Searchers in Helicopters and on Horseback Comb Texas Flood Debris for Missing People

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00:00As of 8 a.m. this morning, central time, there are 95 deceased.

00:05I'm going to kind of break down the numbers for you.

00:07On adults, there's 59, unidentified 14.

00:11Children, 36, unidentified 13.

00:16Camp Mystic currently still has missing five campers and one counselor.

00:23Officials report there are 161 missing people in Kerr County area.

00:27Community members are asked not to conduct debris management of their property until directed by law enforcement.

00:35There is also a no-burn ban in Kerr County at this time until further notice.

00:40As with other significant events that our emergencies services encounter, this incident will be reviewed.

00:47You have my word.

00:49When or if necessary, if improvements need to be made, improvements will be made.

00:54What I'd like to do right now is kind of give you a breakdown.

00:56I believe the latest report I had, we over have 2,100 people out here at some capacity on this incident.

01:05As far as Kerr County Sheriff's Office right now, what our office is currently doing, it's kind of an all-hands-on-deck.

01:11Everybody we got are out here, but also we have additional 2,000-plus people helping us.

01:16How do you account for that lapse of time?

01:18What happened and what could have happened in that time?

01:20As I've said earlier, with every significant event, with every emergency, we're going to have to, there's going to be an after action.

01:31Please, y'all, listen to those words.

01:33After action, okay.

01:34Those questions are going to be answered.

01:37I believe those questions need to be answered to the family of the misloved ones, to the public, to the people that put me in this office.

01:44Those need to be, and I want that answer, and we're going to get that answer, and I know that's going to be asked over and over.

01:49Please understand that.

01:51You know, we don't have, we're not running, we're not going to hide from everything.

01:53That's going to be checked into at a later time.

01:55I wish I could tell you that time.

01:57I don't know that time.

01:58Let me share something with y'all.

01:59One of the main things I've been doing is going and visiting the family.

02:02We still have some of those misloved ones here.

02:04I wish y'all would bear with me in that, okay?

02:07Bear with me.

02:07We'll get them.

02:08I can't tell you in a week or two, okay?

02:10We're going to get them.

02:11I'm not trying to deflect them, okay?

02:13My primary, I mean, I ask you, I've been in this business 36 years.

02:17I don't know if any of y'all, how many of y'all have gave notifications, death notifications.

02:21I've done them.

02:22What is worse, a death notification or telling somebody, I don't know where your loved one was?

02:27That's my priority, okay?

02:28Now, please understand that.

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