Heavy rains in Australia's east flood Sydney streets

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Heavy rain brought flash flooding to Australia's largest city, Sydney, on Saturday (June 8), prompting rescues and evacuation orders for several low-lying suburbs. - REUTERS

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00:00The weather has been contracting and today most of NSW you will see only limited amounts

00:14of rainfall, but that does not mean that the risk is not there because what we are going

00:19to see now is riverine flooding in many areas, particularly in the west of Sydney.

00:25And this will continue predominantly throughout today and hopefully will ease later this afternoon

00:31and into tomorrow.

00:33The fact of the matter is our dams are full, our waterways are full, our grounds are saturated.

00:38So the impact of the rain that we are having at any given time is having a much more profound

00:43effect and as a result of that we have invoked a number of warnings, evacuation warnings,

00:48areas that have been evacuated.

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