Texas, Death toll and flash flood
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The reporter said that several families were angry because they felt that alerts for the flood did not go out in time.
"The first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood," Trump said as he spoke at a roundtable event with first responders and local officials.
FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Friday toured areas devastated by flash flooding in central Texas that has killed more than 100, including at least 36 children, on the Fourth of July.
In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.
Trump lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents fast enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way.
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Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
The number of confirmed deaths from the Texas Hill Country floods rose to 95 in Kerr County on Wednesday, Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
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