Daniel Morales, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, believes that long, flat tone the morning of July Fourth saved lives.

At least 119 people have been found dead in nearly a week since heavy rainfall overwhelmed the river and flowed through homes and youth camps in the early morning hours of July 4. Ninety-five of those killed were in the hardest-hit county in central Texas, Kerr County, where the toll includes at least three dozen children.

At least 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic perished in Friday's floods, with the total death toll in the floods now surpassing 100.

The NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC released a flood advisory at 10:39 p.m. on Thursday in effect until Friday at 1:45 a.m. for Cabarrus and Mecklenburg counties.

The flood watch is in effect until 7 a.m. Friday for Cook County, the collar counties and the majority of northern Illinois, according to the National Weather Service.

In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.

On Thursday at 10:45 p.m. a flood advisory was issued by the NWS Raleigh NC in effect until Friday at 1:45 a.m. for Halifax County.

DHS head Kristi Noem refuted a CNN report that her requirement for personal sign-off on DHS contracts over $100,000 slowed emergency response to deadly Texas flooding.