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The outburst began when Flores asked Danielle, flanked by her daughter, to talk about her experience as a mother trying to protect her kids from the storm.
A Hurricane Harvey survivor lambasted CNN reporter Rosa Flores as she interviewed her just after she arrived at a Houston shelter to escape the floods. The mother branded the network insensitive for putting people on live TV “during their worst times.”

The mother, named Danielle, agreed to an interview with CNN correspondent Flores and the pair stood side-by-side at the Houston shelter.

When the interview went live on-air, however, Danielle gave the correspondent a piece of her mind, in response to questioning about how she was rescued.

The outburst began when Flores asked Danielle, flanked by her daughter, to talk about her experience as a mother trying to protect her kids from the storm.

“We walked through four feet of water to go get them food on the first day,” the distraught mother said. “Yeah, that’s a lot of sh*t.”

“But y’all sit here, trying to interview people during their worst times. Like, that’s not the smartest thing to do,” she added. “Like, people are really breaking down and y’all are sitting here with cameras and microphones trying to ask us what the f**k is wrong with us.”

Flores apologized, and the woman continued: “Are you really trying to understand with the microphone still in my face? With me shivering cold, with my kids wet, and you’re still putting the microphone in my face?”

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Source: RT::

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