Rape. Jokin Castro (D-Texas) said on Sunday that the National Meteorological Service (NWS) should be investigated in the recent Texas flood deaths.
CNN’s Dana Bash said on the “State of the Union”, “Two Texas National Meteorological Service Office involved in the forecast and warning about the flood on the Guadalup River are missing some leading staff members.”
He said, “A director of the NWS Union told CNN that the Austin/San Antonio office is recalling a warning coordination meteorologist due to the purchase of the Trump administration,” he said. “Do you have any indication whether those or other cuts helped play a role in the fact that people in the flood sector were not prepared and certainly not evacuated?”
Castro replied that he could not speak “decisively” about the cut, later saying that he “did not think that it was helpful for the major personnel missing from the National Meteorological Service to help stop these tragedies.”
“In most days, obviously, you are not going to do such a tragedy, but when you have flash flooding, there is a risk that you will not have to make personnel – do that analysis, make predictions in the best way,” he said.
He said, “And it can cause tragedy. So, I do not want to sit here and say that it was the case, but I think it should be investigated,” he said.
Trump administration Hundreds fired Earlier this year, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees, including some NWS employees. It later went to re -appointed other employees to the NWS offices, which “seriously understood”.
Over the last few months, the Trump administration has targeted several parts of the federal government, killed employees and has dramatically changed the structure of departments and agencies to Washington.
The hill has reached NWS for comment.
