For the first time since catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, Texas, the county emergency management director conceded that he was sick and asleep as the water rose to historic levels on the Guadalupe River.

Local officials emphasized the need for river gauges and real-time rainfall monitoring to better predict flash floods.

Emotional testimony from those who survived the Fourth of July floods from victims of the Kerr County floods. Just yesterday, they appeared in front of lawmakers in a 13-hour long hearing telling their stories,