Published: 2025-07-06 18:47:43 | Views: 8
The death toll due from the Texas floods has risen to nearly 70 overall on Sunday, with 59 people dead in Kerr County, officials said. The additional numbers are from outlying areas.
The number of missing girls from Camp Mystic has gone down to 11, from an original 27 missing.
Key events
In a post on X, secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem confirmed that the department is deploying federal emergency management resources to Texas’s first responders, following Trump’s declaration of a major disaster.
In days prior, multiple federal agencies under the Department of Homeland Security helped with efforts in Texas, including the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection and an elite Border Patrol special response unit.
Donald Trump declared the deadly flooding in Texas to be a major disaster under the Stafford Act on Sunday.
“I have authorized Federal relief and recovery assistance in the affected area,” said a letter signed and posted to social media by Trump to Texas’s governor Greg Abbott. “Individual Assistance and Public Assistance will be provided.”
Trump has designated the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate assistance efforts.
The National Weather Service has extended its flood watch through 7 p.m. central time for central Texas.
The Service warns that additional rainfall of two-to-four inches are possible, with “isolated pockets of 10 inches” also possible. “It is very difficult to pinpoint where exactly the isolated heavy amounts will occur in this pattern,” the National Weather Service posted on X.
Kerr County officials said that, as of 9 a.m. central time on Sunday, 38 adults and 21 children have died in the county due to the deadly flooding. Eighteen adults and four children have not been identified.
The remaining dead are from outlying areas. There are a total of nearly 70 dead.
There are 11 Camp Mystic campers and one counselor still missing, officials said.
The death toll due from the Texas floods has risen to nearly 70 overall on Sunday, with 59 people dead in Kerr County, officials said. The additional numbers are from outlying areas.
The number of missing girls from Camp Mystic has gone down to 11, from an original 27 missing.
A MAGA congressional candidate in Georgia shared strange posts on social media, claiming that the weather is being manipulated, as search and rescue efforts continue in Texas after deadly flooding.
Kandiss Taylor, who is running for Congress in Georgia for the 2026 elections, posted on X: “Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake.”
In another post, Taylor doubled-down, by sharing conspiracy theories about natural disasters: “This isn’t just ‘climate change.’ It’s cloud seeding, geoengineering, & manipulation. If fake weather causes real tragedy, that’s murder.”
X users responded to Taylor, slamming her for her tweets.
She later said that her posts were about legislation proposed by right-wing MAGA and conspiracy-theorist congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that would prohibit “the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather.”
“I wasn’t talking about Texas with this post,” Taylor said. “Liberal left winged media twisted what I said to make it about Texas.”
The longtime owner and director of Camp Mystic, a Christian girls camp, died while trying to save campers, a local publication reports.
Dick Eastland was “kind and welcoming” and is described as a father figure to campers.
Camp Mystic was established in 1926 along the Guadalupe River in central Texas nearly a century ago “to provide young girls with a wholesome Christian atmosphere,” Reuters reports.
Dick and his wife Tweety Eastland, are the third generation of the family that bought the camp in 1939, the camp website says. There are still 27 girls missing from Camp Mystic.
“[Eastland] was family to so many campers,” wrote Paige Sumner in the Kerrville Daily Times. “It doesn’t surprise me at all that his last act of kindness and sacrifice was working to save the lives of campers.”
People in Texas describe the terrifying moments after deadly flooding swept through the central part of the state. The death toll has risen to 59 people.
One man describes him and his wife being swept by the water and holding onto a tree until rescuers arrived to help. “It was scary, it was really scary,” he said.
The Guardian’s video team produced this piece on people caught up in the floods.
The death toll from the flooding in Texas has risen to 59, according to the county’s Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (up from the previous total of 51). More details soon…
Here is a graphic showing where Camp Mystic is located within the state of Texas:
Officials said this morning the tally of children missing from the Christian youth camp for girls stood at 27.
