Hundreds of children were at the girls' summer camp when flood waters hit Friday, leaving a dozen missing and several confirmed dead.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott visited the all-girls retreat Camp Mystic late Saturday as the death toll from Friday's flash flooding of the Guadalupe River continued to rise through the weekend.

Children are among the dead, said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who has taken on the duties of acting governor. There are several major camps in the area, and at one of them, Camp Mystic,