she says ask brett. you all tried to speak with cavanaugh. he set terms for an interview and what happened with that? we just couldn t come to an agreement about the ground rules. we wanted to talk to him on the record for the book or at least in some could inform the book. it was important we say he declined to be interviewed and we couldn t do that if there was going to be a conversation at all about what was in the book. if a source wants to talk to you only in secret you cannot then say he declined to talk? certainly not at the center of the book. i think we all know, brian, we have sources we talk to on background and off the record and they inform our reporting. this was a different case where he s the subject of the book to talk to him and say we didn t talk to him felt dishonest. just to jump in on something here, we feel all this stuff this week while valid issues raised and address ready a distraction from all the reporting we did and new material that we have. it
we did name the victim, and we also had the fact that her friends say she doesn t remember it. the editors felt it was best to take out because we don t typically name victims in the new york times. when we realized that, they put it back and wrote an editor s note and acknowledged the admission. when you say victim, others would just say accuser. the alleged victim. it is worth noting that a television reporter spotted her at her house and asked her about it. she said, if you have questions, ask brett. so it has been redirected back to him by her. and we feel like this is a valuable new piece of information that we re trying to put there. the reason we thought it was credible is we have a credible witness, a washington person named max who runs this good governance organization says he saw this and reported it to the senate and fbi last year. so we urge people to actually read the whole thing. but obviously that was a regrettable omission.
that we could speak to about her story, she told us, simply, all i can say is, ask brett. david? terry moran, live at the supreme court. thank you. next, to the weather threats on both sides of the country tonight. dry, gusty winds fueling wildfires in the west. red flag warnings from california to utah. the horseshoe fire forcing evacuations near riverside, california. and another fire popping up along the i-5 in escondido. while off the east coast tonight, we re watching hurricane humberto. now a full-on hurricane, triggering rip currents right along the coast. let s get to chief meteorologist ginger zee tonight, she s in california, tracking both stories for us. ginger? reporter: it s only breezy here, but it is downright windy to our east. and that s where the fire danger is highest. much of the state of nevada in hour.treme fire danger, into 0 e then we ve got the tropics. we ve got to watch out for a couple of areas. 20% shot for the gulf of mexico tropical cyclone, you h