00:00We just visited with incredible families that, I mean, look, they've been devastated.
00:06They lost their child or two children and just hard to believe what I've never seen anything like it.
00:14A little narrow river that becomes a monster and that's what happened.
00:20But the First Lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support
00:25and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood.
00:35Nobody has any idea. Following a torrential downpour, the worst that anyone's ever seen.
00:43Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in less than 45 minutes.
00:49And I've even heard it went well over 30 feet.
00:52There's one story that one person said it had to be 60 feet at one moment.
00:57This is like a giant, giant wave in the Pacific Ocean.
01:02That the best surfers in the world would be afraid to surf.
01:06And it unleashed a catastrophic flooding as the most most residents were asleep in their beds.
01:12In a very dark evening, the waters claimed at least 135, 140 lives.
01:23In the center of the camp is a cabin called the Bubble Inn, where the littlest girls were staying.
01:30And in front of the Bubble Inn are, right now, 17 small white crosses in the ground.
01:38And each cross has the name of another little girl who lost her life.
01:43And the final cross has the name of Dick Eastland, the camp director who gave his life trying to save his girls.
01:49And the water rose in that camp and in that cabin, eight feet high.
01:55You can see the water line, eight feet high.
01:58It blew the windows out of the cabin and it swept those girls out.
02:02I will tell you, I've never seen anything more horrible in my life.
02:05And I just sat there crying.
02:06Well, this is a tough one.
02:09We just were making a little tour of the area.
02:16It's hard to believe the devastation.
02:17Trees that are 100 years old just ripped out of the ground.
02:21I've never seen anything like it.
02:22I've seen a lot of bad ones.
02:23I've gone to a lot of hurricanes, a lot of tornadoes.
02:26I've never seen anything like this.
02:28This is a bad one.
02:30We just visited with incredible families that, I mean, look, they've been devastated.
02:37They lost.
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