At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic levels in Central Texas, officials with Kerr County said Friday. Authorities have confirmed 103 deaths, 36 of whom are children.

Crews continue searching for victims a day after Gov. Greg Abbott said as many as 161 people could still be missing.

At least 68 people, including 28 children, have died in flooding along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County. Ten children from Camp Mystic remain

Two 8-year-old Austin girls died in Kerr County flooding; community and school district support grieving families.

That was an act of God. It’s not the administration’s fault that the flood hit when it did, but there were early and consistent warnings and, again, the National Weather Service did its job,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.

Heavy rains in Central Texas are complicating the recovery mission in the state’s Hill Country, just over one week after catastrophic flooding killed at least 120 people. NBC News’ Ryan Chander reports from hard-hit Kerr County.