Overview

• Search and recovery teams have completed the 72-hour rescue phase and are now focused on retrieving victims from mud and debris along the Guadalupe River
• More than 120 fatalities have been confirmed and roughly 170 people, including children from Camp Mystic, remain unaccounted for
• President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited Kerrville on July 11 to meet survivors, local officials and emergency crews
• An investigation is probing why Kerr County lacked a working siren system and whether DHS approval rules and National Weather Service staffing cuts delayed critical warnings
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s call to abolish FEMA over slow expense approvals has fueled a broader debate on federal versus state disaster management