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00:00to make sure that we get these issues addressed as quickly as possible.
00:06We get a lot of information from people who are wanting help.
00:09Excuse me.
00:11A lot of people who are wanting information to help.
00:13Best thing you can do, especially right in your small local area,
00:16don't go out into major areas.
00:18Public Works mentioned just, hey,
00:19pick up a little bit of debris in your trash cans or your trash bags.
00:23Keep it local, but stay out of the major areas.
00:26Everything is still very, very dangerous, very hazardous conditions.
00:31Let me pull up our K-Pub utility report.
00:36Of course, it went away.
00:44So K-Pub still has approximately 600 customers that are without power.
00:49The largest remain outage customers are west of Ingram,
00:52south of 39, along South Fork of Hunt.
00:56K-Pub issued a mutual aid request on July 4th.
00:59Fifty personnel and utilities and contractors from across Texas
01:03are coming in to support operations and restoration.
01:08Hunt, or South Fork, sustained extensive storm-related damage,
01:13including approximately 40 downed power poles
01:16with widespread tree and flood debris, heavily damaged infrastructure.
01:20Restoration in these remaining areas will be lengthy and complex,
01:24and customers should prepare for multi-day outages.
01:28Customers outside of these remaining areas still experiencing an outage
01:31should report it to K-Pub by calling K-Pub's outage line at 855-959-2496.
01:41But power has been restored to most of the other customers.
01:46Like I said, about 600 are still remaining.
01:49A lot of the county is also on Aqua Texas or private wells.
01:53We try to get information on that,
01:55but we don't have a lot of information as far as private wells are concerned
01:58or the status of Aqua Texas.
02:01But a big bulk of what we had coming through the Guadalupe
02:05is within the city limits, which is on the city limit or city water supply.
02:10Aqua Texas and some of those other public water systems
02:12are typically outside of what we're thinking is the damage area.
02:16We have not had any reports from Aqua Texas on outages.
02:19And with that, we will take a couple questions.
02:21Well, the recovery and for some of the –
02:26we're hearing some recovery of bodies in Louise Hayes Park.
02:31And the other part of that question is how many red tag buildings
02:35are now along the river that the Corporal Fire Department has issued?
02:39Yeah, so when you talk about red tag,
02:41you talk about like condemned buildings.
02:43Obviously out here, the damage is extensive.
02:45Right now, we're really focused on life safety.
02:48We are focused on search and rescue.
02:51Search and rescue is the priority.
02:53So we're not really red tagging buildings.
02:55Now, we do have structural teams come out.
02:57They will mark stuff.
02:58You'll see spray paint.
02:59A lot of that is to identify where we've at least primary searched.
03:03But we are not going into the structural side of things
03:05unless it poses a risk to first responders.
03:10Our primary focus is on search and rescue of every single person involved,
03:14and we'll continue through the night to make sure that happens.
03:16Yes, real quick, we are finding bodies and stuff.
03:20We knew today was going to be that day.
03:22So our numbers are going to constantly be changing.
03:24We are constantly working on identification and working with our local partners
03:28to ensure that we bring in all the resources so we can make sure that we partner with folks.
03:33What is the communication procedure for letting camps and other people on the river know when to evacuate the situation like this?
03:40So each camp is obviously mostly private or they have different ownerships.
03:45And so on these, especially in this situation, so let's talk about this one more specifically.
03:51The event happened very fast.
03:52You know, rows over 20 feet, 30 feet within less than a two-hour time span.
03:57On a holiday, in the morning, there wasn't a lot of time in this case.
04:02You know, as far as warnings, obviously there's a lot of things going around.
04:06We want to make sure that we focus on the early level.
04:09Regardless of the warning side of things, again, we want to make sure that we take care of our local community
04:15and focus on search and rescue operations.
04:18So please keep that question.
04:19We definitely want to, you know, get these addressed.
04:21But right now, we want to focus on getting everybody that we possibly can out.
04:26Has that number of the campers of 27 changed?
04:30As of right now, I do not think it has changed.
04:33It is still 27.
04:34Do you know how many people you guys are searching for as of right now, or is there no cap on that number?
04:40So right now, we're kind of looking at this in two ways.
04:43Call it the known missing, which is the 27, you know, camp kids that are missing.
04:47We will not put a number on the other side because we just don't know.
04:52Campers are coming in for 4th of July weekend.
04:55People are camping along the riverbank.
04:56People are coming in to visit.
04:58There's a number that we just don't know yet, and we don't know what we don't know.
05:02So as things are starting to develop and as things are starting to move along, we're not going to put a cap on this.
05:08We are just going to continue until we find everything else.
05:10One more question.
05:11Are there any camps?
05:14Let me give it to somebody else.
05:15Just one question about current rescues.
05:20Can you give us a sense about how often you're seeing a rescue and just in terms of kind of like, for example, when your last rescue was?
05:29So, you know, obviously with the camps, we've been rescuing people out of these camps by the hundreds, you know, all day.
05:37So there's a lot of folks that are shelter-in-place, so we leave them in place to make sure that we get them food, water.
05:43And some of these camps actually now are self-rescuing, if you will.
05:49Maybe that's not the right word, but they are self-extricating, if you will.
05:52So they're getting waters down.
05:54They're getting their own resources.
05:55They're not having to tie up, you know, local and state, you know, resources.
05:59We are monitoring them, but they're accounting for their own folks.
06:03So that has been going on, obviously, for over 800-plus people, and we're continuing to do that.
06:09So, good.
06:11Sorry, one more question.
06:12I can absolutely appreciate that right now the focus is finding them this thing, and it's a very active search and rescue.
06:20But what do you say to the parents that are, in brief, understandably frustrated as to how in the world this could happen,
06:26how in the world you could have so many campers in the way of this danger and not taken out of there ahead of the source?
06:35Yeah, you know, that's the question of the hour.
06:38But, you know, with these, this is last time it was this bad, and this one is even worse, and that was 1987.
06:44You can't predict it.
06:46Everybody in the media even knows, everybody who does this and sees this every single day,
06:50you have the inverse effect of if you continue to push it, and you see this in Houston areas all the time, you cry wolf.
06:56What happens when you continue to, you know, ramp things up and you continue to put a lot of information out there?
07:01You know, again, not to harp on the media, but there's a lot of stuff that gets overspun up, and we see that way too often, and then that trickles down.
07:11So we did look at stuff.
07:13Obviously, I had told the story.
07:14I was out on the river trail at, you know, 3.30.
07:16I left about 4 o'clock.
07:18We did not see any signs of the river rising, and by 5.20, we almost weren't able to get out of the park on the upper end.
07:25It rose that quickly.
07:26So was it a matter of it just rising so quickly and it's being a massive tragedy, or people weren't taking it seriously?
07:32No, this was a massive tragedy, hands down.
07:34We are hitting, we are hitting from our, again, flood maps, we're seeing some areas where it's hitting the 100-year flood thing.
07:41And, again, we talked about the north and south fork.
07:44That water hit perfectly.
07:45You heard Chief Nemb Kidd talk a little bit about, you know, the wide area.
07:50This went from San Angelo to Waco and all.
07:53They staged where they can, but you do not know what's going to happen, one, until water falls, and, two, the predictions were definitely off.
08:00That water and rain fell almost double of what was anticipated, both in the north and south fork, and converged into one place, and it rose that quick.
08:09So, thank you.
08:10Sheriff, do you want to repeat the numbers again?
08:13The latest numbers, remember to keep them again?
08:17We're going to find out.
08:19All right, so, one more time.
08:22Could you get the mic, sir?
08:24Can you get us to the mic, sir?
08:28All right, so one more time.
08:30We have 43 victims who have been recovered.
08:34Out of that 43, 28 of them are adults.
08:3712 of them are pending identification so we're listening here to this update a reminder for
08:43everyone watching this was the latest update that we had just last night since saturday evening
08:48uh the local law enforcement official here kind of providing some of those numbers but they have
08:53changed since this sunday morning several outlets are reporting that more than 50 people are dead
09:00this sunday because of those floods 27 girls still remain missing and as you see there
09:08in this occur county live look that we have over in texas now some authorities here are facing some
09:16scrutiny because of the handling of this entire situation some of those questions were posed
09:21there during that press conference the national weather service sending out a series flash flood
09:26warnings in the early hours on friday before issuing the flash flood emergencies which was a rare
09:32alert to notifying of imminent danger however as you just heard there local officials have insisted
09:37that no one saw the flood potential coming and have defended their actions we're going to step away for
09:42another brief commercial break but we'll continue to follow this story when we come back
