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President Trump said connected Sunday that helium expects to question to Texas connected Friday to sojourn areas of the authorities hardest deed by the catastrophic flash flooding.
“Probably connected Friday,” Trump told reporters, erstwhile asked whether helium plans to sojourn Texas.
“We wanted to permission a small time,” helium continued. “I would person done it today, but we’d conscionable beryllium successful their way. Probably Friday.”
As of Sunday afternoon, astatine slightest 70 radical had been confirmed dormant successful cardinal Texas, wherever hunt and rescue operations continued to scour the country deed the hardest by Friday’s floods.
Kerr County, wherever Camp Mystic and different summertime camps are located, confirmed 59 deaths, including 38 adults and 21 children, the sheriff’s bureau said Sunday morning. Eleven radical from different counties were confirmed dead, The Associated Press reported.
The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office stated that, arsenic of Sunday morning, 11 campers from Camp Mystic and 1 counsellor were inactive unaccounted for.
Trump signed a “major catastrophe declaration” for Kerr County, Texas, connected Sunday morning, “to guarantee that our Brave First Responders instantly person the resources they need,” helium wrote successful a Truth Social post.
“These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with galore lives lost, and galore inactive missing. The Trump Administration continues to enactment intimately with State and Local Leaders,” Trump continued.
The Hill reached retired to the White House for much details connected the trip.
