New Texas flood threat halts search for victims of deadly July 4 flooding

Emergency crews were forced to suspend search operations in Kerr County, Texas, on Sunday, as the area hit hardest by catastrophic flash flooding earlier this month faced a renewed flood threat. Officials in Texas' rural and flood-prone Hill Country have said at least 161 people from the area remain missing in the aftermath of destructive July 4 storms that caused the Guadalupe River to overflow, and efforts to find them are ongoing.

Police in Kerrville, a Kerr County city, announced that ground search operations had been paused before 8 a.m. local time Sunday due to "flood danger."

"We will provide more information soon but for now, all search crews need to evacuate the river corridor until further notice. Any volunteer search parties in the Guadalupe River corridor need to heed this warning," the police department wrote in a social media post. "The potential for a flash flood is high."