An Oval Office mystery: Who doctored the hurricane map? The perpetrator may have committed a crime with the suspicious Sharpie marking.
A map that the president held up Wednesday indicating the possible paths of Hurricane Dorian carried an odd marking: Lumped onto the end of the “cone of uncertainty” — indicating areas the storm could hit — was a chunk of the state of Alabama.The only problem: Alabama was never expected to see any outsize effects of the storm, which has changed course numerous times over the past week, keeping a significant portion of the southeastern part of the country and the Caribbean on edge.
“In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit harder than anticipated,” Trump warned. “Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. BE CAREFUL! GOD BLESS EVERYONE!” Birmingham’s branch of the National Weather Service quickly rushed to correct the record, clarifying in a tweet 20 minutes after Trump's original that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian,” because the system would remain too far east.
“It was a different route,” the president continued, adding falsely that “they actually gave that a 95 percent chance probability. It turned out that was not what happened. It made the right turn up the coast, but Alabama was hit very hard — was going to be hit very hard.
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