As waters rose in Houston as a result of Hurricane Harvey, TV reporter Brandi Smith and her cameraman were reporting in the field when fellow employees back at Khou 11 News headquarters evacuated to escape a flood on Sunday. The pair became the only team left on-air, but despite the challenging circumstances still came to the rescue of a stranded truck driver whose cab was nearly covered by water.
“The lights are going on this truck and the windshield wipers are going, and as we get a little closer it does look like there is someone inside,” Smith said in a...
“The lights are going on this truck and the windshield wipers are going, and as we get a little closer it does look like there is someone inside,” Smith said in a...
- 8/28/2017
- by Jason Duaine Hahn
- PEOPLE.com
While reporting live from north Houston’s beltway, Khou reporter Brandi Smith came to the rescue of a truck driver stranded and trapped in his 18-wheeler, with water rising quickly inside his cabin. “The lights are going on this truck and the windshield wipers are going and as we get a little closer, it does look like there is someone inside. There is movement inside of this truck,” Smith reported on location at one of Hurricane Harvey’s hardest hit cities. Watch the video above. From an overpass, Smith shouted down to the trucker, asking if he was Ok and able to climb out.
- 8/27/2017
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
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