Texas mom dies saving her infant daughter during Hurricane Harvey flooding

A Texas mom died yesterday while saving her infant daughter during Hurricane Harvey flooding in Beaumont, Texas, according to authorities.
The unidentified woman, who was not identified, was spotted by authorities floating in a canal with the infant in Beaumont, which is almost two hours from Houston.
"The child was holding on to her mother," the statement said. "The first respondent got to the mother and child just before they went under a trestle."
The woman and her infant daughter were driving on a service road when they got stuck in high water. The mother pulled the car into a theater parking lot at about 3:35 p.m. on Tuesday and exited the vehicle with her child. Authorities said she was swept into the canal and floated about a half mile from her vehicle into a rain-swollen drainage canal.

Two Beaumont Police and fire rescue divers in a boat spotted her and were able to grab the mother and child before they went under the trestle. Unfortunately, the mother was unresponsive, and the child appeared to be suffering from hypothermia.
A bystander helped rescue officials load the mother and daughter into his truck, and they were transported to an ambulance. The mother later died, but the child is in stable condition, according to the Beaumont Police statement.
The 41-year-old mother "absolutely saved the child’s life," Officer Carol Riley, a spokeswoman for the Beaumont Police Department, told People.
"They were in the water for quite some time. When the baby was found the baby was clinging to her. The mother did the best she could to keep her child up over the water. The baby also had a backpack that was helping her float on her back, and she was holding on to her mom," Riley added.