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Neil Jacobs stressed a desire to see the more than 120 Weather Service forecast offices across the country be fully staffed.
Neil Jacobs, who was embroiled in ‘Sharpiegate’ during the first Trump administration, says he supports proposed major cuts to the agency he would run but wouldn’t sign off on inaccurate information under political pressure.
Durham resident Neil Jacobs Jr. was listening to NOAA weather radio at a campsite in Florida around 10 p.m. when he realized a tornado was coming toward him. He got in his vehicle and drove through the campsite blowing his horn alerting other campers of the fast-approaching danger.