trees and roof tops, and the damage estimates are already in the billions of dollars. on the phone with me now from brisbane australia is mark jeffery, he s a reporter with global radio news. mark. yes, hello there 11,900 homes are totally inundated, another 14,800 partially flooded. that s over 27,000 homes in brisbane affected by this flood. after days of waiting and then seeing it peak about 24 hours ago the good news is the river is slowly dropping. as dawn breaks here on friday morning in brisbane, queensland our city is again waking up to face the affects of this massive onslaught of water. as two rivers converge from two valleys sending messy tpwhraod waterfloodwaters into the city s created chaos. 25,000 homes were totally cut off from the rest of the city.