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Title: Brazil battles nature as 'largest ever' floods submerge whole cities
Duration: 2:51
Platform: YouTube
User: Channel 4 News
Publication date: May 6, 2024
Language: English
Segment: Meteorology
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>> 0:01 - Now at least 83 people are dead after days of heavy rain in Southern Brazil
>> 0:05 - And more than 100 are missing
>> 0:07 - Another 122,000 people have been displaced by floods
>> 0:10 - Which have destroyed roads and bridges in several cities triggered landslides
>> 0:14 - And caused a dam to partially collapse
>> 0:18 - The governor of Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has described it as being in a war scenario
>> 0:23 - It is the fourth time they've been hit by flooding in the last year
>> 0:27 - Aisha tol has more
>> 0:30 - This is what days of pounding rain has done to the southernmost region of Brazil
>> 0:34 - The city of Canoas just outside the state capital
>> 0:38 - Boats having to replace cars
>> 0:41 - And helicopters becoming a small beacon of hope
>> 0:45 - As people await rescue
>> 0:47 - Bodyw warn camera captures the moment a soldier uses a brick to break the roof of a house
>> 0:53 - To free a baby trapped by floodwater
>> 0:56 - A scene now too familiar for the people of Rio Grande do Sul
>> 1:01 - As the military and volunteers frantically race to others
>> 1:05 - Who need help
>> 1:08 - I am 53 years old and this is the first time our house is flooded it has never flooded before we never thought we would go through this
>> 1:16 - At least 80 people are known to have died
>> 1:18 - More than 100 are still missing
>> 1:20 - And over 100,000 can't return home
>> 1:25 - I need a lot of help a lot
>> 1:27 - We have nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat
>> 1:29 - We have nothing
>> 1:30 - It's very difficult I almost drowned the guy who saw me pulled me into the boat because I couldn't
>> 1:36 - Almost everyone in the region has a story of rescue survival and sadly loss
>> 1:43 - The Brazilian president flew over the affected areas
>> 1:46 - With members of his cabinet promising help from the national government
>> 1:53 - I put all of them on my helicopter
>> 1:55 - We came here so that we could have a glimpse
>> 1:57 - Get the extent of the flood
>> 1:58 - Together with the governor
>> 2:00 - So the damage that the rain is causing and has already caused
>> 2:04 - Last week the president described the floods as being the largest Brazil had ever seen
>> 2:09 - Never before had so much rain fallen in one single location he said
>> 2:14 - Weather across South America is currently being affected by the phenomenon of El Nino
>> 2:19 - Which warms surface waters and causes intense rainfall in the south of Brazil
>> 2:24 - And drought in the north
>> 2:25 - But scientists say the extreme weather is happening more often because of human caused climate change
>> 2:32 - Unfortunately droughts and floods will occur more frequently and will often lead to unprecedented situations that can lead to these disasters
>> 2:40 - More rain is forecast in the coming days a state of alert has been reissued
>> 2:45 - With no rest bite in sight for the towns and cities already submerged in record-breaking floodwater.
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