Tonight on PBS News weekend, on the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season,

we look at the staff cuts, turmoil, and low morale with the federal agencies that forecast, track, and respond to storms.

Then a new study says the risk of cancer from CT scans may be higher than previously

known. And World Pride celebrations underway in the nation's capital in the shadow of Trump

administration policies targeting the community. The Trump administration wants us to disappear

and really showing up for World Pride is a direct

no to that request.

Good evening. I'm John Yang.

Today marks the official start of what NOAA forecasters predict will be an above-normal normal Atlantic hurricane season.

As many as 19 named storms through November, which is when the season ends,

with up to 10 of them forecast to become hurricanes, three to five of them, major hurricanes.

But big staffing cuts at NOAA and FEMA are raising question about the federal government's ability to forecast and track these storms as they head for landfall and to lead cleanup and recovery

efforts in their aftermath.

Leah Douglas is the Agriculture and Energy Policy Reporter at Reuters.

Leah, the folks you talk to as you report on these agencies, what are their concerns?

What do they say they're concerned about this hurricane season?

Well, typically in the spring leading up to hurricane season, FEMA is very involved

in going into the communities that are storm prone and potentially expecting hurricanes and

training the state and local emergency managers to prepare and building relationships so that when

a storm does come, everyone can work together on the response. That type of activity has been really curtailed

this year as FEMA staff are under speaking and travel restrictions that have led to major pairbacks

in those types of workshops and trainings. And so even just that aspect, it does reduce the ability

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