Matt Gagnon discusses the aftermath of the floods in Texas, which have resulted in over 82 deaths. He criticizes the National Weather Service for failing to issue more urgent warnings and accuses the political left of using the tragedy to blame the Trump administration without proper knowledge. Gagnon highlights offensive social media posts from the left, which he argues reflect genuine sentiments. He defends the NWS, noting they had more meteorologists in the affected area and issued timely warnings. Gagnon emphasizes the unpredictability of weather and the challenges of forecasting, particularly when people are asleep during alerts.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
