The devastation in Kerr County is still being tallied, and the road ahead is long. Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. The devastation in Kerr County is still being tallied, and the road ahead is long.

As of 6:25 p.m. on Wednesday, 96 people — 60 adults and 36 children — are dead after Hill Country flooding, Kerr County officials said.

Several Kerrville Independent School District teachers and staff members drove school buses full of hundreds of campers from Camp La Junta and Camp Mystic to reunification sites on July 4.

Bud Bolton told FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray he lost his home to the Central Texas flooding on July 4. He describes trying to help people being swept away on the Guadalupe River and his son finding the body of a child from Camp Mystic.

The director of Camp Mystic was among the people killed due to the Hill Country floods, according to the Kerrville Daily Times.

The family was reportedly vacationing at a river house in Kerr County as the floods swept through the area unannounced.