Officials announced on Sunday that the overall death toll in the ongoing Texas flooding has risen past 130 killed.

There are 106 confirmed deaths in hard-hit Kerr County, with 36 believed to be children.

-ABC News' Vanessa Navarrete

As dangerous flooding conditions continue to threaten central Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said "dozens" of Texans have been rescued by Texas Task Force 1 in the Lampasas area.

"They and other first responders will continue operations to prioritize saving lives," Abbott said of the joint state and federal urban search and rescue team.

-ABC News' Vanessa Navarrete

The Kerrville Police Department has suspended ground search operations due to the current flood danger.

"We will provide more information soon but for now, all search crews need to evacuate the river corridor until further notice," police said in a statement Sunday morning.

Police said they are "seeing heavy rain in Kerrville at this time" and that volunteer operations are currently suspended "until further notice."

Highway 39 is also closed to "everyone except first responders and residents."

"Protecting lives is our highest priority," police said.

The National Weather Service issued an alert Sunday morning for "life-threatening flash flooding" in in Kerr and Gillespie Counties, including the areas of Kerrville, Comfort, Ingram, Hunt, Mountain Home, Waltonia, Harper, Kerrville-Schreiner Park and Cypress Creek. Up to 2 inches of rain have fallen in those areas, with rainfall rates expected to reach 1 to 2 inches per hour, the National Weather Service said.

"Life-threatening flash flooding" is ongoing in Kerr and Gillespie Counties -- including the areas of Kerrville, Comfort, Ingram, Hunt, Mountain Home, Waltonia, Harper, Kerrville-Schreiner Park and Cypress Creek -- according to the National Weather Service.

A "considerable" flash flood warning is in place -- alerts should have been sent to all phones in the area.

Up to 2 inches of rain have fallen, with rainfall rates expected to reach 1 to 2 inches per hour.

Heavy rain has slid southeast into this area and is falling now.

-ABC News’ Kyle Reiman

Questions have swirled around if there was enough warning and enough staffing for the early Friday morning floods in the wake of the Trump administration's job cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

But NOAA confirmed that the National Weather Service's Austin/San Antonio office had five meteorologists working the severe weather event as part of its "surge staffing" protocol. It is normally staffed with two.

NOAA also said the NWS had forecast briefings Thursday morning, issued a flood watch Thursday afternoon and then issued flash flood warnings on Thursday night and early Friday. This gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," NOAA said in a statement.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday, "Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning."

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday, "Some people [are] engaging in partisan games and trying to blame their political opponents for a natural disaster."

"I think most normal Americans know that's ridiculous and I think this is not a time for partisan finger pointing and attacks," he said.

“I think it is reasonable, over time, to engage in a retrospective and say, at every level, what could have been done better, because all of us would want to prevent this horrific loss of life," he said.

Chuck Schumer, the Senate's top Democrat, is calling for an investigation into whether cuts made to NWS had any correlation to the level of devastation.

-ABC News’ Lalee Ibssa