President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Former Obama NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco, a scientist at Oregon State University, said in an email that high level officials put politics and their own jobs above public safety. By the time the two tweets were posted, Alabama was no longer in the hurricane centers warning cone, although it had been in previous days. Jacobs said things went crazy in the middle of the night.Then-NOAA communications chief Julie Kay Roberts told the inspector generals office that Walsh told her there are jobs on the line. The report said there was no credible evidence found to say that jobs were threatened. The Inspector General instead selectively quotes from interviews, takes facts out of context.The White House declined comment.

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration leaders violated the agencys scientific integrity when they chastised a local weather office that had contradicted President Trumps inaccurate comments about Hurricane Dorian, an outside panel found. Twenty minutes after Trump's tweet, meteorologists in the National Weather Services Birmingham office tweeted Alabama will NOT see any impacts" from the storm. After a phone call to Jacobs from his boss, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and other conversations with Commerce Department political appointees, NOAA put out the statement chastising the Birmingham weather office tweet. The outside report said the violations of scientific policy were, first, issuing the statement without talking to the Birmingham meteorologists and, second, issuing it after political pressure. Roberts left NOAA for another high-ranking job in the Department of Commerce.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. With forecasters predicting another intense Atlantic hurricane season with as many as 13 to 19 named storms, disaster preparedness experts say its critically important for people in evacuation zones to plan to stay with friends or family, rather than end up in shelters during the coronavirus pandemic. Shelters are meant to keep you safe, not make you comfortable, said Carlos Castillo, acting deputy administrator for resilience at FEMA. An average Atlantic season has 12 named storms, but last year was the fourth consecutive season to have more, with 18 named storms, including three intense hurricanes Dorian, Humberto and Lorenzo. The season officially extends from June through November, but Tropical Storm Arthur jumped the gun last week off the eastern U.S. coastline. Just as in years past, NOAA experts will stay ahead of developing hurricanes and tropical storms and provide the forecasts and warnings we depend on to stay safe.

CHARLES COUNTY, Md. - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has designated the first new national marine sanctuary since 2000. Forty miles south of Washington, the 18-square-mile stretch of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, has been named the Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. "The designation of Mallows Bay as a national marine sanctuary is an exciting milestone for NOAA and an opportunity for the public to celebrate and help protect this piece of our nation's rich maritime history," Acting Administrator Neil Jacobs said in a statement Monday. The ships never participated in battle, and they were eventually brought to the Potomac River in order to be salvaged for scrap metal.