There are 87 confirmed deaths in Kerr County as of Tuesday morning, Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference, where he and others were grilled about the county’s failure to issue an evacuation order.

Kerr County, where dozens of people—many of them children—died in this weekend's catastrophic flooding, knew flash floods were a danger in the area—but its application for a grant to improve its flood warning system was rejected by the Texas Division of Emergency Management in both 2017 and 2018,