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Texas Flood LIVE: Over 100 Dead, Camp Mystic Tragedy Deepens | Texas News Today | N18L  #TexasFloods #CampMystic #FloodTragedy TEXAS FLOOD TRAGEDY – 100+ DEAD, MORE FLOODING EXPECTED  The death toll has now crossed 100 after catastrophic flooding tore through central Texas, with the devastation entred around the Guadalupe River. Among the hardest-hit locations is Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp near Kerrville, where 27 campers and counsellors have tragically died. Ten more remain missing, and rescue efforts continue under dangerous conditions.  Officials warn that more rain is expected, potentially worsening the already dire situation. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of emergency as search-and-rescue missions intensify across Hunt, Kerr, and nearby counties.  #TexasFloods #CampMystic #FloodTragedy #TexasEmergency #GuadalupeRiver #BreakingNews #CNNNews18Live #NaturalDisaster #USAWeatherCrisis #LiveUpdate

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00:00power of the waters to look at the size of that tree next to the uh the removal equipment just to

00:05show the power of that water what else are you seeing on the ground today ryan

00:12um today it has been um today was a busy day we had we pulled out multiple trailers out of the

00:19water and we have begun planning on we found an rv that looks like it may be covered with dirt with

00:25the whole body underneath there and so we are planning on getting uh uh trade our tractors

00:32out there and dozers to be able to build the roads just so we can get to this and be able to dig this

00:38trailer up to see if there's any victims in there it's i mean the devastation is it's so widespread

00:44that you know we we we did about 100 yards a day and we found these you know two more trailers and

00:51that's only out of 100 yards that we did i mean how the magnitude of it is is is obviously

00:58incomprehensible standing amidst it as you are ryan is there just is there some moment or or some

01:07you know just object that you've seen that just stands out to you right now

01:13um how do i say this so this morning i got down to the site that we're at down near center point and

01:23i turned around a corner and i looked down and there was a stump there and laying on that stump

01:28was a a child's bible and it had her favorite bible verses in there it had scriptures that she had

01:36written notes that she had written to herself and at that moment i just dropped to my knees and i cried

01:40i cried for as hard as i could for as long as i could just to get it out the the things that

01:46we're seeing out here the amount of devastation it is no matter if you find a body or not it takes its

01:53toll on you you uh this it's it's very hard to see for anybody that's out here

02:01i know that you have seen a community come together

02:04it yes that that you know it's it's hard to say that you know anything about this is a blessing

02:13or that there's anything it's hard you know it's hard to find the good in something so horrible like

02:17this and the one thing that i can say is that if you're going to find the good in this is you get

02:23to see what america is doing for america right here and texas is doing for texas we've had volunteers

02:28from six different states that have helped the organization they are donating tractors they are donating

02:33side by sides they are bringing their boats horses i mean we have had people dropping their lives and

02:40promising this next the next two weeks of their life to us and they said that no matter what happens

02:46that they will not stop until the last person is found i mean it's it's a testament to how beautiful

02:53mankind actually is i meant such horror and ugliness ryan thank you so much absolutely and thank you for

03:03sharing that story um and being willing to talk about your your own uh moment and your feelings

03:09we appreciate it and there is a man there tonight who is lucky to be alive and frankly we're very lucky

03:16to be speaking with him tonight and that's christian fell because he survived the flood he actually did

03:21that by standing for nearly three hours on a meter

03:24death toll just rising to at least 104 after the catastrophic flooding in central texas tonight

03:34that region is bracing for more flash flooding they're anticipated that it's going to be more

03:38flash flooding through these next hours right now a flood watch is in effect forecasters saying that

03:43the atmospheric conditions are just right yet again to produce heavy rain which could seriously

03:50complicate what is a desperate search right now for survivors they are still looking for survivors

03:55right now 24 people still missing including 10 girls 10 children and a counselor from camp mystic

04:02that all girls christian summer camp where 27 children and counselors we already know have so tragically

04:08lost their lives because of the surging waters of the guadalupe river on friday night the images from

04:14inside that camp gut-wrenching the beds which housed some 750 kids at the time of the flooding

04:23now look at it it's it's covered in mud the stuffed animals blankets and books just strewn across the

04:27floor no one had time to grab any of them it is an area of texas that is home to a number of nationally

04:34known children's summer camps more than a dozen of them damaged when more than an entire summer's worth

04:39of rain fell in just a few hours now at this hour there are rescue cues that crews that are out there

04:44they're pushing forward they're trying to cut through the debris the downed trees they are at this

04:48point hoping against all odds to still find a miracle and people alive we remain hopeful every foot

04:59every mile every bend of the river our work continues

05:05and while that work continues the grueling search officials from the white house on down are facing

05:13questions about the warning system in place in kerr county which suffered most of the devastating loss

05:19of life i mean if you look at the times that warnings were issued in those early hours of friday

05:24morning 1 14 a.m was the first warning for a life-threatening flash flooding right that's what

05:29it said life-threatening flash flooding you would have gotten on your phone issued for parts of

05:33kerr county including camp mystic three hours later is when the most urgent warning forecasters can issue

05:40came and that is a flash flood emergency the problem was of course the time of day there are so many

05:47people including the youngest victims who were sleeping when these warnings were issued which raises so

05:52many questions i mean did anyone in the camp get the alerts did local authorities try to alert or evacuate the

05:58camps uh even even by by calling people running them in advance knowing that this area is prone to

06:05flooding and that when you think about i said there's so many camps there thousands and thousands of

06:09children in harm's way and we're mobile alerts ringing on cell phones that at the time were not even close

06:15to the kids to the campers these are the official policies for camp mystic right cell phones aren't

06:20permitted that's part of why people send their kids to camp according to this document right so they

06:24wouldn't have had them next to them certainly wouldn't have woken them up isabel rosales is out

06:28front live on the ground in center point texas and isabel at this point we've got these uh warnings

06:33again for tonight of the possibility again of heavy rain flash flooding as you are watching a race against

06:40time to try to find people still missing from the flooding still alive

06:47erin uh now that we're on day four of this i've spoken to so many volunteers

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07:28texas is grieving right now grieving and bracing for more rain as urgent rescues are still underway for

07:35dozens who are missing after the devastating floods that ravaged central texas over the holiday weekend

07:41bursting the seams of the guadalupe river and taking the lives of at least 104 people including 27 campers

07:48and counselors from a summer camp in kerr county there's still 10 girls and one counselor from

07:53camp mystic that are not accounted for and the pain and agony of not knowing your child's whereabouts

08:01it's it's the worst thing imaginable four months of raid fell in a matter of hours the destructive

08:10and fast-moving flood water beginning just before sunrise on the fourth of july the river rising 22

08:16feet in just 30 minutes taking everything in its path with it and many are asking why alerts weren't

08:22received and evacuations didn't take place well evacuation is a delicate balance because if you

08:28evacuate too late you then risk putting buses you know or cars or vehicles or campers on roads into

08:35low water areas trying to get them out which then can make it even more challenging because these flash

08:40flood floods happen very quickly it's very tough to make those calls because what we also don't want

08:44to do is cry wolf but many families wishing they had taken that chance the timeline as we know it

08:50now the first flood watch was issued on thursday in the afternoon and in the early evening at

08:546 30 central time then the first emergency alert came out at 1 14 the morning of the 4th and then

09:00again at 4 03 in the morning just an hour before the river burst at around 5 in the morning then a

09:05second emergency alert was issued for kerrville at 5 24 a.m and then at 5 34 an emergency alert was

09:12issued for the guadalupe river area but phone alerts were reportedly not received by some people

09:17in an area known to have spotty cell service 19 different local and state agencies are working

09:23urgently to find those still missing some rescue teams using the aid of cadaver dogs in their search

09:28a man in center point texas heard the screams of a young woman who was clinging to a tree after being

09:34swept away in flood water from a camping site miles away with her family i didn't know that she was in

09:40a tree but as it turned out i finally spotted her in the tree and i began to yell back across to her that

09:49hi i see you i'm gonna get help and many others have come out to volunteer their time in search

09:54before the next rainfall comes i figured i can at least come and help relieve them of some stress and

09:59exhaustion now i know that up towards hunt and everything they're still expecting possibly more

10:05storm surges so we have to be a big problem yeah and we have to be on the lookout for that too

10:10and aaron this is a rugged rural rough terrain um for these volunteers for these first responders i've

10:20seen dangerous debris down barbed wire um that people have stepped on i have stepped on but luckily

10:27i'm wearing boots also fire ants that have bitten up the volunteers um also as they're going around

10:34take a look right up there you see that that's a paddle boat showing the force of these flood waters

10:39and also a reminder to look up aaron yeah to look up and of course that the miracles that we've seen

10:46have been by looking up in those trees isabel thank you so much uh for that important and powerful

10:52reporting i want to go straight now to ryan loge deputy incident commander for the united cajun

10:57navy and ryan i appreciate your time i know you've been there now for uh you know ever since this this

11:02started and crews have been racing against time rescues searches i know you have shared a few photos with

11:08us just showing the magnitude here of you know trees completely toppled over just from the power of

11:13the waters to look at the size of that tree next to the uh the removal equipment just to show the power

11:20of that water what else are you seeing on the ground today ryan um today it has been um

11:29today was a busy day we had we pulled out multiple trailers out of the water and we have begun

11:34planning on we found an rv that looks like it may be covered with dirt with the whole body underneath

11:40there and so we are planning on getting uh uh trade our tractors out there and dozers to be able to

11:48build the roads just so we can get to this and be able to dig this trailer up to see if there's any

11:52victims in there it's i mean the devastation is it's so widespread that you know we we we did about

12:00100 yards a day and we found these you know two more trailers and that's only out of 100 yards that

12:05we did i mean the magnitude of it is is is obviously incomprehensible standing amidst it as you are ryan

12:17is there just is there some moment or or some you know just object that you've seen that just stands

12:24out to you right now um how do i say this so this morning i got down to the site that we're at now

12:34near center point and i turned around a corner and i looked down and there was a stump there

12:40and laying on that stump was a a child's bible and it had her favorite bible verses in there

12:46it had scriptures that she had written notes that she had written to herself and at that moment i just

12:52dropped to my knees and i cried i cried for as hard as i could for as long as i could just to get it out

12:58the the things that we're seeing out here the amount of devastation it is no matter if you find

13:04a body or not it takes its toll on you you add this it's it's very hard to see for anybody that's out here

13:15i know that you have seen a community come together

13:17it yes that that you know it's it's hard to say that you know anything about this is a blessing

13:26or that there's anything it's hard you know it's hard to find the good in something so horrible like

13:31this and the one thing that i can say is that if you're going to find the good in this is you get to

13:36see what america is doing for america right here and texas is doing for texas we've had volunteers from

13:41six different states that have helped the organization they are donating tractors they are donating

13:47side by sides they are bringing their boats horses i mean we have had people dropping their lives and

13:54promising this next the next two weeks of their life to us and they said that no matter what happens

13:59that they will not stop until the last person is found i mean it's it's a testament to how beautiful

14:06mankind actually is i meant such horror and ugliness ryan thank you so much absolutely and thank you for

14:16sharing that story um and being willing to talk about your your own uh moment and your feelings

14:23we appreciate it and there is a man there tonight who is lucky to be alive and frankly we're very lucky

14:29to be speaking with him tonight and that's christian fell because he survived the flood he actually did

14:34that by standing for nearly three hours on a meter

14:37death toll just rising to at least 104 after the catastrophic flooding in central texas

14:47tonight that region is bracing for more flash flooding they're anticipated that it's going to be more

14:52flash flooding through these next hours right now a flood watch is in effect forecasters saying that the

14:57atmospheric conditions are just right yet again to produce heavy rain which could seriously complicate

15:03what is a desperate search right now for survivors they are still looking for survivors right now

15:0924 people still missing including 10 girls 10 children and a counselor from camp mystic that all

15:15girls christian summer camp where 27 children and counselors we already know have so tragically lost their

15:22lives because of the surging waters of the guadeloupe river on friday night the images from inside that camp

15:29gut-wrenching the beds which housed some 750 kids at the time of the flooding

15:36now look at it it's it's covered in mud the stuffed animals blankets and books just strewn across the floor

15:41no one had time to grab any of them it is an area of texas that is home to a number of nationally known

15:48children's summer camps more than a dozen of them damaged when more than an entire summer's worth of rain

15:54fell in just a few hours now at this hour there are rescue crews that crews that are out there they're

15:58pushing forward they're trying to cut through the debris the downed trees they are at this point

16:02hoping against all odds to still find a miracle and people alive we remain hopeful every foot every mile

16:14every bend of the river our work continues

16:21and while that work continues the grueling search officials from the white house on down are facing

16:26questions about the warning system in place in kerr county which suffered most of the devastating loss

16:32of life i mean if you look at the times that warnings were issued in those early hours of

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