Major breaking news. At least 27 people have died and dozens more are missing after a catastrophic flood hit Texas.

Now, Texas officials have immediately come out and said inaccurate national weather service forecasts are to blame for the deadly results in the catastrophic flooding.

Usually, we have mechanisms in place.

We have well-funded infrastructure to make sure that people evacuate, to make sure that forecast offices are staffed and the citizens of certain districts or certain states are

warned before these catastrophes hit.

That is how, over the past few decades, we have achieved a minimization of

deaths during catastrophes. Yes, things still happen, floods still happen, and hurricanes happen,

but we minimize the deaths through funding very strategic forecast offices. The point that I want to

make here is these forecast offices have been cut

relentlessly. For the past six months, not only has the National Weather Service been cut,

but sweeping cuts have also affected the NOAA, which is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration. The moves that have been made have eliminated over 1,000 positions,

and we have already heard people complaining that it's understaffed. We've heard people at these

offices say, we are understaffed. We have crisis-level vacancies, and when tornadoes and hurricanes

hit, we are not ready. So when flood-prone regions are understaffed, this is what you see.

And Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency, Donald Trump, and the current administration

are directly to blame.

That is not me playing politics or inserting politics.

Those are the facts.

For months, scientists and meteorologists have said that these drastic and sudden cuts would impact our nation's ability to forecast weather, and this is what we see.

At least 27 people are dead.

This reads, rescueers search for over 25 girls from Texas camp as flooding death toll rises to 27.

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