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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 lifethreatening combination, the storm has spawned tornados. There has been heavy flooding in charleston. There are alerts along the coast into virginia and e...

Couple of them, up around that category 5 threshold. The noaa flight measuring 159 miles per hour, and the air force flight measuring around 166 miles per hour. They will continue to take measurements of this storm to really get a better idea of what the Current Conditions are, and we then use those measurements to get a better idea of where the storm is going to go from there. This is the brand new track that just came out at the top of the hour. Again, we still maintain a very strong storm as it crosses over the bahamas and makes its way toward florida. At this point, technically we are not ...

Will see first on the lead. And with american lives in jeopardy right now, President Trump is today sticking with his bizarre focus after using a laughably doctored map to push a false claim about the storm. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we begin with breaking news. Deadly Hurricane Dorian right now taking aim at north and South Carolina on the east coast of the u. S. The category 2 storm crawling up the coast, dragging out the danger. Tornadoes such as this one have even been reported. Another one hit emerald isle, North Carolina, tearing apart homes in this rv park. Hundreds of th...

Topped 215 miles an hour, like tornadoes touching down every minute. >> you know, wolf, think about what that must have felt like. as i said, they are still traumatized by everything they went through and people ask, wolf, why didn't you evacuate? well, these are people that have been through so many hurricanes, wolf. and they've always been okay. and so they're resilient, self-reliant, and they thought they would be okay. they never imaged a storm of this strength even possible, that would blow by them that way. and it lingered so long. they told me, wolf, as far as they were concerned, hurri...

Paula newton and her crew had to take shelter on one of the islands there and spend the night in a home with others, including storm survivors. paula joins me now live from nassau in the bahamas. and paula, you spent 24 hours on an island with no power, no water, the people there were storm survivors were terrified. we're glad you're back and you're okay. tell us about it. >> i have to tell you, jake, we were so overwhelmed. jerry simonson and i, the cameraman with me, by everything that we saw. but most of all, jake, we were overwhelmed by the trauma these people are feeling. and everything t...