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[00:00:57] bachelorette party in Argentina that almost ended
[00:01:01] is the largest in our country, is here in in tragedy, there the bride and her friends were
[00:01:04] celebrating this important date with some inflatables and
[00:01:08] due to bad weather it almost ended in
[00:01:10] tragedy.
[00:01:13] The accident occurred
[00:01:16] ones in different parts of the country, but basically in during a bachelorette party in Santa Fe, Argentina and
[00:01:18] was recorded in a video that went viral. The images
[00:01:22] went viral in a few hours and
[00:01:25] more, we are already receiving fortunately none of the women
[00:01:27] some reports of the affected suffered serious injuries, what should have been an afternoon of
[00:01:30] ended in a moment of tension during a
[00:01:33] bachelorette party when the inflatable in which several
[00:01:36] of the bride's friends were turned over and some
[00:01:40] ended up falling and suffering injuries. The episode was
[00:01:43] recorded in a video and was shared on
[00:01:45] if we think about social networks, the video quickly went viral. The situation
[00:01:48] generated concern among those present and it was necessary to request medical
[00:01:52] assistance, however, the
[00:01:55] country a large number of these churches that are in
[00:01:56] affected, with the passage of episode did not go further and according to what the bride herself later confirmed, all the
[00:01:59] friends were well.
[00:02:02] historical and which, due to the Far from letting the accident ruin the celebration, the
[00:02:04] bride decided to take it with humor and shared a
[00:02:08] reflection on the unexpected
[00:02:41] situations regarding affected roads so
[00:03:39] however, there are alternative routes, but what
[00:03:45] example, to put it this way,
[00:04:28] 6 hours from what is the center of
[00:04:35] there was a time when what
[00:04:40] collapse or collapse in the
[00:04:48] sea or air, pardon me, to
[00:04:58] nervousness. I will
[00:05:04] possible injuries, we had one person in precisely to
[00:06:20] surviving the week, of reaching Friday and
[00:06:23] surviving it, today we have
[00:06:26] practically a program about natural phenomena, about the
[00:06:30] threat of Mother Nature which we
[00:06:33] cannot control and reminds us how tiny we are before
[00:06:37] her, two events, well three
[00:06:41] events. one of them is a very
[00:06:45] strong earthquake, very strong, of 7.7 that shook
[00:06:48] Panama, so far I think things
[00:06:52] are not that serious they are not serious, so to speak,
[00:06:58] human lives, no, they would not be that serious,
[00:07:01] fortunately, of course, there are damaged structures, etcetera,
[00:07:05] material losses, but look, look, after what
[00:07:08] we have seen, for example, in Venezuela, that there are
[00:07:11] losses, real ones, whatever they are, I would tell you, but
[00:07:15] life, life is priceless,
[00:07:18] so if things continue as they are now according to the
[00:07:21] reports, it would only be a scare and yes,
[00:07:24] material losses of course, but a scare, life,
[00:07:27] life was saved, which is the most important thing, that
[00:07:31] on the one hand, I was telling you with this of surviving the
[00:07:35] week, and on the other hand, hurricanes, two
[00:07:38] hurricanes, one that even I don't know, I'm not sure. but
[00:07:42] my producer Gils told me a little while ago, Fer,
[00:07:45] it might make landfall
[00:07:49] at the moment we are on air, the one that is about to enter there
[00:07:52] in the Panhandle area of Florida, so we will be very
[00:07:56] attentive, but two hurricanes, at least this one I'm
[00:07:59] mentioning, the first one I mention, with an
[00:08:02] impressive amount of
[00:08:05] rain, there were forecasts during the
[00:08:08] week that an average amount of rain would accumulate
[00:08:12] in just a couple of days, which would be practically a
[00:08:15] month of rain, imagine the problem, not of floods,
[00:08:19] etcetera, also what we hope is that with these two hurricanes
[00:08:23] that in neither of the two
[00:08:26] there is nothing more to regret than
[00:08:28] material damage, I mean, yes, it
[00:08:32] affects, of course, I'm not saying it's the least of the
[00:08:35] damages, because sometimes people lose
[00:08:37] their businesses, etcetera, but when I compare it with the life of
[00:08:41] any human being, well, we win,
[00:08:44] if you want to see it that way, no,
[00:08:47] so we're going to dedicate our time to this,
[00:08:50] to know how our brothers in
[00:08:54] Panama are doing, also to know what we can expect with these two
[00:08:57] hurricanes, what precautions to take, how much they can
[00:09:01] impact, that is, in what categories, what those
[00:09:04] categories represent, so join me to close this
[00:09:08] week in which I hope we can then
[00:09:11] tell you on Monday, it didn't happen, nothing serious happened
[00:09:15] in terms of lives, let's start if you agree, then.
[00:10:16] very strong, very strong, everything was moving, the lamps, the chairs, the
[00:10:19] table, part of the Two Continents Hotel collapsed.
[00:10:23] continentes.
[00:10:29] It felt strong, really, I'm
[00:10:32] on the ninth floor here, it felt strong.
[00:10:49] It's an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 according to the
[00:10:52] United States Geological Survey.
[00:10:55] 7.7 that shook Panama this
[00:10:57] Friday, so far, as I told you at the beginning of the program, no
[00:11:01] fatalities have been reported, fortunately, President José
[00:11:04] Raúl Mulino already said that this Saturday, that is, tomorrow,
[00:11:08] he would see the report of the damages in their entirety,
[00:11:10] because there are even cracks in several
[00:11:14] roads, but let's hear what the
[00:11:16] president said.
[00:11:20] Look, tomorrow I will meet with the entire cabinet and we will see the
[00:11:24] different reports. I have given orders to all the ministers that depending on the
[00:11:28] area where there is damage, whether it is in houses, in hospitals,
[00:11:31] or roads that we have also seen
[00:11:34] completely collapsed roads, I don't remember
[00:11:38] exactly the place but the minister sent me some photos, so we have to
[00:11:42] quickly deal with all these water collapses,
[00:11:45] sewers and also water issues that I asked the director of
[00:11:49] Alidan to prioritize, the plants in Panama at least are
[00:11:52] working normally as far as possible. but you know that these are infrastructures
[00:11:56] that also don't just not shake or not crack or that also need to
[00:12:00] be very careful with that,
[00:12:03] look, the authorities are reporting at the moment 15 students with
[00:12:07] minor injuries in a school, of course what I told you
[00:12:10] about damage to buildings, damage to water treatment plants that President
[00:12:14] Mulino mentioned, uh, churches
[00:12:17] and businesses also
[00:12:21] hours some services well begin to
[00:12:24] normalize. The Tocumen International Airport
[00:12:27] resumed its operations after inspecting the runway, the taxiways,
[00:12:31] the control tower, airport facilities,
[00:12:34] fortunately no damage was found
[00:12:37] that would prevent resuming flights, the Panama Canal, the
[00:12:41] Panama Canal maintains its normal operations,
[00:12:43] although preventive inspections
[00:12:47] continue, the authorities also reported that at least 46
[00:12:50] until now,
[00:12:54] 46 aftershocks, there were some, by the way, very
[00:12:57] strong ones, they told me from Panama, some of
[00:13:00] 6.6, an aftershock of 6.6, but for its
[00:13:04] part, the international community, for whatever reason, has already made
[00:13:08] its presence known, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio,
[00:13:11] said this Friday that the department under his
[00:13:14] charge will mobilize resources and personnel to
[00:13:17] help Panama in attending to this earthquake that shook the
[00:13:21] country at noon and representatives from other governments and
[00:13:25] from other countries such as Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, among
[00:13:28] others, expressed their solidarity and support for
[00:13:32] Panama, so a very powerful
[00:13:35] 7.7, very powerful, but
[00:13:37] fortunately
[00:13:40] so far there has been no report of lives lost,
[00:13:43] that we have to regret, let's
[00:13:46] understand this earthquake in its dimension
[00:13:50] with tonight's guest, of course, so if you like, let's go
[00:13:53] with him.
[00:13:58] And the welcome, the welcome is for René García, national director of the
[00:14:01] Emergency Operations Center of Panama. René, thank you for
[00:14:04] being here, good
[00:14:07] evening. Yes, very good evening, Fernando, as you well
[00:14:10] mentioned, today
[00:14:13] we had, it should be noted that Panama is not an actively
[00:14:16] seismic country in this type of situations, it is not common in
[00:14:19] our country, earthquakes do occur, but they are generally
[00:14:23] imperceptible, you don't even realize that it
[00:14:26] has shaken, however, today we were surprised by this one that is spoken of
[00:14:30] as 7.5 and between 7.5 and 7.7 was the
[00:14:33] magnitude of it, however, as you well mentioned, we have not had a
[00:14:37] large number in terms of damages, it is mostly material
[00:14:40] losses, we are lucky that the epicenter
[00:14:44] of it was in the province of Los Santos, in the
[00:14:48] Tonosí area, it is a region that is approximately
[00:14:53] the capital and yes, we had more
[00:14:57] significant damages in the central part of the country, namely the
[00:15:01] Azuero region which comprises the provinces of Los Santos and Herrera, and also in the provinces of
[00:15:04] Veraguas and in the province of Penonomé, which is where they saw the part of the
[00:15:08] hotel that collapsed, part of it, thank
[00:15:11] God, the hotel was not at capacity,
[00:15:15] there were no victims, there were no injured people in this
[00:15:18] situation, however, we have had some situations
[00:15:21] that are a little more
[00:15:25] calm, so to speak, in terms of
[00:15:29] the province of Veraguas in a church in the Sonat area, part of the church
[00:15:33] collapsed and the person was trapped
[00:15:36] by their lower extremities, thank God
[00:15:40] they were rescued by the personnel, between personnel from the fire department and
[00:15:44] personnel from Sinaproc, and the person is now being
[00:15:48] attended to in a medical center in the
[00:15:50] province, basically in what is the province of Penonomé in
[00:15:54] Coclé, sorry, in the Penonomé area we also had what were
[00:15:56] damages in the Aquilino Tejeira hospital area,
[00:16:00] people are outside the hospital structure
[00:16:03] itself since they had eh
[00:16:07] eh possible damages in the hospital itself and
[00:16:11] are being attended to in what are makeshift tents that were
[00:16:14] set up, however the social security fund, which is one of the health
[00:16:20] country, is already sending a tent to the
[00:16:23] area, these emergency hospitals that use
[00:16:27] air-conditioned and heated tents to
[00:16:31] attend to people, as you mentioned at the beginning,
[00:16:35] Mr. Fernando.
[00:16:38] All the magnitude, the large number of
[00:16:41] damages we have had have been basically material,
[00:16:45] the area where the epicenter was, we have what are
[00:16:48] single-family homes, some of which did suffer some kind of considerable
[00:16:52] damage, in some places it is said that the structures or the
[00:16:55] residences did collapse completely, we are waiting for the
[00:16:58] situation to normalize a little
[00:17:04] areas in terms of damages. We are in
[00:17:08] coordination with the other institutions, for example, in this
[00:17:11] case it would be the Mibiot, which is the ministry of housing and territorial planning of our
[00:17:14] country, to see the possible aid,
[00:17:18] not possible, aid that will be generated or provided to these people who were
[00:17:22] affected in terms of the destruction of their houses, as we also saw
[00:17:26] in the images, there is a lot of damage in what are
[00:17:29] churches, let's remember that in our
[00:17:32] the interior of the country are churches that come from the
[00:17:36] colonial era, many times they are even
[00:17:39] movement that occurred at that moment, at that moment they did lose what was
[00:17:43] part of what was the dome or the bell tower that is
[00:17:46] popularly known
[00:17:50] 15 students who suffered
[00:17:53] uh uh injuries, we are talking
[00:17:57] about suffering mostly uh uh anxiety
[00:18:01] and panic attacks, let's remember, as I mentioned, we are not a country accustomed to this
[00:18:04] type of situation and the students suffered blows and some had what was
[00:18:08] uh emotional shock due to the
[00:18:12] situation.
[00:18:15] No, a country that, yes, of course, a country that is not used
[00:18:19] to earthquakes, but also the magnitude is
[00:18:22] immense, we are talking about a
[00:18:26] 7.7.
[00:18:29] Uh, there is a collapse of
[00:18:32] businesses, some homes, etc., but do you have
[00:18:35] plans to do any structural damage assessment because this is very important,
[00:18:39] right? After an earthquake,
[00:18:42] there are buildings that do not collapse completely
[00:18:46] but could pose a danger to the population because they have been
[00:18:50] structurally damaged, mainly. Tell me,
[00:18:53] do you have this plan, when do you start with this assessment and in which areas
[00:18:57] would you mainly be assessing for structural damage?
[00:18:59] Yes, uh, basically it can be
[00:19:03] said that most of these large-scale damages
[00:19:06] as we are seeing in the image right now, which was the Coclé governorship,
[00:19:10] uh, in the central provinces is where we have the most
[00:19:14] damages in the structural part, that does not mean that in the
[00:19:17] capital part we have not had any type of damage,
[00:19:21] uh, it was thought to start the evaluations
[00:19:24] immediately, but we have had around
[00:19:27] 147 aftershocks from the initial
[00:19:30] earthquake which was at approximately 1 in the
[00:19:33] afternoon, that is, more than 100 aftershocks,
[00:19:36] the earthquake might have withstood the first
[00:19:40] earthquake, but we have had aftershocks of up to 6.1, 6.6,
[00:19:44] yes, so we are waiting for the situation to normalize a little
[00:19:47] more in terms of possible aftershocks and
[00:19:51] then start what would be the structural
[00:19:54] evaluations, what has been done is to secure places like, for
[00:19:58] example, the church we are seeing was cordoned off so that no people are
[00:20:01] nearby in case another earthquake or another aftershock occurs
[00:20:05] that is erable and the structure collapses,
[00:20:09] it is also for the safety of our own personnel so that they are not
[00:20:12] doing the evaluation and there is some type of
[00:20:17] structure.
[00:20:21] There are 147 aftershocks so far, one of them
[00:20:24] reaching 6.6,
[00:20:27] so people are still in a state of stress,
[00:20:31] anticipation and I imagine in some places
[00:20:36] return to continue talking with René García, who is the national director of the
[00:20:39] Emergency Operations Center of Panama to understand a
[00:20:42] little also the issue of facilities such as water
[00:20:46] treatment plants that President Mulino already mentioned.
[00:20:50] Uh, what is the situation and if these aftershocks are a concern,
[00:20:53] because, well, having a 7.7 earthquake, then
[00:20:57] having aftershocks of 6.6, 6.1 and 147
[00:21:01] more, well, eventually they can cause
[00:21:04] damage, what measures are being taken in this regard, all of this, when I
[00:21:07] return, I will continue talking with René García, coming
[00:21:10] up.
[00:21:26] The fight on this occasion consists of
[00:21:29] the administration wanting a sharp cut in interest
[00:21:33] rates to boost the economy, but
[00:21:36] the Fed, which has price
[00:21:40] stability as one of its two mandates,
[00:21:44] inflation, believes that if it does that, if it makes a
[00:21:47] sharp cut, it would trigger
[00:21:50] inflation and a scenario with growth problems
[00:21:53] and at the same time inflation, that is, what is called
[00:21:57] stagflation, that is precisely what
[00:22:00] Powell's Fed, Jeron Powell's,
[00:22:04] wants to avoid.
[00:24:42] We're back, I'm monitoring Hurricane Isaias right
[00:24:45] now, before checking in with my guest, uh,
[00:24:49] checking. Here on the NOAA website, the National
[00:24:53] Hurricane Center, uh, and Central Pacific Hurricane
[00:24:56] Center because uh, it seems to have
[00:24:59] made landfall and if not, it's about to
[00:25:03] do so, Isaias is
[00:25:06] practically making landfall right now,
[00:25:08] we'll be back in a moment with the
[00:25:11] information,
[00:25:14] yes, Isaias is there, my production will confirm it to me in a moment,
[00:25:18] but. according to the National Hurricane Center,
[00:25:22] NOAA's official website, it seems that the
[00:25:24] alert has already been given, hasn't
[00:25:27] it, Gils?
[00:25:31] We're on it, well, it's 12 miles
[00:25:34] still at 12 miles,
[00:25:37] it's 12 miles from making landfall, almost
[00:25:41] about to, 12 miles from making landfall, Hurricane
[00:25:44] Isaias, uh, we'll be back, I'll just keep you updated, Isaias is about to
[00:25:48] come in. this
[00:25:50] land,
[00:25:55] yes, this information is recent, well, let's continue, I'm going to
[00:25:58] close my interview with René García, national director of the
[00:26:02] Emergency Operations Center of Panama, and then we'll move on to the
[00:26:06] hurricanes, starting with Isaias, uh, there you
[00:26:09] have the images, René, thanks for
[00:26:13] staying with us, I was asking you
[00:26:16] about President Mulino's mention of water treatment plants,
[00:26:19] for example, which, yes,
[00:26:21] can cause a serious problem for the population, and there are
[00:26:25] others that are important service plants, for example, electric
[00:26:28] power, which sometimes with the main
[00:26:31] 7.7 earthquake are affected, but when you tell me
[00:26:35] that there are 147 aftershocks and they continue, they could be
[00:26:39] affected, is there any particular or special
[00:26:42] operation that you are carrying out to
[00:26:45] monitor them and, failing that,
[00:26:48] protect them as much as possible?
[00:26:51] Well, yes, regarding basic services, in this case we are going to talk
[00:26:55] specifically about what are the water treatment plants, water treatment plants,
[00:26:58] sorry, at the time, yes, at least the Chilibre water treatment plant, which
[00:27:04] the capital city, production dropped to 20%, while they carried out some
[00:27:08] type of inspections in the structural part, the plant is now
[00:27:11] working normally. Likewise, there
[00:27:15] were other
[00:27:18] the Azuero peninsula, uh, that's where some of the plants
[00:27:22] did suspend completely what was the production of
[00:27:25] water, uh, gradually as time
[00:27:28] passed, uh, they
[00:27:31] resumed operation as such, in terms of basic services, we have not had
[00:27:35] problems with electricity outside
[00:27:38] the area of the province of Los Santos, in the epicenter area, namely the
[00:27:41] Tonosí area, in the province of Los Santos, yes, we had some fallen
[00:27:45] power poles, there are some places that remain without
[00:27:49] electricity, likewise, this has
[00:27:52] affected the service in terms of phone calls and internet,
[00:27:56] llamadas telefónicas e internet
[00:27:58] uh, the
[00:28:00] what complicates the matter is that it is the
[00:28:04] place where the epicenter occurred and it is where we have had more
[00:28:07] damage in terms of single-family homes,
[00:28:11] this has delayed a little what is the reception of information
[00:28:14] here at the emergency operations center and in terms of
[00:28:17] road structures, we have reports
[00:28:21] of affected roads in the province of Veraguas towards the Torio
[00:28:24] area, the Mariato area, we had a
[00:28:27] a section or a stretch of road that
[00:28:31] was destroyed. Really, in the Chiriquí area we have had some reports
[00:28:35] of roads that have collapsed,
[00:28:37] so to speak, the Veraguas area is where we have had the most
[00:28:43] far.
[00:28:47] And these road sections are going to be difficult to repair, René, it
[00:28:50] will take a while or are they minor
[00:28:53] damages? Uh, well, let's go by the type of
[00:28:57] scenario we have seen, we have had everything from scenarios in which repairs can be
[00:29:01] made to parts of roads that
[00:29:04] literally will have to start by demolishing what
[00:29:08] is there or moving earth again and rebuilding the road.
[00:29:11] carretera,
[00:29:14] Wow, hey, but are there alternate routes to those roads? That is, none
[00:29:17] of them interrupt direct communication between point A and
[00:29:21] point B? Well, there are places that
[00:29:25] interrupt the arrival, so to speak, there is a place that is in the
[00:29:29] Torio area of the road that is
[00:29:32] affected, it is a road that was built a few
[00:29:35] years ago, it is relatively new,
[00:29:41] this movement implies is that to
[00:29:44] make a stretch that, for
[00:29:48] it would take you an hour with the road that
[00:29:51] was recently inaugurated, doing it by the alternate route, then it
[00:29:55] would cost you between two hours and two and a half hours, to give an example like that,
[00:29:59] off the top of my head. Clear. But no, no, no, they don't
[00:30:03] lose connectivity, which is important, because sometimes
[00:30:07] places are isolated precisely due to road sections, this is not the
[00:30:10] case, thank you very much for all the
[00:30:14] information, tell me, tell me, yes, no, that so far we do not
[00:30:17] have any point that has been totally cut off, however, yes,
[00:30:20] we also have the support of what is the
[00:30:23] National Aeronaval Service, which is the part of air and marine security, likewise they are at
[00:30:27] our disposal, we have had the disposal of
[00:30:31] them from the aircraft and it says rotary wing and fixed wing,
[00:30:34] also the boats, yes,
[00:30:38] were the launches were suspended due to the swells that were
[00:30:41] generated as a result of the earthquake, but the coordinations are
[00:30:45] already being made for any type of support, whether it be by
[00:30:50] have the