What is NOAA? Federal weather, climate agency hit with job cuts has a big mission. Hazelton, like others, was still considered probationary, not for poor performance, but because he'd been in his job for less than a year.

We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people. Social media users roasted Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sour look as he watched President Donald Trump lose it with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in real time on Friday.

About 10% of the NOAA workforce was laid off, according to some reports, in a move that could kneecap the agency's ability to forecast local and national weather events.