Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as the death toll rises to 120, as rescue operations start to shift to recovery phase

NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft took off from Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston on Tuesday, and will conduct aerial surveys using its DyNAMITE (Day/Night Airborne Motion Imager for Terrestrial Environments) sensor.

At least 119 people have been found dead in nearly a week since heavy rainfall overwhelmed the river and flowed through homes and youth camps in the early morning hours of July 4. Ninety-five of those killed were in the hardest-hit county in central Texas, Kerr County, where the toll includes at least three dozen children.

Fire crews and trained search dogs from the Bay Area have been deployed to Texas to assist in ongoing rescue efforts as catastrophic flooding continues across the state. As of Wednesday, more than 160 people were missing and at least 100 have died, according to the Associated Press.

At least 107 people are dead across six counties in catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas. NBC National News Correspondent Morgan Chesky is on the ground in Kerrville, Texas as rescue teams continue to comb through piles of debris in search of survivors.

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Now, a team not tied to Texas is matching what the Cowboys and Texans did.The Vikings and the Wilf family have also contributed $500,000 to the effort. The team announced the move on Wednesday."We are deeply saddened by the continued devastation and loss of life in the Texas Hill Country and can't imagine the pain so many are facing,

Various actors make celebrity-centered posts like these, which are common after a disaster, said Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan professor of information. These go viral because fans of celebrities want them to be seen doing good things, "which by extension means they are good people, too," he said.

Amid rescue efforts after massive flooding in Texas, an illegal drone struck a helicopter involved in an emergency response in Kerr County.