Trump inaccurately tweeted that Alabama was going to be hit hard by Hurricane Dorian.
NOAA head Neil Jacobs, who Ross threatened, said at a conference Tuesday that “at one point, Alabama was in the mix, as was the rest of the Southeast,” but that he fully supports the forecasters who contradicted Trump, who sought to “calm fears in support of public safety.”story in a statement, saying that Ross never threatened any firings.: The weeklong controversy started last Sunday when President Donald Trump tweeted that Hurricane Dorian—then making its way to the U.S.
coast—would hit Alabama “much harder than anticipated.” Moments later the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, tweeted that, actually, Alabama wasn’t under threat. Doubling down a few days later, Trump showed reporters what appeared to be an altered NOAA map of Dorian’s path, which included an additional circle around Alabama believed to be added with a black Sharpie.
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