Darkness and delays: the rush to evacuate Texas’s Camp Mystic

黑暗与拖延:紧急撤离德克萨斯州迷雾营地的匆忙行动

Apple News Today

2025-07-16

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The executive director of Camp Mystic, the all-girls camp in Texas, received a severe flood warning on his phone in the early-morning hours of July 4. According to an investigation by Annie Gowen and her colleagues at the Washington Post, it took more than an hour after that for a frantic evacuation to begin. The Trump administration is leaving Congress in the dark about critical spending decisions. Reuters’s Bo Erickson joins to explain the dynamic and its consequences. For years, women told medical providers that IUD procedures were painful. Allie Volpe, a senior reporter with Vox, joins to discuss why their voices are finally being taken seriously. Plus, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling some of the National Guard from L.A., unreleased music was stolen from Beyoncé, and a chunk of Mars is going to auction. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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  • Good morning. It's Wednesday, July 16th.

  • I'm Shemita Basu.

  • This is Apple News Today.

  • On today's show, what to know about the budget showdown happening in the Senate this week?

  • Getting an IUD is painful.

  • Doctors are formally starting to recognize that.

  • And how much would you pay for a chunk of Mars?

  • But first, to Texas.

  • As recovery workers clear the rubble and search to identify nearly 100 people still unaccounted for in the floods,

  • we're learning more about how evacuation warnings worked and didn't work in the early hours of July 4th.

  • We're going to focus today on Camp Mystic,

  • an all-girls summer camp that sits where the Guadalupe River and Cypress Creek meet.

  • It was decimated by the floods.

  • 27 counselors and campers died.

  • and the Washington Post ended up speaking with nearly two dozen camp counselors,

  • emergency officials,

  • parents, and experts to piece together a timeline of what happened during those early morning hours.

  • About 550 campers were sleeping as the water surged.

  • Many of the cabins were built in a FEMA-defined flood zone.

  • Some were less than 500 feet from the river, and the camp had been under flood watch.