Rep. Chip Roy, who represents the Texas Hill Country where flash flooding on Friday killed at least 24 people and left two dozen girls from a Christian summer camp missing, tells Newsmax that there were several “heroic rescues” from the scene and emergency workers are holding out hope for finding more survivors. 

“We’ve had about 24, 25 fatalities,” the Texas Republican told Newsmax’s Jaeson Jones on “America Right Now” Saturday. “Some of these are the little girls. I’m not going to tell the numbers on those yet because they’re obviously talking to their families.”

Roy said he was supposed to have been at the White House for President Donald Trump’s signing of the megabill Friday, but returned home after the disastrous flooding of the Guadalupe River, which rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes before dawn Friday, washing away homes and vehicles.

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