NEW: Internal emails at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA) released Thursday showed how the agency scrambled to respond to President Trump's inaccurate claims about Hurricane Dorian and Alabama.
on the hurricane maps."One of my forecasters just messaged me and said CNN is contacting him on his personal twitter asking for comment."
"This statement is deeply upsetting to NOAA employees that have worked the hurricane and not fully accurate based on the timeline in question," Alek Krautmann, a program coordination officer at the NOAA, wrote in an email to John Leslie, a NOAA public affairs official."Please raise this in feedback through proper channels."
Asked by one official how to handle questions on Trump's doctored hurricane map, Chris Vaccaro, a top press official at the agency, suggested saying:"I'm focused on the upcoming impacts from Dorian on the Carolinas and mid-Atlantic." Following a flood of media questioning later in the week, Friedman emailed staff,"This is a difficult time."Officials detailed"angry/hate mail and phone calls" regarding the controversial NOAA statement — detailing that some had to"turn off their cell phones due to the large volume of calls."
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