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Texas flooding kills nearly 90 people; White House confirms Trump will visit state – latest updates | Texas floods 2025Notice: Undefined variable: newid in D:\vertrigo\www\voice\see.php on line 32  Death toll across Texas reaches 89As we heard earlier, the death toll in Kerr county rose to 75, bringing the total number of victims from the flash flooding in Texas to 89. Here is the latest count from the affected areas:
Key events Karoline Leavitt again conflated concerns over whether adequate warnings were sent out to people soon enough (most of the alerts were sent in the middle of the night) with accusing the administration of responsibility for the flooding. “That was an act of God; it’s not the administration’s fault the floods hit when it did,” she said, before insisting that “there were early and consistent warnings”. White House press secretary says critics of flood warnings should be 'deeply ashamed' Here are the full comments from Karoline Leavitt, attacking those who have questioned whether the National Weather Service was adequately prepared to warn of the deadly flash floods in Texas. The White House press secretary cited “some members of the media” as well as Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader who has reportedly called for an investigation from the commerce department inspector general into whether the National Weather Service had enough staff in offices that would have forecast the storms. “Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning. Here are the facts: in the lead-up to this tragic natural disaster, the National Weather Service did its job despite unprecedented rainfall,” Leavitt said. She continued:
Trump will travel to Texas later this week, says White HouseKaroline Leavitt also said that Donald Trump will travel to Texas later this week, but she didn’t provide further details about the timing of the trip.
She added shortly after that the trip was tentatively scheduled to go forward on Friday.
'Blaming Trump for floods is a depraved lie,' says White House“Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie,” Karoline Leavitt said at the White House briefing, accusing the Democrats of weaponizing the disaster. “It serves no purpose during this time of national mourning,” she said. People have not been accusing Trump of being responsible for the flooding. Experts and others have been questioning whether the cuts to the federal workforce carried out by his administration, including to thousands to the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - the agency that oversees the National Weather Service – leaving many weather offices understaffed, led to a failure by officials to accurately predict the severity of the floods and issue appropriate warnings ahead of the storm. As we reported earlier, ahead of the floods, the NSW office near San Antonio, which oversees warnings issued in Kerr County, for example, had one key vacancy - a warning coordination meteorologist, who is responsible for working with emergency managers and the public to ensure people know what to do when a disaster strikes. The person who served in that role for decades was among hundreds of NSW employees who accepted early retirement offers and left the agency at the end of April. Death toll across Texas reaches 89As we heard earlier, the death toll in Kerr county rose to 75, bringing the total number of victims from the flash flooding in Texas to 89. Here is the latest count from the affected areas:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is due to brief reporters shortly and will surely face questions about the deadly flash flooding in Texas. We’ll be covering her briefing in detail over on our US politics live blog, and I’ll also bring you any relevant lines here. 'Anything Texas needs, the answer is yes,' Trump tells CruzAt the press conference earlier, Ted Cruz said he had spoken to Donald Trump, who told him that anything Texas needs “the answer is yes”. Answering questions about whether the warning system in place had been adequate, the senator said there will be a period of retrospection, and batted away what he called “partisan finger pointing”. He also said the idea that Doge cuts to the National Weather Service had impacted the warning system was “contradicted by the facts”, saying extra staff were working at the time. We reported his comments here. Louisiana’s governor Jeff Landry has sent 14 swift-water rescue personnel to Texas to assist in the flood response, including a task force leader, three boat operators, three boat bowmen and three boat support personnel. “Louisiana will always answer the call to help our neighbors in need. Our first responders are among the best in the nation, and these men and women will always step up when disaster strikes,” Landry said in a statement. “Louisiana stands with Texas, and we are committed to doing whatever it takes to assist in their recovery.” The day so far
Edward Helmore Texas senator Ted Cruz was in Kerr County today talking to reporters about the warnings that were issued before the Guadalupe river burst its banks after heavy rains, killing 82 including 27 children. Amid criticisms of the lack of warnings about the severity of the storm to local residents, Cruz said:
He then pushed back on what he called “partisan finger-pointing” that has blamed staff cuts at the National Weather Service for failures to predict the intensity of the rainfall last week over the Guadalupe river headwaters.
Here is a clip featuring timelapse footage provided by a witness shows flood waters rising over a causeway in Kingsland, Texas, and completely submerging it in the span of a few minutes. The flooding occurred after torrential rain fell in the central Texas area on Friday 4 July, the US Independence Day holiday. The death toll from catastrophic floods reached at least 80 on Monday, including 28 children, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp continued and fears of more flooding prompted evacuations of volunteer responders. Source link Posted: 2025-07-07 19:18:42 |
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