Trump to survey Texas flood harm as seek for the lacking continues
Washington — President Trump and first girl Melania Trump landed in Central Texas on Friday to survey the devastation wrought by final week’s lethal flooding, as first responders and relations proceed their seek for the lacking.
The Trumps will converse with native officers and first responders in Kerrville, Texas, because the dying toll stands at 121, in line with native regulation enforcement and Gov. Greg Abbott. Greater than 170 individuals are nonetheless lacking after flash floods consumed the area within the early morning of July 4. Drones, rescue groups and volunteers are combing by way of particles, hoping to seek out solutions for the households of the lacking. Nearly all of the confirmed deaths came about in Kerr County, the place the Trumps are visiting.
At Camp Mystic, a ladies’ summer season camp with cabins alongside the river in a rural a part of Kerr County close to Hunt, a minimum of 27 campers and counselors died in what the camp described as “catastrophic flooding.” Some survivors stated they woke as much as water dashing by way of the home windows.
The Trumps are anticipated to the touch down in Texas round 1:20 p.m. ET. They’re going to survey the restoration efforts and take part in a roundtable with officers and rescue employees. Mr. Trump instructed reporters they will meet a few of the households as nicely. The Trumps are scheduled to spend about three hours in Texas earlier than leaving for Bedminster, New Jersey.
“It is a horrible factor, a horrible factor,” the president instructed reporters Friday earlier than leaving the White Home. “No person may even imagine it. That a lot water, that quick.”
Mr. Trump has up to now averted assigning blame for the deaths, saying on Sunday, “I’d simply say this can be a hundred-year disaster, and it is simply so horrible to observe.”
The president stated he would have visited Central Texas sooner however did not wish to be “of their method” as rescuers proceed their work. Mr. Trump has signed a catastrophe declaration for the area, permitting the Federal Emergency Administration Company to deploy its personal groups to assist native rescue and restoration efforts as these operations press on.
After the catastrophic flooding, the primary girl wrote on X, “My coronary heart goes out to the mother and father in Texas throughout this troublesome time. I’m holding you in my ideas and sending prayers for energy, consolation, and resilience.”
