Great job. World news tonight is next. We appreciate your time. Im dan breaking news Hurricane Dorian gaining strength. What the latest track is showing. Tens of millions potentially in the impact zone. Rob marciano standing by with a new update. A State Of Emergency just declared in florida as residents scramble to stock up for what could be a major hurricane strike this holiday weekend. And our teams are strategtracki dangerous storm. Dorian lashing the Virgin Islands and puerto rico. Up to eight inches of rain and deadly flooding. Deadly mosquito virus. Tonight the symptoms to look out for. Also a manhunt intensifying
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monitor the ocean. coastal marine environments, they also run one of the most trusted parts of the entire federal government, the national weather service, which is the agency tasked with warning us about dangerous weather like, say, a hurricane. noaa weirdly is part of the commerce department which is run by that gentleman, wilbur ross. and today we found out through some pretty remarkable reporting in the new york times that secretary ross reportedly threatened to fire top employees at noaa after that agency s office in birmingham contradicted the president s false tweet claiming that hurricane dorian would hit alabama. i should tell you the secretary denies this. the whole controversy has absolutely been an earthquake in the people that worked for noaa past or present and who viewed their scientific independence as absolutely sacrosanct. one meteorologist told the washington post quote this is the first time i felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. direc
as an agency they do a huge amount of our climate science, coastal marine environments, they also run one of the most trusted parts of the entire federal government, the national weather service, which is the agency tasked with warning us about dangerous weather like, say, a hurricane. noaa weirdly is part of the commerce department which is run by that gentleman, wilbur ross. and today we found out through some pretty remarkable reporting in the new york times that secretary ross reportedly threatened to fire top employees at noaa after that agency s office in birmingham contradicted the president s false tweet claiming that hurricane dorian would hit alabama. i should tell you the secretary denies this. the whole controversy has absolutely been an earthquake in the people that worked for noaa past or present and who viewed their scientific independence as absolutely sacrosanct. this is the first time i felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. director of the
then torpedoing his own peace deal. i took my own advice. and the special election north carolina that has the president running scared. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it was even worse than we thought. we all watched as the president appeared to descend into a madness with a stunt so bizarre it s been dubbed sharpie gate. at the time it looked like an incredibly deluded narcissist. that can t admit he s wrong. but the thing you have to remember about this individual is that he is the head of the united states federal government and that matters. it matters to millions of americans where a hurricane goes so when donald trump tweeted alabama will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated, about dorian. the washington post reports the the birmingham office of the national weather service got a, quote, flurry of calls into their office. and why wouldn t they? the people of alabama, a vast
of seriousness. we do not know if the planes have been explicitly diverted because of the president of the united states. that s a subject of the president that we only know for sure which itself of course should be barred flat out as a simple matter of ethical consequences of interest. if the president stymies any of it and how they were used and his role in it, there should be a complete inference that he himself is guilty here because this is like taking the fifth amendment if he s covering this up. chris and elizabeth, thank you both. next, more on the reporting that wilbur ross threatened to fire top officials for a statement contradicting the president on hurricane dorian. the details in two minutes.