Tragedy in Texas: how flash flooding devastated a county

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  Good morning. It's Monday, July 7th.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, inside Trump's big bill that's finally passed into law,

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  what a Nebraskan meatpacking clamp says about the challenge to hire domestic labor,

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  and the world's largest time capsule gets cracked open after 50 years.

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  But first, to the devastating impact of the flooding that hit central Texas over the weekend.

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  There are now more than 80 people confirmed dead, many of them children.

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  But that number is expected to go up, with dozens still unaccounted for.

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  It began on Friday when clusters of thunderstorms hit far worse than had been anticipated.

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  Within a 45-minute period, the Guadalupe River had risen 26 feet,

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  sending an overwhelming wall of water several miles downstream and destroying everything in its path.

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  Roads were submerged, cars overturned, and houses ripped from their foundations.

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  Emergency teams and local residents have been working through the weekend.

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  And on Sunday,

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  Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that President Trump had approved federal disaster assistance for the state and said more than 800 people had been rescued.

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  Ron Logue from Kerrville was one of those volunteering, and he spoke to CNN.

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  This is our everything.

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  And a lot of our everything has been taken.

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  It is destroyed.

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