Texas flooding death toll rises
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Officials said more than 850 people had been rescued after a sudden storm dumped up to 15 inches of rain across the region.
Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.
Officials in Kerr County, the hardest-hit region, said the number of missing remained unchanged since Tuesday, at 161. The floods have killed at least 120 people statewide.
Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.
A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.
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The homeland security secretary slammed a CNN report detailing how a rule she put in place slowed down FEMA's response to the tragedy.