La ciudad de Bahía Blanca enfrenta una crisis tras intensas lluvias que han dejado al menos 16 muertos y más de 100 personas sin localizar. Las autoridades debaten si se trata de desaparecidos o incomunicados, mientras los residentes luchan contra el agua que alcanza hasta un metro setenta en algunas áreas. La situación es crítica en algunos barrios donde el barro ha sepultado viviendas y vehículos.
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00:00Now there are 16 confirmed fatal victims, but more than 100 people who cannot be located.
00:07And there will be a discussion, because for the government they are not missing, but they are technically missing.
00:13But in any case, whether they are missing or missing, those people do not appear.
00:20And we will be attentive to what is known.
00:23Of course, the list of the deceased has also been known.
00:29There is an unidentified person, but in the meantime, there are concerns in Bahía Blanca
00:34because there is a threat of storm with wind and there are lots of places,
00:40like the place where Alejandro Pueblas is, which are still flooded.
00:45The water does not go down.
00:47Those images you are seeing are live images at this time.
00:52And with a particularity that the work has in this case,
00:56and it is that much, but much has been buried by the mud.
01:00And hence, a lot of unknowns that appear on this search, which is a different search.
01:08I return, many of the things have been absolutely buried by the mud.
01:14Look at the amount of water that is in this place.
01:17We are talking about a locality that at least has 1.70 meters of water.
01:22And as the days go by, we are getting to know some particularities of the places,
01:26which were the places that had the worst.
01:28The center of the city of Bahía Blanca, yes, the post office was flooded.
01:31It is tremendous, because it is a center of one of the great cities in Argentina.
01:35But worse is Ingeniero Guay, worse is Serri.
01:38It is in those places where the worst tragedies happened.
01:41But we are going right now to Bahía Blanca to make contact with Alejandro Pueblas.
01:46Rolando Sol, we are in the neighborhood of August 17.
01:49One of the most affected by the water and now the wind.
01:52You can hardly stand up.
01:54Look at the wave that is there, which also attacks the houses.
01:58Yes, let's clarify that you are not in a lagoon, brother.
02:06Today it seems to be a lagoon, Rolo.
02:09We are with the water almost to the height of the knee.
02:12The image of that house, where the water reaches almost to the end of the door.
02:19How much is it? 1.60 meters? 1.70 meters?
02:23Yes, there I would get to the height almost of the chest, Rolo.
02:26Let's see if there is a young man walking, let's see if I can get closer.
02:29Because under that water there must be the cars too.
02:31Let's see what his house is.
02:33Yes, yes, when the water goes down, in principle, let's just think about the cars, Rolo.
02:37But it is complex.
02:39Hello, we are live for America.
02:41Are you from here or do you come to help?
02:43No, I live here.
02:44Is this your house?
02:45Yes.
02:46Did the water reach the height of the knee or more?
02:48Yes, yes, 30 centimeters more or less.
02:50But hey, we are fine now, thank God.
02:52Did you have to evacuate?
02:53Yes, yes, yes.
02:54Do you have children?
02:55Yes, two.
02:56When did you decide to leave the house and say, well, I leave everything as it is and I'm leaving because it can be worse?
03:01And when we got here and it didn't stop.
03:04It didn't stop growing.
03:05Of course.
03:06My brother came and gave us a hand and when we got down here, the water hit our chest more or less.
03:10Did it hit your chest when you got to the fence?
03:12Yes, yes.
03:13Did you carry your children on your shoulders and left?
03:15Yes, we left walking around here.
03:17And well, from there we went to my brother's house.
03:19How is your family, where are they?
03:21They are fine, they are fine.
03:22At your brother's house?
03:23In a second floor.
03:24With my children, yes, they are with my mother-in-law.
03:26At the time, worse.
03:27You said, or I go up to the roof, or I go out, or I see what I do.
03:30Yes, yes, the truth is that yes.
03:31Did you analyze the current at that time?
03:33Yes, more or less, but it is a critical situation.
03:35Did you play it?
03:36Yes, yes.
03:37Thank you, José.
03:38José, thank you very much.
03:39Ale, before saying goodbye, ask him what was on the other side.
03:43What was on the other side?
03:44That place that is now a lagoon and that looks like an almost covered house.
03:48What was there?
03:49A street?
03:50What was on the other side?
03:51Help me, wait, wait.
03:52I'll connect you with Rolando Veraña and it will take a minute.
03:55There he listens to you, Rolo.
03:57Excuse me, what was on the other side?
03:59In front of your house, that place that is still covered by the water.
04:02What was there?
04:03What is under the water?
04:07And there was like two meters of water, more or less.
04:09But what is there when the water is not there?
04:11When the water goes away.
04:12It is a lagoon, it is a lagoon.
04:14It is a lagoon.
04:15A street to enter the houses.
04:17The street is on that side, it would be.
04:19As this place is new, it is not inhabited yet, it would be.
04:25That's why there are few houses.
04:26There are few houses.
04:27Exactly.
04:28So this part is like a lagoon.
04:30And did you know?
04:31And on another occasion this place had flooded.
04:33Did you know it was a totally flooded area?
04:37No, no, no, not at all.
04:39This had never happened.
04:40It has rained.
04:41No, no, never.
04:42It is historical, obviously, right?
04:47Well, we leave you.
04:48Have you been able with those 30 centimeters?
04:50Yes, of course.
04:51Are you going to enter?
04:52Yes, of course.
04:53What a complicated situation.
04:54He is going to enter, look, he is going to enter his house barefoot.
04:57Look when he tries to enter, how he starts to go up.
05:00It is the first time he returns to the house.
05:02He ends up going down.
05:03Yes, yes, yes, he is coming back.
05:05Look at the car.
05:06He did not get out of the car either.
05:08Out of fear.
05:09Ale!
05:10Look how he went down to the height of the knee.
05:12And now he is trying to enter his house, which is a little high, Soler.
05:15Let's see, we listen to you a little.
05:17Because just a day or two ago you were in a shirt.
05:20Tell us how the weather was changing.
05:22What is the forecast for today?
05:24Because a rain is feared.
05:26Tell us the information of how the situation is living now there.
05:29Yes.
05:31A lot of wind, cold.
05:33Now it must be doing 16 degrees, 15 degrees.
05:37But you feel the cold.
05:39From that side you see clear.
05:41But now if Juan turns to the side of the bay, well, the sky is covered with threat of falling water again.
05:49Tremendous.
05:50The meteorologists say that a small amount is going to fall.
05:52But the people are already armed and are prepared for water to fall again.
05:56And this did not run out.
05:58That is, the water that is going to run out here from other sides, from that field that is high, look.
06:02From that high field, which is what runs out here.
06:05There is no way out from here.
06:07Well, now they are trying to make a kind of channel so that the route is blocked.
06:11Well.
06:12We are going to move forward and the water will start to reach us more and more.
06:16We want to get to the corner so that they can observe the other houses that are on the corner over there.
06:21We have to go slowly.
06:22They told us to go close to this place.
06:26It is a dirt road, off-campus.
06:28Many houses have had to be abandoned.
06:31They have had to leave and stay, practically, so that someone can come and, unfortunately, get into your house.
06:40Well, loot it.
06:41It is a community, a neighborhood where everyone knows each other because they were visiting it recently.
06:46They are beautiful houses, it is an urbanized place.
06:48Look at the car.
06:50Look at that car.
06:53Hanging from a roof, it has remained because the water attacked it.
06:59And now we are going to get to another house where the water reaches another vehicle.
07:04At this moment, at the height of the hood, but the water does not go down.
07:07We are talking about, practically, in some places, two, two and a half meters of water.
07:13That car has been underwater for four days.
07:15Desperate.
07:16On what floor?
07:17Yes, the house that is behind too.
07:19What is down there?
07:20Mud.
07:21We step on mud.
07:22Unstable mud and soft.
07:24We sank a few centimeters more.
07:27A huge physical effort.
07:28In other places we have sunk more.
07:30Walking in that place costs a lot.
07:35And look now, I'm going to show you the image of people being rescued.
07:39We want to see if we will be able to get there now.
07:42But at this precise moment, on another street, it was impossible for us to get there.
07:48They are rescuing people.
07:49They are evacuating people.
07:52Look at the number of cars that are still underwater.
07:56Yes, yes, this area is catastrophic.
07:59We are talking that this started on Friday.
08:02Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and people still with water in their thighs.
08:08Water at the height, in some places, of the waist.
08:10Look, these people are going to come and try to help.
08:13We are going to take a few more steps with Juan.
08:16They told us more or less how far, because then the terrain gets complicated.
08:20There are people who do not want to leave the house, as we just saw.
08:23Ale, you who are there, what presence of the state do you see there?
08:27There are the provincial forces, civil defense, the municipality, the nation.
08:36Because here in Buenos Aires we see photos, postcards and everything of all kinds.
08:42But I want, there, that you are with the water very high, look at the neighbors how they are.
08:49What is the presence of the state there that you see?
08:54The state of abandonment.
08:55He is the one who came to this place and came to talk to the neighbors.
09:00Yes, very clear.
09:02There should be ...
09:03And we have come to places where no one had arrived, Rolo.
09:07Today in the morning we are going to be in a neighborhood where people came to hang us and also to ask us,
09:12please, let's send help.
09:15They only asked for water, they did not have water.
09:18The basics, they did not have it.
09:22Ale, you said ...
09:23We have to try to move forward there.
09:25You said a little while ago, people do not want to go, they do not want to leave their house.
09:32How much fear, because our Argentine history always causes us to be afraid of taking care of the house,
09:38even in these disasters.
09:40And how much reality of insecurity there is?
09:46Well, today we got to a neighborhood where they told us two things.
09:50They rang the doorbell, if people did not go out, they took the house.
09:54So it's reality.
09:56But Ale, remember ...
10:01That's what you saw in the floods in Porto Alegre two years ago.
10:25With a gun that was in a paint jar, of oil, that each one grabbed it and tried to get in.
10:31And we had to have that because from the roofs they threw shots so that you did not go in to steal.
10:35Well, here we have not reached that, but they throw stones in the houses to see if no one comes out and they come in to steal.
10:42Well, it's similar. Here with bow and arrow, there with lead bullets, right?
10:47Well, this is important that you are marking.
10:49It is important because a lot has been said during the last hours about what could happen with insecurity.
10:56Still, obviously, let's go to an obvious point.
10:59There is no light anywhere.
11:01What is the percentage now of people without light?
11:04I imagine we are very far from improving that percentage because look at the amount of water there is.
11:12Yes, not only light, there is no internet, there is no connection.
11:16We are talking about a 45% of white people who have nothing.
11:20And that in many places, look, the water is reaching me to the waist if I take two more steps.
11:25Well, places where they really have nothing and are not connected with their relatives.
11:31Now, there are people who do not appear directly.
11:36Well, there is a whole discussion.
11:38Today we saw 15 crushed cars that it is not known what is inside.
11:45Today, the government said that, well, the Minister of Security, Patricia Burri,
11:50that in truth there were no disappeared people, there were no reports,
11:54that only the reported disappeared people were three.
11:57When the truth, if the days go by, if the days go by, the days go by and they do not appear, they are disappeared.
12:03The two girls and a third person.
12:06The painful thing about that message is the I believe.
12:10Well, I say it and today I said it.
12:13I ask her not to think, to come.
12:16If she comes here and goes around, she realizes that her thinking there changes.
12:21From a chair to go around thinking, well, there are only three.
12:24It is very difficult what we are living, Ale.
12:27We, at some point in the day, when we talk on the phone, when we talk, we remember money.
12:32I think it is the memory that we all have more serious in Argentina.
12:36But it is not like that.
12:37Yes, because first it is a city where ...
12:42I think the factor, Ale, to see if you agree, the factor,
12:46the meters of mud that cover everything, is what disturbs me the most in this picture.
12:54Because that mud, maybe tomorrow it turns into soil
12:58and maybe one does not know what can be left in the middle of that mud.
13:02We are understanding, there are many disappeared people.
13:05That possibility that someone can stay, a body can be buried and not be found.
13:12Sure.
13:14What I lived today was people looking for relatives with sticks in the mud.
13:21Desperate.
13:23And asking that, although it is filled, that it is filled, the sluices that there were,
13:27because they were sluices, there are streets that are seven meters by the level they were,
13:31that is, there is a precipice of seven meters,
13:34asking that, please, before it is filled, that it is checked between the mud.
13:38Well, the situation ...
13:40What anguish, huh?
13:42And relatives looking in the cars of the bridges, trying to go and look,
13:46to see if they found their loved ones inside one of those cars.
13:50Well, you have told the story of many neighbors who say they saw bodies floating towards the bar.
13:56Yes, and the figure that is spoken, I do not think it was
14:01repeatedly the same corpse, one after another, those who have seen floating, right?
14:06I think they were different.
14:08Well, the figure rises, if those stories change.
14:12I wanted to show you this, because it is what neighbors are using to get belongings.
14:17They have done it with drums.
14:19With the bed.
14:21Yes, and here they put the belongings and they are moving them,
14:25as I am doing now, right?
14:27With the elastic or the bed.
14:29To the different places, with the things that out there can not finish,
14:34do not want to get wet or can not get wet.
14:36Well, on top of different things.
14:38Yes, many refrigerators, look, there is already one that they used as a raft.
14:41Today, Juan Chacerreta is going to show you.
14:43When the cloud and the wind approach.
14:45Attention with this, because on one side the sun,
14:48on the other side the cloud with a lot of wind,
14:51approaching the place where we are in this precise moment,
14:54where people evacuated.
14:56There are people who are no longer in the houses.
14:58We have a family that we can not reach,
15:00which is on the second floor of that house,
15:03which was just assisted with food, who does not want to leave the house.
15:06Now, Alejandro, sorry.
15:08They are on the upper floor and they will stay there.
15:10There, look at these two images that were just shown.
15:13It's in a pot.
15:15And all the ends of the street that you have there, Alejandro,
15:19to one side, to your left, to the right,
15:22they all have like a kind of flatland.
15:24That is, the route or the roads are high.
15:27That does not have an exit.
15:29See what it is.
15:31If they do not plow, this does not drain.
15:34As it is.
15:36If a machine does not come to make a well,
15:38or to try to make this drain somewhere, it will not drain.
15:41This is going to continue like this,
15:42a lagoon will be made for an indefinite time,
15:45until the water decides to dry up.
15:47Ale, let's see, we are talking a lot about what is coming
15:50regarding the climate and how the water is going to come out of there.
15:53Let's add Ignacio López Amorín to this talk.
15:57He is a meteorologist and he is already with us.
16:01Ignacio, how are you?
16:03How are you? Good afternoon.
16:05Well, I tell you that Bahía Blanca
16:07registered a temperature of about 25 degrees.
16:09I am close to three in the afternoon
16:11and now the humidity increases.
16:13There is a humidity that is affecting parts
16:15of the south of the province of Buenos Aires.
16:17And there is a probability tonight
16:19of some rain and some isolated rain.
16:21I have peace of mind.
16:23Rains that would not be exceeding 5 millimeters,
16:25between 1 and 5 millimeters at most.
16:28And the wind in the southern sector is already blowing
16:31at 40 kilometers per hour from the southern sector.
16:34Windy conditions for tonight
16:37and tomorrow morning.
16:39Which for people is not good news,
16:42because the wind moves the water
16:44and the water is still in the neighborhoods.
16:46Of course, exactly.
16:48That is why I highlight it.
16:50It is a little significant
16:52in terms of the amount of rain
16:54and the quite strong wind
16:56of the southern quadrant.
16:58And from Tuesday,
17:00luckily, a period of
17:02at least five days in a row
17:04with good weather,
17:06and with more pleasant temperatures.
17:08So, in quotes,
17:10the worst thing should be tonight
17:12with the wind and some rain.