2025 hurricane play begins
Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were confused and dispirited connected Monday aft the acting caput of the bureau said during a regular briefing that helium had not been alert the state has a hurricane season, according to 3 sources acquainted with the meeting.
The remark was made by David Richardson astatine the decision of an 8:30 a.m. regular operational briefing typically attended by hundreds of FEMA staffers and interagency partners. Reuters was archetypal to study the comment.
Richardson, a erstwhile Marine Corps officer, has led FEMA since aboriginal May.
It was not wide to unit whether helium meant it virtually oregon arsenic a joke, but existent and erstwhile employees who spoke with CBS News said the remark flustered galore who genuinely judge Richardson was genuinely amazed to larn that hurricane season had started.
Others suggested that immoderate gag made by the person astir the upcoming play was delivered successful mediocre taste, offending bureau unit already suffering from debased morale amid a flurry of resignations, firings, enactment overhauls and polygraph tests distributed to staffers.
Acting FEMA main David Richardson
Department of Homeland Security
The Atlantic hurricane season officially began connected June 1 and lasts done November.
NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, precocious predicted it volition beryllium an above-average hurricane season that could bring 13 to 19 named storms, with six to 10 becoming hurricanes and 3 to 5 strengthening into major hurricanes.
Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland information and justness correspondent. She is based successful Washington, D.C. and reports for each shows and platforms.
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