President Donald Trump has indicated wanting to phase out FEMA and have emergency responses be handled by states. Though the president has avoided talking about those plans after the Texas flood.

State and local officials are calling out federal forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country over the extended Fourth of July weekend. The criticism comes, as funding cuts and

Parts of Central Texas are under yet another flood watch this weekend. The impacted areas are the same as those hit by the July 4 deadly floods.

The first weather emergency alert sent by the National Weather Service with urgent language instructing people to "seek higher ground now" was sent at 4:03 a.m. local time.

Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier jumped in to amplify the misinformation — citing a newly passed Florida law banning loosely defined “weather modification” practices that climatologists say have nothing to do with increasingly severe weather events.

"A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at full complement of staff," said the former lead of NOAA.

The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.

A large percentage of people still unaccounted for were probably visiting the area, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said.

The Lone Star State accounts for roughly a third of all damages caused by extreme weather in the U.S. during the last 10 years.

The Chicago area has felt less of an impact from the Trump administration’s National Weather Service cuts than offices in the Quad Cities and downstate Lincoln.

Sen. Ted Cruz rejected weather modification claims, saying there's "zero evidence" and calling such theories "crazy" following the flooding in Texas.