Trump tours Texas flood sites, defends officials
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Flood-related deaths rise to 96 in Kerr County
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President Trump and First Lady Melania met with families in the Texas Hill Country. He praised first responders amid tense talks on flood disaster response.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania will visit Kerrville on Friday, one week after Central Texas floods killed over 100 people.
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During Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, Trump did not mention those plans and instead praised the federal flooding response. Turning to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, he said, “You had people there as fast as anybody’s ever seen.”
In the heart of Kerrville, hundreds gathered Thursday evening for a community vigil honoring the victims of the catastrophic Hill Country flooding — a disaster that has already claimed at least 103 lives in Kerr County, with more than 100 still missing.
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Woolsey runs the Impact Guild, a San Antonio nonprofit that invests in neighborhoods through creative problem-solving. Within the nonprofit, a program called the Climate Ready Neighborhoods creates a network of people who can share information and resources during the everyday but also when disasters occur.
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Texas police described some of the harrowing rescues they conducted after flash floods engulfed camps and homes in the state's Hill Country.
Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as the death toll rises to 120, as rescue operations start to shift to recovery phase