Cape Talk, Monday night

We heard there were big storms coming, there was a heap of rain in the morning. We set up at a park that looked like it had flood waters over it, there was a road running through, and all of a sudden, a sort of big four-wheel drive comes roaring behind us and straight into the water. And we saw how deep it was. We'd been there filming, so we saw that it was right up to the top of the road signs. And so when he started driving in, we thought, oh no, he's going to get into trouble very, very quickly. So sort of ran towards the edge and kept filming until we

Realized he was in real trouble. Within a few seconds, he started floating and then drifting downstream. And then a few seconds later, he started to sink again. And I said to my camera operator, Never mind the camera, put that down. Come give me a hand. Get on the phone to the Ambos and I'll jump in and see if we can get him out. Thankfully, there was another man there who gave me a hand. And I'm very, very appreciative of him because without him, we wouldn't have got him out. You're in your shirt, is it?

A work shirt that you've just been doing your live broadcast from, and you just thought, right, jacket off, and in I go. Was that it? Yeah, exactly that. And I was wearing some big, heavy RM Williams boots that we often wear here in Australia. And I managed to get them off, but not my kind of woolen pants and suit shirt, which was sort of dragging me down as we tried to make our way to the car. And it was.

I mean, you know, I can speak as a, you know, spent a good period of my career on the road as a reporter as well. And there's that instinct in you to not get involved and stay objective and not become the story, but also clearly when you're one of the few people there who can actually help, was there, did you have a second thought or did you just go straight in? When we saw him floating away, we were sort of thinking, you know, please, can we get emergency services here first? And then when it became very clear that he wasn't able to get out and he was sinking very fast.

There was no thinking involved. Now, if I had watched a man drown, I wouldn't, you know, it would be difficult to recover from. So, better that you jump in and give it a crack. I'll live with the consequences of that. When you must have spoken to him afterwards, what was he saying? Oh, he was extremely relieved. We gave him a big hug. I think there's a few scenes of us hugging both in the water and then when we got out, he just said he didn't see it. You know, he didn't tell how deep the

Was. Yeah, he was terrified, rightfully so. But just so thankful that he's out. That was Will Murray speaking to Louis Vaughan Jones. Coming up on the happy part. In the state of Mexico, they relied on just a few climate data. And thanks to our system, we started giving them fire spread simulations. And thanks to that, they reduced the mortality rate.