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Trump Sends DHS Chief to Texas as Floods Kill at Least 27
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Torrential overnight rain sent the Guadalupe River surging more than 20 feet through Texas’s Hill Country early Friday, killing at least 27 people — including nine children — and sweeping away homes, campsites and roads around Kerrville, state and county officials said. The sudden floods followed what forecasters later acknowledged was an underestimated rainfall outlook for the region.
President Donald Trump called the disaster “terrible” and “shocking” and said the federal government is working with Governor Greg Abbott to direct assistance. Trump ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to travel to the disaster zone, praising first responders and pledging that federal aid would “take care of” local needs. The Coast Guard, National Guard and other agencies have rescued or evacuated 237 people so far, using 14 helicopters, nine drones and high-water vehicles; roughly 400 personnel remain deployed.
Search-and-rescue teams continue to look for more than 20 missing girls from Camp Mystic, a summer camp on the river that was inundated when water levels rose in minutes. Officials warned that additional, even modest, rainfall could trigger fresh flash-flood dangers over the weekend, keeping the region on high alert while crews race to locate survivors and assess damage.
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