Texas flood live updates: Death toll rises to 109
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The urgent search for the missing continues following a holiday weekend deluge that killed at least 82 people including children at summer camps.
KERRVILLE, Texas, July 8 (Reuters) - The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams pressed on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris looking for scores of people still missing.
Texas Flags to be lowered to half-staff this week in honor of lives lost in Kerrville flooding, Gov. Greg Abbot orders.
In hard-hit Kerr County, the death toll has climbed to 95, including 36 children, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference Wednesday.
Jonathan McComb was the sole family member to survive a Texas flooding in 2015. Now, he's in Kerrville searching for victims in from the latest flooding.
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The death toll from the devastating Texas floods has risen to over 110 people and at least 173 remain missing. Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad joins Ana Cabrera to break down the timeline of the flood alerts and to provide more insight on response.
Aidan Heartfield was on the phone with his father when their family’s cabin was swept away in the Texas floods. A team is searching for any signs of Heartfield.