Stephen Smith

Visual Storyteller for @AP. Kayla’s husband. Ruby and Kash’s Dad. @oursoutheastern graduate

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Retired nurse Jane Towler was woken up by a phone call at 4 a.m. on July 4 warning her of the unthinkable — the nearby Guadalupe River was rising and she was in danger. She ran next door to warn her son and their family friend, who had her 1-year-old daughter with her, and it wasn’t long before cars started floating away and the cabin’s floor was flooded.

They survived the ordeal — which has left at least 120 others dead — by climbing the kitchen counter and through an attic hatch, where they bashed out a metal vent to climb onto the roof. With the baby in their arms, they clung to a small landing for 2.5 hours as the floodwaters crested just a few feet below.

“Having a 1-year-old infant in your arms … I just can’t even imagine what she was going through,” Alden Towler said of family friend Shabd Simon-Alexander. ” … I was just trying to give her physical comfort and just reminding her, like, we’re going to be OK, even though I didn’t know we were gonna be OK.”

[Peyton Yager @peytonyager]

JUST IN: 23 girls are unaccounted for from the TX Hill Country summer camp Camp Mystic due to the flooding along the Guadalupe River.

2 Dallas girls are among the missing.

Eloise Peck’s mom sent us this photo of Eloise (left) and her friend Lila Bonner.

@FOX4

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn't know how to tell his children where their mother went after ICE officers detained her last month. https://t.co/SOFFWR4LF7

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

A Black Louisiana man spent 22 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, as a result of a lie and Jim Crow-era type of jury conviction.

Now, the exonerated man and the man who fabricated the crime are working together to advocate for a bill. (@AP)

https://t.co/dW9BDx51Lj

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

The Wall Street Journal spoke to 30 packaged food company leaders.

They said their greatest business “threat” was Americans wanting to be healthy.

[The Associated Press @AP]

As egg prices continue to soar, grocers like Trader Joe's limit how many cartons customers can buy https://t.co/rLh1Gaf8oP

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Corporate greed is DuPont making $1.62 billion in profits this year, spending $1 billion on stock buybacks, paying its CEO $20 million & being fined just $480,000 for the release of a chemical that causes leukemia.

It costs $508,250 to treat just 1 kid with leukemia in America.

[New Orleans Pelicans @PelicansNBA]

Fly with us or get out of our way 🔥

[Sara Cline @SaraLCline]

Four years after hurricanes Laura and Delta hit Louisiana, some residents fear they fell through the cracks on the state's road to recovery.

@AP spoke with residents still living in FEMA trailers, dilapidated homes and who can't find affordable housing.
https://t.co/nNgktcd7Kg

[Matthew Daly @MatthewDalyWDC]

Important @AP story on a topic of huge interest in the South and increasing interest in the West.
Reporting by @jam3spollard @watson_julie & @StephenAPSmith with assistance from me and @terrychea in San Francisco.

[Matthew Daly @MatthewDalyWDC]

Wood pellets production boomed to feed European demand for electricity. But it's come at a cost for Blacks in the South where pellets have made people sick & worsened air quality. Biden admin weighing tax credits for renewable energy. Enviros say no.

https://t.co/DPiCygfHyz

[Joseph Cranney @joey_cranney]

How things are going in New Orleans:

https://t.co/65P0AoMM1O

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Florida deputy who killed Airman Roger Fortson has been fired after an investigation finds use of force was unreasonable. https://t.co/3RVD2PhMRO

[Hannah Schoenbaum @H_Schoenbaum]

A wild scoop for your Friday: The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son tells @AP he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there from the U.S. as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt.
https://t.co/bJrOWSmDOi

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Israeli officials seize AP equipment and take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law. https://t.co/EcxMVtrWA6

[The Associated Press @AP]

Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for Roger Fortson’s family said Wednesday.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Florida deputies who fatally shot US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says https://t.co/1oSaF38GOR

[NOLA.com @NOLAnews]

Giant cicadas are on the menu at New Orleans insectarium. PETA protests with 'human flesh.' https://t.co/qGSFJHmYdi

[FOX 8 New Orleans @FOX8NOLA]

A tractor drove onto Tulane's campus and erected a massive no trespassing sign. https://t.co/K9XIKEinEF

[Julie O'Donoghue @JSODonoghue]

.@LAGovJeffLandry compared closing off government records to eating out in this segment.

He said people don't go into a restaurant and watch the chef make their food. They don't need to know how their meal is made.

Just like government?

This is flawed. 1/ #lalege