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00:00and, once again, Kerrville. The point is this, if you're in any of those regions,

00:06you need to realize, for one, you're in an area with land that's already saturated with water.

00:13But for another, when more water comes down, it could lead to rapid flash flooding events.

00:21Now, there's nothing expected at this time to the magnitude of what was seen in Kerrville.

00:28That said, flash flooding can occur at lower levels of water than what happened in Kerrville.

00:35It's a particular threat for people who are driving on roadways. Some of the lives lost in

00:41central Texas were people who were swept away in vehicles or in similar crossing type situations.

00:49Know that rising water on roads can occur very rapidly. You may think you can drive through it

00:54only to find out when you're in there that it's too late and that you're getting swept away.

01:00And so we urge everybody to be extraordinarily cautious for the next 24 to 48 hours.

01:06If there's any water on the road, you got to be safe. There's an old saying for a reason,

01:14because it's true. And that is, turn around, don't drown. You don't need to get from point A to point B

01:20if it's going to risk your life. Your job, the most important thing you can do is to protect your lives.

01:27And taking a step back, for all of us up here, that's our number one job. We put public safety first,

01:36and we'll worry about the physical damage second. There are still public safety issues and lives to

01:42be saved in Kerr County. There are lives to be saved in all these regions that I just mentioned here.

01:49We want our fellow Texans to be safe and secure. And you can do more about that yourself than anybody

01:56else can. With that, I will, I think, pass it to you, Colonel. Yes, sir.

02:06Colonel Freeman Martin of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

02:10It's been a tough three days for Texans. And I can assure you here at this table today that

02:15everything that can be done is being done. Currently, we have operations going on in several different

02:20counties. Williamson County had three people missing. They recovered one, two are still missing.

02:27Ongoing searching. Burnett County is missing, two people missing. The fire chief and a 17-year-old

02:33female. The Department of Public Safety is offering any and every resource that we have

02:40to help with those searches, whether it be boat teams, rescue, divers, helicopters, drone operators, drones.

02:49So there's a lot of work being done. The governor's very active. The ground is saturated. So now a

02:55little bit of rainfall and watershed can cause issues. Williamson County is well aware of that.

03:01The ground was saturated. They knew that it had issues and they evacuated neighborhoods,

03:05which saved lives. And all that being done, they still have three that were washed away.

03:13I'll touch on Kerr County. We have about 230 DPS personnel assigned to Kerr County. And everybody

03:18thinks about search and rescue and what we're doing. There's a lot of stuff going on. We're filling every

03:24gap. And first off, this is nothing negative about Kerr County. They've got a very good sheriff.

03:29Their fire chief is exceptional. Their police chief is exceptional. Everybody's working together.

03:34The outpouring of support. There's a lot of volunteers. There's a lot of good stuff going on.

03:40But there's just a huge need. And it's a large area. So we're providing 18 tactical marine units with boats.

03:48We've got 65 CID personnel assigned, over 230 in total. 11 Texas Rangers, 28 from our special operations

03:57group, our SWAT guys. In addition to that, we've got nine helicopters with tactical flight officers.

04:03We're providing cell towers and trying to solve the issues with the radio communications and their

04:09cell phone communications. We've provided communications operators to embed with them

04:13to handle 911 calls and handle calls with the concerned family members. Dealing with the families

04:19of these missing individuals, there's no higher priority for us than finding those children.

04:26We've assigned commission personnel and victim service personnel to the family that are working

04:31and they're with them 24-7, can answer or address any needs that they have and get them any

04:36information they have. This is tough work recovering them. So we have victim service personnel there to

04:45work with officers that are conducting the search operations additionally. We have some unidentified

04:53individuals at the funeral home, adults and juveniles. The Texas Rangers are collecting DNA

04:58from family members and from the deceased victims and we're flying those to the University of North Texas

05:05in Dallas and we will have answers with rapid DNA in hours, not days, to get some closure and information

05:12back to these families. We have in the last couple of days an outpouring of support from our federal partners,

05:20DEA, HSI and FBI. We've embedded them with our search and rescue teams. This is tough work, it's hot,

05:27they're in the mud, they're removing debris, there's snakes, there's water moccasins. This is God's work

05:34that they're doing. So, you know, the top priority is the family and the victims, pray for them but

05:39throw our first responders in there because there's a lot of good work going on. We're not taking away

05:44from any resources from Kerrville to pre-stage here. We're pulling from South Texas, West Texas and

05:49North Texas into Central Texas to prepare for our emergency response. We're well prepared. The legislature,

05:55the governor in previous years has been overwhelmingly supportive of law enforcement and gave us the

06:01resources so we're prepared to respond to events like this in multiple regions of the state at the

06:06same time. So, Governor, thank you. Thank you very much. Now, General Seltzer with the Texas National Guard.

06:17Good afternoon. The Texas Military Department remains decisively engaged across the flood operations area.

06:23Our current force composition, we have 230 personnel operating. We're flying eight helicopters and we've

06:30increased the size of our force of high-profile military vehicles to help evacuate people from high

06:38water areas. We've also expanded our operations area to not only include Kerrville but we now have

06:45personnel operating in San Saba and Burnett. The additional resources we've added since our last briefing

06:54are a behavioral health officer in Kerrville, a chaplain in Kerrville. We also sent a chaplain to San Saba.

07:01We've expanded the state's air operation center which is a multi-agency air coordination center hosted by TMD

07:09but it includes every agency that operates across the interagency in Texas. So, inside the operations

07:17center we can ensure that the right asset is going to the right location to do the right job.

07:23Additionally, today we have launched the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft out of Houston.

07:30That aircraft departs Houston, goes out over the Gulf of America and climbs to 18,000 feet and then along a

07:39special FAA corridor traverses over to the Kerrville area to conduct a persistent SAR, persistent incident

07:50awareness and assessment operations. It's truly an eye in the sky for our search and rescue people.

07:56I'd like to thank the Federal Aviation Administration today. Due to weather at 18,000 feet,

08:05we could not transit from the Gulf of America to the Kerrville area. The FAA granted a temporary

08:14flight restricted area through a lower altitude which allowed our aircraft to safely transit across Texas

08:22and operate in the Kerr County area. In terms of rescues and evacuations for the Texas Military Department,

08:31we have a total of 525 rescues or evacuations. 366 have been by air and 159 by ground.

08:42Of those to count, 20 ground evacuations occurred in San Saba and 5 air evacuations occurred in Burnett.

08:54And that concludes my brief. Thank you guys. Thank you. Now with the LCRA.

08:58And coming up after the break, we'll take you out to the remainder of these remarks from Austin, Texas.

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