uncertainty, and people really not sure which way these elections are likely to go out. 0 is daniel schriner that live in santiago. daniel mary, thanks. floods in south susanna forced hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes. crops have been destroyed, and grazing land for herding communities has been reduced half of south sedans. 11000000 people depend upon food assistance, out of serious harbor, tougher reports from john ley state. this used to be a road until it disappeared under water mid last year. now the only way to get around in this part of south to dawn is my boats, and canoes is the worst flight this region is seen in 60 years. in this area, every home is abandoned. families had no choice but to leave people like no well mcquaid who arrived here in july, her children and extended family now sleeping, this makeshift house. not sure if and when they'll be able to go back home. film on carla. my house is still under water. no, there are a lot of his next on reptiles. one on the place is a steel river. it's no longer home. so how can i go back and been caught audio? the land

well, daniel schriner joins is lie from argentina. daniel from your report, we can see that the effects this is having on the people who are living on or near the river, but just just why is the situation as bad as it is? why are the water levels going down so much? weather for many of the reasons i mentioned in the report. but here in about 120 kilometers south of south federal where we did that reports were in the with attributes or is of the flow into the, or join up with the river europe. why become the real that up? that's all the river plate and flow into the, into the south atlantic, close to when a fire is on here and noticing the impact as well. we've just been talking to a guy who works on the river, who showed us he's out, but they haven't that which they look at every day several times a day, showing them the water level was. and he said today, even though it's been raining in the last few days, it's 30 to 40 percent lower than it should be. so that's affecting people here where they work in industry. they work in tourism,

jose antonio cast, daniel schriner is ada polling station in santiago for as he says, the large amount of undecided voters makes the outcome very difficult to predict. many a hoping that these electrons will be a way of routing chile back in to some kind of stability at the moment. it doesn't look likely with off the 2 years of unrest and really uncertain about how they're going to go through to what will almost certainly be a 2nd round of voting in december with all the candidates who were voted so far and the outgoing president of asking benita have been asking for is that people turn out in large numbers. voting here is not obligatory. so again, this appeal for people to come out and reestablish than the roots of, of july and democracy is a call that many people are making the opinion polls and those people who don't have much faith in them. but they do talk about a quarter of the 50000000 or so electorate, not knowing who to vote for disillusion with politicians on with politics in general. so again, waiting to see how what's likely to emerge from this day of voting today before go