. >> while lucas lebarry lives in myrna sort of sao paolo, and joins me now. tell me how the floods are affecting the area you're living in. >> thank you for calling. i'm calling from americana in brazil and the situation here in brazil, as you have seen, is really sad. you see people dying. and the authorities are doing nothing to stop that. my area is not just rio de janeiro, but i see people dying every single day in my area and unfortunately, the authorities don't make nothing to stop them. >> i understand that many houses are built very close to mountains and that contributes to the problem. >> could you say that again? >> many houses are built very close to the mountains and the flooding comes from the mountains which contributes to the problem. >> definitely, because the people are just build the houses just close to the mountains. this doesn't happen in my area, but as you can see rio de janeiro, it is very common, people build the houses just close to the mountains and when the rain comes, the houses just fall down the it's very common here, unfortuna