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I'm Deborah Becker, in for Magna Chakrabardi, and this is on point. The Trump administration's job cuts are impacting

a service that affects all of us, the National Weather Service. Its mission is to monitor

weather patterns, provide daily forecasts, and issue timely warnings about severe weather events.

In February, hundreds of Weather Service employees

were among those who received notices

that their jobs were being eliminated.

Andy Hazleton is a meteorologist in Miami, Florida.

He did hurricane modeling for the National Weather Service

at the National Hurricane Center.

He started at the National Weather Service in October.

The firing email was basically sent all the probationary employees on February 27th, where we all just

got this form email from high levels in the agency that basically, you know, it just had a bunch

of legalese about probationary employees and then,

you know, said we were getting let go. And a lot of us, like, the position titles were

incorrect and there were errors. And it was kind of a clearly just this mass form thing that was

sort of put together, you know, hastily or whatever. It was, that's sort of how it all happened.

Those emails went to workers

designated as probationary, but Hazleton says probationary is any employee in their first year of

service. It doesn't necessarily mean that that worker is inexperienced. Probationary, what that means

is you're a new federal employee, but most of us were not new to know.

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