Good evening. I'm John Yan. Across the hill country of central Texas today, rescue workers are

urgently searching for the missing after a wall of water rushed through an area known as

Flash Flood Alley in the early morning hours of July 4th. At least 32 people are dead.

Still unaccounted for are 27 children who were attending a Christian summer camp on the Guadalupe River.

Officials say it's unclear how many are missing from other locations.

Ali Rogan has our report.

Months worth of torrential rain fell in just a few hours in Kerr County, leaving houses

and trees submerged in the floodwaters.

Nearby, the National Weather Service tracked the Guadalupe River as it swelled 22 feet

in two hours.

At 29 and a half feet, the gauge failed.

The rushing waters dumped debris on roads, which made it hard for emergency vehicles to get through.

Crews worked overnight to locate people who were still unaccounted for.

People were screaming.

Others like young camper Peers Boyett were left to their own devices to escape the fast-moving waters.

The floods started getting bigger, and it was going up to, we had bunk beds in our cabins,

and it was going up to the top bunk, and we had one choice, and we had to swim out of our cabins.

A number of youth camps dot the area, including Camp Mystic and all girls' Christian summer

camp along the river.

Searchers used helicopters to rescue survivors there, but more than two dozen of its campers

are still missing.

At another camp, Hardo the Hills, the director Jane Ragsdale died in the

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