Brazil flooding jan 2012

An excavator works trying to contain the water in a flooded road at the Corrego Dantas neighborhood in Friburgo, 150 km north of Rio de janeiro, Brazil on January 3, 2011. Six people dead, another one missing and 52 municipalities declared in a state of alert is the toll left by the summer rains season in southeastern Brazil so far. AFP PHOTO/DANIEL MAGALHAES