I believe CNN later apologized for that one...
Let's face it, when it comes to rescuing, South East Texas is currently a target rich environment. Pretty much anyone with a flat bottom boat and some initiative can become an instant hero to plenty of stranded and waterlogged families.
In the Houston area alone there have to be a couple of hundred thousand people who need rescuing for real, but CNN meterosexual reporters are too cowardly and lazy to go to the dangerous areas where people are at risk because they might break a fingernail.
So they gotta fake it.
Contemptible.
That clip never made sense from the get go.
They truck was on a fairly clear road and driving slowly. It did not spin or hydroplane but rather was steered directly towards a ditch. Why would someone do that?
Sane drivers know that if you see a wider swath of water running along side the road but not on the road or the land on the other side, that’s a ditch. You don’t steer into a ditch unless maybe you have a monster truck or something that can traverse it.
Even if it was a mistaken turn, the guy could easily get out of the truck and make it to land a few feet away ... unless he was disabled in some way. It didn’t look like the man was disabled.
I knew it. Didn’t need the evidence, but sure is nice to see them caught.
A David Copperfield (Magician) moment:
In the pic, captioned “Brings a Mic To Save a Life,” just below the video, the victim seems to be wearing shorts and the reporter long pants. Maybe they miraculously or magically switched during the rescue.
[Can’t tell what footwear the victim and the reporter are wearing.]
[In the video, the way the pickup turned into the stream seemed awkward. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the whole incident was a set-up. I trust very little from the fake-news media.]
I saw this on the break room TV at work. My first thought was “..staged..”.
Saved him from what? Dude shouldn’t have had trouble reaching land, which was right there.