8 Jul 2025

USA correspondent David Smith

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 8 July 2025

The latest from the floods in Texas, with at least 82 people dead.

President Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the latest Gaza hostage and a 60-day ceasefire deal hanging in the balance.

David also discusses Elon Musk's new political party he will bankroll. 

CENTER POINT, TEXAS - JULY 05: A large truck is impaled onto a tree after flash flooding on the bank Guadalupe River on July 5, 2025 in Center Point, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas with multiple fatalities reported.   Jim Vondruska/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Jim Vondruska / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

A large truck is impaled onto a tree after flash flooding on the bank Guadalupe River on 5 July 2025 in Center Point, Texas. Photo: Jim Vondruska / Getty Images / AFP