systems they also drag and large rain bands and so we're expecting in the next few days very heavy rain we see here on this part of the coastline up drug of fifty millimeters of rain we could easily see that amount of rain again there before the end to this storm and to give you some idea that's by basically a year's worth of rain in just a few days start you know a very wet dry on the ride for some port hedland do stay safe thank you for that update.