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Were also seeing battering winds. 20, 30 miles per hour. wind gusts on shore. so beach erosion, high waves, high surf is going to continue not only for the southeast coast, parts of florida and all the way up to coastal new england through sunday. coastal flooding, beach erosion and people urged to stay out of the water. its going to be, again, potentially a life threatening situation. on shore winds will continue saturday, sunday into monday as we watch the storm come very close to bermuda. aga...

Outer banks. >> wild winds as strong as 100 miles per hour, knocking over trees, whipping up the sand on the beaches in north carolina. >> so right now the town of kill devil hills in north carolina is getting slammed with the worst of the hurricane that is where we find michele. what are the conditions currently? >> reporter: good morning, heather. this is, if you can believe it, one of the slower parts of this morning. arthur hit around a few hours ago around 11:15 thursday night and now were ...

Storm surges up to seven feet as well as dangerous rip currents. millions of americans are headed to the beach for the fourth of july. all of that happening at the same time. >> janice dean is in the "weather center" tracking the path of the hurricane and how it will impact everybodys plans. >> we had a landfall around 11:00 eastern time as a category 2 storm. so the storm did strengthen to 100 mile-per-hour sustained winds with higher gusts and theres cape lookout. peter doocy, hell start to ex...

Still expected to hit parts of massachusetts, cape cod, marthas vineyard and nantucket island preparing for heavy rains and heavy winds. >> we should say were about seven minutes away from a new update from the hurricane group. janice dean is tracking that. will give us an update shortly. >> sometimes we get it early. well break in and give you the latest. were almost done with the system. started its northeastern acceleration. clearing the outer banks right now. the eye of the storm were still ...

>> well talk to him in a little bit because hell experience the eye of that storm that calm period you get and then the back side which will produce incredible winds and rain and storm surge. so he really needs to be cautious. peter, if youre listening to me this is the mom in me saying you need to be careful out there because it can be deceiving. he gets that eye, that period of calm and you think thats okay then you get the worst side of the storm coming in. you ladies asked me about the tropi...

Its bad news. this is a strong noreaster thats going to hit areas that have seen historic damage. a lot of folks here still without power, and were going to be dealing with sub-freezing temperatures overnight tonight. lets zoom on in where were getting a mix of rain and snow and sleet. its going to be a very, very messy and dangerous commute home for a lot of folks along jersey up towards long island, new york city and then moving into connecticut and portions of northern new england where were ...

Per hour hurricane. as we head into monday, tuesday, overnight tuesday making landfall. i dont want you to pay attention to the center of the storm because were going to feel tropical storm force winds 300 miles from the center of the storm. its going to bat ter the coastline and some of the computer models slow this storm down for days. not only are we going to see battering winds, waves and rain, its going to last, going to be relentless. we could have power outages, millions without power for...

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North carolina is getting a break. please hear my message. we cannot underestimate this storm. wind speeds may have dropped some from yesterday, but weve traded that for a larger wind field that expands 200 miles with tropical storm force winds. and our greatest concern about this storm remains the same. storm surge and massive flooding. both are going to be extreme. catastrophic effects. catastrophic effects will be felt outside the center of the storm due to storm surge as high as 9 to 13 feet...

Winds. going back to 2004, 2005 we saw storms that were higher category. i think the untold story and the think im frankly am not sure about and the thing were going to have to wait and see is just the story of the water and what happens in terms of the storm surge and this pounding rain that continues hour after hour after hour. >> yeah, and if you get 30 inches of rain in that short amount of time then that is problematic. anderson, thank you very much. i want you to stand by. well get back to...