00:00...confirmed lives that were lost now, and the disappearance of two girls, Delfina and Pilar Hecker,
00:07five and a year old, of that story, and in the place of the facts is now Alejandro Pueblas.
00:13How are you Ale, good afternoon.
00:16Very good afternoon, the situation is otherwise critical, where we are now with Ernesto Tallareta.
00:21We are trying to get to Cerri, it is one of the most affected towns.
00:24Look, for that side, now entering a machine to try to uncover part of the water circulation,
00:30a lady with her puppy that she had to save.
00:33We see people here, but we are not going to approach, let's see, come here, come here, keep it, huh.
00:36Look, this is the street Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and I'm going to tell you the reality.
00:40We came with the car on the route, trying to turn, the GPS marked us to turn right here, look.
00:45There is nothing.
00:45This is the street that enters Cerri, at this moment it is a stream that goes directly,
00:52the water running to Cerri, to the side where these girls were on top of the truck.
00:57What you see there is a house, at this time it is a pile of rubble.
01:01The water here reached more than two meters.
01:03For you to have a notion of the force of the water, the Guaray started.
01:07Look how they have been torn and thrown some on the asphalt, Lu.
01:13We are observing the images on the right of a Gol brand car.
01:18Gol.
01:20Could this be the car of the family?
01:25Do you know?
01:27We are going to try to get to that vehicle.
01:30It is, Lu, it is about a kilometer to the street that I just showed you.
01:37A situation where there were two meters of water.
01:39But there is no way ...
01:40Wait, I'm going to get closer.
01:42Come on, come on, we follow you, Ale.
01:44Ale is in Cerri, which is the place where the sisters disappeared.
01:48Where there were at least five deceased.
01:50How are you?
01:52How are you?
01:54Did you come to help? What happened?
01:56Yes, I came here.
01:58My husband is in the field, making the house, because everything was flooded.
02:04The field, the water, everything.
02:06Instead of being at home, you are standing here.
02:08I've been waiting for him since this morning, because he's with my daughter.
02:11We can't walk so much.
02:14How far did the water get there?
02:16I have no idea, because they haven't arrived yet.
02:18They haven't arrived, where is your house?
02:20I don't know, at least a little, yes.
02:22And the water here was very strong, right?
02:25I have no idea, because over there is the stream that goes to the school.
02:29Did they run away from the water?
02:32No, we are not from here, we are from Punta Alta.
02:35And they came from Punta Alta now to see how their house is?
02:37Yes, from there.
02:38Do you have relatives there in the Amazon?
02:41In the field, no, my husband is the one who goes and comes.
02:43The one who is now going and coming.
02:46Since this morning, he hasn't come back with my daughter.
02:49They found everything flooded.
02:51Are you in touch with them?
02:53Yes, by phone.
02:55Thank you very much.
02:57Come, I'm going to show you.
02:59You just saw the image of the little girl with the dog,
03:02who has also been left on the side of the road,
03:04who is the granddaughter of the lady.
03:06Here is a boy, let's see if we are going to bother him with the canoe.
03:10Master, does it bother you a little?
03:12We are live for A24.
03:15I see you are all wet, they are sleeping,
03:17they were taking people out, what was the situation?
03:19We came to see my mom because as this overflowed,
03:23we had to go to see how she was, we had no way.
03:27You couldn't find your mom?
03:29No.
03:30And now you were able to find her?
03:31Yes, we could see her,
03:33because we just came to see my dad and my brother,
03:36and yes, we could see that everything was fine.
03:39I notice you are very sad, the situation is critical
03:41to the place where we can't get to, right?
03:43Yes.
03:45Did you arrive only with the canoe?
03:47Yes, it was difficult to get there, but we were able to get there.
03:50What did you find when you arrived?
03:52No, a disaster,
03:54you can't ...
03:56there are no words to explain what is going on back there.
03:59It's horrible how it is.
04:02Thank you, Master.
04:04Well, the emotion of the young man who explains,
04:07they were working, there is another young man sleeping,
04:09they are asking for help.
04:11He is crying, we are not going to interrupt him.
04:14We are going to leave him.
04:15Well, these are situations that we have gone through.
04:17There are people who have lost everything,
04:19who are no longer in the place,
04:20look at the houses made of rubble.
04:22Of course, where you look, there is destruction.
04:24Where you look.
04:26Yes, this young man, broken into tears,
04:28what he tells is that he went to look for his desperate mother,
04:32because, well, the same thing, he couldn't contact her.
04:35But I'm going to show you,
04:36just when the machine entered, behind that tree,
04:39there is a neighborhood.
04:40Well, the neighborhood was swept away by the water.
04:43It practically does not exist.
04:45Where there were houses.
04:46Look at this, look at this image.
04:48Look at that house that is there.
04:50I'm going to show you Ernesto.
04:52It does not have a roof.
04:53That is, here the water exceeded the height of that house.
04:56That is, the water here was sweeping.
04:59This that was formed, this gradient between the asphalt
05:02and the floor is because of the current of the water.
05:05Here was made a street of rubble.
05:08Look, we're going to get closer here, look.
05:12Ernesto, what I'm going to show you is the sign.
05:14Keep that there is still a lot of mud.
05:16It is the sign on the side of the route.
05:19Look how he twisted it.
05:21He crushed it.
05:23He turned it into a sheet.
05:24The water.
05:25And they are hard, huh?
05:26And it is walled up.
05:27And it is very hard.
05:31Look at this.
05:32This image is one of the most graphic of this place.
05:37Rubble.
05:39The water exceeded the two meters approximately,
05:43where everything that was in its way was taken away.
05:46Because here is a flood of water,
05:48which we are going to get closer to,
05:50which is what was trying to exhaust,
05:54is what was trying to bring the water of this neighborhood young.
05:59But what happens?
06:00The mud, the mud and the dirt that came from the bottom,
06:07managed to cover the drain.
06:10And here the height of the water began to grow,
06:16which is what generated that it is blocked.
06:19And that's why it ended up above Route 3.
06:22We, I don't want to lie to you,
06:24but to get to this place we have seen very sad images,
06:29where practically the water has taken everything,
06:33of people.
06:34It has left nothing standing.
06:36And I'm going to stop on the route.
06:38Come here, Chazan.
06:39We are going to stop on the route,
06:41because I want to show you.
06:43Over there, right,
06:46this is the street Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
06:48It is where the goal came from.
06:51Where we are going to try to get now,
06:53by a nearby road,
06:54of these two little girls,
06:56who do not appear.
06:58They are starting to find out and try to contact
07:01all the places where there are refugees.
07:04But there were times when people were in their homes
07:07and had to leave.
07:09The water collapsed houses.
07:11The water took everything.
07:13The force of the water was very strong.
07:16Look, the family that we were just,
07:18some friends came to contain them.
07:20We gave them this space,
07:22because the truth is that they were not well.
07:24And look at this image.
07:26The little girl who is there with the puppy,
07:28that now Chazareta is going to show you.
07:31Under the water, he saved his dog.
07:34He has stayed on this side,
07:36waiting for his mother to return,
07:39from what is the catastrophe.
07:41Let's tell people that he is in General Serri now.
07:45That on Route 13, in General Serri,
07:48where Alejandro is now,
07:50is where the sisters were lost.
07:52Where this search began,
07:55at the same time as the tragedy.
07:59The parents were traveling on a Gol Trend,
08:02on Route 3,
08:04when the water began to rise.
08:06It began to rise so immeasurably
08:08that they decided to get out of the car.
08:10Because the car was starting to cover up
08:12and they go down with the girls of 5 and 1 years.
08:15Then they look for a higher place.
08:18Imagine, in the middle of a current,
08:20of a wind of 80 km per hour,
08:22of water rising at an unusual speed.
08:25With images like the one we are seeing now,
08:27that dragged what was on the way,
08:29trucks, cars, road signs,
08:31the route itself, houses.
08:33They took everything and look for a place,
08:35a refuge for their daughters.
08:37What they found at that moment
08:39was a taller truck,
08:41which was what was nearby.
08:43That truck is from a postal service company,
08:45the government minister of the province of Buenos Aires,
08:48Carlos Bianco, confirmed it a while ago.
08:50There they deposited Pilar Hecker,
08:525 years old, and Delfina Hecker.
08:54And from there they did not see them anymore.
08:57There the stories are confused.
08:59For some, they were both on the roof.
09:01The father himself installs a version
09:03that could have been dragged
09:05by the current.
09:07But the truth is that they do not find
09:09the person who drove that truck
09:11and where they had taken refuge at that time,
09:13the two girls, we insist,
09:15Pilar and Delfina,
09:175 years old
09:19and 1 year old,
09:21who are still being searched.
09:23To try to locate where this tragedy happened,
09:26notice that this family,
09:28the Hecker family,
09:30was going from Bahia Blanca
09:32to the house of some relatives
09:34in Mayor Buratovich
09:36to escape from the storm.
09:38Bahia Blanca, yes?
09:40Throughout this bay
09:42they were going to do this tour
09:44of a little less than an hour and a half
09:46to go to Buratovich
09:48and how are things, right?
09:50To escape from the storm
09:52that was raging in Bahia Blanca.
09:55But what happened?
09:57They could hardly leave the town.
09:59Buratovich is from Villarino, yes?
10:01Okay.
10:03But look at Bahia Blanca.
10:05I ask Karina, our producer,
10:07now let's go to the other map.
10:09Bahia Blanca up there,
10:11as we are seeing it,
10:13look where Serri is.
10:15Bahia Blanca we just saw
10:17on the big map, yes?
10:19They were going to do all that tour
10:21that I just showed you,
10:24what they think is that
10:26instead of following Route 40
10:28because it had a lot of water,
10:30they took internal roads.
10:32Now Google Maps
10:34shows you that traffic is cut off here,
10:36that you can't go through here,
10:38that this street can't be taken, yes?
10:40This is clear, eh?
10:42Traffic, this is from now on.
10:44We did this capture,
10:46our production did it a few minutes ago.
10:48This is what is happening now,
10:50now you can't circulate.
10:52Dear viewers, this street
10:54is the one that they think the family took.
10:56Do you see that now it is cut off?
10:58Of course, it is denied, it is full of water.
11:00And on some route of this street,
11:02the water began to win
11:04the vehicle of the Hecker family
11:06and unfortunately,
11:08we would love to know where it went,
11:10but at some point here
11:12the family was lost.
11:14Mariana Hecker
11:16is the aunt of the two missing girls
11:18and she told us that
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