'More water than last year’s flood': Texas Hill Country dealing with another devastating flood

At least two people are confirmed dead after severe storms led to a flash flooding emergency across South and Central Texas.Gov. Abbott Gives UpdateTexas Gov. Greg Abbott has been meeting with emergency management and public safety officials. He gave an update on the state’s ongoing response to the severe storms on Thursday afternoon. You can watch that full news conference in the video player above."Protecting life remains our top priority as we work our way through, extraordinarily in many ways, record-breaking rain. Once again, life-threatening, catastrophic flooding remains our main risk tonight and overnight through the early morning hours. There will be an ongoing risk of some tornadoes. 59 counties are in flood watch. You're going to expect very heavy rain tonight in these large area," Abbott said.The governor pointed to several new river level records that were set overnight and said there are no more than 2,300 state emergency responders helping in the area."We are not out of
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