The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a statement Friday to say the information they gave the president over the weekend did in fact include Alabama in their Hurricane Dorian projections. The statement also disavowed a Sunday tweet sent out by the Birmingham branch of the National Weather Service that said Alabama would not be impacted by the storm. The president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization fired back, calling NOAA's statement “utterly disgusting and disingenuous.” Weija Jiang reports.
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