At least 107 people are dead across six counties in catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas. NBC National News Correspondent Morgan Chesky is on the ground in Kerrville, Texas as rescue teams continue to comb through piles of debris in search of survivors.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott says at least 109 people are dead and 161 people are still missing due to the catastrophic flooding that ravaged the Texas Hill Country. Kerr County officials were pressed today over why there is no county-wide siren system to warn people about natural disasters like flash flooding.

HUNT, Texas (AP) — Crews used backhoes and their bare hands Wednesday to dig through piles of debris that stretched for miles in the search for more than 160 people believed to be missing in the flash floods that laid waste to state’s Hill Country.

A massive Texas search and cleanup effort was set to enter its fifth day Tuesday in response to Guadalupe River flooding that surged through the area on July 4.

By Jane Ross, Rich McKay and Jonathan Allen KERRVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109,