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Officials reduced the number of unaccounted people from a massive July 4 flood in Kerr County, Texas, from 160 to three late Saturday, as most have been found "safe." The total death toll from the flood stands at 107 people within Kerr County. Including deaths in nearby counties, the statewide death toll from the July 4 flood is 133. “We are profoundly grateful to the more than 1,000 local, state, and federal authorities who have worked tirelessly in the wake of the devastating flood that struck our community,” Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said in a statement. “Thanks to their...

More than 100 died, and still more are missing. The economic loss is in the tens of billions of dollars. The total personal loss in unknowable.

Megyn Kelly ripped into Chelsea Clinton after the former first daughter boasted about her Texas flood relief efforts — calling her a “fake philanthropist” and the Clintons a “family of grifters.” The former Fox News anchor, who hosts the podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show,” tore into Bill and Hillary’s only child after she posted on X last Wednesday that a subsidiary of the Clinton Foundation was “on the ground in Texas, supporting families, communities and ongoing search and rescue efforts.” Social media users quickly jumped on Chelsea’s call to action, accusing her family of defrauding governments through the Clinton Foundation...

Even with the removal of dozens of buildings, at least 12 structures at Camp Mystic Guadalupe were fully within FEMA's 100-year flood plain ... Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found. The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls' summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means...

The CEO of a weather modification technology company has confirmed that cloud seeding operations took place in Texas just two days before the deadly central Texas flood occurred. NBC News reported that Augustus Doricko, the CEO of Rainmaker, a weather modification company, said that planes had released silver iodide in the atmosphere in Texas two days prior to the fatal floods that have claimed over 100 lives. Doricko claims the cloud seeding operations did not cause the flooding in Texas. WATCH: NBC News Confirms Cloud Seeding Operations Were Conducted Just Two Days Before Texas Flood. CEO of Rainmaking Technology Company...

EAGAN, Minn. (FOX 9) - The Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday announced they’re donating $500,000 to support rescue and recovery efforts to those impacted by devastating flash flooding in Texas. $500K donation The team made the donation on behalf of Mark, Zygi and Leonard Wilf, and the Wild Family Ownership Group

A Texas summer camp had a state-mandated emergency plan in place before devastating flash floods took the lives of dozens of campers and staff, state records confirm. A state health report dated July 2 — two days before the flooding emergency began — showed Camp Mystic passed its annual inspection to maintain its state youth camp license. Inspectors in Texas visit licensed camps annually and check for a variety of health and safety measures, from first aid kits and flotation devices, to staff background checks and the sanitation of kitchens and bathrooms. On July 2, a state health inspector on...

Video shared on social media by Kaitlyn Carpenter shows a house being carried along by a torrent of dark brown floodwater in New Mexico. It knocks down a trees and parts of the home splinter and break away as it is violently swept downstream. The building is seen submerged up to its roof as horrified onlookers watch it pass by. Provisional reports from the National Weather Service show the Rio Ruidoso river went from less than 3ft to a crest of 20.24ft (6.1m) in under an hour. If confirmed, it would be a record high for the river. In 2024,...

BREAKING: Texas Governor Greg Abbott announces the number of missing people in the Texas floods has risen massively to 161. It was at 40 this morning. This is on top of 109 people already confirmed dead, including at least 30 children. Each update keeps getting worse.

A former member of Houston’s Food Insecurity Board, Sade Perkins, has been removed from her position after posting a highly controversial and racially charged video mocking the victims of the tragic July 4th weekend flash floods along the Guadalupe River. The floods killed at least 82 people, including over two dozen children attending Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp near Kerrville, Texas. Perkins, who was appointed to the board in 2023 by then-Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner, uploaded the video to her TikTok account, "sades_world8," before making it private. In the video, she made a series of inflammatory statements, drawing a...

Christina Propst .. is a pediatrician responsible for the health of our smallest and some of our most vulnerable citizens. Presumably, she pledged an oath to do no harm at some point ... Over the weekend, she proved that she's nothing more than a vile, disgusting excuse for a human being. In a social media post that has since been deleted ... While she may have deleted the post, screenshots last forever, and her statements went viral over the last 24 hours or so. ... Houston pediatrician Dr Christina Propst believes innocent children deserved to die in recent Texas floods....

Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River. A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way. .... In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens...

Death count in Independence Day flooding in central Texas has now surpassed that of Hurricane Harvey.. As the death count in the Independence Day flooding in central Texas has now surpassed that of Hurricane Harvey, with dozens of children reported dead and missing who were camping at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texans are asking why a warning system wasn't in place and why the camp didn’t evacuate when others did. On Wednesday and Thursday, a series of emergency weather alerts were issued by the National Weather Service and Texas Division of Emergency Management. Despite a decades-long history of flash...

A Houston mayoral appointee went ballistic by criticizing a Texas camp site where seven little girls perished in floodwaters - then blaming Donald Trump for the tragedy. In a series of cruel videos, Sade Perkins vented her frustrations, calling Camp Mystic 'whites only Christian camp' hours after a heavy deluge ripped through in Hunt on the Fourth of July. 'I know I'm going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls' Christian camp,' she raged on TikTok as girls were still missing. 'They don't even have a token Asian. They don't have a token black person....

Texas's Division of Emergency Management predicted the number of dead as a result of catastrophic flooding in Kerrville on July 4 would top 100, Daily Mail can exclusively reveal. In an email sent out Saturday, the state disaster office told partners the number of dead would surpass 100, two different sources confirmed to Daily Mail. The estimate of the dead is vastly different than the message state officials are projecting publicly, insisting that they are still searching for people who are alive, and refusing to say rescue efforts have shifted to recovery of remains. 'Our state assets and local partners...

Pediatrician fired for vile post suggesting Texas flood victims were Trump supporters who got ‘what they voted for’ A pediatrician has been fired over a vile post suggesting that the more than 80 killed in the horrific Texas floods — including dozens of kids — were Trump supporters who got “what they voted for.” Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite. “May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” Probst wrote in the now-viral post.

DALLAS - The Dallas Cowboys on Sunday announced they were making a donation towards flood recovery efforts in Central Texas. In a social media post, the team said they were donating $500,000 to go toward resources for rescue, relief and recovery. What they're saying: "Our hearts are heavy as we witness the devastation and loss of life caused by the floods in Kerr County and Texas Hill Country, especially for the young girls and their families, as well as all of those lost and their loved ones," the team said on Facebook. "This has been devastating to see, and we...

Guadalupe River in Kerrville transforms from docile into a raging behemoth. The raging flood waters eventually reach the top of the Center Point bridge. No music, just the sounds of the flood.

It was U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskan's first mission as a member of the Coast Guard, and he led triage coordination for most of the operation. A member of the U.S. Coast Guard is being hailed as a hero for rescuing over 160 people during the catastrophic flash floods in Central Texas on the Fourth of July. U.S. Coast Guard Heartland, which is headquartered in New Orleans and serves multiple states, said on Facebook that U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskan assisted in the evacuation of 169 people. It was Ruskan's first mission as a member of...