President Donald Trump met with victims' families and surveyed the damage of catastrophic floods that struck the state one week ago.

A reporter from CBS News Texas asked the president Friday if more lives could've been saved if emergency alerts were issued earlier.

Death toll rises to 129 as Trump argues Texans got ‘a lot of warning’ in advance - Local officials were repeatedly denied state funding for emergency flood warning system at Camp Mystic site but didn’

"It’s hard to believe the devastation," Trump said. "Trees that are 100 years old just ripped out of the ground. I've never seen anything like this, and I've seen a lot of bad ones."

Pastor Joe Taylor and his daughter Hannah join ‘America Reports’ to discuss their donation drive for flood victims in Texas and reflect on President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s visit to the disaster response site.

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

President Donald Trump was expected to arrive in Kerr County, Texas, Friday afternoon, one week after the area was struck by catastrophic flooding.

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency chief has thrown his weight behind right-wing conspiracy theories that have spread online in the wake of the Texas floods.