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The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

Politics, News, Daily News

4.9 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The A.M. Update dives into the devastating Texas floods that claimed 66 lives, Elon Musk’s bold launch of the America Party to challenge the two-party system, and a surprisingly simple reason why self-driving cars may never dominate our roads. Plus, updates on the Big Beautiful Bill and a heroic father’s sacrifice.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, July 7th, 2025, a monumental tragedy in Texas.
0:04.6	The Big Beautiful Bill is finally law and why self-driving cars will never work on a mass scale.
0:11.8	Next on the AM update.
0:16.1	At least 66 people are dead in central Texas after devastating flash floods slammed Texas Hill Country with water rescues taking place along the Guadalupe River, which rose rapidly early Friday morning to height of a two-story building.
0:31.8	A dozen are still missing from Camp Mystic in Kerr County, a children's summer camp, according to officials.
0:37.4	Of the fatalities, 59 have occurred so far in Kerr County, a children's summer camp, according to officials of the fatalities.
0:38.4	59 have occurred so far in Kerr County.
0:41.1	It's Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference on Sunday, an increase from 43 deaths reported
0:46.4	the previous night.
0:47.6	The dead include 38 adults and 21 children.
0:50.8	Texas lieutenant governor Ken Paxton gave an update on Sunday about the ongoing search and
0:55.6	recovery efforts. We stand on the rock of our faith through now, but there have been dramatic
0:59.6	stories I've told one to some of you that were on the set yesterday on the big weekend. I know Joey
1:04.2	was there about Kent Mystic where a camp counselor smashed a window open. We know this story from the girl who
1:12.1	was telling her parents as they drove her back to Dallas, and they went out the window in their
1:16.2	nightgowns. They walked in bare feet and neck high water, these little girls. They swam for about
1:22.5	10 or 15 minutes, can you imagine, in the darkness and the rushing waters and trees coming by you and
1:27.9	rocks coming by you? And then they get to a spot on the land. They don't even know how they got
1:32.4	to the next spot. And then the helicopter came and picked them up. Incredible stories. A young man
1:38.5	who saved his fiance and her children and his mother, but he cut his arm to the glass that he broke and we don't know what
1:45.9	happened to him. Yeah, that was probably the story that he mentioned there at the very end. That was
1:49.8	the story that stuck out the most. I'll read that to you in a little while. One of the other
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