Texas floods: At least 50 dead as search continues for missing children

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At least 50 people, including 15 children, have died in flash floods that swept through central Texas on Friday (July 4), as search teams race to locate dozens more still missing.  Authorities warn the death toll may continue to rise, with search and rescue operations expected to continue through the weekend in hopes of finding survivors.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00At least 50 people, including 15 children, have died after flash floods swept through

00:07Central Texas on Friday. Rescue teams are continuing a desperate search for dozens still

00:13missing, including campers, vacationers, and local residents. Among the missing are 27

00:19girls from a summer camp. Caraville City Manager Dalton Rice confirmed during a press conference

00:23on Saturday.

00:24We're kind of looking at this in two ways. We call it the known missing, which is the

00:2827 camp kids that are missing. We will not put a number on the other side because we

00:34just don't know.

00:35In Kerr County, where the floods hit hardest, the Guadalupe River surged from 2.3 to 9 meters

00:41in just three hours, reaching its second highest level ever recorded. According to the U.S.

00:48National Weather Service, among those who survived the terrifying ordeal was 63-year-old Scott

00:54Walden, who recounted how he and his wife were swept away after evacuating their home.

00:59Things were getting dicier by the moment. We couldn't tell if the water was going to continue

01:03to rise. So I said, we need to get out of the house. So I grabbed my wife and we literally

01:10jumped in the water and it swept us down to about 200 feet down that way. And there was

01:15a crepe myrtle tree that we grabbed hold of and we waited for rescue. I literally pulled

01:21up my waterproof fund and started calling people going, hey, get Swift Water Rescue to come

01:26get us because we are like in extremis. We are in bad shape.

01:30On Saturday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott assured the public that the state is doing everything

01:36possible to locate the missing. Flood warnings remain in effect across the region as rivers

01:42and reservoirs continue to swell.

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