Let me show you what people are facing and how people are struggling, and this is, as someone would say, with your own eyes. These little, small pieces here, those are human beings. This was their refuge. This is water. This is water as far as the eye can see. They were making a life, barely, on a bridge. That was the only dry land. I can see they were on both sides, but they were able to get notice to run on this side so that they could be together, but they are stranded as this water breaks the bridge. It breaks the bridge. Water as far as the eye can see. This is what we saw. These are not little bushes in a lake. These are the tops of trees, the green that you see. Most of the land is covered. Some people are stranded on these little patches of land. It looks like a beautiful, blue ocean, no land, and the fear of what is under this massive ocean. As I said earlier, there are pumps in normal times because there is no normal draining, but there is absolutely no ability to deal with something as massive as this. It is speculated that it will not come down for another 6 months--stagnant water, disease, raging across Pakistan. This is just to let us look at a little bit of dry land in Dadu, working with the military, giving out food items to an elderly woman without food resources and a little child looking up, babies in hands who are obviously in need of resources.…
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