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Trump falsely claimed Alabama would be hit harder by Hurricane Dorian, even as federal weather officials were already briefing the public with a different forecast. The resulting scramble put NOAA and the National Weather Service in the awkward position of cleaning up a presidential error in real time.
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Trump falsely claimed Alabama would be hit harder by Hurricane Dorian, even as federal weather officials were already briefing the public with a different forecast. The resulting scramble put NOAA and the National Weather Service in the awkward position of cleaning up a presidential error in real time.
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