Iker Jimenez and his team Horizon They moved to the epicenter of DANA to narrate the reality of this tragic event. The presenter, from Paiporta, began the program, looking very dismayed: “In my 51 years, I have never I have never seen anything like it. “You can’t get an idea of the distortion that exists between what we have seen on the screen and what it is like to be here.”
© FourFrom the set, his wife and also presenter of HorizonCarmen Porter, followed Iker’s story carefully. On a street, plunged into “total darkness, dozens of streets of total darkness,” except for the light of the camera, the presenter continued. “I know it’s not pleasant, but nothing that happens here is pleasant.”
Some people are taking advantage of the situation to steal, as shown on the screen, broken car windows: “This was not to remove a person,” the journalist explained, “it was vandalism to steal.” For this reason, and despite the aid, he told viewers: “This is the best of human beings and the worst of human beings.”
© Four“The good side is that of solidarity, that of people helping each other,” he continued. The presenter became emotional when recounting how the neighbors had to help each other, “with rods sticking out of the balconies, trying to grab other people, children who have been swept away by the flood,” he explained, with a broken voice.
“We have seen that the bodies are inside those large jars of water, in the vehicles. The Civil Guard of Paiporta has told us that now the worst begins,” he continued, walking among the cars piled up and full of mud. He said that, since Horizonhe and his team are just “a loudspeaker,” and he promised: “We are not going to abandon you. We are going to help you and we are going to transmit what you are telling us.”
© FourAfter a program with numerous interventions and interviews with some of those affected, Iker could not contain his tears. Between comings and goings of the coverage, the presenter received a message from his daughter, “saying that all his 12 year old friends were very proudbut not for fame or anything like that, for trying to help people and his friends were already telling it.”
© FourIker burst into tears, while Carmen, from the set, also got emotional. “And this will mark us but not for the worse, but to understand how privileged we are. You have to see these people who have lost everything. We wish them the best, we have tried to give them a speaker. It’s the least we can do,” the presenter concluded.
The work of Iker Jiménez, Carmen Porter and their daughter Alma
In addition, Iker Jiménez and Carmen Porter connected live this Saturday, November 2, on the Fiesta program to talk about the help and work they are doing from Madrid. The couple has been working with Ángel Gaitán to raise funds, food and other essential products. “Tomorrow 100 trailers loaded with aid leave from here for Valencia,” said the journalist.
© TelecincoAlma, the presenters’ daughter, only 12 years old, has also been helping: she has been in charge of packing and sorting clothes that they will soon take to Valencia. “You have to teach the youth that you have to be supportive and you have to help as much as you can. If we bother now at ground zero because they are now working, then from wherever we can,” Carmen explained.