Torrential rain and thunderstorms are expected to threaten much of the eastern and central United States with flash flooding throughout the rest of this week, forecasters warned, as parts of the country,

Flash floods are occurring across the U.S., from Texas to New Jersey. Here's what you should know as risks escalate.

A flood watch is in effect into July 15 for more than a dozen counties as saturated ground gets drenched again.

Residents south of the San Saba River in west-central Texas have been ordered to evacuate because of surging waters.

Ground search operations were disrupted Sunday in Kerr County, Texas, where many lives were lost in the catastrophic July 4 flooding.

For grieving communities, the kinds of public memorials familiar from history — stone cenotaphs, bronze monuments and statues — feel inadequate to the demands of the present. Implacable and stolid, they can seem more about their own physical grandeur than the lives they honor.

Heartache is widespread in the aftermath of violent flash flooding throughout the Texas hill country over the July 4 weekend. It reaches Tennessee, where the loved ones of Claire "Reese" Manchaca mourn her death.