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Speaker 1: Dan Minchison is a US correspondent. Dan, Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 1: What's the lighted in Texas?

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Speaker 2: Well? As you mentioned just a moment ago in the

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Speaker 2: world wires, we've got one hundred and sixty people that

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Speaker 2: are known to be missing right now. At least one

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Speaker 2: hundred and ten have died. The governor, who you just

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Speaker 2: heard there a moment ago to and spoke at a

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Speaker 2: news conference, said that the emergency alert system they're going

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Speaker 2: to be addressing this during a special session of the

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Speaker 2: state legislature. It looks like sometime in the next couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks. And this has been sort of a back

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Speaker 2: and forth finger pointing between Republicans and Democrats that cuts

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Speaker 2: made by the Trump administration to weather forecasting and emergency

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Speaker 2: services would end up with with something like this, that

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Speaker 2: there wasn't enough warning or enough preparation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Caroline Levid I saw coming out from the

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Speaker 1: White House quite strong saying if you suggest anything other

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Speaker 1: than you know, this was all fine and dandy, then

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Speaker 1: at you're a conspiracy theorist.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Ted Cruz had spoken out saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: this is not the time for something like this, and

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Speaker 2: yet you know that both Republicans and Democrats have been

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Speaker 2: getting digs in about this. We'll have to see, you know,

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Speaker 2: what they find. There's always an inquiry after something like this. Uh,

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Speaker 2: there's also a small chance that we're going to get

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Speaker 2: more storms, more rain in the area, and we're we're

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Speaker 2: hoping for some kind of break right now, but it

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprising to find, as the governor said, more

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Speaker 2: and more bodies in the in the coming days.

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Speaker 1: Trump and Nitya, who meant for sick and day, what

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Speaker 1: have they discussed they did?

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Speaker 2: I mean, this was the second time that they've they've

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Speaker 2: met for the ongoing war in Gaza, and they're saying that,

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Speaker 2: you know, they're they're making a little bit of progress.

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Netanya, who said he doesn't believe that Israel's

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Speaker 2: military campaign in Gaza was done. He says they still

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Speaker 2: have to finish the job there. A Palestinian source telling

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Speaker 2: that the BBC they haven't made any headway in these conversations,

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Speaker 2: even though President Trump has said, you know, we're making

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Speaker 2: a little progress on this. But you know, he'll even

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Speaker 2: be the first to agree, I think in a roundabout

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Speaker 2: way that that things could take a little bit longer.

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Speaker 2: Than he had originally hoped for, and.

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Speaker 1: The July nine tariff died line might be did in

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Speaker 1: the water obviously got Trump announcing some new tariffs copper

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Speaker 1: and foreign drugs.

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Speaker 2: Well, he is too, and this has been going back

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Speaker 2: and forth. I mean, he also appeared to kind of

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Speaker 2: backped a little bit on announcing that the deal that

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Speaker 2: the Treasury Secretary had said earlier would materialize in the

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Speaker 2: next forty eight hours. And our stock market has been

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Speaker 2: going up and down, mostly down on the news that

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Speaker 2: these these tariffs are all over the place in terms

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Speaker 2: of how high they are depending on the country and

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Speaker 2: the items that you're buying. And the Yale Budget lab

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Speaker 2: just came out and they said the letters that the

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Speaker 2: President sent yesterday are going to be the highest teriff

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Speaker 2: rates that the US consumers have had since the nineteen thirties.

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Speaker 2: And he's really fixated on this trade gap, Ryan, and

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Speaker 2: this is the difference in how much we import versus

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Speaker 2: how much we export with other countries like you, and

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Speaker 2: a lot of our economists say that this is just

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Speaker 2: too simplistic right here, and this is going to do

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Speaker 2: more more harm possibly than it will good to our

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Speaker 2: economy in the coming months. And even the years.

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Speaker 1: Dan appreciate your time This afternoon, Dan Mitchison, our US correspondent.

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