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FEATURING SOPHIA MIRTO & ALEXANDRIA HADDIX - More than a 100 people have been killed, including dozens of children in catastrophic flooding in central Texas on the fourth of July. Among the hardest hit was Camp Mystic, a girls’ camp in Hill Country, Texas, where 27 campers and counselors were lost when four months worth of rain was dumped in four hours.

The tragedy has prompted fresh scrutiny over state warnings of such natural disasters in the central part of Texas where officials have spent a decade discussing the installation of sirens to alert people for evacuations. There is also concern over the Trump administration’s enforcement of numerous vacancies in critical federal agencies including the National Weather Service.

Meanwhile, local organizations rapidly mobilized and began engaging in mutual aid efforts.

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