US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had threatened to fire senior staff at the federal weather agency unless they backed President Donald Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, the New York Times reports.
It says this led to last week’s statement by the agency, disavowing an earlier position by a regional office that the US state was not at risk.
The commerce department has dismissed the newspaper’s report as “false”.
Alabama was not hit by the storm. Read more