Footage captures TV reporter rescuing man from sinking car during flood

An Australian TV reporter and a nearby bystander rescued a man trapped in his sinking car as floodwaters continued to rise in Morayfield, Queensland, on Thursday. The rescue was caught on camera as Will Murray, a journalist for the Australian Broadcast Corporation, was reporting on the heavy rainfall and flooding in when a man drove his car through the floodwaters.Murray recalled the moment, telling Reuters, “We saw his window come down a bit and then go back up again. And obviously he couldn’t get out. It became very apparent that he might have been trying to get out but couldn’t do the windows or couldn’t do the door.” 2:17 Why disasters like the Nepal floods are so difficult for scientists to predict “I realized that I’m going to have to go in… I started swimming and I’m very, very thankful that another man, Daniel, who I think was a local, jumped in with me and gave me a hand because with two of us it makes you feel a lot braver in that situation,” Murray added. Story continues below advertisement Murray said that Daniel took off his shorts in order to wrap them around his hand in case he had to punch through the car window. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news deliver...