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In central Texas, at least 78 people are dead, mostly in Kerr County, in catastrophic flash flooding Friday that sent the Guadalupe River surging.

Chief W. Nim Kidd with the Texas Division of Emergency Management says there's a lot of work to be done.

We are going to begin recovery operations. That is debris cleanup. That is opening roads.

That is not mean we are no longer doing search for live victims because we still are.

Dozens are missing, including at least 10 children and one adult from a summer camp.

And Pierre Sergio Martinez Beltron is there and spoke to some of the residents.

Ryan Dale was in his apartment with his three children. The building is

right next to the Curville River Trail along the Guadalupe River, which officials say rose more than

25 feet in about an hour. And I was sitting there and I was just stressed out all night looking at the

rain coming down and I came out in my house about 6 o'clock and it was about 100 yards out from the

apartment and then I came out 15 minutes later and it was smacking the side of the apartment

getting up over the fence. They all grabbed his kids and started running away. And I could just hear

people screaming and it scared me. You know, it's, it's hard to see. It really is.

All of his family is safe and accounted for, and luckily his apartment is okay, too.

Empire Serrio Martinez Beltron. Rain continues to fall in spots and is forecast to continue

over the next day or so. That's raising fears of more flooding

and people along the North Fork of the Guadalupe River, which flows through Hunt, Texas,

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