00:00We're going now with our colleague Luis Guillermo, who's live in Caracas.
00:06This is a strategic point, this Palma Alto in Jose Maria, España.
00:19We are beneath the cameras, there's a beach, there's a sea.
00:25This building, she used to live in that building, this is a couple that survived the collapse
00:46of that building behind them.
00:51First is a miracle of God, the second, the building collapsed to the front, facing the beach.
01:03So we ended up beneath some columns, some walls.
01:12We are from the third floor.
01:16The building has six floors.
01:20We were from the third floor, we were basically, after the collapse, we were basically on the
01:25first floor, the ground floor, a child was taken, was found alive, a ten-year-old child, a disabled
01:46child, called Maya, Maya, was rescued from the building.
01:53That's the important thing, because right now, right now, there's people still trapped, they're
02:01screaming that they're still alive, they're screaming for the rescue.
02:08There's a woman still trapped in the second floor, in the kitchen, and in the second floor, there was also
02:15Carlos, and Sofia, who is 11 years old.
02:22Sofia was rescued yesterday night, and also her father, and her dog.
02:34From the sixth floor, Jose died, and another person was retrieved, but there's still people
02:46unaccounted for a main thing that we don't know about.
02:50It's very important, this testimony, because sometimes we're used to reading a lot of hard stuff, but when a person
03:00tells you what they've suffered, we get emotional, and that's when you really understand how important
03:06this job is to inform people about what is going on.
03:12The important thing is an organized community, so that the people can get together, and everybody
03:20can help.
03:22When the ambulances first got here to the space, nobody else stopped here.
03:33It is important to highlight that there has been a lot of help from the community.
03:40Twelve buildings of twelve ten-story buildings have collapsed.
03:48It is important for the community, for the people that defeat the population, to help each other.
03:56I know that you have endured three catastrophic—I endured an earthquake like this in another country,
04:09but at that time I wasn't trapped.
04:11The other was the tragedy in 1999, and the third one this.
04:24The building was filled with water from the basement to the top floor.
04:34I don't know if you know, there were two earthquakes that came back to back.
04:47Usually after a big earthquake there's another one.
04:54Everything, the tectonic plates move in the sea.
05:08That's why the relatively tectonic plates have moved.
05:14But I love to have you known about the situation of the people.
05:16I haven't heard about anybody.
05:20We're still trying to see the rest of the people, I really haven't heard about anybody.
05:32After this happened, I'm trying to find a way to help people.
05:38Whatever I know, it's because you're telling me, because we don't know anything here.
05:47I don't know how Caracas is right now.
05:52La Huera has been greatly affected, even though Caracas—
05:58there's been several club buildings in Palo Grande, San Mendardino, Palo Salto.
06:14When the tragedy, we walked to the west to help people.
06:19I know there's a lot of collapsed buildings that way.
06:24But it's very important to walk around to try to help people.
06:29I don't know about anybody.
06:31I haven't heard about anybody.
06:37Over there, El Palmar is a building.
06:42There's an extortion that was being built.
06:46And that building is the building of El Palmar that was 60 years old and it completely collapsed.
06:54And there's more buildings that have collapsed on that way.
07:02There's a building that looked very solid.
07:14It was aligned if you look at the avenue.
07:21Across the avenue is where the buildings were more affected.
07:27The buildings that were beneath that, they were not so much affected.
07:33That's why I'm saying it had to be in the sea.
07:36Because of how high it was and which buildings were mostly affected.
07:47I'm thinking about you, how you felt because the building collapsed on you.
07:54Thank God we're good because really we thought we wouldn't live to tell the story.
08:05If we were just in the kitchen, we wouldn't be able to tell the story.
08:19We're aware of the other rescue of somebody.
08:26The people from the national police are there.
08:31There's all kinds of rescue crews.
08:38We need for the population here, we need strength and union.
08:42Right now, solidarity, the strength and union is the most important things to carry on.
08:53We had a lot of trouble and we have moved on, we have carried on.
09:05Back to the people in the study, there's a question.
09:14We're looking at the images, this time from La Guayra, where this is the state most greatly affected by the
09:21earthquake.
09:21This is after the 7.2 and 7.5 back-to-back earthquakes struck the Venezuelan northern states yesterday evening
09:30on June 24th.
09:31We were looking at our colleague from La Guayra, who was telling us a bit more.
09:35There's been reported that there were several, more than a dozen collapsed buildings in La Guayra.
09:41You know, what the neighbors in the city of La Guayra?
09:42Because of the place, we're looking at the restrictions now.
09:42And what we're looking at is the state of the city of Nossa Guayra, who was looking at theestroين's distortions
09:42in the city of the United States in the city.
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