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Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier jumped in to amplify the misinformation — citing a newly passed Florida law banning loosely defined “weather modification” practices that climatologists say have nothing to do with increasingly severe weather events.
President Donald Trump has indicated wanting to phase out FEMA and have emergency responses be handled by states. Though the president has avoided talking about those plans after the Texas flood.
Parts of Central Texas are under yet another flood watch this weekend. The impacted areas are the same as those hit by the July 4 deadly floods.
For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the breaking point when the Trump administration began pushing new staffing cuts.
A large percentage of people still unaccounted for were probably visiting the area, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said.
The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.
State and local officials are calling out federal forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country over the extended Fourth of July weekend. The criticism comes, as funding cuts and
The first weather emergency alert sent by the National Weather Service with urgent language instructing people to "seek higher ground now" was sent at 4:03 a.m. local time.
Sen. Ted Cruz rejected weather modification claims, saying there's "zero evidence" and calling such theories "crazy" following the flooding in Texas.