SCOOP: The Texas Flood
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Why is the flood in Kerr County, Texas historic?
What warnings happened (and which did not)?
What is the truth about DOGE cuts and the impact on the National Weather Service?
Who sends out emergency alerts?
What can we do better to prevent a similar disaster?
Jenna takes you through these questions and a key timeline of events, highlighting several underreported facts and perspectives from those on the ground.
Important note - See flood gauge mentioned here
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is |
| 0:06.8 | Smarter News. Well, hello, everybody. It's great to see you on this Monday, July 7th, |
| 0:19.1 | and we are recording this for you, just about 90 minutes from the area |
| 0:25.7 | most impacted by this historic flooding in Texas. I'm looking out my window right now as I'm |
| 0:32.0 | talking to you, and I see nothing but gray skies, clouds and gray skies and a constant beat of rain that has been ever present over the last several days. |
| 0:45.5 | What I hope to do today for you is because of our close proximity to this massive news event and also because of the way that has clearly affected |
| 0:57.6 | our entire community here at Smarter News, but really nationwide, I want to take a moment |
| 1:02.0 | to take a deep breath with you. There's been a lot of news coming at you over the last several |
| 1:07.2 | days. It's news that can quickly move you to tears. It's hard not to be impacted |
| 1:13.1 | by news that involves children. And this is true of so many stories that we cover that involves |
| 1:20.4 | children, innocent children, that find themselves in the middle of a news story due to nothing |
| 1:26.1 | that they did themselves, no decisions that |
| 1:29.4 | they made. And so that's not lost on me. And in an era of rapid fire headlines, I just want to |
| 1:38.3 | take that deep breath with you to work through what has transpired in Texas over the last several days. There's so many questions |
| 1:46.2 | and there's a plethora of different news stories. And so I want to organize it for you. So hopefully |
| 1:55.0 | we can take it in and process it. One of the things I was thinking about today is the 24-hour news cycle. |
| 2:02.6 | And when I used to be on a news program that would last for two hours, you had to really think |
| 2:08.5 | about filling that time. Sure, a lot of the news stories were obvious. You know, you had this story |
| 2:13.6 | out of Washington, D.C. He had another story out of Texas, maybe another one out of California. |
| 2:18.3 | You were going to hit these. Then you had a bunch of other stories that maybe you'd cover, |
| 2:21.2 | maybe you didn't. Sometimes they would be slotted in and you would go into the program, not knowing |
| 2:25.5 | whether they would come up or not, depending on timing. But you still had that time to fill. |
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