Search for missing continues after catastrophic Texas floods: Weekend Rundown

Catastrophic floods reached the center of Texas on Friday, causing a wave of 20 to 26 feet in the Guadalupe River near Kerville, which caused generalized damage and washing the roads.

Dozens of people were killed during the weekend; The death toll at 5 PM et on Sunday was 79 in six counties. In Kerr County, the authorities reported 68 deaths, including those of 28 children, and 11 children were still missing from Mystical camp.

Meanwhile, the National Meteorological Service extended the surveillance of flooding over a large part of the Texas Center-South when several inches of rain fell on the region.

President Donald Trump signed a great disaster statement for Kerr County. The statement will allow lifeguards to have access to the resources they need as search and recovery efforts continue.

• Were warnings appropriate? Critics blamed recent Trump administration cuts for the harmful capacity of officials to properly warn residents about incoming flood conditions. A White House spokesman pushed back against statementstelling NBC News that the accusations were “disgusting” lies to attack political opponents. On Saturday, the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, also He was challenged by If the federal government made enough to warn the Texans.
• ‘I had to swim through the window’: Sudden floods left residents to escape through ascending waters With nothing more than their lives.
• Waiting for a miracle: Xavier Ramírez’s family had been in a camp when the waters began to get up quickly, leaving Five of your family members is missing.

Trump sign ‘large and beautiful bill’ in law

Trump signed on Friday his tax and expenses cut package, which has called the “great and beautiful bill”, in a July 4 ceremony full of patriotic pomp and symbolism.

The White House ceremony took place with a military picnic. It included an elevated step of the Armed Forces, and attended joyful republican legislators, including the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and the leader of the majority, Steve Scalise, both of Louisiana, who helped muscle the legislation through the Chamber by a thin margin of shaving.

“Our country has had a lot to celebrate this Independence Day as we enter our 249th year. The United States wins, win, win as never before,” Trump said before signing the bill.

When passing your scanning domestic agenda, Trump He showed a dominance over his party that many of their predecessors would have envied.

Politics shortly

• Deep freeze: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stopped a shipment of weapons for Ukraine Despite the military analysis that the aid would not endanger the preparation of the United States, biased the State Department, Ukraine, European allies and members of Congress, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.
• Shaken, not agitated: The surprise announcement of the Senator of the Republican Party Thom Tillis has shaken not only the career of the North Carolina Senate, but also the broader fight for the majority in the Senate in the mid -period elections next year.
• Another goodbye: The centrist representative Don Bacon de Nebraska, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the Chamber, said he It doesn’t have the “hunger” For another exhausting re -election campaign and will not apply for a sixth mandate next year.
• Tinker A Evers to … Chance? In Wisconsin, one of the most divided battlefield states in the country, there is a great question in the minds of both parties: it is Governor Tony Evers I’m going to run for a third term After a year?
• The Octagon vs. The ellipse: UFC Plan to organize a fight card on the White House landA spokesman for the confirmed promotion to NBC News.

The ‘Prince of Darkness’ rises again

Ozzy Osbourne got up under the stage on a leather throne adorned with a bat and two diamond -eyed skulls. He formed at the Rock ‘N’ Roll theater, partly medical necessity. At 76, the “Prince of Darkness” has Parkinson’s disease, his column remains linked with screws and dishes, and his sick voice sometimes fights for the tone.

But this was an emotional sample of bloody challenge.

On Saturday Night in Birmingham, England, Osbourne Forced His Battern Body this Supergroups Packed with A-Listers from Aerosmith, Rage Against The Machine, The Smashing Pumpkins and Evenie Wood of the Rolling Stones.

• Heavy Metal teachers were not the only British band to return. Oasis, which separated in 2009, He returned from his 16 -year -old pause With a show in Cardiff, Wales.

Housing construction for tariff uncertainty

The total cost of building a single -range single -rank house could increase by more than $ 4,000 as a result of Trump’s ratesAn NBC news analysis of construction materials shows, an estimate that industry experts that reviewed the analysis called Conservative.

The products of China, Mexico and Canada, which are tarife at high rates, are responsible for the highest increases of projected costs, calculated using a weighted rate for each item based on the proportion of imports of each country.

The materials imported mainly from China would add $ 1,708 to house costs, Canadian products would contribute $ 1,300 and Mexican imports would add $ 981.

Robert Dietz, chief economist of the National Association of Housing Builders, said that tariffs have an impact beyond their direct cost, since they send uncertainty through the supply chain and leave the insecure builders of how to plan the future.

“Around three quarters of housing builders at this time have difficulty setting their homes for buyers due to uncertainty due to the costs of construction inputs,” said Dietz.

Notable appointment

Traveling to Europe is becoming cheaper, more or less. Flight prices can be going down, but everything is more expensive once you arrive as a weakest dollar Give a bite of Americans’ budgets abroad and global economic uncertainty looms over trips.

In case you have lost it

• Actor Julian McMahon, known for playing Dr. Doom in the “Fantastic Four” films of the early 2000s and starring fans’ favorite programs, including “Nip/Tuck” and “Charmed”, He died of cancer at age 56.
• The human remains were found on the site From a massive fireworks explosion that detonated in northern California, authorities said.
• The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama, He turned 90 years after a week of celebrations By followers, during which he bounced again and spoke about his hope of living beyond 130 and reincarnating after he dies.
• The Ayatollah of Iran Ali Khamenei made a public appearanceThe first time he has been seen in the midst of the Israel conflict and the United States.
• Liverpool’s captain, Virgil Van Dijk, and several teammates gathered in Portugal for Attend the funeral of Diogo Jota and his brotherAndré Silva, who died in a tragic car accident.
• Famous competitive dining room Joey Chestnut He recovered his title In the famous hot dog food contest on July 4, Nathan after omitting last year’s gastronomic battle in New York for the coveted mustard belt.
• Gaza’s Humanitarian Foundation said Two United States security workers were injured in an attack directed in a food distribution site in Gaza.