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Ted Cruz: “We know the National Weather Service put out one warning…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Senator Ted Cruz Discusses Tragic Flooding at Camp Mystic in Texas

Published | Video Starts at 04:46

There's going to be over the coming weeks and the coming months, I think a careful retrospective looking at the timeline, exactly what unfolded and asking what could have been done better. And I hope and believe we will learn lessons. It is. We know the National Weather Service put out one warning just after 1am they put out another warning just after 4am. there's no doubt Any one of us, if we had a time machine, we could step in it right now. We would run to those girls cabins and pull them out of the cabins before the flood waters rose. (04:46–04:53)

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Asserts that the National Weather Service issued warnings at 1am and 4am.

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