Death toll in U.S. Texas flash floods climbs to 109, over 160 still missing

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At least 109 people were dead and over 160 are still missing as of Tuesday (July 8) after devastating flash floods slammed the U.S. Texas Hill Country, with rescue operations still going on along the Guadalupe River.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yc89sdmu   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The death toll from the July 4th flash floods that swept through Central Texas Hill Country

00:07has risen to at least 109, with many of the victims being children.

00:12Search teams are continuing to comb through thick mud and debris for scores still missing.

00:17The worst hit area was Kerr County and its seat, Kerrville, a town of 25,000

00:24that was left in ruins after torrential rains triggered deadly floods along the Guadalupe River early last Friday.

00:32Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Tuesday that 94 bodies have been recovered in Kerr County alone.

00:38The numbers that I have is that there are 94 fatalities,

00:4694 fatalities associated with this flooding event in this area,

00:52separate from that in other flooding events in other parts of the state of Texas,

00:58there's another 15 fatalities for a total of 109.

01:03To put this into perspective, just in the Kerr and Kendall counties alone,

01:10there are far more fatalities than there were in Hurricane Harvey.

01:15That's how catastrophic this is.

01:17161 people are still unaccounted for in the flood zone.

01:21Governor Abbott took an aerial tour surveying damage that was left behind in Kerr County.

01:26As of midday Tuesday, 15 other flood-related deaths were confirmed in surrounding parts of Texas Hill Country.

01:33Rescue efforts hampered by ongoing thunderstorms and heavy showers

01:38have been joined by teams from federal agencies, neighboring states, and even Mexico.

01:44Governor Abbott went on in 2003 by Barrador Steel.

01:45There was no joke inlungsend.co.

01:59509 people at Hawaii.

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