El gobernador Greg Abbott obtuvo la firma de Donald Trump para declarar desastre en Texas, incluyendo seis nuevos condados, para activar ayuda federal en la región.
00:00Bueno, el gobernador tejano Greg Abbott declaró en rueda de prensa que le había solicitado al presidente Donald Trump que firmara una declaración de desastre, lo que desbloquearía la ayuda federal para los afectados.
00:13Firmó una declaración de desastre ampliada que agrega seis condados más.
00:16En total, se ha declarado desastre en los condados de Bandera, Bexar, Burnett, Caldwell, Koch, Comal, Concho, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Kerr, Kimball, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Reeves, Sansaba, Tom Green, Travis y Williamson.
00:37Williamson, Abbott aseguró además que buscarán que todos los recursos y activos del Estado estén disponibles para cada condado que sea objeto de esta declaración de desastre y dijo que no van a detenerse hasta encontrar al último desaparecido.
00:52La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Christine Noem, afirmó que Trump cumpliría con esa solicitud y dijo que está devastado por la tragedia.
01:01We will be relentless in going after and ensuring that we locate every single person who's been a victim of this flooding event.
01:19We're not going to stop today or tomorrow.
01:22We will stop when the job is completed.
01:24And he wanted to make sure that all of you know how much he loves Texas, how much he's grieving for your families that have lost someone and the beautiful children that we're still looking for and hoping to return to their families.
01:37And that he is absolutely committed to using all the resources of the federal government to help unify families, rescue all those that we're still missing and return those who may be.
01:46My instruction to every state agency involved in this is to assume everybody who is missing is alive and there's a need for speed, not just every hour, every minute counts, which is why there's people in the air, people in the water, people on the ground right now, because they're they're looking to save every last live and we will not give up that effort.
