BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| TEXAS
At least 43 people have died from flooding early Friday morning. There was 28 adults and 15 children, with 12 identities of 12 adults and 5 children are pending.
It was at a Christian summer next to the Guadalupe River, 27 girls were among those missing.
Per NPR:
The governor issued a disaster declaration for several counties in the area of the state known as the Hill Country, about 70 miles north of San Antonio. Abbott expanded the disaster declaration on Saturday to add more counties impacted by flooding and signed a disaster declaration requesting assistance from the federal government.
W. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said Saturday afternoon that officials are still "actively searching" for people alive but that those efforts "will turn into recovery at some point."
"When you talk to the men and women that are up there in those helicopters and out in those boats and walking the ground, they're looking for live people right now and doing everything they can to continue to search as fast as possible," Kidd said during a press conference.
Abbott also said during the press conference he has instructed every state agency involved with search and rescue to "assume everybody missing is alive" and warned "every minute counts."
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