Trump arrives in Texas to survey flood damage
US President Donald Trump came to Texas to investigate the damage caused by the flash flood and to meet with the first intervention and relatives of 120 people killed in the July 4 disaster.
His visit comes at the end of a week of questions about the government’s reaction to deadly floods and the hopes of finding more survivors.
The search teams passed through the muddy debris of the Texas Hill country, and still searched for dozens of listed as missing, but since the flood day, the survivors have not been found.
Last Friday, torrential rains, the US Independence Day during the dawn hours of the day of the Guadalupe River sent a water wall down.
The disaster is the most deadly of the approximately six -month period of the Republican President.
As Sun passed through the Dark Clouds on Friday, the search teams on hard hats diligently walked carefully along the ruined banks of the river, and looked at the damage and wreckage.
“This is a terrible thing, Tr Trump said, leaving journalists from the First Lady Melania Trump and the White House.
“Nobody can believe it, something like that – so fast water.”
Air Force One touched the Kelly Field Air Base in San Antonio at noon.
Trump, according to a White House official, victims and emergency intervention team relatives spoke to relatives of the flood center in the South-Middle Texas went by helicopter.
He was preparing to listen to a briefing from local officials and tour sites in Kerr County.
The district is a region known as “Flash Sel Alley”, the scene of the most deadly floods in the USA.
On July 4, more than 30 cm rain fell in less than an hour.
Flood indicators showed that the height of the river rose from about 30 cm to 10.4 meters in a few hours, and swept the trees and structures on the road.
Kerr district officials, experts after the disaster reported that the number of people who are often inflated, but more than 160 people are not calculated, he says.
Among the dead, at least 36 children, many of whom are camps in Camp Mystic, many of whom are almost centuries -old Camp Mystic, all the girls on the banks of the river are withdrawn Christian summer.
Local and federal officials faced investigations because of their answers, including questions about whether they could do more to warn people.
Before the last flood, the district refused to establish an early warning system after not being able to secure the government money to cover the cost.
In an interview with NBC on Thursday, Trump seems to support any new attempt to build such alarms.
“After seeing this terrible event, I dream of somehow alarm after seeing this terrible event.” He said.
Texas state legislature will be gathered in a private session later in this month to investigate floods and provide disaster assistance financing.
Chuck Schumer, the best democrat of the US Senate, asked a government guard dog to investigate whether the interruptions at the National Weather Service affect the reaction of the national Weather Service.
NWS defended the estimation and emergency management by stating that he had assigned extra predictions to two Texas offices during the holiday weekend.
Trump’s management, the agency is enough staff and sufficient response, he said.
In NBC, Trump described floods as “every 200 -year -old event”.
