Texas, Flash flooding and rescue
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Texas, Kristi Noem and floods
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Search crews continued the grueling task of recovering the missing as more potential flash flooding threatened Texas Hill Country.
Some governors and mayors are concerned over how current or potential cuts to agencies will impact how the government can respond in the future to major weather events.
It’s discouraging that during this time when we have such a loss of life, and so many people’s lives have turned upside down, that people are playing politics with this,” Noem told NBC's Kristen Welker.
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Officials in Texas are facing mounting questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed more than 100 people, including at least 27 children and counselors at an all-girls Christian camp.
Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be investigated over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to catastrophic flooding in Texas.
Lorena Guillen says the federal response in central Texas has been disappointing after her RV park was washed away by flash floods. She tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” that Federal Emergency Management Agency officials have told her she may be able to obtain a Small Business Association loan,
Trump plans to tour Texas flood damage as the scope of the disaster tests his pledge to shutter FEMA
During his first weekend back in the White House, Trump again visited North Carolina to scope out Helene damage and toured the aftermath of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. But he also used those trips to sharply criticize the Biden administration and California officials.
DHS head Kristi Noem refuted a CNN report that her requirement for personal sign-off on DHS contracts over $100,000 slowed emergency response to deadly Texas flooding.