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CNN 5 Things

Flood alert questions, Trump blasts Putin, ICC Taliban arrest warrants & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Officials in Texas sidestepped questions on their flood response timeline at a heated press conference today. President Donald Trump has vented his anger at Putin in a public cabinet meeting. We share how consumers felt about inflation last month. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban officials. Plus, an ancient 3000-year-old city has been discovered in Peru. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, from CNN, I'm Josh and Sharna, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, July 8.

0:08.1

Five camp mystic campers and one councillor remain unaccounted for as the death toll of the Texas floods reaches 108.

0:16.5

That's according to Kerr County Sheriff, Larry Leather.

0:19.9

At a heated press conference in Kerrville, officials appeared to dodge questions from journalists

0:25.2

about the timeline of their response, in particular the timing of emergency alerts.

0:30.4

Here's some of an exchange between Leitha and a reporter.

0:33.9

I think that the community here is asking these questions.

0:37.1

What happened?

0:37.7

When did it happen?

0:38.4

Was the emergency manager awake at the time?

0:41.0

Did they push the button to a shirt emergency alert?

0:44.0

Sir, it's not that easy when you just push a button.

0:46.8

Okay, there's a lot more to that.

0:47.8

And we've told you several times.

0:51.1

I can't tell you at this time.

0:53.1

CNN's Isabella Rosales was at the press conference.

0:56.0

We're essentially trying to close this information gap of what officials were doing, the discussions, the actions that they were taking.

1:04.0

Were they considering evacuations that they decide not to do that?

1:07.0

Did they discuss that at all?

1:09.0

Between 1.14 a.m. on Friday when that first flood

1:12.7

emergency alert came out from the National Weather Service, and then 5 a.m. That is the

1:17.1

point that the river, the Guadalupe River, started to flood homes.

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