2025-07-07
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Monday, July 7th.
Here's what we're covering.
The scene was just out of a war zone.
The river was swollen.
They had taken entire neighborhoods.
Entire houses were gone.
There were smashed trees everywhere, and it was difficult to navigate.
My colleague Edgar Sandoval has been in Kerr County, Texas, all weekend,
where torrential rains on the Fourth of July triggered one of the deadliest floods in the U.S. in the past century.