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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