Texas flooding: River conditions in Kerrville on Friday

Now to the latest on the devastating flooding happening in central Texas. These are pictures from Houston's fire department. They actually sent 12 specialized trained members to help in this texas hill country flooding with the search and rescue efforts for many and so far at least two people have tragically died in this severe weather while hundreds of others either had to be rescued or forced to evacuate. McKenna Earnhardt joins us now live from Kerrville with the latest on the response there. McKenna, you said it looks a whole lot different than yesterday, but still very severe, huh? Yeah, no, definitely still very severe, but a whole lot better than yesterday. I actually want to pull up some video from yesterday for you to look at right now. I mean, this is the exact spot where we are. What you're looking at right now is is what this looks like yesterday, last night. So this entire pavilion area here was just, I mean, this water was just raging. It was so high. And so local officials tell us like one of the reasons it's moving this fast is because of the catastrophic floods from last summer that stripped away the massive cypress trees along the banks. And so right now there's almost no natural resistance to slow this river down. So I want you to look as we're standing here right now. I mean, this water is still flowing so quickly and I want to turn you this way. There is where you see this like second set of rapids here. That is a walking path. That is where people come to walk and go from one side of the Guadalupe to the other. And you can just see now it is completely overflown with water. And when you go to the other side here, just down the river from where we are standing, there's a large industrial bars that actually broke free from its moorings. It's currently wedged directly underneath. That's the sydney baker street bridge. And so textile crews, they're going to have to inspect that bridge for safety before traffic can normalize. And so the message for today is just all about cleanup and remaining to staying, staying vigilant today. I mean, if you see high water, do not go through, there's a lot of roads still closed here in Kerbal. Obviously the sydney baker bridge here is still closed. Textile is going to have to come out and inspect that. What happened with those barges is there was a crane on top of them. And so when they floated down the river, the crane actually hit that bridge and fell over. So now that's something they have to look at is the bridge is the bridge damaged. What do they need to look at? The water was so high yesterday. Those barges were way up just right underneath the bridge. And so it's obviously you can see just by looking at that how much the water has gone down today, which is a good thing. But this is heartbreaking for this community. So many people that we've talked to out here have just said that this is an awful case of deja vu that they just can't believe that they're here looking at the Guadalupe raging like this again and that they're gearing up to clean up their town that they were just getting back back to normal. I was talking with a woman yesterday who when we were talking about that walking bridge, I was showing you all, she said she's been getting a little glimmer of hope every day because she's been picking up a little less trash from the floods from last year. And so the fact that that, um, she came out here and was looking at it like this again, she was, she was just heartbroken. So my thoughts and prayers are with this community right now as they go into cleanup and recovery efforts today. Back to you. Our hearts and thoughts definitely go out to everybody in that community because I mean, they were just dealing with the same thing this exact same time last year. And, you know, it just fuels all those emotions of all that they've been through.