Search and rescue teams are still racing to find 27 children missing from Camp Mystic, a girls’ summer camp near the Guadalupe River, which surged over its banks after torrential rain fell across Texas Hill Country.
• Death toll rises: At least 51 people, including 15 children, have died in the flooding, according to local officials. The families of four campers have confirmed their deaths to CNN, while others are enduring an excruciating wait for news on their children.
• Federal response: The Trump administration will honor a federal disaster declaration signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to help direct relief to the state, after the president denied some similar requests this year, and has sought to shift the burden of disaster response onto states.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Joe Weber
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.offthepress.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.
