Headline Roundup September 5, 2019
President Trump Shows Altered Map of Hurricane Dorian
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Washington Examiner
President Trump presented an outdated forecast map for Hurricane Dorian on Wednesday that was altered to show Alabama could be hit by the storm.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president gave an update on Hurricane Dorian, which is now hugging the East Coast near Florida and Georgia.
Trump ushered acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to bring out the map, which was from last week as Dorian appeared to not even have reached the Bahamas yet. The short-term forecast cone covers the Bahamas, and its extended reach,...
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn’t giving up on the dubious idea that Alabama faced a serious threat from Hurricane Dorian.
During an Oval Office briefing Wednesday, Trump displayed a map of the National Hurricane Center forecast for last Thursday that showed Dorian could track over Florida. The map he displayed included what appeared to be a hand-drawn half-circle that extended the cone of uncertainty over a swath of Alabama.
Trump had raised eyebrows and drawn an emphatic fact check from the National Weather Service on Sunday when he...
New York Times (News)
WASHINGTON — When President Trump displayed a large map of Hurricane Dorian’s path in the Oval Office on Wednesday, it was hard to miss a black line that appeared to have been drawn to extend the storm’s possible path into the state of Alabama.
That might have been intended to bolster Mr. Trump’s claim on Sunday when he tweeted that “in addition to Florida — South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”
Never mind that the Alabama office of the National...
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