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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Mayor Brenda Bethune joins LiveNOW's Andrew Craft to explain containment efforts as wildfires triggered a state of emergency in her state in recent days.

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said. Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country. Cuts at NOAA appeared to be happening in two rounds, one of 500 and one of 800, said Craig McLean, a former NOAA chief scientist who said he got the information from someone with first-hand knowledge. That?s about 10% of NOAA?s workforce.

Firefall happens in the winter, when Horsetail Fall is flowing and the sunset hits the waterfall just right. The phenomenon doesn't last long each year. Just for a few weeks, typically in February.

A winter weather advisory is in effect for much of North Carolina and South Carolina. Early Wednesday morning, snow was falling across the Appalachians ahead of unleashing its last round of winter weather in the mid-Atlantic and parts of the Southeast. FOX Weather's Robert Ray joined LiveNOW from FOX live from Boone, North Carolina.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear provided an update after severe flooding impacted the area. The death toll rose to 14 on Tuesday.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear provides update on deadly flooding, and ongoing weather concerns, as we now learn that at least 11 people have died due to the catastrophic flooding in the area.

David Roth, a senior branch forecaster for NOAA?s Weather Prediction Center, joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to explain the state of the severe weather event that has swept the U.S. in recent days, leaving at least eight people dead in Kentucky.

Water rescues have been reported in western Tennessee and southern Kentucky as more than 3-5 inches of rain fell by Saturday afternoon with more on the way.

Heavy snow fell across a wide swath of the mid-Atlantic, including Washington and Baltimore, on Tuesday night, triggering hundreds of weather-related crashes and delaying hundreds of flights as the first of three winter storms moves across the U.S. Scott Kleebauer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to discuss the forecast.

The second in a parade of powerful winter storms this week is bringing a swath of high-impact winter weather from the Plains and Midwest to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Wednesday. FOX News multimedia reporter Chelsea Torres joined LiveNOW from FOX with the latest.