Reporter Presses Governor Greg Abbott Over 'Growing Concerns About Who Was In Charge' In Early Hours Of Flood

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) was asked about the emergency response in the early hours of devastating floods.

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00:00Governor Abbott, over here, sir.

00:01First of all, we want to acknowledge the superhuman work that's happening for these rescue and recovery efforts,

00:07but there are growing concerns in this community about who was in charge during those critical hours

00:12when that first alert came in at 1.14 and when the wall of water arrived here just before 5 a.m.

00:19What is your level of concern here and what are you looking into personally?

00:23So, again, my focus isn't on trying to say, oh, you did wrong or you should have done better there.

00:29My job is to bring Texas and Texans together and make sure that we immediately start delivering on solutions.

00:36You talk about the heroic effort, and no one has seen the level of response as what Texas has provided over the past four days or so,

00:43and we continue to maintain that response here while also going to the state capitol

00:48and working on around-the-clock responses there to make sure that we do deliver real solutions for these people sitting right behind you.

00:55And a follow-up for Chief Kidd, please.