Kristi Noem recounted emotionally charged meetings with families impacted by flooding, particularly focusing on a father mourning his daughter lost at Camp Mystic. The tragedy unfolded as 27 deaths were confirmed, including children as young as eight. During a cabinet meeting, she narrated her distress upon witnessing the cabin where victims perished, stating how she comforted a father who had just found his child's friend. Trump emphasized the unprecedented height and rapid onset of the flooding wave, stating it resembled the destruction caused by dam breaks.
A somber Homeland Security chief, Kristi Noem, recalled meeting family members of the youngest Texas flooding victims, including a devastated father who she said told her, My little girl died in there outside a ravaged Camp Mystic cabin.
Noem admitted that she had kind of fallen apart inside the cabin where all the little girls died as she painted a grim picture of the flooding aftermath during President Donald Trump's Tuesday cabinet meeting.
The camp has confirmed 27 deaths at Camp Mystic, including counselors and children as young as 8 years old.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: There has never been a wave like this outside the breaking of a dam. This was almost a wave that was ended up being 30 feet high, more actually.
Collection
[
|
...
]