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KLEIN: “But as we track the federal response to this flooding and its third day of recovery efforts, there are a couple of important questions to follow here. Number one is the National Weather Service. This is the agency that is responsible for the country‘s weather forecasting. They issued a series of alerts on Friday, in those very early hours, saying there is going to be life-threatening flooding. Now. It‘s unclear how many people they were able to reach with those warnings. We heard in that news conference that there are some people that didn‘t even have cell service where they were, who were impacted. It‘s also the middle of the night. What‘s also unclear is whether cuts to this agency impacted how those warnings were disseminated.”