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00:00to be blunt hundreds possibly of lives saved well it's too late for hunt the water's up and

00:07the volunteer fire department guy's been there he knew it was coming because he's awake and he's

00:12sitting in his truck looking at it but the water's come up and the wall of water's heading down to

00:17ingram so you hear some radio traffic in a little bit that's going to warn people that

00:24warned to tone out ingram that they need to start evacuating the rv park down river and i fully

00:31believe that um a really quick action could have um and i'm not going to hindsight at all but a quick

00:39action could have helped people down river but at 3 30 once it hit 4 30 it was just too late

00:47that the code red would have been ineffective in my opinion

00:50well for more on the timeline we're joined by cnn shimon prokipas who is in kirk county

00:56so shimon we know that the national weather service sent a flash flood warning just after 1 a.m

01:01early on the morning of july 4th have local officials explained if they were monitoring

01:06the weather in the hours between when that warning went out and when they started to send alerts out

01:10to residents no um they've not anderson and that's the key thing in all of this it wasn't until hours

01:18later when you hear from city officials one of them was running uh another one gets woken up

01:24you know much later than one o'clock when the flooding is actually occurring and i think that

01:30is what's so significant about that audio that we just heard is that everything that that audio tells

01:35us is that by the time authorities were in the midst of this they were dealing with this it was already

01:41too late people were already in danger and they were surprised by all of this the people the

01:48community was because all of this happened in the middle of the night and we have no information from

01:53any of the authorities here on the local level the county officials the city officials that any of

01:58them were monitoring the weather at one in the morning at two in the morning at three in the morning

02:02when days before the texas department of emergency management was putting out press releases telling

02:09people beware this is coming there could be a concern here we have no accountability from locals

02:15as to what they were doing how they were preparing and whether or not they were communicating with state

02:21officials who were having these concerns anderson's and that is the thing that is the key now here

02:26what were they doing how were they preparing were they anticipating any of this were they in

02:31communication with the weather services any meteorologists any people down and up the river to see what

02:38was going on and so far there is nothing here from the officials on that i understand you're in a

02:45hard-hit area right now that only a few media outlets have been able to get access to before what are you

02:49seeing well anderson it's just shocking we are lucky enough uh to sort of tell these stories because

02:58this community wants this story told because this area has been cut off from public access by the texas

03:06department of public safety the state police here this is bumblebee hill um it's in ingram but i would

03:12just want to show you here anderson the devastation here this is you know not really that close to the

03:18river but these are all the homes that suffered from the water damage you see all of the destruction

03:24and the garbage and people starting to clean up their homes people were on the roofs of these homes

03:30as the floodwaters were rising riding out the storm to try and survive i want to just quickly show you

03:37one other thing anderson why just to show you the power of this river and what was happening here

03:42here's here's how this went this river is that's 39 so it's on the other side of that road it went over

03:52that road through this creek up the back way here all the way into this house anderson and quickly

03:59one more thing i want to show you this here is the water line this is the water line into this home

04:06the people were sleeping there were eight people in this home including kids and they rode out the

04:12storm they were able to get up because of the noise the noise from trees breaking they realized that

04:18the weather had turned that the river the water was rising it was in their home to their waist they

04:25quickly grabbed everyone there were eight people in this home and they survived on this roof they

04:30rode out for hours on the roof this family called 9-1-1 and they were told there was nothing at that

04:36point that they could do for them that they were just to get to the highest point possible i spoke to

04:42this family they are thankful they let us into their home they let us into their property

04:46um they are just thankful that they survived and now they're just trying to rebuild as many in this

04:52small community because no one expected that the waters would rise in such a way i mean this house

04:57when they built this house they it was even built higher by them so that they could avoid any potential

05:03flooding and even that didn't work and to that water went across the street into all of those homes

05:08just you know anderson just utter utter devastation here and it's just so sad to see all this anderson just

05:15so sad yeah i'm glad they were able to to get onto the roof in time shimon shimon thank you very much we

05:22we learned a bit tonight about another one of the now more than 120 men women and children who lost their lives

05:27almost a week ago sherry richardson was just a few weeks away from her 65th birthday she was a grandmother of five a

05:33mother of two she lived in a small cabin near the non-verbal disabled adults and children that she worked with with an

05:40an organization called hope house they all got out okay but but she didn't make it one hope house

05:45staffer called her the heart and soul of the place one of the kindest people he'd ever met

05:50sadly there will be many more reports like hers cnz lavendera has more right now on the search for the missing

05:57passing through the gates of the last gap ranch in centerpoint texas volunteer firefighter razor dobbs

06:05takes us to the edge of a sunflower field the beauty eclipsed by heartbreak yeah there's been a lot of

06:11victims in this area right right here and this is a place that's home to you this river

06:16is this whole community's home this river is like the backbone this river is where people that grew up on

06:25this river and their kids are growing up on this river this is the story of one spot along the guadalupe river

06:31and the monumental task of finding the missing this is this is a pinprick

06:36this is a a little bitty one frame of a whole movie of equipment right i mean this this operation

06:46right here is going for 30 miles plus all the way back to camp yeah and and uh so it is crazy

06:53news that could shed light on what happened almost a week ago as one of the worst natural disasters in

06:59recent memory began to unfold dispatch audio from central texas about a half hour before the first

07:05emergency warning was issued for the hardest hit county along the guadalupe river now the first call

07:11we have is from a firefighter at 3 37 a.m local time the calmness of his voice is remarkable all

07:17things considered yes ma'am just for your 43 the guadalupe is starting to come up and shoemaker is

07:24no longer passable at this time that's the guadalupe river rising in one of the main streets flooded and

07:31from that point on as the audio shows problems were growing fast respond to 2029 highway 39 at 2029

07:41highway 39 it's going to be for a water rescue have callers house flooded we're getting multiple calls

07:50off of 39 people are stating their houses are flooding we're trying to advise them to get to higher area

07:57now the next piece of audio is of what we reported on last night a firefighter requesting an emergency

08:04alert be issued to the community and the dispatcher are not able to make that call

08:08is there any way we can send a code red out to our hunt residents asking them to find higher ground

08:15or stay home 10-4 stand by we have to get that approved with our supervisor

08:21as we reported last night it would be 90 minutes from that call to when kerbill's mayor told the

08:28texas tribune that he finally received a code red alert now during that time the guadalupe river would

08:33overflow in a wall of water several stories high at its peak and the 9-1-1 calls would just keep coming

08:39we received a phone call at our fire station to have a lady she's frantic she's at casa bonita 117

08:48quarto way or casa bonita lodges and she said her children are on top of one of the cabanas and

08:55they're trapped well the area is home to many summer camps as you know this one boys rode out the worst of

09:02it in the rafters of their cabin when water reached the top of their bunks camp mystic for girls though

09:08was of course the hardest hit this is a new image of some of the evacuation efforts early on in a

09:13moment we'll be joined by one of the staffers who was there that night and took this photo but as

09:17would become clear though 27 campers and staffers many of the campers as young as eight tried to get

09:22out and didn't make it and when daylight came a few hours later the true dimensions of it all became

09:27clear in addition to all the dead dozens and dozens of people missing and tonight they still

09:32are upwards of 160 people in addition to the 120 plus fatalities and as to that dispatch audio

09:39tonight the man who recorded it and helped install kirk county's code red system spoke with CNN's

09:44Erin Burnett about the timing of the alerts that followed so are you saying as early as 3 27 a.m

09:52that that things could have played out very differently in terms of alerts and code reds and

09:58and frankly just to be blunt hundreds possibly of lives saved well it's too late for hunt the water's

10:06up and the volunteer fire department guy's been there he knew it was coming because he's awake and

10:12he's sitting in his truck looking at it but the water's come up and the wall of water's heading down

10:17to ingram so you hear some radio traffic in a little bit that's going to warn people that

10:24warn to tone out ingram that they need to start evacuating the rv park down river and i fully believe

10:31that um a really quick action could have um and i'm not going to hindsight at all but a quick action

10:39could have helped people down river but at 3 30 once it hit 4 30 it was just too late the the code red

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11:38too late people were already in danger and they were surprised by all of this the people

11:47the community was because all of this happened in the middle of the night and we have no information

11:53from any of the authorities here on the local level the county officials the city officials that

11:58any of them were monitoring the weather at one in the morning at two in the morning at three in the

12:02morning when days before the texas department of emergency management was putting out press releases

12:09telling people beware this is coming there could be a concern here we have no accountability from

12:15locals as to what they were doing how they were preparing and whether or not they were communicating

12:20with state officials who were having these concerns anderson's and that is the thing that is the key

12:25now here what were they doing how were they preparing were they anticipating any of this were

12:30they in communication with the weather services any meteorologists any people down and up the river

12:38to see what was going on and so far there is nothing here from the officials on that i understand you're

12:45in a hard-hit area right now that only a few media outlets have been able to get access to before what

12:49what are you seeing well anderson it's just shocking we are lucky enough uh to sort of tell these stories

12:58because this community wants this story told because this area has been cut off from public access by

13:05the texas department of public safety the state police here this is bumblebee hill um it's in ingram

13:11but i would just want to show you here anderson the devastation here this is you know not really that

13:17close to the river but these are all the homes that suffered from the water damage you see all of the

13:23destruction and the garbage and people starting to clean up their homes people were on the roofs

13:28of these homes as the floodwaters were rising riding out the storm to try and survive i want to just

13:37quickly show you one other thing anderson why just to show you the power of this river and what was

13:41happening here here here's here's how this went this river is that's 39 so it's on the other side

13:49of that road it went over that road through this creek up the back way here all the way into this

13:58house anderson and quickly one more thing i want to show you this here is the water line this is the

14:04water line into this home the people were sleeping there were eight people in this home including

14:10kids and they rode out the storm they were able to get up because of the noise the noise from trees

14:16breaking they realized that the weather had turned that the river the water was rising it was in their

14:23home to their waist they quickly grabbed everyone there were eight people in this home and they

14:28survived on this roof they rode out for hours on the roof this family called 9-1-1 and they were told

14:35there was nothing at that point that they could do for them that they were just to get to the highest

14:40point possible i spoke to this family they are thankful they let us into their home they let us

14:45into their property um they are just thankful that they survived uh and now they're just trying to

14:50rebuild as many in this small community because no one expected that the waters would rise in such a

14:56way i mean this house when they built this house they it was even built higher by them so that they could

15:01avoid any potential flooding and even that didn't work and to that water went across the street into all of

15:08those homes just you know anderson just utter utter devastation here and it's just so sad to see all this

15:14anderson just so sad yeah i'm glad they were able to to get onto the roof in time shimon thank you very

15:21much we learned a bit tonight about another one of the now more than 120 men women and children who lost

15:27their lives almost a week ago sherry richardson was just a few weeks away from her 65th birthday she was a

15:32grandmother of five a mother of two she lived in a small cabin near the non-verbal disabled adults

15:38and children that she worked with with an organization called hope house they all got out

15:43okay but but she didn't make it one hope house staffer called her the heart and soul of the place

15:47one of the kindest people he'd ever met sadly there will be many more uh reports like hers

15:54cnz lavandera has more right now on the search for the missing

15:57passing through the gates of the last gap ranch in center point texas volunteer firefighter razor

16:05dobbs takes us to the edge of a sunflower field the beauty eclipsed by heartbreak yeah there's been a

16:11lot of victims in this area right right here and this is a place that's home to you this river

16:16is this whole community's home this river is like the backbone this river is where people that grew up

16:24on this river and their kids are growing up on this river this is the story of one spot along the

16:30guadalupe river and the monumental task of finding the missing this is this is a pinprick that this is

16:38a a little bitty one frame of a whole movie of equipment right i mean this this operation right here is going

16:47for 30 miles plus all the way back to camp yeah and and uh so it is crazy news that could shed light

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