{"id":379698,"date":"2026-07-20T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:41:24","slug":"cbs-austin-reporter-accompanies-abbott-on-helicopter-tour-of-flood-damaged-hill-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379698\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Austin reporter accompanies Abbott on helicopter tour of flood-damaged Hill Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 CBS Austin&#8217;s Alexia Stanbridge is the only reporter accompanying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on a Black Hawk helicopter tour of <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/today-gov-greg-abbott-to-provide-flood-recovery-update-in-kerrville-as-cleanup-begins-flooding-resources-rescues-catrostrophic-emergency-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flood-ravaged areas around Kerrville<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Stanbridge, along with photographer Riley Griffin, arrived in Kerrville at 9:15 a.m. The 30-minute flight will depart Kerrville Aviation Airport at 10:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/today-gov-greg-abbott-to-provide-flood-recovery-update-in-kerrville-as-cleanup-begins-flooding-resources-rescues-catrostrophic-emergency-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED | Gov. Greg Abbott to provide flood recovery update in Kerrville as cleanup begins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbott will be joined by Texas Department of Emergency Management Chief and Texas Military Department Adjutant General Thomas Suelzer.<\/p>\n<p>The aerial tour comes as Abbott visits Kerrville to provide an update on the state&#8217;s response to last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/7-flash-flood-emergencies-issued-as-hill-country-sees-10-15-inches-and-major-rivers-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadly flooding<\/a> in Texas. Abbott is expected to speak at noon at the Hill Country Youth Event Center.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the visit, Abbott signed an emergency disaster relief declaration covering 28 of the hardest-hit counties, including Kerr and Uvalde counties. The governor said the declaration opens the door for federal disaster assistance and that additional counties could be added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 CBS Austin&#8217;s Alexia Stanbridge is the only reporter accompanying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-379698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}