At least 120 people have been killed and 173 are still missing as Texas officials deflect questions over the state’s response to the catastrophic flash floods. Kerr County remains at the center of the disaster after the Guadalupe River burst its banks on Friday.

The confirmed death toll from Fourth of July holiday floods that ravaged the central Texas Hill Country -- including a river bank cluttered with children's summer camps -- stood at 120, after police lowered it by one from a day earlier. And the urgent search for more than 170 people still missing entered a seventh day.

Several search and rescue teams from North Texas fire departments are in central Texas assisting after deadly flooding swept across the area.