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8:17Now PlayingKeith Edwards discusses how Texas’ deadly flash floods were worsened by sharply reduced forecasting capacity due to Trump-era budget and staff cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service—decisions linked to the Department of Government Efficiency initiatives. Officials now say forecasts underestimated rainfall by a wide margin, contributing to tragic losses at Camp Mystic and across the Hill Country, where more than 30 people, including children, perished. He criticizes how staff reductions—nearly 600 NWS positions lost—and suspended services like weather balloon launches and radar maintenance compromised early warnings, leaving communities blindly vulnerable to rapidly intensifying storms
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