In the wake of deadly flooding in Texas, my colleague Noel King, who cohosts the Today, Explained podcast spoke with CNN senior climate reporter Andrew Freedman about what we know about the impact of cuts to the National Weather Service and what those cuts could mean for future disasters.

The U.S. Senate has called for an inspector general's investigation into whether budget cuts at the National Weather Service (NWS) affected the response to recent deadly flooding in Texas. This