the boulder area, which appears to be hardest hit. the floodwaters have simply cut off towns and forced more than 800 people to evacuate. the worst may not be over, however. more rain is expected throughout the weekend. and it was a heart-stopping rescue that captured america s attention and played out on live television from coast-to-coast. roy ortiz was on his way to work thursday morning when the road beneath him simply gave out. because of the floodwaters. and it sent roy s car into the raging river below, as you see right there, as the rescue emergency crews raced in. and as you can see from the video, they did save roy. but there was more to the story than what you see right here. nelson garcia from cnn affiliate kusa picks up the story from here. reporter: after firefighters made this dramatic rescue, they had no idea that there was still one more person clinging to life. one person trapped in this gray
car right into the raging river. well, emergency crews raced in, and as you can see from this video, they did save roy. but he says he waited for two hours to be rescued and thought about his family. so i had to wait. i had to pray. i had to because i wanted to survive. wow! and firefighters who rescued ortiz met him at the hospital this week, and they called him a real miracle. it was the miracle rescue, in their words. all right, time for this week s cnn hero. today access to healthy food for some of our neighbors, good friend is not easy to get. so when this week s cnn hero discovered a problem in her community, she planted a solution. meet robin evans. reporter: there s magic in gardening that you can drop a seed into the earth, and from