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Texas flash floods hit residents and campers in tragedy "nobody saw" coming. Here's what to know.

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More than 80 people have been killed in Texas flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend .

Officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions.

Ten girls and a counselor are still unaccounted for at a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River .

Officials have presented a proposal for a more robust warning system for a tornado warning system.

"It's going to be a long time before we're ever able to clean it up, much less rebuild it," Kelly Kelly says.

"I would have done it today , but we'd just be in their way," he says.

Pope Leo extends a prayer to flooding victims during Sunday mass at the Vatican .

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