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Breaking news on the deadly floods in central Texas. The death toll has continued to rise overnight on the third straight day of frantic search and rescue missions. The number of dead is now at 70 people, including children.We also learned today 11 children and one counselor are still unaccounted for from Camp Mystic. That's that all girls summer camp. It's just one of the many scenes of destruction.Today, Texas Congressman Walking Castro stressed the urgency in the search for survivors. the priority is on ...

What I can tell you an update, there's 32 deceased, 18 of those are adults and 14 are children. Five of the adults remain unidentified and three children remain unidentified. We are still working on that this time.As I'd said earlier this morning, the numbers are going to continue to change. They're going to continue to change till we're done. It's been a very good day as far as being out there and being able to do some things and we've got a lot done.We will be relentless in going after and ensuring that w ...

As far as the number of people that may be lost, maybe the number of fatalities, as you mentioned, they have confirmed some fatalities. We just don't have a clear picture yet. When you look at those images, this has just been an unprecedented historical flooding event there.Watching our coverage through some of our affiliates there. I mean, this is an area. Keep in mind that today on the 4th, there were campgrounds there.There were homes. There were people that were seemingly caught off guard by this floodi ...

Officials report an unconfirmed number of fatalities in central Texas as torrential rainfall triggers catastrophic flooding with water rescues ongoinghttps://t.co/o18Zb4R09z ...

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Tropical storms have spun up on both sides of Mexico, with the most serious threat coming from flooding rains along the country’s eastern coastline facing the Bay of Campeche https://t.co/a3KFyU32j5 ...

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