Regardless, the process cannot create storms out of thin air. Ken Leppert, an associate professor of atmospheric science at the University of Louisiana Monroe, said it “had absolutely nothing” to do with the flash floods in Texas.

President Trump wants to shutter the agency and shift responsibility and costs of emergency management to the states. In Texas, that process appears to already be underway.

A Texas father leads volunteer search teams after devastating floods claim more than 100 lives in Hill Country.

Houston-area father John Burgess was last seen clinging to his children when the Guadalupe River gave way to rising flood waters that carved a path of death and destruction through central Texas.

Robert Brake, whose parents have been missing since the flood swept through Kerrville, Texas, joins Chris Jansing to share more on his search for them, and to highlight the help and amount of resources being poured into rescue efforts on the ground.