Texas floods

Heavy rains have been battering central Texas since Monday and Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the State Operations Center to operate 24 hours a day through Friday.

The shelters will be available to residents affected by the storm 24 hours a day and at no charge—offering shelter, food, drink, health services, emotional support and help reconnecting with loved ones for anyone affected by the storm and unable to return home after the flooding.

Instead, the president send out several tweets criticizing Mexico over the weekend.

Factor in El Niño, rising temperatures, heavier rainfall and what have you got?

After treating a military exercise as if it were a federal government invasion and denying climate change, the Texas governor asks for cash.

"I opened my grill cover and he jumped at me," said Jeff Lara, who lives north of Oklahoma City.

The storms that started over the Memorial Day weekend have destroyed hundreds of homes, swept away bridges and stranded more than 2,000 motorists on roads.

A dam on Padera Lake in Texas will hold for now, engineers say, but that may change, with more rain predicted by the National Weather Service.

At least ten people are dead and numerous people are missing after storms slammed the states during the Memorial Day weekend.