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The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas.
Many of the 650 campers and staffers at Camp Mystic were asleep when, at 1:14 a.m., a flash-flood warning for Kerr County, Texas, with “catastrophic” potential for loss of life was issued by the National Weather Service.
Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
As the National Weather Service (NWS) issued fresh flash flood warnings for Texas on Sunday, emergency crews were forced to suspend their operations
Officials in Kerr County, Texas — where 27 campers and counselors at a Christian summer camp were killed in catastrophic flooding — had discussed installing a flood warning system
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By JIM VERTUNO, JULIO CORTEZ and JOHN SEEWER KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The grueling, desperate search for 27 missing girls stretched into a third day on Sunday after raging floodwaters surged
Days after flash floods killed over 100 people during the July Fourth weekend, search-and-rescue teams are using heavy equipment to untangle and peel away layers of trees, unearth large rocks in riverbanks and move massive piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for the missing people.
Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss the Trump administration's change in tone around eliminating FEMA in the wake of the Texas flood disaster.