00:00In the news overseas, it's a race against time as first responders, search and rescue teams and volunteers from all over the Lone Star State
00:07descended into central Texas' Kirk country to help find more reportedly missing persons
00:13in the hope their search and rescue efforts don't turn into recovery operations.
00:18Toppled streets, downed street posts, overturned vehicles and miscellaneous debris were everywhere,
00:23giving rescuers and searchers an inkling of the strength and scope of the raging waters that surge over roofs and treetops and swept everything in the way.
00:32Some 15 helicopters joined foot patrols down below to scour a vast area of a swollen Guadalupe River
00:39that overflowed its banks and furiously swept everything in its path.
00:44Tops in the rescuers' list of missing people.
00:46Ten female campers and a counselor in a Christian summer campsite beside the Guadalupe River
00:52and a family of six that reportedly got swept away by the raging waters.
00:57U.S. President Donald Trump, who brushed aside questions his budget cuts to the National Weather Service,
01:02NOAA and FEMA factored heavily in the failure to forewarn people in the area,
01:08said he is technically scheduled to pay a visit to central Texas on Friday.
