Texas floods latest: 121 dead as Trump surveys damage in Kerr County
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Texas floods latest: Trump surveys damage from disaster that killed 121, including Camp Mystic kids and staff
Donald Trump met with Texas officials on Friday in Kerrville. He toured the damage from last week’s devastating flash flooding. The president and First Lady Melania Trump shook hands with rescuers. Texas lawmakers face growing scrutiny over the state’s flood warning systems. At least 121 people have been killed and more than 160 missing.
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Donald Trump met with Texas officials on Friday in Kerrville as he toured the damage from last week’s devastating flash flooding.
The president and First Lady Melania Trump shook hands with rescuers who responded to the disaster, which has killed at least 121 people and left more than 160 missing, one week later.
Among the dead were more than two dozen girls from a summer camp, Camp Mystic. Trump took an aerial tour of the flood-ravaged Guadalupe River region, accompanied by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Senator Ted Cruz, and other federal officials.
The visit comes as Texas lawmakers face growing scrutiny over the state’s flood warning systems.
Before boarding Marine One to travel to Texas, the president said: “It’s a horrible thing, a horrible thing. Nobody can even believe it, such a thing that much water that fast, without a dam break … But we’re going to be there with some of the great families and others, the governor, everybody.”
A New York Times report revealed that county officials were repeatedly denied funding for an emergency flood warning system, despite telling FEMA in October that deadly flooding was “likely” to occur within a year.