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Story today about this, it said as long as this is in the news the president will keep talking about it because he cant let it go. and to danas point, the lengths to which hes gone to try to make this reality -- this into some sort of reality using these levers of government, these public servants to try to prop up what is clearly not true is really remarkable. >> including getting his homeland security advisor, rear admiral peter brown, to write a memo saying he showed the president maps, yes, ...

Originally projected. and it took a right turn and ultimately, hopefully were going to be lucky. it depends what happens with south carolina and north carolina. but its heading up the coast, and florida was grazed, mostly wind, and were going to have a report on that. >> so that map -- remember he started out saying this is an update on the storm, but hes talking about, you know, a tweet he sent out on the projection from a week or six days before that event. so that map he held up is a projecti...

>> look how simple this is. chris, you know, don, you made a mistake. oh, i did? im sorry. my bad. i didnt mean that. >> thats right. >> there was so much confusion. so many different paths in the beginning. >> this new press secretary coming after cnn because they made, like, a typo on a map, and, you know, cnn corrects it. thats what were in the business of doing. we try to give you accurate information. we fall short, we correct it, we move on. the irony, really, there are more coarse words f...

It certainly wouldnt be soon enough for the very residents desperate situations here on the island of grand bahama. patrick oppmann, freeport in the bahamas. >> remarkable work from patrick. tweeting from nassau in the bahamas. thanks for joining us. i know your team in there includes some water, a doctor, a couple of water purification experts. talk to us about what youre trying to do first here using some solar powered generators, trying to get some light and power there, also trying to get so...

Predicting. i think the cone people look at that most say ok if im in the cone danger of out of the cone no danger at all and in reality the cone has nothing to do with how confident we are and we look at that we might think oh this is a range of possibilities instead the cone is just based on historical error from the national hurricane center so they look at all the paths of the last 5 years how well their forecast did and then thats how they determine the width of the cone so it really just s...

A map that they say was given to the president on sunday showing the hurricanes cone of uncertain overlapping very slightly with the state of alabama. additionally, the president tweeted out a map dated from a week ago showing the various paths the hurricane could have taken. i want to bring in jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. jonathan, i think not a topic anybody expected this morning. we would be talking about. basic question here. it appears somebody took a shar...

Reason. different from when i was democrats also have seats growing up, young men have this theyll have to defend like michigan and alabama where the in their mindset. we have to figure this out and senator is seeking reelection in get guns away from mentally ill a state the president won by people. >> where are you on an expansion almost 30 points. it wont be easy to win the of the background checks? that will probably be one of the senate. they have a lot of potential paths to get there. debat...

And could even get stronger in the coming hours. heres a look again at the hurricane hunter aircraft. the flight crew said they could really see a difference over the last day. >> we saw -- yesterday at this time, we saw a profound eye today. very small, ten miles across. completely circular. extremely strong winds in the eye wall itself. and we only went through once in the daylight. we were able to look up to the clear sky. our next two paths reported are that we do our work just fine and just...

The storm could dramatically change the situation here especially along the coast. >> its a slow-moving storm. its days away. so theres a lot of opportunity for it to shift paths. even 10 miles an hour east or -- or 10 miles east or west can make a difference in the conditions here. >> reporter: and some of the hotels out here and resorts arent taking any chances either. we heard some hotels tonight are telling people they have to evacuate. others are doing that tomorrow, anything to sort of get...

That would cause the storm to weaken. and last night, just this amazing eye formed and this looks like a very textbook, very strock, very powerful, very dangerous hurricane. its moving off towards the west-northwest a little bit. and the northwestern bahamas are absolutely going to take this we know for sure they are going to get an incredible amount of storm surge, wind and a lot of damage. freent being the biggest city right there. then we have three possible paths we have been talking about. ...