Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight. A look at why previous efforts to fund a warning system for floods in Texas failed, and if last week's deadly flooding will change that. Measles cases surge to their highest levels in more than 30 years, the struggle

to get the disease under control. And a former federal prosecutor who led cases against the

January 6th rioters speaks out about the shifting priorities at the U.S. Justice Department.

The perception right now is that any time you do anything against the president or

an ally of the president that you will be subject to some sort of scrutiny or investigations,

that's a huge problem. Welcome to the news hour.

The search for bodies continued in South Central Texas today, almost a week after torrential rains triggered deadly flash floods.

121 people have been confirmed dead.

At least 161 remain missing.

Now, officials are facing scrutiny about whether they gave sufficient notice about the

rising waters.

The National Weather Service did issue several watches and warnings starting just before

midnight on July 3rd.

At 11.m. on July 4th, it pushed its first alert to cell phones in the area, warning of, quote, dangerous and life-threatening flash floods.

Several more followed as the river surged over 30 feet in a matter of hours. In the meantime, local

officials appeared unaware of the unfolding catastrophe

until later in the morning. And there are now reports that Kerr County officials waited some

90 minutes to send phone alerts on a private system known as Code Red after a firefighter requested

it. For a closer look, we're joined now by Nina Satija, an investigative reporter

with the Houston Chronicle. Nina, welcome to the NewsHour. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for

having me. So your reporting found that nearly a decade before this July 4th flooding, there were

local officials in Kerr County pushing to buy a new early flood warning system. Tell us why they were pushing for that

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