The county’s emergency operations center wasn’t up and running at around 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. when the most intense flooding started, Leitha said.

President Trump wants to shutter the agency and shift responsibility and costs of emergency management to the states. In Texas, that process appears to already be underway.

The City of San Antonio clarified today that the radios referenced by Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd during Wednesday’s flood hearing were not the standard Motorola radios ...

The Arkansas Division of Emergency Management deployed a specialized two-person team to assist Texas in its flood recovery efforts, according to a Friday news release from the agency.