Trump visits Texas flood sites, praises first responders, vows prevention steps

The Manila Times

Trump visits Texas flood sites, praises first responders, vows prevention steps  President Donald Trump on Friday, July 11, defended the state and federal response to deadly flash flooding in Texas as he visited the Hill Country region, where at least 120 people, including dozens of children, died a week ago.  After arriving in Kerr County, Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott toured an area near the river, receiving a briefing from first responders amid debris left in the wake of the flood.  During a roundtable discussion, Trump praised Abbott and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for their response, saying they both did an "incredible job."  Search teams on Friday continued combing through muddy debris in central Texas, looking for the dozens still listed as missing. No survivors have been found since the day of the floods.  VIDEO BY U.S. NETWORK POOL / REUTERS  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net  Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  Soundcloud: https://tmt.ph/soundcloud   #themanilatimes #tmtnews #worldnews

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00:00I've never seen anything like it.

00:06I've seen a lot of bad ones.

00:08I've gone to a lot of hurricanes, a lot of

00:10tornadoes.

00:10I've never seen anything like this.

00:12This is a bad one.

00:15We just visited with incredible families that,

00:18I mean, look, they've been devastated.

00:21They lost their child or two children.

00:24And it's just hard to believe what — I've

00:28never seen anything like it.

00:29A little narrow river that becomes a monster.

00:34And that's what happened.

00:35The search for the missing continues.

00:37The people that are doing it are unbelievable

00:39people that you couldn't get better people than

00:41this anywhere — Christy, right?

00:45Anywhere in the world, you couldn't get better

00:47people.

00:48And they're doing the job like I don't think

00:50anybody else could, frankly.

00:52And I want to thank them.

00:53I want to thank all of these great first

00:55responders who raced into very grave danger.

00:59We have some people that were incredible.

01:03The single Coast Guard rescue crew saved an incredible

01:07169 children at Camp Mystic — 169.

01:12So we've deployed over 400 first responders and

01:15assisted or enabled more than 1,500 rescues.

01:19Amazing — 1,500.

01:21Customers and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard have

01:25deployed numerous search and rescue crews, and they're

01:27— they're all over the territory.

01:31FEMA has deployed multiple emergency response units.

01:34And FEMA has been really headed by some very good people.

01:37We have some good people running FEMA.

01:38It's about time.

01:40We're also taking historic action to ensure that such

01:44a nightmare never happens again.

01:45We're going to look and see how can a thing like this — they

01:47could say it's a hundred year.

01:49Somebody said it's a 500-year event.

01:51It doesn't — we're not going to let a thing like this

01:53happen again where it can wreak this kind of devastation.

01:57You'll probably have to do that.

01:58You'll probably come up with something very unique because

02:01there is no system right now.

02:03There's been no — this is no — a thing like this has never

02:06happened that anybody knows, certainly not to this extent.

02:09But I know the governor and everybody is working on it.

02:12They're meeting, and they'll figure something out.

02:15Thank you, Mr. President, I want to let you know that it is

02:30actually bigger than it's happening.

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