Last night, Senate Republicans voted to take up legislation that advances a package of more than $9 billion in spending cuts proposed by President Trump. The procedural vote on the so-called recisions package passed mostly along party lines with Vice President J. Dance breaking a tie.Three Republicans, they were Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Marowsky of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, are all members of the Appropriations Committee, and they all joined every Democrat in voting against advan ...

As the search for the missing continues in Kirk County, records reviewed by NBC 5 Investigates raise new questions about whether local officials could have used the nation's wireless emergency alert system to better warn people in the path of the flood. Along with our partners at NBC News, we scoured a FEMA archive of cell phone alerts sent through FEMA's integrated public alert and warning system or iPing Kirk County, are authorized to use to issue warnings to all cell phones in a designated area. It's the ...

There was a man and a woman about 11 o'clock here and they were looking for their daughter. I can rebuild the house. They lost a little girl.Local officials drove down his street early that morning. Blasting sirens. They woke you up.Yes, ma'am. But many here say they weren't properly alerted when flood waters began to rapidly rise early on the 4th of July. Did they push the button to issue an emergency alert.Sir, it's not that easy when you just push a button. Okay, there's a lot more to that. We were ready ...

In Texas Hill Country, a community that is now mourning the deaths of at least 110 people, 30 of them children, after flash floods ravaged the region late last week. Today, 5 days after those deadly storms, Texas Governor Greg Abbott says more than 160 people are still missing in the Kirk County area alone, which saw some of the worst of that fatal flooding. But the governor vowed not to give up the search.Know this, we will not stop until every missing person is accounted for. Know this also, there very li ...

And good evening. Tonight, frustration in Texas as the death toll there rises to 109 with at least 161 still missing. New video showing the widespread devastation with mud for miles and miles.Look at that. And from the ground, Camp Mystic in ruins. This chilling photo showing 13 Camp Mystic campers and two counselors just days before their entire cabin was swept away.And more heartbreaking images showing that destructive water line, the mudc cake mattresses as you look closely, and the overturned trunks tel ...

I would like to know, if you could outline, please what the specific actions and discussions were that local officials took between 1:14 a. m. , that's when the first flood emergency alert came out, and hours later when the river first started flooding.What happened in those hours. What I can tell you, when I was first notified, it was around the 4 to 5 area. Uh, one of my sergeants was in dispatch when the first calls started coming in, the actual 911 calls coming in, like at 4 in the morning.uh it was bet ...