a hero, jorge alvarado. watch. >> early on the morning of saturday, june 26th, agents are working along the rio grande river and hear cries for help from a nearby pond. one agent, jorge alvarado answered that call and went into the pond putting himself in danger. jorge, tell me what happened on that morning. >> we were patrolling the area and at the time i believe around 8:00 in the morning, and we heard cries for help. we approached the area and saw an individual inside and he was screaming for help, help, help, i don't know how to swim. and we tried to tell him to come towards our side and it was-- it was difficult, he went under, he had already gone under so during that time we had to make a decision, it was myself and the supervisor and so it's a remote area. and there wasn't any other rescue guards, anything of that nature. and we had to make it decision, it was a matter of seconds, if not minutes, that that individual's life was going to be put in jeopardy. the helicopter happened by at the right place