Texas Flash Floods

We are joined by CBS News National Reporter Karen Hua live from Kerrville, Texas where officials are still searching for survivors of the devastating flash floods. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get the very latest from there in Texas. CBS News
National reporter Karen Whi is on the liveline with us
this morning in Kerrville, Texas. Karen, thank you so much
for doing this today.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
They good to be with you, so you can imagine
it's definitely been such an emotional, lady game for the small,
tight knit community. It seems like everyone we speak to
here knows someone who is impacted by these floods, whether
it's someone who passed away, someone who's still missing, a survivor,
or a witness. We're now going into day four of

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this non stop search. Multiple agencies, they've come from outside
the state. They're using helicopters, boats, drones, really anything at
their disposal from us. They will still insists this is
a search and rescue mission. They're hoping to find some
of the missing alive at this point, but as the
days go on, this may unfortunately turn into a recovery mission,

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so that death hoole may rise yet again. But in
terms of the big question that is lingering as we
focus on these victims and all these missing, is what
happened with the warning systems. We've spoke into several residents
here who say some of them didn't get any phone alerts,
none of that loud blaring that woke them up in

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the middle of the night. Others say they did get
the alerts, but they didn't realize the exact severity. So
Governor Greg Abbott here in Texas and our female sources
tell us it's the local county. It's the local county's
responsibility to send out these emergency alerts. So we've asked
at several press conferences those local leaders about if they

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actually did send out those emergency alerts. The response has
been pretty consistent time after time. It's that they're focusing
on the victims and they will investigate this alert system
a little bit later. That's why some folks in this
community they're asking for these siren wars, these outdoor siren
system just to make sure this very flood prone area

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known as flashblad Alley to some people that there will
always be warnings in the future and that could potentially
save lives live.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
In Kerrville, Texas. This morning, Karen Hua with CBS News,
thank you so much for your time this morning.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Thank you