(8 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hunt, Texas – 8 July 2025
1. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arriving for press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Greg Abbott, (R) Texas:
"The primary job right now continues to be locating everybody who was affected by this flood. There still remain those who are missing. We have to find every single person who’s missing."
POOL
Kerr County, Texas – 8 July 2025
3. Gov. Abbott aboard helicopter for flyover tour of affected areas
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hunt, Texas – 8 July 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Greg Abbott, (R) Texas:
"The numbers that I have is that there are 94 fatalities. 94 fatalities associated with this flooding event in this area. Separate from that, in other flooding events in other parts of the state of Texas, there’s another 15 fatalities for a total of 109."
POOL
Kerr County, Texas – 8 July 2025
5. Various of Abbott in helicopter
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hunt, Texas – 8 July 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Greg Abbott, (R) Texas:
"Just in the Kerr County area alone, there are 161 people who are known to be missing. And again, that comes from combined law enforcement efforts, 161 known people who are missing. Know this, we will not stop until every missing person is accounted for. Know this also, there very likely could be more added to that list."
POOL
Kerr County, Texas – 8 July 2025
7. Abbott in helicopter touring affected areas
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hunt, Texas – 8 July 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Greg Abbott, (R) Texas:
"He (U.S. President Donald Trump) and I spoke again this morning, and he could not stop talking about how sad he was for all the little girls who’ve lost their life. He recounted his own understanding of what happened with what was really a tsunami wave, a wall of water that swept too many of them away. And he cares a lot about those young ladies. And he wants to step up and make sure that any need that we have here in Texas is going to be met very quickly."
POOL
Kerr County, Texas – 8 July 2025
9. Various of Abbott in helicopter touring affected areas
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hunt, Texas – 8 July 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Greg Abbott, (R) Texas:
"You ask, I’m going to use your words, who’s to blame? Know this, that’s the word choice of losers."
POOL
Kerr County, Texas – 8 July 2025
11. Various of Abbott in helicopter touring affected areas
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hunt, Texas – 8 July 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Greg Abbott, (R) Texas:
"Every football team makes mistakes, the losing teams are the ones that try to point out who’s to blame. The championship teams are the ones that say: don’t worry about it, man. We got this. We’re going to make sure that we go score again and we’re going to win this game. The way winners talk is not to point fingers. They talk about solutions. What Texas is all about is solutions."
POOL
Kerr County, Texas – 8 July 2025
13. Various of Abbott in helicopter touring affected areas
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hunt, Texas – 8 July 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Greg Abbott, (R) Texas:
"We’re going to address every aspect of this storm to make sure that we’re going have in place the systems that are needed to prevent deadly flooding events like this in the future."
15. Various of Abbott speaking to community members
STORYLINE:
More than 160 people are believed to be missing in Texas four days after flash floods killed over 100 people during the July Fourth weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday.
The big jump in the number of missing came after authorities set up a hotline for families to call.
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