quickly becomes stuck. >> i knew that i was trapped when the water took the stairs away, then there was no way i could come down. >> still, iliar believes she and her dogs will be okay. >> translator: i didn't think it could keep rising and rising like that, so much so that i just sat there on the table waiting. >> television reporter bruno macelles is covering the floods. what he sees is terrifying. houses demolished in an instant. as the camera man films from above the river, bruno spots iliar alone. >> she was alone with her dogs screaming for help. we saw nobody was there to help her. >> iliar's situation is about to go from bad to worse. bruno watches as her only shelter crumbles all around her.