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Live Updates: More Than 50 Dead in Texas Floods as Search for Missing Grows Dire

At least 15 children were among those killed by flooding in Central Texas. Some two dozen girls from a camp on the Guadalupe River remained unaccounted for.

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Edgar SandovalRick Rojas and Jack Healy

Edgar Sandoval reported from Kerrville, Texas.

Here’s the latest.

The search for those who were swept away by devastating floods in Central Texas grew increasingly desperate as the death toll jumped to 52 on Saturday night and the likelihood of finding more survivors appeared to diminish.

In Kerr County, where waterways gorged by thunderstorms tore through a Christian girls’ camp, trapped families inside trailer homes and swept people into the currents, the authorities said that some two dozen campers remained unaccounted for, and that there was “no cap” to the broader tally of the missing. State and local officials said the search was now a race against time, but they refused to relinquish their hope that more survivors would be found.

“The process is going to keep going,” W. Nim Kidd, the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said at a news conference on Saturday afternoon. “We’re not going to stop until we find everyone that’s missing.”

As the death toll continued to climb, investigators were trying to identify victims. Among them were 8-year-old and 9-year-old campers, and a 27-year-old man who died trying to save his family by punching a window through their trailer so they could escape the rising waters.

Most of the deaths occurred in Kerr County, an area northwest of San Antonio that has experienced the worst of the flooding. Officials said that 43 people had died; 15 were children. Elsewhere in the state, four people were killed in Travis County, three in Burnet County, one in Kendall County and one in Tom Green County, the authorities said. Thirteen people were also missing in Travis County, which includes Austin.

Here’s what we’re covering:

• Victims: Officials are still identifying those who were killed, but early portraits of some of them have emerged. Here’s what we know about some of them ›

• An agonizing wait: Many of the missing are girls who were at Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp in Kerr County, when the floods hit. Stories of rescues have begun trickling in, but many parents are still anxiously waiting for news. Read more ›

• Beauty and danger: Kerr County is in a part of Texas known as the Hill Country, where many residents have been lured by natural splendor and a rustic vibe. But the region has also become known as “Flash Flood Alley.” Read more ›

• A harrowing rescue: A 70-year-old man in Center Point, Texas, helped rescue a young woman sitting in a tree above dangerous floodwaters on Friday. She had been camping at a site 20 miles up the river when she was suddenly swept away and carried downstream. Read more ›

July 5, 2025, 10:06 p.m. ETJuly 5, 2025

Rylee Kirk

One person has died in San Angelo, Texas, according to the local police department. The victim, Tanya Burwick, 62, was found several blocks from her car after it was submerged under floodwaters on Friday, the police said. San Angelo lies along the Concho River in Tom Green County.

July 5, 2025, 9:17 p.m. ETJuly 5, 2025

Juliet Macur

Two sisters, Blair and Brooke Harber, died after their cabin along the Guadalupe River was washed away in the flash flooding, according to the Rev. Joshua J. Whitfield, a pastor at their church, St. Rita Catholic Community in Dallas. Blair, 13, was a rising eighth grader at St. Rita’s school, and Brooke, 11, was a rising sixth grader. In a letter Whitfield sent to the parish on Saturday, he said that the girls were staying in a cabin with their grandparents, and that the grandparents are still missing.