Jenna Bush Hager fights back tears while she unveils a close band with the Texas summer camp destroyed by flooding

Jenna Bush Hager revealed that her mother used to work as a drama counselor at Camp Mystic, the Texas Summer camp that the But of the devastating flood On the weekend.

The presenter, 43, was visibly upset in the episode of Monday of The Today Show, where she praised the resilience of Texans in the midst of the tragedy, which has so far demanded at least 82 lives.

At the time of writing, 41 people continue to miss in the midst of the destruction along the Guadalupe River, outside San Antonio.

Ten girls and a counselor are still not responsible in Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the river where 27 people died in the furious floods.

Speaking of the program, Jenna revealed how her mother, Laura Bush, worked in Camp Mystic.

“My mother was a counselor there,” she said. “But so many of my friends were raised in this camp. Texas camps are settings, as you have just heard where many family members, generations …

“This camp was 100 years old. So, grandmothers, mothers, children all went there. ‘

“My mother was a drama counselor there. But many of my friends were there, their children had there last week.

Jenna Bush Hager revealed that her mother Barbara Bush used to work as a drama counselor at Camp Mystic

The mother of three praised Texans for their resilience and generosity in the midst of the tragedy

“And the stories I heard in recent days were beautiful and heartbreaking and Texas has a kind of resilience where they are and want to reach and help.”

Her voice broke, Jenna continued: “Texas camps are really special because you think of 90 degrees again, no air conditioning.”

Jenna added that she and her husband, Henry Hager, sent their children to the camp in the past “because of the love there is.”

She shares daughters Mila (born 2013) and Poppy (born 2015) and Son Hal (born 2019) to Henry.

Survivors have described the floods as a ‘pitch -black wall of death’ and said they have not received any emergency warnings.

Civil servants have been examined why residents and summer camps in the youth along the river were never warned about the heavy weather or were told to evacuate.

The National Weather Service has extended a Flash flood watch to the Texas Hill Country, where one to fall one to three centimeters of rain, until 7 p.m. local time (6 p.m. EST).

The Texas Hill Country in the central part of the state is naturally sensitive to flooding. Friday’s floods started with a particularly bad storm that dropped most of his 12 centimeters of rain in the dark, early morning hours.

Jenna’s mother, Laura Bush, worked as a camp consultant at Camp Mystic

Camp Mystic, a whole girl Christian camp, was on the direct path of the flood, causing several young girls to death or missing

A view in a hut in Camp Mystic, the location of where at least 20 girls were missing after flash floods in Hunt, Texas

The National Weather Service said in an advice that heavy rainfall of up to three centimeters and thunderstorms can cause more floods in the Texas Hill Country today.

An area could see rain that exceeds more than five centimeters, which ‘quickly leads to flooding’, the National Weather Service has warned.

The rain has already begun to fall near Williamson County this morning and is expected to increase all day.

The heaviest storms are currently near Killeen, a city in Bell County, where there is currently a flash flow warning.

Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas belong to the areas predicted by today’s storm, according to the last NWS prediction.

Civil servants warn that the risk of heavy rainfall remains in the region.

A Camp Mystiek sign can be seen at the entrance of the establishment along the banks of the River Guadalupe after a flash flow was wiped through the area

Meteorologist Note It is difficult to determine exactly where storms will break out, but warn that the ‘rainfall rates will be very intense in the heaviest showers and storms’.

The slowly moving storms can cause more floods of flash and renewed river in the coming hours, especially in the regions that were most affected by heavy rainfall during the weekend.

“Any extra heavy rainfall over the heaviest affected areas of recent days will lead to rapid drain and flash floods,” the NWS added.

Floods probably occur in areas currently under a flooding watch -which is in force until 7 pm today for communities along the i -35 -Gang, the Hill Country and the Edwards plateau.