Trump calls for alarms after deadly Texas floods

President Donald Trump expressed his support for flooding in Texas on Thursday and said he was thinking that “everyone is doing an excellent job” responding to a disaster that left more than 100 dead and 170 disappeared.

“After seeing this horrible event, I imagine that you would eat alarms in a form, where the alarms would increase if they saw large amounts of water or anything,” said Trump at NBC News “of the press” on Thursday, the moderator Kristen Welker in a telephone interview.

“But local officials were struck by this like everyone else,” he said.

Trump will visit Texas on Friday, a week after the deadly floods in Kerr county and other parts of the region, when the Guadalupe river climbed almost 30 feet hunting on July 4. It was greater than a 1987 flood disaster on the same river.

Among the confirmed or feared deaths, there are 27 children and advisers at the Mystic camp in Hunt.

Kerr County had no audible alarms to warn residents.

Governor Greg Abbott bristled this week on the issue of a journalist who was to blame for the scope of the disaster and the dead, saying “it is the word choice of losers”.

Trump said Thursday that “no one has ever seen something like this” and that “this is a unique agreement in 2000”.

“It would be easy to blame them. I don’t hold it against them,” said Trump. “I think that from the point of view of the future, it may be necessary to have a kind of alarm and lighting system.”

Trump also defended the secretary of Homeland, Kristi Noem, and the response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Trump spoke of perhaps “getting rid of” Fema. NBC News reported this week that Noem now demands that all agency spending more than $ 100,000 will be personally approved by it.

On Monday, FEMA officials created a working group to accelerate the process of obtaining the approval of Noem, according to reports, which cited two people familiar with this unit.

“I don’t know anything about it,” said Trump when he was asked about reports and if FEMA’s response delayed.

“We were right in time. We were there-in fact, she was the first I saw on television,” he said. “She was there from the start, and she wouldn’t need anything. She had the right to do it, but she was literally the first person I saw on television.”

Trump said Noem “was right on the ball” and “did an excellent job”.

Thursday in Texas, the search for the missing continued. Research and rescue operations along the Guadalupe river moved to a recovery phase.

120 people were confirmed dead and 173 people who disappeared on Wednesday evening, officials said. Among the 120, 96 of the confirmed deaths were in the county of Kerr, including 36 children.

Trump said that during Friday visit, he would express how “I like these people”.

“These people were with me from the start, and it’s just a heat message, and I feel so terribly for them,” he said.