Over 100 people have died after heavy rain pounded Kerr County, Texas, early Friday, leading to "catastrophic" flooding, the sheriff said.

Heavy equipment is tearing through massive debris piles in Kerr County as the search for the missing continues.

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

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 100 as the massive search continues for missing people. In hard-hit Kerr County, home to Camp Mystic and several other summer camps, searchers have found the bodies of 84 people, including 28 children, Kerr County officials said.

The storms that battered the Hill Country for the last four days began to lighten up, although isolated pockets of heavy rain were still possible.