Texas floods leave more than 20 dead
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Search continues for missing girls at Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp by the Guadalupe River.
Also in the programme: on the eve of the Dalai Lama turning 90 we hear from the man believed by many Buddhists to be the reincarnation of his childhood tutor; and a preview of the very final performance of the metal group Black Sabbath.
(Photo: A drone view of vehicles partially submerged in flood water following torrential rains that unleashed flash floods along the Guadalupe River in San Angelo, Texas, U.S., 4 June 2025, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Patrick Keely/via Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, welcome to Newsout from the BBC World Service, which is coming to you live from London, with me, Sean Lay. |
| 0:10.6 | In the US state of Texas, two dozen people are known to have died after intense rainfall engorged the Guadalupe River, resulting in flash flooding. |
| 0:19.4 | The state governor, Greg Abbott, said rescue operations will continue all night. |
| 0:23.7 | After announcing he signed an emergency disaster declaration, |
| 0:26.6 | Governor Abbott tried to put into words the enormity of what Texans were feeling. |
| 0:31.3 | Little kids, off at campers alongside the river, |
| 0:36.2 | people that I know of who went into harm's way to try to save the |
| 0:40.5 | lives of others. So many people have been swept up into an extraordinary catastrophe. And know this, |
| 0:49.5 | we remain in a search and rescue posture right now. They will continue in the darkness of night. |
| 0:56.0 | They will be taking place when the sun rises in the morning. They will be non-stop. |
| 1:02.0 | The sudden and severe deterioration in local weather conditions hit as Americans were enjoying the 4th of July public holiday, |
| 1:09.0 | which celebrates the country's independence from Britain. |
| 1:11.9 | In Kerrville, a city of about 25,000 people, which the river runs through, it had a firework display plan for Friday evening. |
| 1:19.2 | The site of that was completely submerged. |
| 1:21.9 | Kerrville's mayor is Joe Herring Jr. |
| 1:25.0 | I want to say thank you to the dedicated men and women of the first responders. |
| 1:31.2 | You are our heroes today. We will not stop. We will rescue those in peril, and we will find those |
| 1:43.7 | who are missing. |
| 1:47.0 | But I'd also ask, please pray for our community. |
| 1:54.0 | This is a hard day and there will be hard days to come. |
| 2:01.2 | Mayor Joe Herring Jr. |
| 2:03.4 | The Guadalupe River is a popular location for camping. |
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