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Chloe Childress, a counselor at Camp Mystic, was killed during the devastating flooding in Hunt, Texas, over the holiday weekend, according to a representative of her high school.She graduated from The Kinkaid School earlier this year and was set to attend the University of Texas at Austin in the fall.Jonathan Eades, the head of The Kinkaid School, remembered Childress as someone who had a "remarkable way of making people feel […]

Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall at about 4 a.m. on Sunday near Litchfield Beach, South Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center.As of 8 a.m. ET, the center of Chantal was about 15 miles to the northwest of Conway, South Carolina, or about 100 miles north of Charleston, according to the National Hurricane Center. Chantal's maximum sustained winds had decreased slightly from around 60 mph early Sunday to 40 mph, […]

Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo, killing at least 43 people.Dangerous amounts of rain caused dangerous flash flooding in parts of Texas, destroying homes and cars on Independence Day.Here's a timeline of the disaster:Friday, July 4Flash flooding is occurring and with a continued threat through the time period. This is mainly west of Austin and […]

ABC News (SURF CITY, NC) -- Tropical storm warnings have been extended up to Surf City, North Carolina, as Tropical Storm Chantal is offshore from the southeastern U.S. on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center.The storm has maximum sustained wind of up to 45 mph and is moving north at just 3 mph.The center of the storm is located about 105 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina.Scattered showers and […]

Eric Vryn/Getty Images (AUSTIN) -- The deadly floods that struck Texas on the 4th of July caught local officials off guard as the torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to rise to near-historic levels in a matter of minutes, officials said at a press conference Saturday.A Flood Watch was in effect for parts of New Mexico and western Texas Thursday afternoon as rounds of slow-moving thunderstorms packing heavy rain moved […]

(AUSTIN) -- Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo, killing at least 27 people.Dangerous amounts of rain caused dangerous flash flooding in parts of Texas, destroying homes and cars on Independence Day.Here's a timeline of the disaster:Friday, July 4Flash flooding is occurring and with a continued threat through the time period. This is mainly west of […]

(ESPARTO, Calif) -- Human remains have been found at the warehouse filled with fireworks that exploded in Northern California this week, officials said.The number of fatalities was not released and no positive identifications have been made, Yolo County officials said. Seven people were considered missing on Wednesday."Recovery efforts are expected to continue throughout the weekend as investigators, coroner personnel, and fire crews work carefully and respectfully through the process," county […]

WABC-TV (PLAINFIELD, N.J.) -- A huge line of severe weather passed through on Thursday night, killing at least three people in New Jersey and complicating travel for millions on the move for the Fourth of July weekend.A deadly storm with winds topping 60 mph tore through central New Jersey, forcing one town to cancel its Fourth of July celebrations.Thursday night's severe thunderstorm killed at least three people: one in North […]

(CHICAGO) -- Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in a "deplorable and cowardly" mass shooting in Chicago on Wednesday night, according to the police superintendent.Around 11 p.m., people were exiting a venue in the River North neighborhood and standing on the sidewalk when a vehicle pulled up and someone in the car opened fire on the crowd, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said at a news conference."They didn't […]