thank you. at one point yesterday the national weather service had to scramble to correct information from president trump about dorian. he incorrectly tweeted that alabama was likely to be hit by the hurricane. minutes after that, the national weather service tweeted this. alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. president trump also had this to say yesterday. take a look. we don t even know what s coming at us. all we know it s possibly the biggest. i have i m not sure that i have ever even heard of category 5. i knew it existed and i have seen some category 4s. you don t see them that much but the category 5 is something t t that i don t know that i even heard the term other than i know it s there. so including dorian there have been four category 5 hurricanes during the trump presidency and he s heard of it before because well, watch this
very hard to minimize whatever the effect of what s coming at us. we don t even know what s coming at us. we know it s possibly the biggest. i m not sure i ve heard of a category 5. i knew it existed and i ve seen some category 4s. you don t even see them that much, but a category 5 is something i don t know i ve heard the term other than i know it s there. it s the ultimate, and that s what we have, unfortunately. with that i d like to maybe ask governor, if you d like to say a few words and we ll go around. if anyone has any suggestions or questions, we ll be able to take them. thank you very much, mr. president, for con seening veni us. thank you also to our cabinet partners and state governors for joining us for the briefing today. i think what you ll see and hear from our conversation is outstanding teamwork across the
warning for atlanta, eastern alabama to the carolinas. irma s a 45-mile-per-hour winds, overnight it will become a depression. but now we have three fatalities due to the downed trees. it s significant and breaking down. what a storm. we will never ever have another hurricane harvey or another irma. those two names are going to be retired. it s significant to know both of these landfalls were within 16 days of each other. and the u.s. has never had two category 4s in the same year. i m getting texts and e-mails from people who didn t experience the storm, from other states, who said this didn t live up to some of the hype they heard from officials. one official called it a nuclear hurricane that was approaching. obviously it was an incredibly powerful storm, cad 5, we saw
category 4s make landfall in the same year. i m getting texts and e-mails from people who didn t experience the storm, from other states, who said this didn t live up to some of the hype they heard from officials. one official called it a nuclear hurricane that was approaching. obviously it was an incredibly powerful storm, cat 5, we saw the damage it did to the caribbean. what happened to this storm? can you explain from the time it hit the keys at a cat 4, which is obviously an incredibly strong storm, did it surprise you how it broke up, how it dissipated? it ended up not hitting tampa directly. it was a low cat 2 when i signed off last night around 11:00 in tampa. keep in mind we started watching the storm on the 31st of august. the computer models were excellent.
north at 14 is a good clip. for a long time it was 6, 7 miles per hour but it s been sustaining pretty good speed. right. this is day 19 of hurricane forecasting. we ve had two hurricanes now, anderson, that have made landfall in the u.s., as a category 4, it s the first time in our history to have two category 4s make landfall in one year. first time, and that s not june and november. these two landfalls have been within 16 days. so there s a lot going on, there s a lot of people suffering but the goodwill of people has been coming out and we can t stop now. we re going to need it in florida because with the power outages and the damage is still to come it will unfold. tom, in a minute i m going to go to drew griffin in ft. myers. i don t know if you have access to that location, but can you give me a sense of just from your vantage point from the radar what it s looking like in ft. myers and the hours ahead? has the worst passed for ft.