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The 1,000-day mark, which is equal parts mythical and meaningless, and around here it means, by the way, that broadcast first came on the air three years ago tonight. but i digress. this nation and our bahamian neighbors spent this week tracking and dealing with and running from hurricane dorian. it also consumed our presidents week, though, not in the usual way. he has spent days trying to prove he was right in warning that alabama was in the path for impact from the hurricane. its very importa...

>> that was the original chart, and you see it was going to hit not only florida but georgia. it could have -- was going toward the gulf. that was what was originally projected. >> its a sharpie line. someone drew it to extend the cone out to alabama. are you serious? drawing a mustache on someones photo is more subtle. look at poor dhs acting secretary mcaleenan. all the serious work he has to do and there he is trying to touch the tainted map as little as he can. then just now were told the pr...

Passing this information out and its got to be accurate. >> if people in the government, ms. medina, had acted under the guise that alabama was in the storms path, what would have happened? >> well, as you could see already, it was hard enough to predict what was happening with dorian, and there were evacuation warnings and people didnt heed them because they were worried that they were being evacuated in a way that was unnecessary. if this president expands that cone of uncertainty, even more p...

Government. we have a president behaving like a king, and it is intolerable. >> before i let you go, i want to get you on one other thing related to the hurricane and the frankly white house drama, if you will, over this whole sharpie-gate thing. it was president trump himself who made that line added to a map that showed alabama now as we show in the cone of uncertainty in the early days of dorian. he has come under heavy criticism for refusing to acknowledge that he was being misleading about ...

Myrtle beach will be open for business. mayor brenda bethune on the back end here of this hurricane dorian for them. and as dorian lashes the carolina coast to the political intersection of this story, we go. president trump is now on day five of insisting hurricane dorian was on a path to hit alabama. late this afternoon, rear admiral peter brown, who is trumps counterterrorism and homeland security adviser -- think about that for a moment -- said he briefed the president multiple times on su...

Into the whole lie. rear admiral peter brown released this statement saying he briefed trump on the, quote, spaghetti models that showed possible impacts outside the cone of impact including alabama, yada, yada, yada, yada. my god, all for the president. this clearly deficient and unfit individual who is acting out his unfitness constantly in matters of genuine serious high stakes with -- and this is important -- no one reining him in. it was a year ago today that someone inside the administrati...

A great place called alabama. and alabama could even be in for some strong winds. >> reporter: the president showing reporters in the oval office an altered map wednesday with a black line crudely extending the cone of the hurricane track to include alabama. but a similar map released last week did not include the mark. its a crime to alter official government weather forecasts. the president initially made the claim about alabama on twitter sunday morning. but it was debunked by the national we...

A closer look reveals someone extended the target area to include alabama. its a false narrative the president has been peddling for days now. that map was handed to him by the acting homeland security secretary, by the way. a white house official tells cnn there was a discussion in the oval about how the storm could have been worse than earlier projections so someone extended the cone with black marker. the source would not deny that president trump personally drew the extension. >> you know, i...

President trump points to an altered weather map to make his claim that dorian threatened alabama. did he personal use a sharpie marker to redraw the cone of uncertainty? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." >> breaking news. the new forecast is just in as hurricane dorian hammers the carolinas with powerful winds and torrential downpours. up to 15 inches could fall, while sturges driveorm surges d of water ashore. along with that life-threatening combination, the storm has spawned ...

Lights, so they want people to stay tight. but as i said, those storm surge predictions so far have not panned out. >> all right, athena jones, stay safe. thank you. our coverage on cnn continues right now. thanks for watching. happening now, breaking news. closing in. the new forecast is in and hurricane dorian is closing in on the carolina coast, bringing winds of 105 miles an hour, heavy rains, and even tornadoes. officials warn of a long night ahead. flooding threat. a quarter million cu...