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00:09:37Welcome to our front page broadcast with Alejandra
00:09:40Forero, next up. The
00:09:42headlines. Cuida Aruba, two days
00:09:46to clean, prevent and raise awareness. 100
00:09:50couples renew their vows of love in Aruba.
00:09:53Building collapses in Pereira and they are still looking for
00:09:56survivors. The National Government declares
00:09:59an economic emergency after the tragedy in Colombia.
00:10:03Pyrotechnics fail and cause panic at a stadium in
00:10:07Virginia.
00:10:09At this hour and every day, I am pleased to greet our
00:10:13viewers, as always extending a warm
00:10:17welcome to our front-page broadcast with Alejandra Forero. It is with great pleasure that we greet all
00:10:20of you, hoping that you had an excellent Thursday.
00:10:24We begin with local news, and
00:10:28this time, what was announced yesterday by the national government
00:10:31and various other entities, including
00:10:34the Bureau Inspector, the Department of Public Works, and so on, the second edition of
00:10:38Cuida Aruba returns, this national
00:10:41day to keep our island completely
00:10:44clean. This time, it will be two days, August
00:10:4728th and 29th.
00:10:51The government of Aruba is preparing for August 28 and 29.
00:10:55the second edition of Cuidaruba, an initiative that seeks
00:10:58to unite the community, the private sector, and various
00:11:01public institutions in a national day of cleaning,
00:11:05volunteering, and preparation for the rainy season. Prime Minister
00:11:08Mike Eyman highlighted that the first edition showed that when
00:11:12the government, businesses, and citizens work together, concrete
00:11:16results can be achieved for the benefit of all society,
00:11:20which is why this second day seeks to expand that
00:11:23effort and turn it into a movement
00:11:26of shared responsibility, inviting schools, sports clubs,
00:11:30foundations, community organizations, businesses,
00:11:33and citizens to participate with cleaning actions in
00:11:37their own sectors. One of the main objectives is
00:11:40to prepare Aruba for the rainy and storm season. Authorities
00:11:44explain that keeping canals,
00:11:47sewers, and public
00:11:51reduce the risk of flooding. Additionally,
00:11:54removing waste that can accumulate water contributes
00:11:57to preventing the proliferation of the dengue mosquito and other public
00:12:01health risks. For this second edition, improvements
00:12:04will also be made in logistics, including an
00:12:08increased collection capacity, a better distribution of drop-off
00:12:12points, and more efficient coordination for the
00:12:15transport and processing of waste. Finally, the
00:12:19government reminded that the waste center remains open
00:12:23throughout the week and made a call to citizens to responsibly
00:12:27use these facilities. The city inspection
00:12:30bureau was also present to extend this invitation
00:12:33to the entire community to prepare for
00:12:37August 28 and 29 with the second edition
00:12:41of Cuidaruba.
00:12:44Yesterday, love was experienced in the Gasparito area after
00:12:48100 couples decided to renew their
00:12:51vows on our island, thanks to the invitation extended by the
00:12:55Aruba Tourism Authority and its program known as Aruba
00:12:58I Do. This was the eighth edition of this
00:13:01vow renewal, and we were there and have the details.
00:13:17A love that deserves to say "yes" again, the Aruba I Do
00:13:21event, organized once again by the Aruba Tourism Authority, brings together the
00:13:25most important and iconic vow renewal on the island.
00:13:28We are very happy today to organize the Aruba I Do
00:13:32once again, and in this case, we have a total of 100
00:13:35couples who are renewing their vows with us. Today,
00:13:39we have the registrations for couples who are
00:13:42celebrating from one year
00:13:46up to 30 years of marriage, and we are
00:13:49at a very special location, which is Gasparito,
00:13:53to show that there are varieties of different places where events can be held
00:13:56here in Aruba. Today, we have different things that you can
00:14:00do. We have two photo booths, we also have
00:14:04a flower bar where you can choose your own flowers for the moment
00:14:07you renew your vows. In reality, when we opened the link
00:14:11for registration, in two weeks we already
00:14:14had all the registrations. The Aruba I Do is an event that participants
00:14:18are very, very eager to participate in.
00:14:21They start asking us a few months before when the link will
00:14:25open. Well, my name is, my husband
00:14:28Osvaldo, we are celebrating 25 years of
00:14:31marriage. We reached it on August 18th, that is,
00:14:34Tuesday. We were looking for a romantic
00:14:37destination to celebrate, and we discovered Aruba,
00:14:41and it just so happens that this event is in
00:14:45August. So I prepared the whole surprise for my
00:14:49husband, and I gave him the news when we arrived here. I am
00:14:53very happy to be here, on all the beaches
00:14:56and the event. We hope to enjoy it very much. Oh, well, yes,
00:15:00quite surprised, and we feel very good. We also come from Costa
00:15:03Rica, although I am Peruvian, but I have lived
00:15:07in Costa Rica for a long time, and well, married to a girl,
00:15:10right? And well, we are celebrating, as they say,
00:15:1425 years, and we came here to celebrate
00:15:17Aruba. We are focused more on responsible
00:15:20tourism right now, and for that
00:15:23reason, we have focused on somewhat
00:15:27smaller events, which is why we are limiting it to only 100
00:15:30couples. And we are here
00:15:33today in Gasparito because we also want to differentiate that there are more
00:15:37places to hold events on the island. The romance
00:15:41niche is a very important niche for the island of
00:15:44Aruba, to know that couples can come here to celebrate
00:15:48their marriage, their honeymoon, to
00:15:51celebrate as a family too, that there are different options
00:15:55of places where they can hold their events. Oh,
00:15:58we've been living together for 5 years and married for 3
00:16:02years, precisely today, precisely today is
00:16:05our third anniversary. And well,
00:16:08precisely looking for a place to celebrate and where to share
00:16:12that moment, well, we found this space and decided
00:16:15to come. Uh, well, we come from Colombia, and it's
00:16:19really very beautiful. We were always thinking, well, what
00:16:23do we do to celebrate it? And it's the happy island,
00:16:26we had to come. We're going to celebrate 26 years of
00:16:30marriage, and we were here for our honeymoon
00:16:33when we got married a long time ago.
00:16:38And we come from Texas, in the United States. Due
00:16:41to family circumstances, we had to postpone our
00:16:4525th anniversary, so we decided this time we can
00:16:49do it, and we want to do it with great affection, a lot of love between
00:16:51us. We come from Colombia, uh,
00:16:55we've been together for 14 years and married for six,
00:16:58and well, we wanted to renew our vows in
00:17:01the presence of our daughter. Well, first of all, it was a surprise from
00:17:05my wife, so, uh, uh,
00:17:07happy, we celebrated my daughter's birthday, and coming to
00:17:11this beautiful island, this is great,
00:17:14beautiful, very nice. We've been married for
00:17:1727 years, this year we'll be 28, and we come from Lima,
00:17:21Peru, because our first trip was to Aruba, and we've always
00:17:24wanted to come back, but now we've come back with our children. Oh, well, Aruba is
00:17:28a beautiful island, with beautiful
00:17:30beaches, and it's outside the hurricane zone,
00:17:33and it's always very nice to return to the Caribbean.
00:18:07In our international round, we begin, as is customary, in
00:18:11Colombia, due to the earthquake that occurred last Monday,
00:18:15and which has now been four days of this emergency. In various
00:18:18cities, such as Pereira, they are trying to clear the
00:18:22rubble to be able to find more
00:18:25survivors of this tragedy. Unfortunately,
00:18:28the hours continue to pass, and the panorama is
00:18:31desolate.
00:18:36social media.
00:18:43A corner building located in Parque la Libertad in
00:18:46Pereira, which fell in 40 seconds after the
00:18:49earthquake.
00:18:52Since then, emergency services have been working
00:18:55tirelessly alongside dozens of volunteers, searching for
00:18:58life.
00:19:02In the midst of the search efforts, suddenly everyone calls for
00:19:06silence and calm. Total
00:19:08silence, because under the rubble there could
00:19:12be someone alive. The trained rescue dogs
00:19:16have been key in these search efforts, as they
00:19:19are the ones who, with their sense of smell, identify and give the
00:19:22indication that a person could be found
00:19:26there. We sent two dogs back in to check the
00:19:30two spots where our firefighters and military personnel removed
00:19:33rubble. Removing rubble allows us to smell
00:19:38people so we can send the dog back
00:19:41in and they can verify if there is life. Brick
00:19:45by brick they are removing everything, trying to find
00:19:48life in a building that was four stories tall, according
00:19:52to the community. On the first floor there was a bakery, and
00:19:56the owner of the premises, who is reported as missing,
00:19:58could be
00:20:01alive.
00:20:06After several hours of work, the silence was
00:20:09finally broken, there is life,
00:20:11there is life, there
00:20:15is life,
00:20:17yes sir, the emergency services focus all their
00:20:21attention on rescuing alive the man who has
00:20:24remained under the rubble for more than 60 hours in this
00:20:28corner of Parque la Libertad in
00:20:30Pereira. In the midst of the tragedy, the president
00:20:34of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, declared a national
00:20:38economic emergency and announced different measures that will be implemented
00:20:41immediately to thus counteract and
00:20:44help the victims of this
00:20:47tragedy.
00:20:50On his first day, dispatching from the Palacio de San Carlos, current headquarters of the
00:20:54Foreign Ministry, President Abelardo de la Espriella assured that
00:20:57after the tragedy, the country must enter a stage of
00:21:00exceptional fiscal measures to assist the
00:21:04victims, such as the economic emergency. The
00:21:07emergency that I propose will create a miracle
00:21:11fund, an entity that will
00:21:14channel national and international contributions,
00:21:17which will be allocated to the reconstruction
00:21:21of hospitals, educational centers,
00:21:24and properties, within the framework of that declaration that will allow
00:21:28it to issue regulations and use resources without congressional approval,
00:21:32it will provide relief for the
00:21:35the payment of public services for the affected
00:21:38families by the government,
00:21:41rental subsidies for those
00:21:44who lost their homes,
00:21:47and tax relief measures.
00:21:51In the government meeting that lasted more than 6 hours, the Minister of Foreign
00:21:55Affairs clarified that since the emergency, they have been in
00:21:59contact with the United Nations and various countries to coordinate the
00:22:02arrival of aid. Accompanied by the new director of
00:22:05risk management, Santiago Tamayo, he announced the arrival of
00:22:09four elite search and rescue teams. There are planes arriving in the
00:22:13country with humanitarian aid. I can mention
00:22:16some 100 tons of humanitarian aid offered by the government of El Salvador
00:22:21that arrived last night. We have another
00:22:24flight from Mexico. We are starting to
00:22:27formalize
00:22:30support, requests or applications for support from
00:22:34search and rescue teams from the United States, El
00:22:37Salvador, Ecuador, and
00:22:39Israel. The government has determined two priorities in the framework of the
00:22:43emergency: the uninterrupted search for missing
00:22:46persons and a reconstruction and relocation plan.
00:22:52Devastating stories continue to emerge, stories that tear
00:22:56at our souls about people who, unfortunately,
00:22:59died in the midst of this earthquake in Colombia. Today we
00:23:02present the story of this family whose parents,
00:23:06unfortunately, were found dead, and their triplets, three young
00:23:10sisters, one of whom is missing, another is
00:23:13in delicate condition, and another, unfortunately,
00:23:17died.
00:23:20Ana, Sofía, and Isabela are some of the faces of the tragedy in
00:23:23Cali. These triplets ended up with their parents and another relative under the
00:23:27rubble of their apartment. Today, almost 72 hours later,
00:23:31and with only Ana safe, their family still hopes to find Isabela
00:23:35alive, as the bodies of her parents and Sofía have already been
00:23:38found. With moments of much attention,
00:23:42with spirits to continue moving rubble
00:23:45and waiting, waiting for what might happen
00:23:49with... Isabela, who is the last girl we need to recover from the
00:23:53family.
00:23:56Distraught, her family remembers some previous moments
00:23:59shared with the 23-year-old women from Cali, whom they describe as
00:24:03angels on earth. How is it to live a situation like
00:24:06this?
00:24:09Devastating.
00:24:12But we have faith, and faith sustains
00:24:15us all. On Sunday, I came to her
00:24:19apartment. I gave them all some gifts, but we
00:24:22only saw each other for 15 minutes and we hugged.
00:24:26The victims are counted in droves, tons of concrete
00:24:29lie on the bodies of many people still, but in the midst of the
00:24:33desolation, the kindness of some of the survivors is a light of
00:24:36hope. I
00:24:40don't know,
00:24:44I think it's better to be
00:24:47helping people than to stay locked up and... unable
00:24:51to do anything. There are still people under the rubble. More than
00:24:54400 rescuers are working against the clock with the mission of saving
00:24:58the missing citizens alive. Meanwhile,
00:25:02those who were not affected are pooling aid to
00:25:05rebuild the city that once danced to the rhythm of
00:25:08salsa. For example, in Versailles, it is one of the
00:25:12municipalities, one of the towns that, despite not being large cities,
00:25:16also remained totally devastated, and not only because of the losses
00:25:20they suffered during this earthquake, but also because
00:25:24this place, this town, no longer knows how to be reborn in the midst
00:25:28of the
00:25:28rubble.
00:25:32In Versailles, the roaring of the earth not only shook the
00:25:36houses, it also left an entire municipality trying to
00:25:39function in the midst of this
00:25:41emergency.
00:25:44They have been without water and electricity
00:25:46for almost 3 days. In the main square, a few
00:25:50outlets connected to a generator are for now one
00:25:54of the few places where residents can charge their cell phones,
00:25:58communicate with their families, and stay connected. A large
00:26:02part of the residents are spending their nights in the
00:26:05main coliseum. According to municipal
00:26:08authorities, about 70% of the
00:26:11urban infrastructure has been affected, and
00:26:15that can be felt when walking through its streets. The center of the
00:26:19municipality has an unusual image: many people
00:26:22remain outside their homes, gather in
00:26:25this square, and seek, among everyone, a way to understand what comes
00:26:29next. The square also became a meeting
00:26:33point. Here they talk about the aid, the damage,
00:26:36and how to rebuild a municipality that today needs
00:26:39everyone. But it is when entering these homes
00:26:43that one truly understands what is happening. Entire
00:26:46families remain outside, facing walls that are coming
00:26:50down, roofs that are no longer there, rooms that
00:26:53were exposed. No, well, the truth is, the patio
00:26:56was destroyed, and a large part of the
00:26:59roof of the L-shaped area. And
00:27:02well, thanks to the help of my uncles and some
00:27:05collaborators, we were able to build... well, we were able to
00:27:09repair, half-repair, because the truth is, it could fall
00:27:12again if it shakes again. This
00:27:15couple is still in their house, although part of its
00:27:19structure is about to collapse. I need to
00:27:22look at the bottom part to maybe put some wooden
00:27:26blocks to try to reinforce it a little, while, of course,
00:27:30we won't be living here. We are just clearing out what's here
00:27:33to put it in the most stable part, which is over there. Until yesterday, we were
00:27:37in a panic, so to speak, thinking it was going to
00:27:41shake again.
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