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The Daily

A Dark Moment for Journalism — and Devastation in Texas

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Last week, when Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, announced a $16 million settlement with President Trump over editing of a segment of “60 Minutes,” many of the network’s journalists were furious. The deal also raised questions about the independence of CBS’s journalism, and how much news organizations could be cowed by threats from the president going forward. David Enrich, an investigations editor at The Times, takes us inside the settlement, and Lowell Bergman, a former CBS producer and investigative journalist at The Times, reminds us that the network has been in a similar situation before and discusses why this time may be different. First, Edgar Sandoval, who is on the ground in Texas, explains what is happening in the wake of the flooding.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, it's Rachel.

0:03.6

Before we begin today's show, we wanted to bring you the latest from Central Texas.

0:07.9

In Texas tonight, a catastrophic flood emergency.

0:11.5

Months worth of torrential rain fell in just a few hours in Kerr County.

0:16.6

Where flash flooding has killed at least 80 people as of Sunday afternoon.

0:20.9

Dozens are still missing.

0:22.5

The desperate search for the missing after deadly flash floods in Texas has become a race against time.

0:29.0

Among those missing, a number of youth camps dot the area, including Camp Mystic,

0:34.8

are 10 girls from a summer camp along the Guadalupe River.

0:38.3

We will remain 100% dedicated, searching for every single one of the children who were at Camp Mystic, as well as anybody else at the entire river bed, to make sure that they're going to be recovered.

0:51.3

I called our colleague Edgar Sandoval, who's on the ground there, to help us understand

0:55.9

what happened.

1:00.8

So Edgar, it's 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Can you just tell us, where are you, and what is the

1:06.9

scene like there? Right now I'm in Kerrville, Texas. I came here as soon as I heard that the floods have devastated the parts of the community.

1:16.6

And the scene was just out of a war zone.

1:19.6

You could see just hours later after the rain started that it had taken entire neighborhoods.

1:26.6

Entire houses were gone.

1:29.0

There were smashed trees everywhere.

1:31.8

The roads were just broken in many parts.

1:35.0

And my first stop was at a shelter in Curbill.

1:39.2

And the first man I saw was a man by the name of Brian Eads.

1:47.5

He was wrapping a blanket and trying to light up a cigarette.

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