Texas flooding latest: Desperate search for survivors continues after 82 die as officials prepare for ‘wall of water’ storm

CNN anchor Pamela Brown attended Camp Mystic 30 years ago — now she’s covering the tragedy.

“That river was the source of so much joy and fun for us,” Brown said on the job.

“To think that that same river is the source of this devastation,” she added. “It’s just hard to wrap my head around.”

The Associated Press has reported that 82 people have now died after flash floods in central Texas.

10 girls and one counselor from Camp Mystic remains missing.

The identities of the 79 flood victims are still being determined and released to the public. Here’s what we know about the victims so far.

Ariana Baio and Katie Hawkinson have the story.

Search and rescue operations, according to the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office.

The crews include “hundreds of officers, deputies, and support staff working every aspect of this emergency, along with air, water, K9, and other assets conducting search and rescue,” the office said.

As of Sunday early afternoon, the sheriff’s office said it had recovered 68 deceased in Kerr County: 40 adults and 28 children. Eighteen adults are pending identification, and 10 children also pending identification, the office said.

Ten Camp Mystic campers and one counselor are still missing. “We continue to offer our condolences to those affected, and we are working tirelessly to reunite families,” the sheriff’s office said.

The San Antonio area is now bracing for more heavy rainfall.

“Additional rainfall amounts of 2-4 inches are possible with isolated pockets of 10 inches somewhere in the watch area. It is very difficult to pinpoint where exactly the isolated heavy amounts will occur in this pattern,” according to the National Weather Service.

Earlier in the day, Nim Kidd, Chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, warned of a potential “wall of water” heading to the area.

He warned: “Because the ground is already saturated, any rain that falls can be perceived as life-threatening rain.”

The president said he plans to visit Texas “probably on Friday.”

Asked about visiting the flood-ravaged state, Trump told reporters on Sunday: “Probably on Friday. We wanted to leave a little time. I would have done it today, but we’d just be in their way.”

Earlier on Sunday, the president announced he had signed a major disaster declaration for the state. “These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing,” he wrote on Truth Social Sunday morning.

Christian Fell, 25, was staying at his grandmother’s home in Hunt when flood waters began quickly rushing in early Friday morning, forcing him to flee through a broken window and cling to a meter box for several hours.

Fell told NBC News that he awoke around 3:00 a.m. local time to water filling the home. In the five minutes Fell took to look around the home for a way out, flood waters from the Guadalupe River had reached his waist. Fell is six feet tall.

“I had to go underwater and swim through the broken window,” Fell explained.

After swimming out, Fell stood on top of a narrow meter box for several hours, waiting for the water to recede while trying to avoid touching electrical wires.