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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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USA TODAY National Correspondent Rick Jervis reports from Texas on what he's seen in the aftermath of devastating flooding. Plus, Rick reported on how warnings for the flash flooding came with little time to act. And flood survivor Chrissy Eliashar tells us her story.
President Donald Trump announces tariff hikes on 14 countries.
USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page takes a look back on the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump as we near its one-year anniversary.
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0:19.7 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. |
0:24.8 | This is USA Today is the exit. |
0:29.0 | Today we head to Central Texas and hear from one of our reporters and a survivor of recent devastating floods. |
0:34.7 | Plus new Trump tariff rates, and we discussed the assassination |
0:38.1 | attempt one year later. Rescue workers in Central Texas continued their work yesterday, |
0:46.7 | searching for survivors as a death toll rose past 100 in the state's catastrophic flooding. |
0:51.8 | Among the dead are at least 27 children and counselors |
0:54.4 | from Camp Mystic in all girls summer camp in Kerr County where the worst of the flooding |
0:58.8 | broke out. At least 10 girls and one counselor remained missing. There were about 700 |
1:03.6 | children at the camp when relentless rain caused the nearby Guadalupe River to surge over 26 |
1:08.7 | feet in less than an hour on Friday, according to Texas |
1:12.1 | Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. Photos taken at the scene show a building where some of the |
1:16.5 | children slept with broken windows and a blown out wall. Among the mud-covered debris were pink |
1:21.7 | blankets and stuffed animals. I spoke with USA Today National Correspondent, Rick Jervis, |
1:26.5 | who's been reporting from Kerr County on what he's seen there. |
1:29.3 | Rick, thank you so much for joining me on this. |
1:31.3 | Yeah, happy to be here. |
1:33.3 | So just to set the scene for us, Rick, if you would. |
1:36.3 | What have you seen this week in the aftermath of these storms and flooding in Texas? |
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