Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said “something went wrong” with the flood warning system that failed to alert the staff at a Kerr County, Texas, summer camp that the Guadalupe River was rapidly rising early Friday.

“The fact that you have girls asleep in their cabins when the flood waters are rising, something went wrong there,” Cruz told Fox News on Monday. “We’ve got to fix that and have a better system of warning to get kids out of harm’s way.”

Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp, said it is “grieving the loss” of 27 campers and counselors after the catastrophic holiday weekend flooding that had killed more than 80 people as of Monday afternoon. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise as rescue and recovery efforts continue.

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