Watch the amazing moment a news reporter saves a trucker trapped in rising waters

This is the the moment that a TV news crew stopped telling the news and started making it - saving a man's life in the process.

Brandi Smith was reporting for KHOU II on the Houston beltway when she looked down and saw a tractor-trailer already up to its windshield in the still-rising murky brown waters.

Worse, there was a man stuck inside.

At that moment, Smith stopped being a reporter - and became a hero, KHOU 11's video shows.

And so, as the police began guiding the life-saving craft down the freeway's exit ramp - now a boat ramp into the murky water - Smith shouted out at the driver not to panic.

The man - who was already up to his elbows in water, with a book and other objects floating around, shouted the affirmative.

The bridge that the truck had been heading towards was almost completely submerged under 16 feet of water, Smith noted.

'This water, folks, it's rising,' she said, '...you can see water filling [the cab].' 

Shortly after, the footage cut out.

A tweet from the KHOU 11 offices would later reveal why: Water had flooded in and drowned their equipment.

This article was first published on dailymail.co.uk and is reproduced here with permission.