Officials say

Number of people missing in Texas Hill Country After deadly floods Officials announced on Saturday that the area weekend in the area has come down significantly during the July vacation weekend.

The city of Kerville said in a news release that Ker County Flood Disaster Joint Information Center determined that three people are still missing from the floods. This is a sharp decline from officials of about 100 people who had earlier said that they were unaware of it.

The city said in its news release, “Through extensive follow -up work between state and local agencies, many individuals who were initially reported missing have been safe and removed from the list.” “This has been a continuous effort as investigators worked diligently to verify the reports of missing persons and confirm their situation.”

Kerville is the county seat of Ker County, which was hard-hit by historical floods. It is located about 60 miles in the north -west of San Antonio.

“We are deeply thankful to more than 1,000 local, state and federal officials who killed our community, who have made tireless efforts in view of devastating floods,” Kerville City manager Delon Rice said in a statement. “Thanks to their extraordinary efforts, the number of persons listed as the first missing is less than 160 to three.”

Efforts to recover for the missing people continue with the Gwadalup River Watershed, the authorities combined with local, state, federal and international search and rescue teams.

At least 135 people were killed in Texas, most of the deaths occurred With Guadalup River In Ker County. The hill country is naturally prone Flood flood Because its dry, dirt -filled soil cannot soak heavy rain.

Earlier this week, state officials reduced the number of people in Kerr and other counties about 160 to about 100. State, federal and International resources Inaccessible attempts, which were interrupted More rainfall in mid -July,

Ker County officials also said that earlier this week the victims had reduced the number of missing people due to healing, contacted with those who were found safe, and some reports were found to be unbalanced or false. In addition, he said, there is ups and downs in the missing list as the report comes in a hotline.

The flood ruined the hill country. Vacation cabins, youth camps campgrounds fill the riversbank and hills of County, and a century -old Christian Summer Camp for girls in a lower area with Camp Mystic, Guadalup. At least 27 campers and consultants died. There were many campers killed The youngest people of the camp,

The Texas Legislature is to be called on Monday for a special session. The village. Greg Abbott initially called MPs back at Texas State Capital in Austin, expecting MLA THC products to pass a measure to regulate a fast growing business in products. After vetoing a bill They would have been banned from this. Since the flood, President Donald Trump has also told Republican who control State Government to rebuild Congress districts To help the GOP prospects to maintain the majority of the American house in the mid -term elections next year.

Now, Abbott and other legislative leaders have added flood -related issues to the agenda. Abbott said that legalists will consider to deal with the floods and reforms Warning system for hill country residentsKer County does not have a warning system as state and local agencies missed opportunities for finance in the last decade.

Trump and Abbott aggressively pushed back against the questions as to how local authorities responded to the first report of heavy rains forecasts and flash floods. President, who Visited the area on 11 JulyTo increase such issues, a reporter called a “evil” and said he thought “everyone did an incredible job in circumstances.” Abbott dismissed a question as to who was blamed as a “losers’ choice” and used a analogy that began: “Every football team makes mistakes.”

“The way the winning things are not to indicate the fingers,” he concluded.

Abbott has nominated initial warning systems and emergency communication bills as priorities for the special session of the Legislature, which is scheduled for the last 30 days.

The House and Senate have formed special committees on floods and disaster preparations, and they are planning to listen to comments from residents, Kerville, the most difficult-the-toughest-the-tougted–curse county seat on July 31.

The committees are scheduled to begin with a joint hearing on Wednesday to consider the state’s response to deadly floods; Plan for floods; Infrastructure for flood management; And the first communication between the respondents. Washington Senator Maria Cantwell said “Facing the nation with Margaret Brainon“That is a” national responsibility “for the federal government Improve forecasting system,

A bill already introduced by Republican rape. Don McLaglin will need the top public health officer of the state to set construction standards for young camps in 100 years of floodgrounds-which defines a high-risk area with 1% of floods in any year as a high-risk area.

During a recent news conference, Republican State Rape. Drew Darby, a member of the House Committee, said that legalists could not bring back the flood victims or reduce the flood.

“But what we can do is to learn from it,” he said.