Houston pediatrician Christina B. Propst has been terminated after posting a politically charged message on Facebook targeting residents of Kerr County, Texas, following devastating flash floods. In the now-deleted post, Propst suggested the victims “got what they voted for” due to their past support for President Donald Trump and Republican-led disaster relief policies.
Two young sisters were found dead, still holding hands, after flash floods swept through Central Texas early Friday morning. Blair Harber, 13, and her sister Brooke, 11, from Dallas, sent a final message to their family at 3:30 a.m. before the rising waters carried them away from a house in Hunt to where they were found 15 miles downstream in Kerrville.
Republican lawmaker Rep. August Pfluger (TX) announced that he was reunited with his daughters in the aftermath of the Texas floods. His daughters were evacuated from Camp Mystic.
In what rescuers are calling a miracle, a woman from Midland, Texas, was found clinging to a tree after being swept 20 miles downstream by the flooded Guadalupe River on Independence Day. The woman, camping with family near Hunt-Ingram, was caught in rising floodwaters that overtook their vehicle as they attempted to flee to higher ground.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump issued a forceful warning following the ambush shooting of a Texas police officer near the Prairieland Detention Facility. The officer, from the Alvarado Police Department, was shot late Friday night while attempting to confront an armed suspect outside the federal detention site.
