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Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in the first meeting of a new council to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He criticized FEMA as “slow and clunky,” arguing that states are able to respond “more nimbly, more swiftly, more effectively” to disasters.
Betty Matteson’s four children, nine grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren have squeezed into her Texas Hill Country home countless times since 1968.
Katherine Ferruzzo, a Camp Mystic counselor who had been missing since the Texas floods, was found dead on Friday, July 11, Ferruzzo's family confirmed in a statement obtained by NBC 5.
After days of agony waiting for news on their missing mother and father, lost during the July 4 flooding in Central Texas, the Brake family now has answers.
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A water main break has sent water gushing through a North Philadelphia neighborhood, Monday morning. The fire department was called out to Thompson and Franklin streets around 7:30 a.m. for the break. Chopper 3 was over the 8-inch water main break where the street could be seen buckling.
Armies of Texan volunteers are leading flood recovery and cleanup, supplementing official efforts even as more flooding hits and the search for the missing continues.
Noem and others have faced criticism for their response to the tragedy in which more than a hundred are dead or missing.
Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.
The Homeland Security chief denied that a memo she issued in June requiring her to approve FEMA expenditures over $100,000 caused the agency to move more slowly.
The Buffalo Newspaper Guild canceled an event on Thursday after editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis sparked backlash with a cartoon depicting a Trump supporter in the Texas floods.