Emails show fallout from Trump’s storm claims

WASHINGTON — Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration privately disavowed an unsigned statement issued by the agency last year that rebuked its own weather forecasters for contradicting President Donald Trump’s false warnings that Hurricane

Dorian would most likely hit Alabama, new documents show.

Emails show leaders scrambling to do damage control after Trump appeared in the Oval Office on Sept. 4 with an altered map of Hurricane Dorian’s path, and forecasters in the Birmingham, Alabama, office of the National Weather Service then contradicted him by assuring the public they were safe.

On Sept. 6, the agency’s communications office issued a statement suggesting that Trump was right and that Alabama forecasters had acted improperly by suggesting otherwise.