reporter: so while hurricane arthur won t rank as one of the worst hurricanes to hit these shores, he might have been the most untimely. for the carolinians and those visiting the atlantic coast beaches, arthur wasn t a welcome holiday guest and they re glad to see him go. power outages are also a concern here. the two major electricity providers were reporting as of this afternoon that there are only about 5,000 people out of power. that number greatly reduced from earlier this morning. brianna? sure is. joe johns for us. thank you so much. and let s turn to cnn s rene marsh. she s in beaufort, north carolina which is right where the storm came ashore. rene? reporter: well, brianna, we can tell you when the sun came up the coast guard took to the skies. they wanted to assess the damage. and this is what we can tell you. trees downed, power out, and roads flooded. that s pretty much the extent of the damage that arthur left behind. the good news is no casualties