Video footage captured a horse and dogs left stranded by the heavy flooding in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00Heavy flooding has been afflicting the people of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, but it's also afflicting the animals.
00:06Aerial footage captured this horse standing stranded on top of a building surrounded by floodwater.
00:11And these dogs were trapped inside a building, though fortunately rescuers arrived to let them out.
00:16This volunteer, Jorge, said,
00:18I want to help as much as possible. It is a terrible sensation.
00:21Imagine all the people and houses.
00:23There must be 200 or 300,000 residents and all these families lost absolutely everything.
00:29The AP reports that the flooding has been going on since last week due to heavy rainfall,
00:33which authorities believe could continue through the weekend.
00:36The New York Times says that over 100 people have been killed,
00:39a similar number are missing, and over 150,000 have been driven from their homes.