Lester Holt

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Dateline NBC · Talking Dateline: After the Flood · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

I was there just a few weeks ago as part of our follow-up reporting, and we could look across the river and the green grass, the cabins.

We were able to actually get on the property at one point and see the cabins now that have been really kind of

signs of life standing still.

You can still see the mud along the windows.

There were crosses that have been erected around the cabins.

We got a glimpse at the hill that some of the kids were able to successfully make their way to to get above the water.

So it was, you know, it's one thing to tell the story and to hear from people, but it's another thing to get up close and really understand what these kids and their counselors were going through.

It was difficult, and you also want to be mindful of our viewers and how much anyone can take.

But that, yeah, you mentioned the video, the cell phone video of the screams of help.

And when I first heard that, my only thought was,

I so admired those women and their strength and their determination to fight on behalf of their children.

What they're going through, frankly, none of us can imagine.

There's another story that was shared with me.

During this story, one of the mothers was hoping for her daughter this would be a moment of healing.

This mother had lost her husband, she lost her brother, and then her daughter, all within a six-month period of time.

Oh, my.

I can't imagine carrying that kind of burden around, but she did.

She wants to make sure that she's talking about her daughter a lot, that she doesn't, you know, forget her.

And I mean, of course, there's no way she could ever forget her.

But for her, her coping mechanism is to make sure that she's always talking about her daughter.

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