Horror In Houston
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The missed warning signs are piling up after the tragedy in Houston the lead starts right |
| 0:08.5 | now. |
| 0:10.4 | Breaking today, the first lawsuit filed after fans were crushed and trampled and ate killed |
| 0:15.2 | at a concert in Houston. |
| 0:16.4 | One survivor saying they were just thrown into a, quote, ball of violence. |
| 0:20.1 | How do we make sure this never happens again? |
| 0:22.5 | And a new low for President Biden's approval rating in a new CNN poll, what Americans say |
| 0:28.1 | he is not focusing on enough? |
| 0:30.9 | Plus everyone from Big Bird, the first lady, Jill Biden, out working hard to get America's |
| 0:35.9 | kids vaccinated, what parents need to know is more shots go into little arms. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapp, where we start today with our national lead, the horrific, |
| 0:49.6 | deadly tragedy in Texas over the weekend, Houston's mayor telling CNN, it could take weeks |
| 0:54.4 | if not months to get answers into what exactly unfolded at the multi-day music festival, |
| 0:59.7 | or eight people were killed and dozens injured over the weekend. |
| 1:02.4 | The crowd of 50,000 packs so tightly that when rapper Travis Scott took the stage Friday |
| 1:07.7 | night concert goers were crushed and trampled as waves of people in the crowd moved toward |
| 1:13.5 | him. |
| 1:14.5 | Video show attendees trapped against barriers, barely able to move others reaching out |
| 1:19.0 | to try and help them escape. |
| 1:21.0 | But one point, Scott appeared to notice something wrong in the crowd. |
| 1:29.3 | Concert goers had been trying to warn event staff about the disaster as it began unfolding, |
| 1:35.4 | screaming stop the show, stop the show to no avail. |
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