They're saying our last prayers and just hearing, you know, all the lightning and the thunder and the flare is going off.

People trying to light up the sky, car alarms going off.

Our neighbors' house collided into our house.

That was a survivor of the flooding in central Texas, describing how his family escaped

the waters stuck on the roof of their home for hours until they were rescued.

President Trump heads to the region today in the wake of last week's catastrophe.

And the question is, what does he have to say about his plan to phase out the federal agency that responds to exactly

these kinds of disasters? Also, a head secretary, Marco Rubio, meets with China's top diplomat

after sitting down with Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs. The question is, is the U.S. making any

inroads with two of America's top adversaries?

Plus, voters in town halls are sounding off on the Republican's deeply unpopular tax and spending law.

The question is, how are congressional Democrats responding?

We're going to ask one of them straight ahead.

It's way too early for this.

Yeah. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is watching the markets this morning as the president threatens to slap Canada with yet more tariffs.

We're going to talk about that straight ahead.

I'm Ali Vitale on this Friday,

July 11th. We'll start with the news. Today, just one week after fatal floodwater surged through the Texas Hill country, an urgent search continues for 166 people still missing.

Rescue teams are using cadaver dogs to try to locate people as they comb through the mountains

of debris left behind by last

Friday's torrential storm that killed at least 121 people, nearly 40 of them children.

And at this hour, many questions still remain about whether enough was done to warn residents

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