The governor will receive a briefing before holding a news conference at 4:15 p.m.
Amber Lidster, 44, resident of Valley View for 40 years, seen through a damaged chair, pauses for a moment on the foundation of her house while searching for her belongings from debris collected after a tornado moved through the area along W Lone Oak Rd., on Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Valley View. Multiple people were killed in Texas and many others injured around the Denton-Cooke County line as an overnight storm system spawned a tornado that chewed through a truck stop and destroyed homes.
Cooke County sheriff Ray Sappington told The Associated Press that of the seven people killed, two were children, ages 2 and 5, and three were family members who were found in one home.According to the Cooke County Emergency Management and Fire Marshal’s Office, “numerous injuries of varying degrees” have been reported. Authorities have declined to provide an estimation of total injuries as they continued to assess the damage Sunday.
The National Weather Service said Sunday about 12 p.m. that two crews from their Fort Worth office and one from their San Angelo office were working to survey the destruction.Here’s how to handle damage in the aftermath of severe weather, Breaking News Reporter. Jamie Landers is a breaking news reporter at The Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, where she studied journalism and political science.
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