A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.

Nicole Wilson, a San Antonio mother and Army veteran, started an online petition Saturday calling for Kerr County to install flood warning sirens. Wilson tells “Morning in America” that one of the reasons she started the petition was out of concern for her daughters,

Kerr County, where dozens of people—many of them children—died in this weekend's catastrophic flooding, knew flash floods were a danger in the area—but its application for a grant to improve its flood warning system was rejected by the Texas Division of Emergency Management in both 2017 and 2018,