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Nov. 10, 2025, 10:34 PM ESTBy Phil Helsel, Joe Kottke and Chelsea DambergThe families of six children and two counselors killed in a flooding disaster that struck a Texas summer camp for girls in July filed two separate lawsuits Monday against the camp’s owners and others, alleging negligence.Twenty-seven children and counselors died in the July disaster in Kerr County, which was caused by slow-moving thunderstorms. More than 100 people died overall.The two suits say the camp was located in a known flash flood area along the Guadalupe River. Lawyers for the families of five of the children and two counselors said it was “in a region known as ‘Flash Flood Alley.’”“Camp Mystic has long operated in a high-risk flood zone. Despite this known danger, the petition asserts that the camp failed to adopt legally required evacuation plans, ignored repeated weather warnings, and implemented unsafe policies,” attorneys for the plaintiffs said.The lawsuit also alleges camp staff prioritized protecting equipment rather than the lives of campers and counselors.”With the river rising, the Camp chose to direct its groundskeepers to spend over an hour evacuating camp equipment, not its campers and counselors,” the suit says, adding that campers and counselors in two cabins were ordered to stay put even as others had been moved to higher ground 300 feet away.”Finally, when it was too late, the Camp made a hopeless ‘rescue’ effort from its self-created disaster in which 25 campers, two counselors, and the Camp director died,” the suit says.A Sheriff’s deputy pauses while combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic on July 5.Julio Cortez / AP fileJeff Ray, a lawyer for Camp Mystic, in a statement to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth Monday said that the magnitude of the flooding was unexpected. He said there was “misinformation” in the suits about the actions of Camp Mystic and Dick Eastland, the camp’s owner and director, who also died.”We intend to demonstrate and prove that this sudden surge of floodwaters far exceeded any previous flood in the area by several magnitudes, that it was unexpected and that no adequate warning systems existed in the area,” Ray said.The family of another child who was killed, 8-year-old Eloise “Lulu” Peck, filed a separate lawsuit Monday against Camp Mystic and others.The suit alleges owners of the camp, which it says has been in the family for generations, knew as far back as 1932 that cabins “sat in the bullseye of potential flood waters from the Guadalupe River and never said a word about it to trusting parents.” Since that time, the suit says, the owners had been playing “Russian Roulette with the lives of the little girls.”The lawsuit, filed by Eloise’s parents Timothy and Melissa Peck, seeks unspecified damages in excess of $1 million for wrongful death, mental pain and anguish and other causes.“There is no greater trust than when a parent entrusts the care of their child to another. Parents don’t send their children to summer camp to die,” they said in the lawsuit.Camp Mystic “and the people who ran it betrayed that trust,” they said.During the early morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River in Kerr County rose over 20 feet in just a few hours, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has said.The Texas counties affected by the flash flooding had been experiencing drought since late 2021, the agency said. Drought conditions raise the risk that heavy rain will cause flash flooding because it hardens soils.The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry, which had hit southeastern Mexico on June 29, had a circulation that merged with a trough and moisture from the Eastern Pacific to cause the thunderstorms, NASA has said.Those factors created “a large, organized cluster of thunderstorms that remained nearly stationary over the Texas Hill Country from July 4 to 7,” NASA said. Around 11 inches fell in a few hours, and more than 20 inches fell in some areas overall.More than 130 people died in the floods across six counties, according to a count of official reports conducted by NBC News. At least 117 died in Kerr County, where Camp Mystic is located, the county government said in August. Two people remained missing as of Aug. 8.Camp Mystic said it plans to partially reopen next year with a monument to the victims.“Our clients are devastated by the loss of Lulu,” Randy R. Howry, lawyer for the Pecks, said in a statement. “It was a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided. Camp Mystic must be held accountable for their failure to take care of Lulu and her friends.”Phil HelselPhil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.Joe KottkeJoe Kottke is an assignment editor at NBC News covering domestic news, including politics, crime, natural disasters, immigration and LGBTQ issues.Chelsea DambergChelsea Damberg is an associate booking producer at TODAY.
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Oct. 29, 2025, 5:41 PM EDTBy Katherine DoyleGYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday morning, looking to cool an increasingly heated relationship.The two sides are expected to discuss moves on tariffs, combating fentanyl and access to rare-earth minerals, while leaving bigger targets for later. The meeting is set to begin at 11 a.m. local time (10 p.m. Wednesday ET).With a Nov. 10 deadline to reach a tariff deal approaching, what began as Trump’s crackdown on the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. has broadened into a longer list of trade and security issues.The working expectation is that Trump and Xi will agree on a pause in the fight rather than finalizing a sweeping deal, a person familiar with the meeting planning said. Beijing could ease export curbs on strategically crucial rare earths, Washington could hold off on broad tariff hikes, and both sides could reach for gestures, such as expanded purchases of U.S. farm goods by China.Xi is also weighing steps on fentanyl chemicals, likely focused on choking off money-laundering networks tied to gangs, this person said. A rollout of a larger agreement could be staged around Trump’s planned visit to China next year.Trump has sounded upbeat about the prospect of reaching agreements. “I think we’re going to do well with China,” he said this week. “We meet, as you know, in South Korea with President Xi … and they want to make a deal. We want to make a deal.”He added that he and Xi have agreed to meet again in China and in the United States, “in either Washington or at Mar-a-Lago.”Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC News this week that meeting is likely to come before Xi’s trip to the U.S. for the G20 at Trump’s Doral property in Florida next fall. Trump is likely to visit Xi in Beijing early next year, just ahead of the Lunar New Year, Bessent said.The president has said he expects to lower tariffs on China that he imposed over its role in the illicit international flow of fentanyl components. And he hopes to finalize a deal on TikTok that would allow the social media app to continue operating in the U.S. despite a law, passed before he took office, which had been poised to ban it.On Wednesday, Trump was overheard telling leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum that he expects the meeting with Xi to last three to four hours. Both Trump and his Chinese counterpart want the optics and tactical aspect of this meeting to go well, the person familiar with the meeting planning said.Dan Caldwell, a former senior adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, said Trump deserves credit for pursuing a pragmatic China policy that maintains what he said was strategic ambiguity while taking steps to restore important military capabilities to deter Chinese aggression.“A lot of folks wanted to assume that he was going to be reflexively hawkish on China,” Caldwell said of Trump. “That hasn’t been the case.”But Caldwell cautioned against expecting a breakthrough in Busan. “I don’t think the overall push hinges on one meeting,” Caldwell said. “Ideally, these go well, but the whole thing does not hinge on just one set of talks.”In other words, the goal is to make enough progress to get to the next date between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies.Miles Yu, a former State Department adviser on China, said the U.S. and Beijing are “sizing each other out” with trade now a key battleground issue. Washington is pushing for concrete steps on fentanyl, market access and more, he said, while China “stonewalls and foot-drags” and offers only broad “frameworks.”“This is the root cause of the five rounds of futile negotiations so far with China without a breakthrough,” Yu said, adding that the administration is trying to shift China’s approach by rallying its neighbors, a strategy that he said “may or may not work.”After talks with Chinese counterparts in Malaysia last weekend, Bessent said negotiators had shaped a framework for the two leaders to consider that spanned tariffs, trade, fentanyl, rare earths and “substantial” purchases of U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans. He credited Trump’s threat of an additional 100% tariff with creating leverage and said he believes that the framework would avoid that outcome and open space for tackling other issues.Trump’s meeting with Xi in Busan marks the end of a three-country Asia swing, during which he signed agreements with Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan and South Korea; made new foreign investment announcements; and proclaimed that tariff leverage can drive warring parties to stand down. Reflecting on his approach, Trump said going against the grain can sometimes deliver results.“Oftentimes you’ll go the opposite way of almost everybody, and you’ll be the one that’s right, and the others will be the one that’s wrong,” he said, offering a peek into his thinking. “That’s where you have your greatest successes.”Still, Trump is continuing a long-standing practice of meeting with allies before Beijing, which former Assistant Secretary of State Dave Stilwell said indicates that the U.S. is not going to trade its alliance commitments for a deal with China.Some of the most sensitive terrain in the discussions involves critical minerals, said Stilwell, who also underscored the political guardrails around concerns for the Beijing-claimed island of Taiwan: “Acknowledge the words, but look at the actions,” he said, citing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent comments that the U.S. isn’t trading away Taiwan’s sovereignty for better deal terms.Some of Trump’s aides are worried that the president could shift the U.S. position on independence for Taiwan, walking away from long-standing U.S. policy, and have advised him against it, NBC News reported this week.Trump seemed to downplay any discussions, saying, “I don’t know that we’ll even speak about Taiwan.” Xi “may want to ask about it,” Trump said. “There’s not that much to ask about. Taiwan is Taiwan.”Analysts in the region, too, see limited room for a sweeping agreement this week. It’s unlikely that Trump and Xi will reach a comprehensive deal that settles the long-term structural differences between the U.S. and China, said Zeng Jinghan, a professor of international relations at the City University of Hong Kong. “But some sort of consensus and agreements are very possible,” said Zeng, given that both sides want “a little bit of de-escalation.”The hope, Zeng added, is for “less aggressive” rhetoric, with both Beijing and Washington likely to come back and declare the meeting a success.After the meeting, Trump plans to board Air Force One and return to the U.S. He has appeared to relish the receptions from foreign leaders on this quick trip across Asia. In Tokyo, he stood alongside Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, accepting a gift of cherry blossom trees and a putter that belonged to his late friend and former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe, and in Seoul received from South Korean President Lee Jae Myung a large gold crown, a replica from the Silla period.In one snapshot, Trump and Lee were pictured in a gift shop at the Gyeongju National Museum, where items on display included a red “USA” hat, Trump-branded sneakers and a shirt bearing the president’s mugshot.Trump praised the welcome he received in “vibrant” Malaysia, where Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim compared their experiences with their countries’ legal systems, saying, “I was in prison, but you almost got there.”Katherine DoyleKatherine Doyle is a White House reporter for NBC News. Carol E. Lee, Peter Guo and Peter Alexander contributed.
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