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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Devastation ... and a Demand for Answers

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

CNN

News

3.6857 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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As the death toll in Texas continues to rise, officials face increasing scrutiny about whether they were prepared for the devastating flood. Plus, President Trump ups the pressure on trading partners and says he will send new weapons systems to Ukraine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Happening now breaking news, devastation and a demand for answers.

0:36.6

As the death toll here in Texas is now at least

0:38.9

105.

0:40.6

Officials are now facing increasing scrutiny about whether they were prepared for this flood.

0:45.7

Plus, President Trump will hold a cabinet meeting next hour as he's ratcheting up pressure

0:51.1

on trading partners and saying he will send new weapons systems to

0:55.5

Ukraine. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. Pamela

1:01.8

Brown is in Kerrville, Texas, and you're in the Situation Room.

1:15.6

This is CNN breaking news. And we start with the breaking news out of the Texas Hill country.

1:19.6

Five days after truly historic floods ripped across the landscape, more tales of heartbreak and heroism emerge from the ruins. Emergency officials are due to hold a news conference at the top of the next hour. One of the main questions will be, could more have been done to warn people.

1:37.3

105 people are now confirmed dead. Among them, 21 year old Joyce Catherine Baden. She was at a cabin with three of her friends who remained missing at this hour.

1:49.0

In all, almost two dozen people are still missing, including 10-year-old girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic.

1:58.0

At least 27, 27 campers and counselors died at Camp Mystic.

2:03.6

This morning, the tales of courage are remarkable. One woman was reunited on CNN with the

2:11.6

stranger who saved her and her three young children. Watch.

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