NOAA released an internal email sent by the agency's acting chief scientist announcing that he will investigate why the agency backed President Trump's false claim that Hurricane Dorian was likely to hit Alabama
The memo's public release -- it had been originally sent to NOAA staff on Sunday, according to a copy obtained by CNN -- marks the latest development in the controversy surrounding Trump's false assertion about Dorian's path. On Friday, NOAA had disavowed a tweet from the National Weather Service's Birmingham, Alabama, office contradicting Trump's claim.
Read MoreTrump falsely claimed on September 1 that Alabama"would most likely be hit harder than anticipated" by Hurricane Dorian -- an assertion he later escalated in displaying an apparently altered map of a NOAA forecast that extended Dorian's path into Alabama with a black marker. "That was the original chart, and you see it was going to hit not only Florida but Georgia," Trump claimed in the Oval Office while displaying the map."It took a right turn.
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