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Allen Jackson: Disaster Relief | Allen Jackson Now

August 1, 2025 | 22:2

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner joins Allen Jackson to discuss disaster relief in Texas.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Disaster Relief | Allen Jackson Now | August 1, 2025

Well.
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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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A large part of the country is still trying to absorb
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The massive flooding in texas.
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Hoping and praying that all those who perished
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Will be brought back to their families for closure.
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It was a once in a century flood,
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The worst of it in the middle of the night and pitch dark.
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It's a real nightmare.
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Well, since that night,
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The airwaves have been full of humankind at its best.
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People working 24 hours a day to get all those involved
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To a better place.
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The damage is staggering across several counties.
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The only good news fact to report
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Is that the number of missing has gone down
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From the initial estimates.
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After enough of those who had left the area
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For safer ground
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Checked in with authorities
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To let them know that they were okay.
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But as with every new event these days,
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There have also been
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The predictable people pointing fingers, looking for weak spots
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And trying to put the blame on
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Someone not to their liking already.
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Well, for tonight,
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We're not going to give them any of our time
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Because we have two
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Prominent guests who are moving in a positive direction.
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Edward graham from samaritan's purse,
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Who we'll hear from in a moment.
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And white house
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Secretary of housing and urban development scott turner.
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Secretary turner was with the president
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When he recently traveled to texas.
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Welcome to our program, mr. secretary.
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Thank you.
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Alan, it's great to be with you, sir.
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We're honored to have you.
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The first lady was also on the trip
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When you toured the devastation and visited with
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Some of those who had lost loved ones.
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Listen to how the first lady spoke to them.
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We are grieving with you.
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Our nation is grieving with you.
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We just met with the wonderful families.
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We pray with them.
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We hug.
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We hold hands.
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They shared the stories.
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And i met, beautiful young ladies.
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They gave me this special bracelet from the camp,
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In honor of the all of the little girls
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That they lost their lives.
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Secretary turner, before we get to your announcement,
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Please share with us what it was like on the ground.
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Yes, sir.
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You know, that was a very, touching moment.
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And i'm so glad you played
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That clip of the first lady speaking.
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And in the room,
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You can really sense the sincerity of her heart.
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And she said, you know, we hug and we held hands.
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She was deeply, heartbroken,
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If you will, by this tragedy in central texas.
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And i'm so glad that her
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And the president came to see people face to face.
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You know, a lot of people see the president on the media.
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They see first lady in the media.
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But this was the real first lady, the real melania, the real
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Donald trump, common to love and to hug and to listen.
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I did a lot of listening.
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And so the first lady, she's a classy woman.
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She's a tender hearted woman.
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She's a tremendous leader and servant in america.
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And so that mama was not only a very heartfelt moment,
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But it was real and it was sincere.
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Well, mr.
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Secretary, as you know,
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Thousands of people have been displaced.
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They've lost family members, their homes and cars,
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In some cases, everything they own.
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But we're told us there are more than 900
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Fha insured mortgages in kern county.
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And you're announcing an immediate plan to help them.
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Please tell us about this new plan.
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Yes, sir.
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We're happy,
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To announce that we have a 90 day
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Moratorium on mortgages, fha, mortgages.
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And as you said, over
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900 mortgages and impacted areas for families there.
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And, alan, you know, we went down to central texas,
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The people of texas.
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And i'm a native texan.
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I'm from texas, fourth generation.
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And to see the people of texas and the resiliency of people
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In that great state during this tragedy,
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And also the faithfulness of god, you know, in the valley
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Has been very encouraging.
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And so from this side of heaven
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To announced the 90 day moratorium
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On mortgages, the freeze on mortgages, and also,
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We have two loan programs here at hud
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That will help families to rebuild
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And to restore their homes and their families.
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We have our hotline here for housing counseling.
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One 800 call fha, one 800.
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Call fha, where people can receive
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Housing counseling and understand the resources
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That we have available.
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And so hud is there immediately.
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But also, alan, we're there for the long haul.
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And we understand here at hud
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Our mission and the people that we serve.
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And when catastrophe hits such as this, hud will be there
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To the end to help people, impacted to rebuild their lives.
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Well, you're obviously not waiting for the surge to be over
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Before creating this rescue plan to protect the people there.
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You've put a 90 day moratorium that prevents
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Any mortgage agents from initiating foreclosures,
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Including for those people
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Who won't be able to make their mortgage payments.
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Can you share with our viewers
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How that gives these folks
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Even more protection than they would have normally had?
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Yes, sir.
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You know, when a disaster such as this hits,
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The president declares it, you know, a major disaster area.
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And we made the announcement for the 90 day,
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Moratorium on foreclosures.
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This gives families flexibility.
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It gives families peace in knowing
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That they can concentrate on, you know, their loved ones
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Concentrate on recovering things that they've lost,
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Concentrate on.
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And even in this case, some have lost family members.
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Instead of worrying
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About how they're going to pay their mortgage,
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Or worrying about if lenders are going to foreclose
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On their mortgages.
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And so from our standpoint, it gives them that flexibility.
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It gives them a respite, if you will,
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And gives them time,
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To get their lives and their families
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And their homes back together.
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Well, i
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Understand you've
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Also got an online system going and live agents to speak with
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For those people who have nowhere to sleep
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Or no roof over their heads.
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What are some of the available options that they'll have now?
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And that's the number
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That we spoke of before, the one 800 call fha,
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And our housing counselors
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Are there to let people know what resources are available.
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Where there's vacancies,
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Where people can receive those, they need places to stay
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At that number.
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You can also, call a call hud
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Directly, and we'll have people that can speak to you.
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You can go online at hud, dot gov and see what we have
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As resources.
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But we want to do whatever we can to be a resource.
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I'm going back down to central texas personally,
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Here in the next few days.
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And so we're going to be available for people,
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And we don't want anyone to call or to look for hud
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And not be there.
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So you have my commitment and our team's commitment
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That we're available for the people of central texas.
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Well, there's another very important program
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Being launched to help get current homeowners
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Loans of 100% to rebuild their homes or to buy new ones.
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Some of both, i suppose, is needed.
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You said that they could also get
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A single mortgage to pay for both.
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What did it take to come up
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With such a broad plan in such short order?
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Well, you know, alan, we have wonderful people here at hud.
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People who actually care about
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The people we've been called to serve.
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People that care about the mission
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Under president trump's leadership.
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You saw how quickly
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He responded, how quickly secretary noam, responded.
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And others from the federal,
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Side of the government and also our state
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And local government from at hud.
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When the president declared this a disaster area.
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Our team was on it immediately.
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And so what it takes really allows for people
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To have a heart for the people of america
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And for people to care.
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And so we have tremendous programs here at hud.
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And so we're able to activate those, in a expedient fashion.
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Secretary turner, president trump is a man of action,
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And as a builder, he surely knows his way
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Around the issues you're dealing with now.
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Is there anything else
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You'd like our viewers to know at this time? yes.
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Thank you alan, i would say, you know,
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We have a president and president trump.
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And as you saw in the first lady, melania,
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Who actually care deeply about the country,
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We have an administration that cares deeply
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About every american person, man, woman and child,
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Regardless of race, color, tongue, creed, politics.
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And i believe when you have a leadership
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Such as that, that the country is on a great trajectory.
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And so i would encourage our listeners, you know, great
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Days are ahead and to continue to pray for our families
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In central texas, continue
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To pray for our president and our leadership.
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You know, the bible says,
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Blessed is a nation whose god is the lord.
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And so we want to continue
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To honor the lord in america and continue to,
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Give him his rightful place on the throne of our hearts,
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On the throne of this country.
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So i believe that as we continue to do that, that god's favor
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Will rest upon us. we have a lot of work to do.
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Not only in central texas, but across this,
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Great state to get our fiscal house in order
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To rebuild our country,
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To take inventory of the things that have been lost,
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But also to form the families
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And our country to restart businesses.
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And there's a lot of work, but i'm so encouraged
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Because we have a president who leads in such a way.
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We have an administration
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That cares and who leads in such a way.
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So you know what?
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Out of this great days ahead, much work to be done.
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But i believe our god is faithful.
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And because of that, i'm encouraged.
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Absolutely. mr.
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Secretary, thank you for your time today
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And for getting in front of the
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Efforts to help the people of texas.
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We would welcome you back on as things progress.
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Yes, i thank you. our.
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So the white house has acted quickly.
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So too has samaritan's purse,
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As they always do around the globe.
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Joining us in
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A moment is the chief operating officer, edward graham.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're joined now by an old friend,
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The chief operating officer of samaritan's purse,
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The tireless edward graham.
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Well, you see disasters all over the world.
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The flood damage in texas looks devastating on television,
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But the cameras can only shoot so wide.
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The authorities say the damage covered multiple counties
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With water running 20 to 30ft above normal.
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Maybe we start by just telling us
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How this looks in person, as it compares
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To the other tragedies you've witnessed up close.
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Allen, thanks again for having us on.
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I appreciate you
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Highlighting texas and keeping it in the news.
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You know, anyone that's gone through a disaster
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And has lived or lost loved ones, lost family members,
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It's absolutely horrific.
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But in this case, there was just so much loss in one narrow
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Area there along the river valley of the guadalupe river.
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And if you've never been there, it's a beautiful location.
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The hill country is gorgeous,
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And that's why so many people were vacationing there
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On july 4th weekend, went to have a,
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You know, a fun weekend with family and friends.
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And then you had these summer camps as a very well known area.
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I was talking with some friends, the actors
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From the christian music group,
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And they've gone along there and sang along the river valley
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Before at these different camps.
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And so it's very popular there for people.
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But that's why has so much children
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Gathered in one narrow area
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And the waters just rise so quickly there it's people.
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If you've never been to hill country, it's a lot of rock.
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And then when these heavy rains
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And they're used to flash floods,
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Just nothing to this magnitude.
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So when they talk about the
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Water rising,
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People that have homes that have seen the flooding before,
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But it's still 30, 40ft below them down in the river valley,
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All of a sudden it's flood up to their homes.
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They never expected this.
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And it is unbelievable to see
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With your destruction what water can do.
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There's really no other force like it.
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It is unbelievable.
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And but this part of texas is hurting
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And they need our prayers.
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Well, samaritan's purse is better
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Than any organization on earth and mobilizing volunteers.
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Are you getting the help you need to get started,
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Especially over such a vast area?
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Yes, sir, i appreciate it.
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We're in two different locations right now,
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Working out of kerrville and san angelo,
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And that's where we live in a local church.
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We always work and partner with the local church.
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Some of our volunteers will overnight
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And stay there for a couple of days.
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We're actually booked for quite some time on there,
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But we need day volunteers or people that can come
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And maybe
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Stay in san antonio,
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Drive in
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For when we do our link up in the morning
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Or in the afternoon and go work out and go work on these homes.
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And this is where we muck out homes after a flood.
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We'll go in and try to dry it out,
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Pull the carpet out the flooring,
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Cut up the drywall to the level where the flooding was,
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And then we spray in.
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The solution to prevent the mold coming in
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Will bruise where trees fell on it.
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We don't want more moisture coming in
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And we try to get it ready for those that are.
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We don't use contractors to come back
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And quickly get back into their home.
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But a lot of cases, what we're finding people
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Don't have insurance, they're uninsured
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Or they didn't have flood insurance
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Just because either
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They couldn't afford it or it's an area
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Where no one ever expected a flood.
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It wasn't a flood zone. that's how high this water came.
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And so for those families, we're going to get back into homes,
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A gift. we say it's paid at the cross.
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It comes free.
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We're also helping people that lost their cars.
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Need a mode of transportation.
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Imagine you're a schoolteacher.
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Your husband say, was a deputy sheriff, and you lost your car,
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And you lost your home, and you had a mortgage on both.
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You'll never pay off that debt much.
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Let's get into a new one.
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If you didn't have the insurance.
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So we're going to come in
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And we're going to help families like this.
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So we're going to be there for a while.
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The cameras may leave.
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Samaritan's purse isn't going any time soon,
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But pray for these families.
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Many may think they're forsaken or forgotten.
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They're not.
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They're loved so much that god sent his only son.
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That's why samaritan's purse
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And the billy graham evangelistic association
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Go to places like this.
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The billy graham association sends their chaplains,
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And they're trained how to share hope during crises.
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Many people have lost hope in texas.
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We want them to know they're loved and not forsaken.
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Let's go through some of the immediate needs food, water,
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Medicine, people to comfort those who've lost loved ones.
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What are you missing
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And what can our viewers do to help even from afar?
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Yeah, a lot of people.
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If you're wondering how to get involved,
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You can go to samaritan's purse.org
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And they will show right there which you can pray about.
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I looked at as a prayer list,
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But i need volunteers coming from the long term,
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You know, people trying to sign up right now.
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But then cameras will leave.
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Attention will go somewhere else.
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Weeks, months from now, i'll still need
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Volunteers coming, especially for the rebuild portion
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Where we're going to be building homes.
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We're also gonna be providing mobile homes.
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Food and water is not so much an immediate need right now
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As we see it on the ground anymore.
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Right now, people are still grieving
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And that's why they need their distance and their space.
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They need prayer.
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These families that have lost so much.
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But there will need to be a chance to help rebuild.
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That's why i need your volunteers engaged,
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Your listeners staying for a while.
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Samaritan's purse. we're not going anywhere.
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I'll need you to check back,
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Look on our websites and find how you can be involved
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In these rebuild opportunities.
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But again, the immediate needs are most will be met.
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People in texas been very generous.
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I saw texans out the next day
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Helping their next door neighbors
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Just get back in drying out. it's
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Partnering with our volunteers because they sell us out.
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Texas is a neat place. they love their neighbors. they're
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Well, i know bridges have been damaged.
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Power is out still in many places.
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Cell service too.
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Some roads have been destroyed.
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What's it like getting around and how are you operating
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With such destruction around you and your staff?
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You know, you bring up a great point.
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You know,
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There's really only two ways in along the river valley
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That you don't really cut over the mountains to get in,
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At least to the guadalupe area.
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Now there's other communities
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Outside the river flow, river valley that did flood.
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And so there's damage in places like that,
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But there are places that will be cut off
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For power and cell phone.
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They've got some intermediate cell phone coverage.
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And towers are were set up when i was there last week.
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But traffic was taking a while, mostly because
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They were still finding bodies,
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And then they would have to
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Shut down while they removed that brought family up
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To the reception center.
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And so that would shut down travis
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So it can take up to an hour to two hours just to get into,
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The immediate area the affected area.
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Then you go up along
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The river valley
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And different roads and culverts are washed out
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Depending where you're getting to.
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They were having additional rain last week.
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It would shut down recovery efforts
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And they'd have to pull people out.
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And there's low line there, underwater
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Bridges, concrete bridges that go across the river
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And you drive.
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And when the water level rises with these recent rains,
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They wouldn't be able to do that.
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They had to cut the tree and remove those areas back.
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So some areas
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Were still cut off as last week,
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But they're making quick work of it.
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And there's a lot of volunteers.
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And i'll tell you what, the national guard, military,
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Local search and rescue, they've been working so hard.
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But imagine when they find a little child
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And what they're seeing, what they're doing.
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I think about those rescue efforts.
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They need our prayers, too. they've seen a lot.
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They're tired, they're exhausted.
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And then they see those scenes
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Of those little children, those innocent.
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I'm sure there's a lot of burden on their shoulders.
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Well, you graduated from west
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Point and spent many years on the special ops teams.
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You found yourself back there
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When the floods swept through that campus in nearby town.
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I remember
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You telling us how many people who made it through those floods
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Connected with their faith
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As you were feeding them and providing water.
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That same thing happening in texas now?
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Yeah, we i met a lot of homeowners and usually after
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Disaster people want to know, hey, is god angry with me
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Or has god forgotten me? has he forsaken me?
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And for many people too, they might have grown up
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In the church,
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Or had, you know, had gone to church with their parents
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Or maybe even walked away from, knowing and trusting
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Jesus christ as our lord and savior.
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And so a lot of times with these,
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They're not going to want to
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Necessarily talk about that right away.
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But when they see the volunteers show up,
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Someone they don't know, loving and serving,
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They're going to be like, why are you here?
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And then when we tell them, it usually just opens up first
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They want to talk our jobs to listen.
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That's part of the healing process.
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I think after shock
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And going through it is that it's
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Just to listen to their story.
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Listening always usually opens up questions to the volunteer,
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But in many cases i see our volunteers.
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They're the ones walked away
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More blessed than the homeowner was.
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It's a great opportunity. you don't get dirty.
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It's hard work.
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But to love your neighbor and to serve.
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Many people want to know what they can do
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And they're not a get.
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They're not a search and rescue person.
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There's not much you can do
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Unless you want to come
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Volunteer with samaritan's purse and come get dirty.
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But we've had a great showing of volunteers again,
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I said it before, i just need people engaged for a while.
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They keep coming, especially during the rebuild portion.
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Oh, edward graham, the
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Country owes you and your father and your team so much.
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You're always jumping in when the need suddenly arise.
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Please remind our viewers how they can help right now.
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Where to go to for that guidance.
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Yeah. first, pray, pray for texas.
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But you can go to samaritan's purse.org.
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Find out how you can get involved
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If you'd like to come volunteer at some point. thank you.
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Well, thank you for your time today.
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We're here to help you, edward.
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We won't forget.
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Appreciate it. in a moment.
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I'll have some thoughts to share as well.
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Please stay with us.
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Please stay with us.
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On the hill country of texas is a beautiful place.
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I've been there many times.
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Tennessee and texas
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Have been working together for a long time,
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So this particular disaster seems personal to us.
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You know, i'm grateful for samaritan's purse
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And all the people on the ground and all the programs
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That are trying to
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Lift the burden of that tragedy from those people.
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But i believe the answers
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Ultimately begin with our prayers.
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I'm going to ask you to join me in praying right now,
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Not just to talk about it.
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We want to pray. before we go. let's pray.
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Father, i thank you for the promise
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That you're close to the brokenhearted.
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I can't imagine the struggle and the suffering
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And the sense of loss among so many. comfort them.
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Bring peace to them. guide those that are working.
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I thank you that
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You'll bring out of this tragedy a great victory,
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And you'll restore those people.
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In jesus name, amen.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful
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Evening.
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Allen Jackson: Disaster Relief | Allen Jackson Now

August 1, 2025 | 22:2

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