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CBS News' Jason Allen has more on Kerr County's emergency alert system as more questions emerge about how Texans were notified ahead of the deadly floods. Also, David Schechter has more on how climate ...
The county’s largest city, Kerrville, declined to participate in a joint grant application that would have required a $50,000 ...
Nearly a week after floodwaters swept away more than 100 lives, Texas officials are facing heated questions over how much was ...
At 4:22 a.m. on Friday, as Texas' Hill Country began to flood, a firefighter in Ingram – just upstream from Kerrville – asked ...
Catastrophic floods can be difficult to prepare for. Sometimes evacuation is the right call, but if it's too late the best ...
The survival of people in local camps and low-lying areas depended not on official evacuations but on whether they were ...
In 2021, Kerr County incorporated FEMA's Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) into CodeRED, so that messages could reach tourists and others not in the local database. The IPAWS system ...
House Bill 13, supported by Texas legislators across party lines, proposed the creation of a government council to develop an ...
Authorities came under fire when it was suggested there were no warnings of the flash floods in Texas, which resulted in at least 120 lives being lost, with many more people still missing. In fact, ...
Recordings provided to CBS News showed first responders asking for an emergency alert to be sent, but dispatchers delayed because they needed special authorization.
Kerr County applied for federal grants to build a warning system to protect residents from flash floods. Under the Trump ...