Hurricane Erin, North Carolina
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A powerful and sprawling Hurricane Erin continued lashing hundreds of miles of coastline along the Eastern Seaboard with its outer bands Thursday morning, proving a storm of such size doesn't need to make landfall to bring widespread impacts.
Meteorologists are closely tracking the projected path and forecast of Hurricane Erin, which is the first hurricane to develop over the Atlantic this year.
Hurricane Erin is battering the East Coast with coastal flooding, life-threatening rip currents and high surf, and in a few places, tropical storm force winds, particularly in North Carolina and the Virginia Tidewater. While the hurricane's maximum ...
Most of the tourists have left Ocracoke Island, and the surfers are watching closely as deadly rip currents lurk below the waves.
ABC News senior meteorologist Melissa Griffin is joined by ABC News' Olivia Rubin and WTVD-TV's Jamiese Price for the latest on the storm.