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00:00Absolutely. Well you saw the welcome that the president, the king and the regional
00:04leader received. They were met with cries of murderers, mud was thrown and there
00:09were calls for Pedro Sánchez resignation. That's a sentiment we've
00:13seen echoed everywhere in the past three days. Residents are furious. They say they
00:18were warned far too late on the day of the floods that an earlier warning could
00:21have saved countless lives. They also say that in the days that followed help
00:26didn't come. One resident who I spoke to earlier was moved almost to tears as she
00:33described to me a conversation she had with a soldier in this town Picanha when
00:37the military finally did arrive. She said she went and asked him why did you take
00:40so long to come and she said that his response was that they wanted to come,
00:45they were ready to come, they could have been here in hours but that the order
00:49took days to come and you can just imagine the outrage of all these
00:53residents who have felt left completely alone at times early on in this natural
00:58disaster as they waited for help which they say in the end only really came
01:03from the tens of thousands of volunteers who came off their own bat in their free
01:07time with their own equipment. Now we're hearing that cleanup operations have
01:11made progress but that more rain is expected in the region. I can confirm
01:20cleanup has progressed. As I say those tens of thousands of volunteers have now
01:24handed over to professionals more or less to do the heavy lifting with heavy
01:29machinery. That's because restrictions were placed on movement between Valencia
01:33and its southern suburbs today to prevent those droves of volunteers from
01:38traveling south today. Many roads remain impassable although they have cleared
01:43many of the main ones but there are still car parks, underground multi-story
01:47car parks that remain filled with water and they'll be pumping out that water
01:52for days to come. Obviously at this point hoping not to find any more casualties.
01:59Residents of course have taken cover now because the rain has begun so it's an
02:04extremely demoralizing end to this Sunday which is of course just at the
02:08very beginning of what will be nevertheless a much much longer recovery.