But they haven't rescued anyone alive since July 4, the day of the flood, officials in the hardest-hit Kerr County said. Some 160 people are missing from the county alone. As of the morning of July 12,

The catastrophic Central Texas floods have claimed at least 121 lives and left 173 missing, as a report reveals that Kerr County officials were repeatedly denied state funding for an emergency flood warning system.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

President Donald Trump met with victims' families and surveyed the damage of catastrophic floods that struck the state one week ago.

In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.

As the search for victims continues, county officials say "additional resources" are being deployed as the "mission efforts become more technical."

The death toll in Kerr County, Texas climbed above 100 Friday night as recovery operations continued in the county on a day when President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump toured the damage left behind by July 4 flash flooding.

The reporter said that several families were angry because they felt that alerts for the flood did not go out in time.