Lisa Dent is joined by Tom Skilling, WGN-TV chief meteorologist emeritus, Ed Fenelon, former meteorologist-in-charge of National Weather Service – Chicago, Dr. Louis Uccellini, former director of the US National Weather Service, and climate researcher for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Don Wuebbles as a panel to discuss the importance of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and how the staff cuts to the agency are affecting regions of the United States where extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common