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00:00At least 100 people have left and 128 people missing from heavy rains and massive flooding
00:10that have hit Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul since last week.
00:17More than 230,000 have been displaced as floodwaters have isolated much of the region.
00:26More storms are expected in the state on Wednesday, with hail and wind gusts reaching up to 100
00:33kilometers per hour, according to the National Meteorology Institute's morning bulletin.
00:40A military helicopter flyover of El Dorado do Sul, one of the hardest hit by the floods,
00:46showed hundreds of houses submerged, with only their roofs visible.
00:53The city is located beside Porto Alegre, near the center of the state's coastline.
01:00El Dorado do Sul Mayor Hernani de Freitas told local journalists that the city would
01:06be totally evacuated and estimated it would take at least a year to recover from the disaster.
01:14The flood came and took everything.
01:17No houses, no jobs, just begging for strength.
01:22But I believe God is with us.
01:24I only took my documents, three t-shirts and two underwears, and a pair of flip-flops.
01:31The rest is gone.
01:33I had almost nothing, just a little, but what I had stayed.
01:37Now I'm taking it home.
01:40There's nothing here.
01:42I put the mattress in a chair, but it's all under water.
01:48In a warehouse in Porto Alegre, the authorities housed neighbors who had to be evacuated.
01:58A report by the National Confederation of Municipalities estimates damages at US$930
02:05million in nearly 80% of Rio Grande do Sul's municipalities.