Job losses at NOAA cover a spectrum of fisheries duties and could impact health, safety and economies on the Oregon coast.

My work was very much about making NOAA more efficient,” said Kristen Don, who worked at the Newport center. “So, it’s a little bit ironic.”

CNN’s MJ Lee sits down with a terminated NOAA hurricane scientist, Andrew Hazelton, after the shock firing of hundreds of America’s foremost experts in weather forecasting and Earth sciences.