that statement doesn't match noaa's own guidance from its birmingham, alabama office, that alabama would any impacts. so monica medina is here. we're glad she's here. she's a former noaa general counsel. appreciate this. good evening to you. you said last night on this show that in the future, the white house could intimidate the weather service into not correcting the president's false claims about weather emergencies. well, today noaa actually went a further step. they actively disavowed the national weather service in birmingham, alabama's correction. so what do you make of this? it's a stunning development. >> it is shocking, and i'm going to lose a lot of sleep over it. i have to tell you this is an unprecedented move, and i can't imagine a prior noaa administrator ever agreeing to change the forecast this way and to undermine all those workers who have been working around the clock for days to come up with these forecasts and make sure they're as accurate as possible. it's just shocking and unbelievably disappointing that the people around the president and at noaa, in the leadersh

what were some of the activities that happened.ta sharon: birmingham, alabama. that was where doctor king has centralized his activities from we need wasst considered the mot segregated city in america. at that. doctor king had a birmingham campaign. during that year, the beginning of that year, we had discovered george wallace and segregationist today and tomorrow. and forever. to me it's out of town of what i thought when he declared war. we werey, talking about war anyy and i thought is this just another forum of war. but it also set theou country up understand what we are or what arbella was. that was sort of like a battle cry for us. doctor king, head organized in birmingham, alabama after coming out of on the georgia, they were marching in the sort of learned from albany georgia not to be as broad in what they were marching for and what their expectations were. and they had been organizing we put adults, by april, they were able to mobilize enough adults any longer. they turned to children. so for me, the whole inspiration of this guilt was the children's m

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>> most important thing was birmingham alabama. that's where king and centralizes activities, birmingham was the center of the most segregated city in america atthat point and doctor king at a birmingham campaign during that year , the beginning of that year , the fact that i turned 13, we had this governor george wallace announced segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever and for me it set the tone of i thought they just declared war. we were talking about war anyway and i said is this another form of war also set the country up to understand what our battlewas . that was like a battle cry for us and doctor king, i had to organize in birmingham alabama after coming out of albany georgia and they were marching and they could have learned from albany georgia, not to be as broad and what their marching for and what their expectations were. and they had been organizing with adults but by april they were able to mobilize enough adults any longer they turned to children. so for me the whole heinspiration of this book w

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recognized. [ applause ] >> this is the head of the national weather service saying that what the birmingham, alabama, national weather service office did here was correct, the birmingham office did this to stop public panic to ensure public safety. the integrity of the forecast process was maintained. and then you see the standing ovation. that happened today. noaa is the overall agency who gets the call from the cabinet secretary who says you're going to be fired if you don't disavow your own workforce and your own science and instead put out something that bolsters the president. the noaa leadership went ahead and did that. that agency is now convulsed over that absolutely unprecedented impingment which is all they have at the end of the day. but the chief of the national weather service, which is a component part of that agency, the national weather service is not having it and not going along with it. and you can see that from the standing ovation that the birmingham office got there today that he basically asked for, he himself got his own standing ovation at this weather conference today for h

. >> vo biden's hateful race in birmingham, alabama. >> now hate is on the rise again. we're at a defining moment again in american history. who are we? what do we want to be? >> well, let's begin at this hour with the "new york times" article, revealing some new unreported allegations of sexual misconduct against supreme court justice rick kavanaugh from his time as an undergraduate at aisyale university. though he has denied other allegations in the past. for more, though, on all of this, let's bring in kelly o'donnell outside the white house, what more are we hearing and the reaction right there at the white house? >> reporter: this is certainly one of the political moments that was so disruptive and painful in 2018 and that scab and wound has been torn opened again. in part, because of a new book that was the subject of the "new york time's" article that you referenced that goes back and looks into the original allegations from 30-some years ago made against nowious tis kavanaugh. he denied all of those allegations made by christine blasscy ford in the much talked a

. >> brennan: today is the 56th anniversary of 16th street baptist church bombing in birmingham, alabamad four young girls, including a friend of former secretary of state condoleezza rice, who was an eight-year old at the time. up next, we will speak with her about race as well as the changing role of the united states. problems. nobody likes problems. but why is that? at ibm, problems actually inspire us, to fix things, to change things, to push the world forward. which is why so many people who dare to take on problems work with ibm. but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. for the care we provide, for the everchanges that we make in their live

i grew up in a segregated birmingham, alabama, i mean, i understand race and racism and the like. but i am going to tell you, i think that we can all be better in the way that we deal with this very raw nerve which is race. i think it is time to stop labeling each other and using explosive terms like she is a racist, he is a racist. that stops the conversation. when you say that, that is meant to stop the conversation. and we need have a conversation. we also need to -- and i say this very often to my students, you know, identity is a wonderful and marvelous thing. i am tremendously proud of my ancestors who survived the horrors of slavery, came out of it and by the time of my grandfather, being college educated i am tremendously proud of that legacy. but i also know that identity has to be something that you don't use against others. and a so to the degree that we are breaking ourselves into ever smaller groups with ever larger census of grievance and ever different narratives, i don't think anybody is doing very well at helping us to navigate this extraordinarily difficult minef

in birmingham,e alabama. good morning. susie in birmingham, alabama. hello?inaudible] host: good morning. caller: good morning. i am 84 years old, and during the 1950's, i was a snob on that country music. then my father listened to the grand ole opry or something, then i listened to hank williams, and i love poetry and i thought, this man is a poet. then i started to listening to hankof daddy's favorites, snow, the man before me mention hank snow, and i listen to it now. i don't care much for the modern, so-called modern, but you know, the old ones i love. guest: i love to hear that. that is a wonderful story. it happens a lot of the time, we stesl from our parents' ta and we come back and go somewhere else. rosanne cash talks about, i did not like country music growing up. i was into rock 'n roll. as you know, she is a great country singer-songwriter in her own right. that snobbery does not hold up in the face of hank williams and his poetry. you know, the lonesome whippoorwill, he sounds to glue to fly. the midnight train is winding low, i'm so lonesome i

in birmingham,e alabama. good morning. susie in birmingham, alabama. hello?inaudible] host: good morning. caller: good morning. i am 84 years old, and during the 1950's, i was a snob on that country music. then my father listened to the grand ole opry or something, then i listened to hank williams, and i love poetry and i thought, this man is a poet. then i started to listening to hankof daddy's favorites, snow, the man before me mention hank snow, and i listen to it now. i don't care much for the modern, so-called modern, but you know, the old ones i love. guest: i love to hear that. that is a wonderful story. it happens a lot of the time, we stesl from our parents' ta and we come back and go somewhere else. rosanne cash talks about, i did not like country music growing up. i was into rock 'n roll. as you know, she is a great country singer-songwriter in her own right. that snobbery does not hold up in the face of hank williams and his poetry. you know, the lonesome whippoorwill, he sounds to glue to fly. the midnight train is winding low, i'm so lonesome i

imagine that if these riot boosting statutes were applied to the protests that took place in birmingham alabama what might be the result dr king in the southern christian leadership conference could have been liable under an identical riot boosting law was put there i want to ask you 3 are we are we putting the security of our businesses and properties over the sanctity of our freedom of speech and can there be a ban. between the 2 i'll start with you alex and. well yes so obviously we're pretty businesses of corporations ahead of the people i mean i think that's something that's been going on forever if it's not a king it's a corporation and look i mean the bottom line here when you have protests and this is something that it's to tears the mainstream media 1st of all does not pay attention to peaceful protests until somebody throws a rock nobody's watching what's going on so this whole peaceful protest thing which is protected by the 1st amendment in the states and which is protected here in canada has almost become something like a yeah go occupy yourselves go march go protest go do what you

. >> reporter: the national weather service in birmingham, alabama, tweeting, that's not so. will have no impacts from hurricane dorian. the system will remain too far east. >> that was kaitlan collins reporting. the governor of north carolina has also requested a federal disaster declaration, which will need president trump's approval. if granted, it will need federal assistance. >>> we'll have more on dorian's path, next hour, with live reports from the florida coast. you're watching cnn. do stay with us. this is rick blomquist. his life is pretty comfortable. then, he laid on a serta and realized his life was only just sorta comfortable. i've been living a lie. (laughs) the serta icomfort hybrid mattress. not just sorta comfortable, serta comfortable. my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher to do. thought surgery was my only option. turns out i was wrong. so when a hand specialist told me about nonsurgical treatments, it was a total game changer. like you, my hands h

hurricane the oh day when the president was warning threats to alabama and that locally in birmingham, alabama, they said no threat to alabama. listen to a chunk of this letter. as i'm sure you also know, there was a complex issue involving the president commenting on the path of hurricane. the national weather service forecasters corrected any public misunderstanding in an expert and timely way as they should. they followed unsigned press release that inappropriately contradicted the national weather service forecaster. my understanding is that this intervention to contradict the forecaster was not based on science, but on external factors inclueing reputation and appearance and simply put, political. that's a really stark statement from the reacting chief scientist over there. >> absolutely. admirable to set the record straight and at great political risk because it's been made clear by the president that this is an issue he cares deeply about. he takes it very personally. it's an issue of personal pride for him. but noaa has a responsibility to forecast the weather. for the safety of the am

it was about 20 minutes later that birmingham, alabama branch of noah tweeted in no uncertain terms alabama would not see impacts from dorian. and now the row sources of the federal government, think about this. the resources of the federal government are being marshalled to cover up what seems to have started out as a mistake. and now has turned into the latest example of this administrations love of alternative facts. and unnamed noah spokesperson releasing a statement tonight disavowing the tweet from the branch. of the national weather service. now saying the tweet quote spoken absolute terms there were inconsistent with probability from the best forecast products available at the time. so why would that unnamed spokesperson come out with this statement now? it is nothing to do with the public safety. dorian is moving away from the mid-atlantic states. why now? there's no threat. it's moving away. there's no reason for it. except maybe to placate a president who is desperate to prove himself right. it's why he personally directed his homeland security adviser to fall on the sword. yeste

. >> reporter: the national weather service in birmingham, alabama, says that's not sew, tweeting alabamay impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. now, brianna, after the president spent about four or so hours at his gulf club earlier, he is back at the white house, and right now no more public events on his schedule for today. >> all right. caylin collins at the white house. thank you so much. >>> joining me now, the general is joining me. what does the federal government need to be doing right now to make sure it's preparing for a response and recovery from hurricane dorian? can you tell at this point, or will you not be able to know until the storm has hit? >> they're preparing right now. they're moving helicopters, deploying orders within striking distance of florida as well as georgia. in position to back up the national guard and the first responders. they're moving engineer teams ready to open highway interstate roads with some ka pastel to do that in a big way to help ships in the bahamas. i

but it seemed to support the president and at the same time not the birmingham, alabama office, that had come out with a contradictory report that alabama was never in jeopardy. the director, acting director, says the purpose of that statement was to clarify the technical details. what it did not say, however is, we understand and fully support the good intentions of the birmingham weather office as he tried to calm fears in short public safety. he says, no one is going to be fired over this, but it is clear this issue is not going away, jim, poppy. >> marty savidge, glad are you there. let's talk about this and more. good morning to you both. let me begin with you, you had jim hines, the democrat in congress saying if this is true, the "new york times" report tag wilbur ross threatened fire noaa officials if they didn't stand down from contradicting the president. if that's true, wilbur ross should resign. the commerce department is saying this is hogwash. this is false. you have john thunes the second ranking republican leader and new chairman saying quote we want the weather servic

be hit much harder than anticipated then 20 minutes later, the national weather service in birmingham, alabama, alabama will not see any impact from dorian. as we learned this weekend, that correction wasn't the national weather service going out of their way to embarrass trump they had to issue that correction specifically in response to alabama residents who were freaked out by the president's tweet. the "washington post" reported that the birmingham office sent the tweet after receiving a flurry of phone calls from concerned residents following trump's message. we're now at the point where the president is scaring people for no reason. he is basically the web md of presidents [ laughter ] so no matter what symptom -- [ laughter and applause no matter what symptom you type in, the response says, "sounds bad, you're probably going to die. [ light laughter ] seriously, think about that. people were calling because the president said they might be in danger and instead of reassuring them after he was corrected, he doubled down it's like if he stood up in a crowded theater and yelled fire and th

>>of them and >>the national weather service in birmingham, alabama says that's not so tweeting. >>alabama will not see any impacts from dorian we repeat no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. >>that was kaitlan collins reporting tonight. well times today in lafayette because of an accident a crane and knocked down power lines over the freeway you can see the traffic real mess of cars there. our first marine kelly reports that the first shut down the westbound lanes happened at the time of the accident. but the traffic had to be halted. again twice more in order to reinstall the lines. >>you can see the crane involved in the accident before it happened in this video provided by bart it was involved in a major rail upgrade that was keeping a lafayette station closed during the three-day weekend. the original incident happened at 5 22 this the crane came into contact with some pg e power lines at that time a couple of lines were impacted by the contractors crane that line came down into the westbound lanes of highway 24 so

she's from birmingham, alabama and she writes to say that she was turned away when she went to register to vote but that she should have the right to vote under the 14th, 15th and the 19th amendments. it's the only letter in all of the research i did for this exhibit where i found an african-american woman who mentioned all the constitutional amendments that extend her voting rights. she also further goes on to say that she had two brothers that served during world war i, one of whom lost his life in service to his country, and she's urging the president to help her get this important act of justice. and i love this little pamphlet right next to lula murray's letters. lula murray's letter. because it so clearly outlines a number of the different voting restrictions that were used in the south to keep african-americans from exercising their right to vote. i'll just read off what they have listed here. it says the pole tax. white primaries. inaccessibility of the polls. restrictive registration hours. and other more susbtle restrictions against voting. and i think what they mean there is

noaa putting out a statement disavowing its tweet from its own birmingham, alabama office an absolutely honest tweet. i'm going to talk to the former noaa official who predicted last night on this show that something like this would happen. >>> also, just how bad will the final toll be in the bahamas. the death toll rises to 43 with hundred bes or thousands still missing. we're going to take you to one of the hardest hit communities. >>> what is the true cost of the president's family separation policy? this is a story that we don't want to get lost. the government report on the heartbreaking trauma suffered by immigrant children separated from their mothers and fathers and could a lawsuit in minnesota change the way schools handle racist bullying? parents say their children were subject to black face, the "n" word, threats and violence. right now i want to talk about the president. the president spending his week digging in his heels and refusing to back down over his false claim that alabama was in hurricane dorian's path. that's our big picture tonight. let's discuss with brian sta s

alabama was in the original forecast. >> reporter: but the danger from dorian hit past the state days before the president first brought it up sparking this pointed tweet from the birmingham branch. alabama will not see any impacts. now, an uproar after the national office scolded birmingham backing the president over some of its own scientists one former noah staffer calling that statement moral crowdedness. forecasters showing support. now noah's chief scientists is calling the response political and a dangero standards according to an email obtained by "the washington post." president trump was supposed to see some of the damage from dorian in north carolina today, but bad weather forced him to cancel that tour and hold a briefing on air force one instead. lester >> hallie, thank you. >>> the death toll following dorian is at 45 expected to rise sharply. tonight the focus is handling the influx of evacuees and getting them the aid they need.gabe gutierrez is in nassau tonight. >> reporter: tonight, plane by plane, evacuees are streaming into the bahama capital, a humanitarian exitos. >> it is bad we don't know what to do. >> reporter: rose's home is gone in the hard-hi

have a lot to get to this morning including joe biden's speech at the 16th street church in birmingham, alabama, today to commemorate the four girls killed in the 1963 church bombing. we'll bring you more on that in a few minutes, and we're also going to discuss a newly revealed allegation against supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and what the fbi did and didn't cover in its investigation of sexual misconduct allegations before he was confirmed. first, you would be forgiven if the story of yet another subpoena to the trump administration flew under your radar this week given the unusual fire hose of trump scandal news. the flurry of headlines about his self-dealing as president. a nonprofit holding an event at his d.c. hotel featuring members of his cabinet. the debacle over the u.s. military's frequent layovers at trump's turnberry resort in scotland, and the news the house judiciary committee passed a resolution ramping up its impeachment inquiry. all of that news broke just this week and while all of that was percolating in your news feeds, this politico headline appeared friday night. a

and just 20 minutes later, a birmingham, alabama branch of the national weather service set the record straight tweeting, quote, alabama will not see any impact from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. that's pretty clear. they even repeated it. no impacts from hurricane dorian. yet the president just about 20 minutes later said this. >> the original course was dead into florida, now it seems to be going up toward south carolina, toward north carolina, georgia's going to be hit, alabama's going to get a piece of it, it looks like, but it can change its course again and it can go back more toward florida. >> about an hour later, doubling down at his fema briefing. >> it may get a little piece of a great place, it's called alabama, and alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that. it could be. this just came up, unfortunately. it's the size of the storm that we're talking about. so for alabama, just please be careful also. >> so there is a correction. surely some

>> the 1963 children's march in birmingham, alabama, was an inspiration for me and i wanted to help itdren today. i feel like they're struggling with so many issues. they need to look back at history and see how activism played a part in changing laws but also changing cultures. >> you say you don't really remember your dad as a baseball player like the rest of the world, but you really remember him as a civil rights activist. >> i was 7 when he retired from major league baseball so i certainly knew he was a baseball player, but i did not attend many of his games. so i grew up with him as an activist and a businessman and he brought it home to our dining room table every evening. so he traveled south, raising money for the civil rights movement. then he found a way to bring the family into the movement as a family. >> so as a child, as a parent myself i always think about how do i make sure my children learn the right lessons about how to be good people and how to interact with others. what did you take away from him as a father in terms of those types of lessons? >> that struggle is o

jim, south carolina is very important to joe biden's strategies and yesterday we saw him in birmingham, alabamat church on the anniversary of the bombing that killed four young girls, 56 years ago. trips to states like alabama and south carolina are all part of his effort to court black voters which make up a key component of his constituency and is helping fuel his current front-runner status. >> hate is on the rise again. we're at a defining moment again in american history. >> reporter: joe biden speaking from the pulpit of 16th street baptist church in birmingham. 56 years after a bombing by the kkk killed four young girls. >> addy may, cynthia carroll, denise, their murders lay bare the lie that a child could be free in america while oppression's long shadow darkened our cities and ruled our countryside. >> reporter: the former vice president drawing a direct line between that attack and modern-day hate-filled moss kerrs like the shootings in el paso and charleston. >> this violence does not live in the past. we have not relegated racism to the pages of history. >> reporter: the supertuesd

that's why the birmingham, alabama, branch of the national weather service tweeted minutes later that alabama would not see any impacts from dorian. it wasn't true when the president doubled, tripled, quadrupled down for days later. it wasn't true when he whipped out a map with a sharpie scrawl over alabama, a scrawl that he reportedly put there himself. but the commerce secretary, wilbur ross, reportedly threatened to fire top noaa employees if the agency didn't disavow that tweet from the birmingham office. that according to "the new york times." and remember noaa did disavow that tweet on friday. but a commerce department spokesman denies the whole thing, calling the "times" story false. and then there's this. just listen to what the president had to say about all those judges that he put on the nation's courts, reshaping the judiciary and moving it to the right. >> president obama gave me a beautiful birthday present when he gave me 138 judges that weren't approved, and frankly how do you consider that being a great president when you hand to the opposition 138 slots of federal ju

trump's dorian forecast initially drew this tweet from the national weather service in birmingham. alabamal not see any impact from dorian. we repeat, no impact from dorian will be felt across alabama. now there's more. today the "washington post" reports a top official at noaa told its staff on september 1st not to contradict president trump. a meteorologist who wishes to remain anonymous told the post, quote, this is the first time i felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. >>> coming up, they're leading in the polls and now joe biden, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are preparing for their next debate. what can we expect from the top three contenders? that story, next. liquicaps and crush it. e dayquil severe. the daytime, coughing, aching, stuffy-head, fever, sore throat, power through your day, medicine. ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's handcrafted burgers now starting at $7.99 now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. we can't give you, unlimited summer, now starting at $7.99 but we can give you unlimited talk, text and data for just $30 a line for 4 lines. and that come

the broadcast was accompanied by coming-out parties all around the country, including one in birmingham, alabamaid a great thing. she was brave. >> i made the decision that i wasn't going to live my life as a lie anymore. i was -- i belong with everybody else. and that's what i finally did. >> we used to say ellen opened the door and we knocked it down. ♪ hey listen sister ♪ i love my mister man ♪ tell me lazy tell me so ♪ tell me i'm crazy maybe i know ♪ ♪ can't help loving that man of mine ♪ >> take it jackie! >> and pas de bouree, pas de bouree, suplee, i'm gay! >> "will & grace" was a great show in sort of helping a mainstream straight community connect to the gay community. >> i think i can fix this thing with your landlord but might get a little ugly. >> play hardball, baby. throw low and inside. he's crowding the plate and we've got to -- >> grace, sports, you're losing me. >> i figured 25% of the country wouldn't watch the show just based on the fact that we had two gay men on it. >> give it to me! >> but if we could make believe that will and grace would get together. >> will, i told yo

describes as his most significant speech on race at the historic 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama in 1963. >> we must acknowledge that there can be no realization of the american dream whoithout grappling with the original sin of slavery. domestic terrorism and white supremacy has been the antagonist of our highest ideals from before the founding of this country. >> biden picked up the endor endorsement yesterday of gonzalez who switched his support from julian castro after castro picked the fight with la debate. let's watch. >> and we need to narrow the field and unitas democrats to defeat trump. in november 2020 and that's why i believe i'm moving my support to vice president joe biden. you're polling in the low single digits and you're not raising any resources and you're fracturing your party and you're just getting your supporters to be upset at other candidates, it can't be a good thing for our party. >> i'm joined by ken zally czar. he's got a big announcement for us on 2020. stick with us for a minute. in fact, here he is. i thought it was coming up. senator, thank you so

president trump's cabinet threatened top level firings at noaa after the national weather service's birmingham, alabamaicane dorian. we've also learned -- and this is a cnn exclusive -- that u.s. intelligence pulled a very high level agent, a spy, out of russia in part out of concern the president might somehow blow this individual's cover. we'll have more on both of those stories tonight. but we begin with the pr

alabama, or at least how seriously his commerce secretary, wilbur ross, took it. as you know, just minutes after the president's false alarm, the national weather service's regional office in birmingham issued a tweet reassuring people in alabama they were not in danger. according to "the new york times," secretary ross threatened to fire top employees at noaa if the agency didn't disavow that tweet, in other words, if it didn't disavow a statement of fact affecting hundreds of thousands of people according to three people cited in "the new york times" report, secretary ross called the acting noaa administrator and told him to fix the national weather service's contradiction of the claim. when it was opposed, he was told noaa's political staff would be fired. in fact, noaa did disavow that tweet. the statement was unsigned, which is unusual. the "times" added to the story reporting that the commerce department's inspector general is now looking into all of this. so that's the backdrop to our conversation with richard painter, who was ethics czar in the george w. bush administration, and monica medina, who -- i spoke to them before air time. can you plaexplain why this matters? why is

former vice president joe biden in birmingham, alabama this morning.r speech on race. it will center on this country's ongoing struggle to live up to its founding ideals. it will take place at services to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the 16th street baptist church bombing which killed four african-american girls. it is a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. much the same way the 2015 shooting at mother emmanuel. it could be a defining moment for joe biden as he seeks to deepen his support among minority communities. despite the criticisms, biden maintained an overwhelming lead with black voters compared to his rivals. another obama administration official is coming to his defense. former attorney general eric holder stopping short oven tkorsitkor endorsing him last night. >> i don't think there is any reason that a president biden would be any less supportive of civil rights than president obama. as i just said, i might have been wrong then but this is where i am now. and, you know, you judge me on the spirit of my career. >> as we look

. >> reporter: the national weather service in birmingham, alabama, says that's not so, tweeting, alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. >>> coming up here at cnn, a holiday boat trip turns into a nightmare. we'll update you on the search for dozens of passengers after flames engulf a diving boat. stay tuned for that. >>> plus, what investigators are learning about the man who went on a shooting rampage in texas over the weekend. new details also coming up on that. when you a buy get a samsung galaxy note 10? you get unlimited data while on a network that goes further than ever before. use as much as you want. when you want. a netflix subscription on us. stream all your favorite movies and shows. and for a limited time. buy any samsung galaxy note 10 and get one samsung galaxy note 10 for free. that's right. get one samsung galaxy note 10 for free. this is rhis life is...of pretty comfortable. rick blomquist thought he had comfort all

category 5 hurricane sparked enough public alarm that it prompted the national weather service in birmingham, alabama, to bluntly tweet 20 minutes later, alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. here's the president sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, four days later quadrupling down on the lie. what is from your body of reporting about this president, what is it that makes him sort of reup a lie four days later and one correction from the national weather service later? >> mine, this one is truly a strange one because this is not a political adversary that he's going after and it's -- he punches back and he punches back harder than he got hit. this is -- you think the weather being corrected by the actual path of the storm, we would think you would say oh, what a relief we were mistaken and it's not going to hit alabama as we thought. but in general he doesn't like to concede any ground and admit he was wrong. you can count on one hand the times he had to be forced to apologize, didn't like to do it. but this was a strange one because it doesn't seem to be scoring any political points. in terms

alabama, will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated." well, just minutes after that tweet, the national weather service in birmingham fired back putting outama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. joining me now one of the journalist who's just broke that story, peter baker. he is also an msnbc analyst. peter, tell us a little bit more about your reporting that you just broke. >> well, of course we all saw that statement that noaa which is the parent agency which is the weather service put out on friday chanitizing him for that tweet. that struck a lot of people as very surprising. it's a scientific organization, not usually a political organization, and this correction, if you want to call it that or reprimand came four days or five days after the original tweet. so the obvious question is what did the -- what motivated and what seems to have motivated was an angry administration that was really peeved that these forecasters in birmingham, alabama, would contradict the president, and the secretary of commerce calls up neal jacob

commerce secretary wilbur ross about those tweets send out by the national weather service in birmingham, alabama, that contradicted what president trump said about hurricane dorian. he said that the people of alabama should hunker down because the effects of hurricane dorian are going to be worse than thought. he fweeted that out at a time when the hurricane model has shifted. he wasn't going anywhere near alabama. then wilbur ross called noahand threatened to fire staff. now there's reporting that indicates that may have originated here at the white house. the president was asked about it. the president said that he knows something about that, that he didn't direct mulvaney to do that. he called the story a hoax. if you along at when he sent that tweet that hurricane dorian was not -- >>> just before the debate joebjoe biden's campaign taking shots at elizabeth warren and her plans. yesss, i'm doing it all. the water. the exercise. the fiber. month after month, and i still have belly pain and recurring constipation. so i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess

. >>> joe biden delivering an impassioned speech today in birmingham, alabama at the 16th street baptisthurch on the 56th anniversary of the church bombing carried out by klan members who killed four little black girls. the former vice president warned that racism and white supremacy are on the rise in this country. i know there's nothing we can't accomplish if we stand together. stand against hate. stand up for our best our natio nations believes. honesty, decency. giving everyone a fair shot. leaving nobody behind. giving hate no safe harbor. demonizing no one. not the poor, the powerless, immigrant or other. st standing as a beacon for the world. being a bigger part than ourselves. that's why i believe so passionately that we have got to work to bring this country together. >> cnn political reporter arlet is in birmingham now. he linked the racism that fueled this bombing nearly 60 years ago to the same racially charged attacks that we have seen in ohio and texas most recently. how were his comments received? >> well fred, joe biden stood at the pulpit at the front of the church and s

, noaa, publicly disavow this tweet that was sent by the national weather service office in birmingham, alabama state would not feel the effects of the storm. a senior official said mulvaney wanted to correct the record because he felt the birmingham tweet went to far, the one that forecasts the weather. a reporter asked the president if he was the one who asked mulvaney to takes action. >> i never did that. that's a whole hoax by the fake news media when they talk about the hurricane and florida and alabama. that was fake news right from the beginning. >> noaa said the national weather service sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with the best forecast products available at that time. the "times" also reported that the commerce department's inspector general is investigating the noaa statement and "the washington post" reports that noaa's acting chief scientist is investigating whether the agency's response to trump's tweets on hurricane dorian violated agency policies and ethics. joining us now to talk about this is wisconsin democratic senator tammy baldwin. sh

the national weather service office in birmingham, alabama, was clarifying that what the president was saying was absolutely not true. alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. i mean, the only reason the national weather service had to send that out was because of the false information to the contrary that was inexplicably being promulgated by the president. and why was he doing that? who knows why the president was lying about alabama being in the path of the hurricane. but he has done so repeatedly, and that has now apparently led up to this odd display of this falsified national weather service map today in the oval office at what the white house billed as the president's hurricane update. and what that means in practical terms is that americans now need to debunk the president of the united states in order to find real national weather service tracks of the hurricane while the hurricane literally bears down on the eastern seaboard of the united states. and it's all sel

biden's appearance coming the day after making a passionate speech in birmingham, alabama on the anniversaryurch bombing there, which left four little black girls dead. >> we must acknowledge that there can be no realization of the american dream without grappling with the original sin of slavery. brought to these shores over 400 years ago. in the centuries long campaign of violence, fear, trauma, wrought upon black people in this country, lynch mobs, arsonists, bombmakers, lone gunmen. and as we all now realize this violence does not live in the past. >> let me bring in umisha sendor, white house correspondent for the "pbs newshour" along with mark lebovich, an msnbc contributor. the speech we heard from joe biden, does that explain why the former vice president remains so popular with black voters specifically? >> the former vice president remains popular with black voters because they know him and understand im. they understand that at times he says things that are wrong but he's been loyal to the values and needs of african-americans. of course his association with president obama, forme