While visiting flood-ravaged Hunt in Kerr County, Gov. Greg Abbott promised continued recovery efforts but was confronted by locals wanting more freedom to help their community. Some residents shared emotional stories of survival as search and recovery efforts continue. NBC 5’s Candace Sweat has more.

In the Austin area, 12 people are still missing and 16 are known to have perished after rain swept away homes along rivers and creeks.

Texas offers Disaster Unemployment Assistance to those affected by severe storms and flooding as per Governor Abbott's declaration.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced in Kerr County, Texas yesterday during a press conference that 161 people are currently missing due to the flooding in the region. Recovery efforts are still underway.

SAN ANTONIO — Five days after the waters of the Guadalupe River rose and overwhelmed much of Kerr Country on July Fourth, search and recovery efforts continue as the community picks up the pieces of one of the state's worst natural disasters in years.

You asked and I’m going to use your words, ‘Who’s to blame?’ Know this, that’s the word choice of losers,” the GOP lawmaker said.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott stopped his press conference to comfort victims of flooding in Kerr County, Texas yesterday.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dustin Burrows took an aerial tour surveying the flooding damage in Kerr County.