Joaquin Castro on the Texas Floods: It‘s Not Helpful to Have Missing Key Personnel from the Nat’l Weather Service Due to the Trump Admin‘s Buyouts

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CASTRO: "No, I can‘t say that conclusively, but I do think that it should be, and I don‘t think it‘s helpful to have missing key personnel from the national weather service. Not in place to help prevent these tragedies. And you know, when I say that we ought to do everything possible to help prevent a tragedy, like this again, that‘s part of what I mean. That‘s why there‘s an incredible value to the national weather service is because on most days, obviously you‘re not going to have a tragedy like this. But when you have flash flooding, you know, there is a risk that you won‘t have the personnel to make that do that analysis, do the predictions in the best way, and it could lead to tragedy. So I don‘t want to sit here and say conclusively that that was the case. But I do think that it should be investigated. And having, you know, not having enough personnel is never helpful."