Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

The search for missing bodies is ongoing along Texas’ Guadalupe River after catastrophic and deadly flooding killed more than 100 people following a torrential downpour early Friday morning.

The family of toddler Clay Parisher confirmed his death from the flooding in Kerr County as relatives were at the family's home to celebrate the July 4th holiday A 20-month-old toddler has died in last week’s flooding that devastated Kerr County in Texas, according to the child’s family.

Experts say there was a number of factors that contributed to the tragedy including the extreme weather, the location of the holiday homes and timing. There was a large supply of moisture in the atmosphere from a tropical storm that had caused flooding in Mexico and then tracked north as it died out.

Julian Ryan’s final words to his mother, as floodwaters quickly engulfed their trailer home, were simply, “I love you.”

Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two hours