The statewide death toll from the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas earlier this month has risen to 135 and dozens more remain missing, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday. Abbott provided an update on the Texas floods during a news conference while in San Angelo,

Two people were killed in New Jersey during flash flooding as severe storms lashed the New York City area on Monday night into Tuesday, submerging cars and flooding subway stations.

"At 7:38 p.m., Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area.

Gretchen Sween, Roberson’s attorney, said the judge’s decision Wednesday should outrage Texans, calling her client “a demonstrably innocent man.”

Roberson, who was convicted of capital murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, was present at the hearing and sat next to his attorney.

Roberson’s lawyers had objected, arguing Roberson still has an appeal pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that his legal team says contains “powerful new evidence of his innocence.”