HURRICANE.

>> Bill: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOW

READY WITH ITS RESPONSE ON

DORIAN.

U.S. COAST GUARD ALREADY

STEPPING IN TO RESCUE DOZENS IN

THE BAHAMAS.

WHAT A PLACE THAT HAS BEEN

DEVASTATED NOW.

THE STORM SLAMMED THAT ISLAND

TURNING ITS ATTENTION TO THE

SOUTHEAST U.S. COAST.

WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT JOHN

ROBERTS HAS MORE FROM THE NORTH

LAWN THERE.

JOHN, GOOD DAY.

>> GOOD MORNING.

THE U.S. MILITARY ALSO WORKING

IN THE BAHAMAS TO TRY TO CLEAR

RUNWAYS TO GET RELIEF SUPPLIES

INTO THE HARD-HIT AREAS IN

GREAT ABACO AND GRAND BA HAMA

ISLAND.

THE STATE GOVERNORS IN CHARGE

OF THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

RESPONSE TO ANYTHING THAT A

HURRICANE DOES WHEN IT COMES

THROUGH.

THEY WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH

LOCAL OFFICIALS AND THE FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO BACK UP THE

GOVERNORS TO TRY TO GIVE THEM

WHATEVER THEY NEED.

FEMA WAS WELL PREPARED WE'RE

TOLD BY PRESIDENT TRUMP IN

PUERTO RICO AND AGAIN IN

FLORIDA AS IT LOOKED LIKE

DORIAN WAS SETTING ITS SIGHTS

ON THAT PART OF THE STATE AND

IS NOW REPOSITIONING SUPPLIES

TO PREPARE FOR A POSSIBLE

LANDING EITHER IN THE NORTHERN

PART OF SOUTH CAROLINA OR ALONG

THE OUTER BANKS OF NORTH

CAROLINA.

LISTEN TO WHAT THE ACTING

SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY

SAID ABOUT IT.

>> WE'VE BEEN VERY WELL

PREPARED AND COORDINATED FULLY

WITH THE STATES.

A LOT OF PRE-EMPLOYED ASSETS TO

FULLY RESPOND AFTER THE STORM

HITS AND REPOSITIONING SOME OF

THE ASSETS THAT WERE FURTHER

SOUTH IN CENTRAL FLORIDA.

WE'RE READY FOR THIS STORM.

>> AT THE SAME TIME IT'S

CHURNING IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO

DEFEND A TWEET HE SENT OUT

SUNDAY MORNING WHERE HE SAID

ALABAMA COULD POSSIBLY GET

DAMAGE FROM DORIAN.

ALABAMA WOULD BE HIT OR GRAZED

AND DORIAN TOOK A DIFFERENT

PLAN ALONG THE EAST COAST.

THE FAKE NEWS KNOWS THIS WELL.

A BIT OF CONTROVERSY ERUPTED

OVER IT.

AT THE HURRICANE BRIEFING THE

PRESIDENT HELD UP A GRAPHIC

FROM LAST FRIDAY THE 30th WHICH

APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN MODIFIED

WITH A SHARPY TO EXTEND THE

BUBBLE OUT THERE TO INCLUDE THE

FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF

ALABAMA.

THE PRESIDENT WAS ASKED HOW THE

LINE GOT THERE YESTERDAY

AFTERNOON.

>> President Trump: THE

ORIGINAL PATH WAS THROUGH

FLORIDA.

PROBABLY THREE DAYS.

I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THREE

OR FOUR DAYS OLD.

THE ORIGINAL PATH MOST PEOPLE

THOUGHT IT WOULD BE TAKING WAS

THROUGH FLORIDA WHERE ON THE

RIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN GEORGIA

OR ALABAMA.

>> IT LOOKS LIKE THERE WAS A

SHARPY.

>> I DON'T KNOW.

>> THE PRESIDENT SAYING HE

DIDN'T KNOW HOW THE LINE GOT

THERE AND TWEETED OUT A GRAPHIC

OF HURRICANE MODEL PLOTS TO

PROVE THAT ALABAMA WAS AT RISK

AND SOME TRACKS DID COME VERY

CLOSE TO THE EASTERN PART OF

ALABAMA.

BUT THOSE SPAGHETTI MODELS WERE

FROM THURSDAY, AUGUST 28th.

BY THE TIME THE PRESIDENT

TWEETED ABOUT ALABAMA AT 10:51

A.M. ON SUNDAY THE FORECAST

TRACK HAD MOVED WELL EAST.

THE 8:00 IN THE MORNING WARNING

ON SUNDAY THE 1st AND YOU CAN

SEE THEY'RE INDICATING THAT

DORIAN WOULD STAY WELL-OFF

SHORE AND WELL AWAY FROM

ALABAMA.

SOME PEOPLE ARE SUGGESTING BY

ALTERING A FORECAST MAP THE

PRESIDENT BROKE A FEDERAL LAW.

LET'S NOT FORGET THAT'S AN OLD

MAP.

IT WASN'T A CURRENT FORECAST.

THAT MAY BE A HARD CASE TO MAKE.

BUT I THINK WHAT WE REALLY NEED

TO STRESS IN ALL OF THIS, BILL,

A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF

PROPERTY IN HARM'S WAY AND

THERE IS A LOT FOR THE FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT LOCAL AND STATE