NSW premier apologises to flood-affected residents experiencing ‘anxious’ hours-long waits for rescue. Follow today’s news liveNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMinns says community ‘no doubt bracing’ for more bad news after flooding deathThe NSW premier is “bracing for more tough news” following news of a death in the state’s inundated mid-north coast.It’s devastating for that man and his family and his friends. [It’s] a tight-knit community on the mid-north coast, and to lose anyone in these natural disasters is obviously horrifying. So I’m very sorry for that man’s passing.We should be bracing for more tough news over the next 24 hours. We’re very grateful we got enormous amount of expertise, emergency service personnel and thousands of volunteers who are on site, but when you have major natural disasters, obviously, you get terrible news as a result, and that community no doubt will be bracing in the next 24 hours.