A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.

Amid the Lone Star State's historic floods, the Trump administration is retreating from disaster preparedness.

The number of confirmed deaths from the Texas Hill Country floods rose to 95 in Kerr County on Wednesday, Sheriff Larry Leitha said.

Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.

Then, colliding with another soggy system sliding north off the Pacific, the storm wobbled and its clouds tipped, waterboarding south central Texas with an extraordinary 20 inches of rain. In the predawn blackness,

Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in Kerr County on the Fourth of July.

In the aftermath of catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas, a fleet of volunteers is working to make sure people in the area have access to a hot meal.

Nearly a week after deadly floods struck Central Texas, search and rescue teams are continuing to probe debris for those still missing.