Trump surveys damage in Texas after floods kill 120 and leave 160 missing

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are visiting flood-ravaged central Texas, where 120 people were killed last weekend. Another 161 are still missing

At a roundtable, Trump says he has never seen devastation like this before and describes the Guadalupe River as becoming a “monster”

Their visit comes as questions mount over the response from authorities, and what warnings residents received

As the BBC’s Bernd Debusmann Jr writes, the president is likely to face tough questioning about whether enough was done to alert people of the dangers

Last weekend, deadly storms ravaged central Texas, with several months’ worth of rain in a few hours. River levels rose, submerging homes, roads and cars