Tonight for the first time we're hearing the desperate 911 calls from the night the floodwaters swept into Kerrville.

Hundreds of calls pouring in, but there were only two operators trying to handle them all.

The calls coming as the waters rose.

People heard pleading for their lives, telling dispatchers that if help didn't come, they were going to die.

A mom with an infant begging to be saved.

I have an infant. She can't hold her breath.

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And good evening. We begin tonight with a terrifying inside look at what happened during one of the worst flood disasters this country has ever seen. Officials in Texas releasing the 911 calls

that quickly poured in during those catastrophic floods back in July.

You might remember the scale of the destruction here when heavy rains caused the Guadalupe

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