WATCH: Houston Reporter Helps Elderly Man Escape from Car Submerged in Flood

Just before he was about to do a live report from Houston, an ABC 13 reporter worked to help a man caught in the area’s historic flooding today.

Steve Champion was about to give live coverage of a submerged part of town when he saw an older man drive his car into a deep pool of water near an overpass. As he kept the camera on the car, he noticed the man trying to open the door and yelled at him to get out.

Champion and his cameraman yelled at the driver to swim, which he hesitated to do at first presumably out of concern for his car and the water itself. As the man started swimming, Champion headed into the water to assist the man and bring him to shore.

As he led the driver to safety, Champion began his report by noting that his car was the latest of several vehicles in the area to be submerged. The man, later identified only as Andy, said that he didn’t expect the water to be so deep, and he stayed in the car at first to try and reverse after getting stuck.

Watch above, via ABC 13.

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