Ben Bergquam Reports From Texas Flood Disaster: 82 Dead, 10 Children Missing From Christian Camp

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[00:30] Now, let's go to what's going on in

[00:31] Texas. It's a unspeakable, terrible

[00:33] tragedy. What do we need to know about

[00:36] what's going on in Texas? Walk us

[00:37] through what happened the last couple

[00:38] days. How did this happen? And how can

[00:40] people help?

[00:43] Yeah, this is it is an unspeakable

[00:45] tragedy. I was actually on my way home

[00:46] for the 4th of July. It was the first

[00:47] Fourth of July I was going to be able to

[00:49] spend with my family in four years. I

[00:51] was driving, almost got to Tex Arcana,

[00:53] and then I got message that they were

[00:55] that this was happening. turned around,

[00:57] came back down here. Uh, and all I can

[00:59] think is, you know, I miss my family for

[01:01] Fourth of July, but at least I get to go

[01:03] home and see them. Uh, most up-to-date

[01:05] numbers we just got this morning from

[01:07] the sheriff and city administrators. Uh,

[01:10] 82 dead with 55 adults, 27 children, 10

[01:15] of these children from the mystic camp,

[01:17] this uh, Christian summer camp that are

[01:19] still unaccounted for. And I asked the

[01:21] question, what are we talking? What's

[01:22] the total universe of missing? And I've

[01:24] been asking that the last three days and

[01:26] I have not gotten an answer. Uh today

[01:28] they said the same thing. They can't

[01:29] give an answer. I said, "Well, are we

[01:30] talking dozens or hundreds?" And the

[01:33] response was a lot. So you can you can

[01:35] read into that what that means. Uh it's

[01:38] not dozens. And so that's where we're at

[01:40] right now. This was a catastrophic

[01:42] weather event. I also followed up the

[01:44] question and not to get in the weeds on

[01:46] geoengineering and the rest of it, but

[01:47] there's no question about it. Texas, a

[01:50] lot of these dry areas have been using

[01:51] cloud seeding for years to help the

[01:54] farmers in these areas. Uh last year was

[01:56] one of the driest years on record. In

[01:59] fact, the river actually stopped running

[02:00] last year and so they've been using it.

[02:02] And I just asked the question, is there

[02:03] as as the mainstream media is going

[02:05] after this trying to pin this on

[02:06] President Trump? I think it's

[02:07] legitimate. That's not legitimate. But

[02:09] what's legitimate is to say, are there

[02:11] other factors that played into this? the

[02:13] fact that this storm came and stopped

[02:15] basically parked over Texas for hours

[02:17] and hours and hours and instead of

[02:19] jumping four inches to six inches of

[02:21] rain, it dumped over 15 in some

[02:23] locations. That's where we're at right

[02:25] now. The, you know, it's a tragedy. Uh

[02:28] these kids should have hopefully, you

[02:31] know, you think back and you think, man,

[02:32] we should have gotten them out of there.

[02:34] But h coming from Arkansas, spending

[02:36] watching these these weather patterns

[02:38] come up, you know, you see this all the

[02:40] time, flood warning, flood watch, you

[02:42] never think I'm standing, just to give

[02:43] you perspective, you can see the broken

[02:45] down car truck behind me. If I turn the

[02:47] camera, uh you can see the river in the

[02:49] distance there. I'm standing 15 feet

[02:53] underwater where this flood was. The the

[02:55] bridge back behind me there, the water

[02:58] went all the way up to the top of that

[03:00] bridge. So the the the amount of water

[03:02] we're talking about is really

[03:04] unimaginable and and it's something that

[03:07] doesn't happen. So anybody out there

[03:09] saying, "Well, you should have known,

[03:10] you should have done, you should have

[03:11] done all we could talk about all that

[03:13] stuff after the fact." We definitely

[03:15] need to look at that. Should we have

[03:16] flood sirens like we have tornado

[03:18] sirens? Definitely worth talking about.

[03:20] But right now, the entire focus is on

[03:22] finding those 10 missing girls and the

[03:24] rest of the missing now presumed, you

[03:27] know, moving from that rescue to

[03:29] recovery. We're in that phase now. 72

[03:31] hours, very few rescues will happen. We

[03:34] keep praying though, and that's my

[03:35] message to everyone. Your final

[03:37] question, how can people help? Uh there

[03:39] is a community uh Hill Country Community

[03:41] Foundation that's set up. I would I

[03:43] would ask you guys, don't give your

[03:44] money to Red Cross. Give your money

[03:46] local to the local community. They know

[03:48] how best to spend it. And it's the uh

[03:50] community foundation of the Hill

[03:51] Country. You can go on the city of uh

[03:55] Kurville's web or Facebook page. You can

[03:56] get all the details there. That's where

[03:58] I would ask you to send the money. uh

[03:59] send your donations. Don't come here.

[04:01] Don't try to do, you know, your own

[04:03] investigations. Do do your own recovery

[04:05] efforts. Don't do that. Let these guys

[04:07] do it. It is being handled. President

[04:08] Trump, Christine Nome, uh Governor

[04:10] Abbott, down to the local. These guys,

[04:12] I've never seen an operation so

[04:14] efficient and so good. So, keep them in

[04:16] your prayers. Keep the family in your

[04:18] prayers. And if you want to contribute,

[04:19] do it to the local communities.

[04:21] Okay, really quick. Uh one minute

[04:23] remaining though, Ben. Uh people are

[04:24] blaming President Trump for this. What

[04:26] What is your response to that?

[04:30] Yeah, it's absolute nonsense. I watched

[04:32] East Palestine, I watched uh North

[04:34] Carolina and Tennessee, the dismal

[04:36] failures of the last administration when

[04:38] they were blowing, wasting all of our

[04:39] money, trillions of our dollars on

[04:41] things on garbage. What President Trump

[04:43] is is he is a businessman. He's an

[04:45] efficient businessman. Everything he

[04:46] does, the decisions he makes are

[04:48] strategic to making decisions that help

[04:50] our country. Everyone from the top down

[04:52] has said every all of that is absolute

[04:54] nonsense. The reaction, the response

[04:56] we're seeing here is the top the the

[04:59] best response I've ever seen. Again,

[05:00] having covered all those other disasters

[05:02] from the local, the state, and the

[05:04] federal level, this is by far the best

[05:06] response I've ever seen. Anyone saying

[05:07] otherwise is a liar.

[05:10] Ben Burwam, God bless you. Uh I hope you

[05:12] get home to your family soon. Thanks for

[05:13] your great work. Thank you.