Hope is fading for survivors among the 170 missing in the Texas floods.

BarcelonaThe investigation teams continue working this Wednesday to find some of the 170 people who remain missing after the Severe flooding last weekend in Texas, which left at least 119 dead, including many children. In addition to the 119 people killed in Texas, the floods also killed three more in the neighboring state of New Mexico. Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls built on the banks of the river. A total of 27 people from the camp, including girls and counselors, died in the flooding, according to Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha. Historic floods this July in Texas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has warned that the death toll will likely continue to rise as floodwaters recede.

town of Ruidoso, in the mountains, 217 km southeast of Albuquerque, the largest city in the state, according to Reuters. Doubts about warnings and response

Scientists have long warned that the climate crisis is causing extreme events like these to become more intense and frequent. But The Trump administration's cuts to weather services across the country and in the state of Texas have also greatly complicated the prevention of these episodes. According to information from the The Texas Tribune, the weather alert about the severity of the rains was communicated to authorities just 3 hours and 21 minutes before the worst hit, but it's unclear when exactly these officials saw it or how they reacted.

At Wednesday's press conference, the sheriff again subjected himself to intense journalistic questioning about how long it took officials to respond to Code Red alerts about the flooding in the early hours of July 4, but Leitha refused to answer missing answers and said a full analysis of what went wrong would be carried out later. "We will answer these questions," he said. "I can't tell you when, a week or two, okay? We will get there. We are not trying to deflect them," he said.

Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said the amount of rainfall exceeded predictions and fell so quickly that there wasn't enough time to order evacuations without further endangering people. Abbott said Tuesday that the Texas legislature would call a special session later this month to investigate the emergency response and provide funding for disaster relief.