Sources: FEMA’s Flood Response Slowed By Noem’s Cost Controls

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

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As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, like they have in countless past disasters. But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.4	New insight into the response of the catastrophic flooding in Texas where more than 160 people are still missing, and at least 120 are dead. We're also learning more about what happened at the local level as the waters rushed in and at the federal level
1:17.9	in the days that followed. First, a new report says a volunteer firefighter tried to sound the
1:22.9	alarm right around the time the Guadalupe River burst its banks and audio records show he
1:27.4	called dispatch at 422 a.m.
1:30.0	After he saw a highway sign underwater.
1:32.7	Now, he requested a mass alert to be pushed to people's phones.
1:36.3	The dispatcher replied, stand by, we have to get that approved with our supervisor.
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