Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes before the huge storm slowly began to move fart...

An area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located a couple of hundred miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands has 70% chance of cyclone formation ...

The storm, now ranked Category 2, is expected to generate large breaking waves of 8 to 16ft and life-threatening rip currents along the eastern coast of the US through Friday evening.