Neil Jacobs, tapped to lead NOAA, called for sharper forecasting tools and clearer public alerts, just days after flooding in Texas left more than 100 dead.

President Donald Trump's pick to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called staffing NOAA weather offices a "top priority" — but also supported propose budget cuts at the agency.

During a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing yesterday, Neil Jacobs, Trump nominee to be the administrator for NOAA, remarks that "human influence is certainly there" when evaluating climate change and its effects on the planet.

Former NOAA chief Neil Jacobs told lawmakers Wednesday he would “probably do some things differently” in response to questions over the 2019 “Sharpiegate” scandal, pledging at his confirmation hearing not to sign off again on an inaccurate hurricane forecast under political pressure.

During her remarks in a Senate hearing this week, Senator Shelley Moore Capito questioned Trump's nominee to lead the NOAA, Neil Jacobs, on the need to improve weather forecasting in America. Capito asked,