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00:00:00exact still to be clarified, the
00:00:03accident despite the spectacular nature of the situation did not
00:00:06leave people
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00:00:57bachelorette party in Argentina that almost ended
00:01:01is the largest in our country, is here in in tragedy, there the bride and her friends were
00:01:04celebrating this important date with some inflatables and
00:01:08due to bad weather it almost ended in
00:01:10tragedy.
00:01:13The accident occurred
00:01:16ones in different parts of the country, but basically in during a bachelorette party in Santa Fe, Argentina and
00:01:18was recorded in a video that went viral. The images
00:01:22went viral in a few hours and
00:01:25more, we are already receiving fortunately none of the women
00:01:27some reports of the affected suffered serious injuries, what should have been an afternoon of
00:01:30ended in a moment of tension during a
00:01:33bachelorette party when the inflatable in which several
00:01:36of the bride's friends were turned over and some
00:01:40ended up falling and suffering injuries. The episode was
00:01:43recorded in a video and was shared on
00:01:45if we think about social networks, the video quickly went viral. The situation
00:01:48generated concern among those present and it was necessary to request medical
00:01:52assistance, however, the
00:01:55country a large number of these churches that are in
00:01:56affected, with the passage of episode did not go further and according to what the bride herself later confirmed, all the
00:01:59friends were well.
00:02:02historical and which, due to the Far from letting the accident ruin the celebration, the
00:02:04bride decided to take it with humor and shared a
00:02:08reflection on the unexpected
00:02:41situations regarding affected roads so
00:03:39however, there are alternative routes, but what
00:03:45example, to put it this way,
00:04:286 hours from what is the center of
00:04:35there was a time when what
00:04:40collapse or collapse in the
00:04:48sea or air, pardon me, to
00:04:58nervousness. I will
00:05:04possible injuries, we had one person in precisely to
00:06:20surviving the week, of reaching Friday and
00:06:23surviving it, today we have
00:06:26practically a program about natural phenomena, about the
00:06:30threat of Mother Nature which we
00:06:33cannot control and reminds us how tiny we are before
00:06:37her, two events, well three
00:06:41events. one of them is a very
00:06:45strong earthquake, very strong, of 7.7 that shook
00:06:48Panama, so far I think things
00:06:52are not that serious they are not serious, so to speak,
00:06:58human lives, no, they would not be that serious,
00:07:01fortunately, of course, there are damaged structures, etcetera,
00:07:05material losses, but look, look, after what
00:07:08we have seen, for example, in Venezuela, that there are
00:07:11losses, real ones, whatever they are, I would tell you, but
00:07:15life, life is priceless,
00:07:18so if things continue as they are now according to the
00:07:21reports, it would only be a scare and yes,
00:07:24material losses of course, but a scare, life,
00:07:27life was saved, which is the most important thing, that
00:07:31on the one hand, I was telling you with this of surviving the
00:07:35week, and on the other hand, hurricanes, two
00:07:38hurricanes, one that even I don't know, I'm not sure. but
00:07:42my producer Gils told me a little while ago, Fer,
00:07:45it might make landfall
00:07:49at the moment we are on air, the one that is about to enter there
00:07:52in the Panhandle area of Florida, so we will be very
00:07:56attentive, but two hurricanes, at least this one I'm
00:07:59mentioning, the first one I mention, with an
00:08:02impressive amount of
00:08:05rain, there were forecasts during the
00:08:08week that an average amount of rain would accumulate
00:08:12in just a couple of days, which would be practically a
00:08:15month of rain, imagine the problem, not of floods,
00:08:19etcetera, also what we hope is that with these two hurricanes
00:08:23that in neither of the two
00:08:26there is nothing more to regret than
00:08:28material damage, I mean, yes, it
00:08:32affects, of course, I'm not saying it's the least of the
00:08:35damages, because sometimes people lose
00:08:37their businesses, etcetera, but when I compare it with the life of
00:08:41any human being, well, we win,
00:08:44if you want to see it that way, no,
00:08:47so we're going to dedicate our time to this,
00:08:50to know how our brothers in
00:08:54Panama are doing, also to know what we can expect with these two
00:08:57hurricanes, what precautions to take, how much they can
00:09:01impact, that is, in what categories, what those
00:09:04categories represent, so join me to close this
00:09:08week in which I hope we can then
00:09:11tell you on Monday, it didn't happen, nothing serious happened
00:09:15in terms of lives, let's start if you agree, then.
00:10:16very strong, very strong, everything was moving, the lamps, the chairs, the
00:10:19table, part of the Two Continents Hotel collapsed.
00:10:23continentes.
00:10:29It felt strong, really, I'm
00:10:32on the ninth floor here, it felt strong.
00:10:49It's an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 according to the
00:10:52United States Geological Survey.
00:10:557.7 that shook Panama this
00:10:57Friday, so far, as I told you at the beginning of the program, no
00:11:01fatalities have been reported, fortunately, President José
00:11:04Raúl Mulino already said that this Saturday, that is, tomorrow,
00:11:08he would see the report of the damages in their entirety,
00:11:10because there are even cracks in several
00:11:14roads, but let's hear what the
00:11:16president said.
00:11:20Look, tomorrow I will meet with the entire cabinet and we will see the
00:11:24different reports. I have given orders to all the ministers that depending on the
00:11:28area where there is damage, whether it is in houses, in hospitals,
00:11:31or roads that we have also seen
00:11:34completely collapsed roads, I don't remember
00:11:38exactly the place but the minister sent me some photos, so we have to
00:11:42quickly deal with all these water collapses,
00:11:45sewers and also water issues that I asked the director of
00:11:49Alidan to prioritize, the plants in Panama at least are
00:11:52working normally as far as possible. but you know that these are infrastructures
00:11:56that also don't just not shake or not crack or that also need to
00:12:00be very careful with that,
00:12:03look, the authorities are reporting at the moment 15 students with
00:12:07minor injuries in a school, of course what I told you
00:12:10about damage to buildings, damage to water treatment plants that President
00:12:14Mulino mentioned, uh, churches
00:12:17and businesses also
00:12:21hours some services well begin to
00:12:24normalize. The Tocumen International Airport
00:12:27resumed its operations after inspecting the runway, the taxiways,
00:12:31the control tower, airport facilities,
00:12:34fortunately no damage was found
00:12:37that would prevent resuming flights, the Panama Canal, the
00:12:41Panama Canal maintains its normal operations,
00:12:43although preventive inspections
00:12:47continue, the authorities also reported that at least 46
00:12:50until now,
00:12:5446 aftershocks, there were some, by the way, very
00:12:57strong ones, they told me from Panama, some of
00:13:006.6, an aftershock of 6.6, but for its
00:13:04part, the international community, for whatever reason, has already made
00:13:08its presence known, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio,
00:13:11said this Friday that the department under his
00:13:14charge will mobilize resources and personnel to
00:13:17help Panama in attending to this earthquake that shook the
00:13:21country at noon and representatives from other governments and
00:13:25from other countries such as Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, among
00:13:28others, expressed their solidarity and support for
00:13:32Panama, so a very powerful
00:13:357.7, very powerful, but
00:13:37fortunately
00:13:40so far there has been no report of lives lost,
00:13:43that we have to regret, let's
00:13:46understand this earthquake in its dimension
00:13:50with tonight's guest, of course, so if you like, let's go
00:13:53with him.
00:13:58And the welcome, the welcome is for René García, national director of the
00:14:01Emergency Operations Center of Panama. René, thank you for
00:14:04being here, good
00:14:07evening. Yes, very good evening, Fernando, as you well
00:14:10mentioned, today
00:14:13we had, it should be noted that Panama is not an actively
00:14:16seismic country in this type of situations, it is not common in
00:14:19our country, earthquakes do occur, but they are generally
00:14:23imperceptible, you don't even realize that it
00:14:26has shaken, however, today we were surprised by this one that is spoken of
00:14:30as 7.5 and between 7.5 and 7.7 was the
00:14:33magnitude of it, however, as you well mentioned, we have not had a
00:14:37large number in terms of damages, it is mostly material
00:14:40losses, we are lucky that the epicenter
00:14:44of it was in the province of Los Santos, in the
00:14:48Tonosí area, it is a region that is approximately
00:14:53the capital and yes, we had more
00:14:57significant damages in the central part of the country, namely the
00:15:01Azuero region which comprises the provinces of Los Santos and Herrera, and also in the provinces of
00:15:04Veraguas and in the province of Penonomé, which is where they saw the part of the
00:15:08hotel that collapsed, part of it, thank
00:15:11God, the hotel was not at capacity,
00:15:15there were no victims, there were no injured people in this
00:15:18situation, however, we have had some situations
00:15:21that are a little more
00:15:25calm, so to speak, in terms of
00:15:29the province of Veraguas in a church in the Sonat area, part of the church
00:15:33collapsed and the person was trapped
00:15:36by their lower extremities, thank God
00:15:40they were rescued by the personnel, between personnel from the fire department and
00:15:44personnel from Sinaproc, and the person is now being
00:15:48attended to in a medical center in the
00:15:50province, basically in what is the province of Penonomé in
00:15:54Coclé, sorry, in the Penonomé area we also had what were
00:15:56damages in the Aquilino Tejeira hospital area,
00:16:00people are outside the hospital structure
00:16:03itself since they had eh
00:16:07eh possible damages in the hospital itself and
00:16:11are being attended to in what are makeshift tents that were
00:16:14set up, however the social security fund, which is one of the health
00:16:20country, is already sending a tent to the
00:16:23area, these emergency hospitals that use
00:16:27air-conditioned and heated tents to
00:16:31attend to people, as you mentioned at the beginning,
00:16:35Mr. Fernando.
00:16:38All the magnitude, the large number of
00:16:41damages we have had have been basically material,
00:16:45the area where the epicenter was, we have what are
00:16:48single-family homes, some of which did suffer some kind of considerable
00:16:52damage, in some places it is said that the structures or the
00:16:55residences did collapse completely, we are waiting for the
00:16:58situation to normalize a little
00:17:04areas in terms of damages. We are in
00:17:08coordination with the other institutions, for example, in this
00:17:11case it would be the Mibiot, which is the ministry of housing and territorial planning of our
00:17:14country, to see the possible aid,
00:17:18not possible, aid that will be generated or provided to these people who were
00:17:22affected in terms of the destruction of their houses, as we also saw
00:17:26in the images, there is a lot of damage in what are
00:17:29churches, let's remember that in our
00:17:32the interior of the country are churches that come from the
00:17:36colonial era, many times they are even
00:17:39movement that occurred at that moment, at that moment they did lose what was
00:17:43part of what was the dome or the bell tower that is
00:17:46popularly known
00:17:5015 students who suffered
00:17:53uh uh injuries, we are talking
00:17:57about suffering mostly uh uh anxiety
00:18:01and panic attacks, let's remember, as I mentioned, we are not a country accustomed to this
00:18:04type of situation and the students suffered blows and some had what was
00:18:08uh emotional shock due to the
00:18:12situation.
00:18:15No, a country that, yes, of course, a country that is not used
00:18:19to earthquakes, but also the magnitude is
00:18:22immense, we are talking about a
00:18:267.7.
00:18:29Uh, there is a collapse of
00:18:32businesses, some homes, etc., but do you have
00:18:35plans to do any structural damage assessment because this is very important,
00:18:39right? After an earthquake,
00:18:42there are buildings that do not collapse completely
00:18:46but could pose a danger to the population because they have been
00:18:50structurally damaged, mainly. Tell me,
00:18:53do you have this plan, when do you start with this assessment and in which areas
00:18:57would you mainly be assessing for structural damage?
00:18:59Yes, uh, basically it can be
00:19:03said that most of these large-scale damages
00:19:06as we are seeing in the image right now, which was the Coclé governorship,
00:19:10uh, in the central provinces is where we have the most
00:19:14damages in the structural part, that does not mean that in the
00:19:17capital part we have not had any type of damage,
00:19:21uh, it was thought to start the evaluations
00:19:24immediately, but we have had around
00:19:27147 aftershocks from the initial
00:19:30earthquake which was at approximately 1 in the
00:19:33afternoon, that is, more than 100 aftershocks,
00:19:36the earthquake might have withstood the first
00:19:40earthquake, but we have had aftershocks of up to 6.1, 6.6,
00:19:44yes, so we are waiting for the situation to normalize a little
00:19:47more in terms of possible aftershocks and
00:19:51then start what would be the structural
00:19:54evaluations, what has been done is to secure places like, for
00:19:58example, the church we are seeing was cordoned off so that no people are
00:20:01nearby in case another earthquake or another aftershock occurs
00:20:05that is erable and the structure collapses,
00:20:09it is also for the safety of our own personnel so that they are not
00:20:12doing the evaluation and there is some type of
00:20:17structure.
00:20:21There are 147 aftershocks so far, one of them
00:20:24reaching 6.6,
00:20:27so people are still in a state of stress,
00:20:31anticipation and I imagine in some places
00:20:36return to continue talking with René García, who is the national director of the
00:20:39Emergency Operations Center of Panama to understand a
00:20:42little also the issue of facilities such as water
00:20:46treatment plants that President Mulino already mentioned.
00:20:50Uh, what is the situation and if these aftershocks are a concern,
00:20:53because, well, having a 7.7 earthquake, then
00:20:57having aftershocks of 6.6, 6.1 and 147
00:21:01more, well, eventually they can cause
00:21:04damage, what measures are being taken in this regard, all of this, when I
00:21:07return, I will continue talking with René García, coming
00:21:10up.
00:21:26The fight on this occasion consists of
00:21:29the administration wanting a sharp cut in interest
00:21:33rates to boost the economy, but
00:21:36the Fed, which has price
00:21:40stability as one of its two mandates,
00:21:44inflation, believes that if it does that, if it makes a
00:21:47sharp cut, it would trigger
00:21:50inflation and a scenario with growth problems
00:21:53and at the same time inflation, that is, what is called
00:21:57stagflation, that is precisely what
00:22:00Powell's Fed, Jeron Powell's,
00:22:04wants to avoid.
00:24:42We're back, I'm monitoring Hurricane Isaias right
00:24:45now, before checking in with my guest, uh,
00:24:49checking. Here on the NOAA website, the National
00:24:53Hurricane Center, uh, and Central Pacific Hurricane
00:24:56Center because uh, it seems to have
00:24:59made landfall and if not, it's about to
00:25:03do so, Isaias is
00:25:06practically making landfall right now,
00:25:08we'll be back in a moment with the
00:25:11information,
00:25:14yes, Isaias is there, my production will confirm it to me in a moment,
00:25:18but. according to the National Hurricane Center,
00:25:22NOAA's official website, it seems that the
00:25:24alert has already been given, hasn't
00:25:27it, Gils?
00:25:31We're on it, well, it's 12 miles
00:25:34still at 12 miles,
00:25:37it's 12 miles from making landfall, almost
00:25:41about to, 12 miles from making landfall, Hurricane
00:25:44Isaias, uh, we'll be back, I'll just keep you updated, Isaias is about to
00:25:48come in. this
00:25:50land,
00:25:55yes, this information is recent, well, let's continue, I'm going to
00:25:58close my interview with René García, national director of the
00:26:02Emergency Operations Center of Panama, and then we'll move on to the
00:26:06hurricanes, starting with Isaias, uh, there you
00:26:09have the images, René, thanks for
00:26:13staying with us, I was asking you
00:26:16about President Mulino's mention of water treatment plants,
00:26:19for example, which, yes,
00:26:21can cause a serious problem for the population, and there are
00:26:25others that are important service plants, for example, electric
00:26:28power, which sometimes with the main
00:26:317.7 earthquake are affected, but when you tell me
00:26:35that there are 147 aftershocks and they continue, they could be
00:26:39affected, is there any particular or special
00:26:42operation that you are carrying out to
00:26:45monitor them and, failing that,
00:26:48protect them as much as possible?
00:26:51Well, yes, regarding basic services, in this case we are going to talk
00:26:55specifically about what are the water treatment plants, water treatment plants,
00:26:58sorry, at the time, yes, at least the Chilibre water treatment plant, which
00:27:04the capital city, production dropped to 20%, while they carried out some
00:27:08type of inspections in the structural part, the plant is now
00:27:11working normally. Likewise, there
00:27:15were other
00:27:18the Azuero peninsula, uh, that's where some of the plants
00:27:22did suspend completely what was the production of
00:27:25water, uh, gradually as time
00:27:28passed, uh, they
00:27:31resumed operation as such, in terms of basic services, we have not had
00:27:35problems with electricity outside
00:27:38the area of the province of Los Santos, in the epicenter area, namely the
00:27:41Tonosí area, in the province of Los Santos, yes, we had some fallen
00:27:45power poles, there are some places that remain without
00:27:49electricity, likewise, this has
00:27:52affected the service in terms of phone calls and internet,
00:27:56llamadas telefónicas e internet
00:27:58uh, the
00:28:00what complicates the matter is that it is the
00:28:04place where the epicenter occurred and it is where we have had more
00:28:07damage in terms of single-family homes,
00:28:11this has delayed a little what is the reception of information
00:28:14here at the emergency operations center and in terms of
00:28:17road structures, we have reports
00:28:21of affected roads in the province of Veraguas towards the Torio
00:28:24area, the Mariato area, we had a
00:28:27a section or a stretch of road that
00:28:31was destroyed. Really, in the Chiriquí area we have had some reports
00:28:35of roads that have collapsed,
00:28:37so to speak, the Veraguas area is where we have had the most
00:28:43far.
00:28:47And these road sections are going to be difficult to repair, René, it
00:28:50will take a while or are they minor
00:28:53damages? Uh, well, let's go by the type of
00:28:57scenario we have seen, we have had everything from scenarios in which repairs can be
00:29:01made to parts of roads that
00:29:04literally will have to start by demolishing what
00:29:08is there or moving earth again and rebuilding the road.
00:29:11carretera,
00:29:14Wow, hey, but are there alternate routes to those roads? That is, none
00:29:17of them interrupt direct communication between point A and
00:29:21point B? Well, there are places that
00:29:25interrupt the arrival, so to speak, there is a place that is in the
00:29:29Torio area of the road that is
00:29:32affected, it is a road that was built a few
00:29:35years ago, it is relatively new,
00:29:41this movement implies is that to
00:29:44make a stretch that, for
00:29:48it would take you an hour with the road that
00:29:51was recently inaugurated, doing it by the alternate route, then it
00:29:55would cost you between two hours and two and a half hours, to give an example like that,
00:29:59off the top of my head. Clear. But no, no, no, they don't
00:30:03lose connectivity, which is important, because sometimes
00:30:07places are isolated precisely due to road sections, this is not the
00:30:10case, thank you very much for all the
00:30:14information, tell me, tell me, yes, no, that so far we do not
00:30:17have any point that has been totally cut off, however, yes,
00:30:20we also have the support of what is the
00:30:23National Aeronaval Service, which is the part of air and marine security, likewise they are at
00:30:27our disposal, we have had the disposal of
00:30:31them from the aircraft and it says rotary wing and fixed wing,
00:30:34also the boats, yes,
00:30:38were the launches were suspended due to the swells that were
00:30:41generated as a result of the earthquake, but the coordinations are
00:30:45already being made for any type of support, whether it be by
00:30:50have the