With an outpouring of volunteers from across Texas, the riverside town of Hunt is grappling with loss and recovery after deadly floods.

Over 130 people have died after heavy rain pounded Kerr County, Texas, early Friday, leading to "catastrophic" flooding, the sheriff said.

Over 100 lives lost. More than 160 still missing. What happened in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend has left the nation heartbroken. A devastating flash flood tore through the Texas Hill Country while many slept.

Today, 17 million are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and in the Mid-Atlantic, and 19 million are under heat alerts across the Mid-Atlantic, southern Florida and Mississippi Valley.

Lawmakers should be holding public hearings now, demanding testimony from local officials, emergency managers and state agencies about what went wrong and how to fix it.

A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.

Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.

New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than 100 people.