eight missing including laura mccomb and her two children. cnn meteorologist jennifer graydowns live in women ber wimberley, texas. reporter: the ground is completely saturated. any additional rain is just going to make matters worse. look behind me that s the blanco river, still running high even though it s gone down considerably and not only getting rain in this area but anywhere north of there, upstream all the water will flow down like the river behind me and create problems across the region jake. obviously, we re most concerned about the loss of life in additional floods but this is also going to be a big challenge for the search crews still trying to find people? reporter: yeah. absolutely. there are still eight people missing, and they have been out all day long for the past five days searching for people.
and when it rains, that creates a problem. first of all, you don t want fluctuation in the liver level because of all of the debris they are sifting through. down the river, they have debris piles as tall as these trees they re going through. more rain it displaces some debrie and makes it really challenging. three people identified one pending identification and one of the most recent ones we learned about today was michelle charba found the rest of her family unfortunately missing. her husband, son and her parents. they told us today these crews will be out no matter what and will keep searching until the rest of the victims are found, jake. jennifer it s not just south texas getting the severe weather. the right? reporter: absolutely. in fact we had a tornado in the panhandle yesterday. in fact three people were injured from that. it hit an oil rig area and hit