Good morning. It's Saturday, June 5th. I'm Ali Valshi. We begin this morning with breaking news out of Texas where deadly flash floods have killed at least 24 people.

Right now, a massive search is underway for more than 20 young girls who were attending camp Mystic and all girls summer camp in Texas Hill Country.

Some of the missing appear to be as young

as eight years old, and all of this followed a powerful storm that stalled over Kerr County on Friday,

dumping more than 10 inches of rain in just a few hours. Now, that triggered a rare flash flood

emergency as the Guadalupe River, which you're looking at, rose more than 25 feet almost instantly.

The floodwaters trapped people in their cars. It filled homes with water. It submerged entire

trees. Governor Greg Abbott called it, quote, extraordinary catastrophe. And so far,

emergency crews have rescued more than 200 people, but the search continues this

morning under difficult conditions. Joining me now is NBC News correspondent Ryan Chandler, who's in

Kerr County, Texas. Ryan, what a what a what a what a scene we've been watching you cover all

morning. Talk to me about about what you know now.

Well, the one and only priority in this community right now, Allie, is, of course, finding those missing girls. And I wish we had more information about who exactly is missing.

But we know from state officials last night, anywhere from 23 to 25 girls from Camp Mystic are still unaccounted for, and you can get an

idea of the destruction, the power that they faced at that camp last night looking behind me.

This is not a riverbed that you see here. This is a public park, the Guadalupe River, which

exploded overnight leading to all of this destruction and death. That's about a football

field away from me. Everything that you see in between, it looks like a tornado rushed through here,

but that is not wind. That is the destructive force of water. You see how high the bark was

stripped off of these trees. The Guadalupe River rising as much as 22 feet in just the first

30 minutes, getting up to about 30 feet deep, which was enough to leave a widespread field of

destruction and now at least 24 deaths in this county alone. There's a lot of rumors, online chatter,

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