Austin Pets Alive! and Kerrville Pets Alive! rescued and reunited five cats with their families, after the pets got separated from their owners during the July 4 flooding in Central Texas.

Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tour the Texas flood devastation and the U.S. prepares to impose blanket tariffs on trading partners.

Crews from Gainesville are helping the response to flooding in central Texas. Gainesville Fire-Rescue said that six members of its Swift Water Rescue Team were deployed to Kerr County as part of search and rescue missions along the Guadalupe River.

Volunteers combing through debris piles from the devastating Central Texas flooding had to sniff out decaying bodies in the “chaotic” initial days of the search-and-rescue efforts. Ryan Logue, a resident of Kerrville,

Ohio Task Force 1 is going to central Texas to help with search and rescue after devastating floods hit the region last week.

According to a new report Secretary Noem did not sign off on deploying FEMA’s urban search and rescue team to Texas until this Monday—more than three days after the floods struck. In the meantime, she was on Instagram crowd sourcing opinions about her official portrait.

The Austin, Texas, fire chief is being accused of denying requests to send rescuers to Kerrville days before the catastrophic flooding — because of an $800,000 dispute with the state government.

FEMA officials said search and rescue efforts in the Texas floods were slowed by budget rules imposed by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.