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It's been 20 years since Hurricane Isabel barreled its way up the coast of North Carolina and Virginia, leaving 17 dead, hundreds of thousands without power, and destroying homes and businesses

With peak summer travel on the horizon, sections of Highway 12 will have a lowered speed limit.

Jeff Jackson won the Democratic primary for the Charlotte area’s new 14th U.S. House District on Tuesday and will face Republican Pat Harrigan in November. Meanwhile, Rep. Alma Adams won the Democratic primary for Charlotte's other U.S. House seat, the 12th District, and Tyler Lee won the Republican primary.

Two homes collapsed in one day in Rodanthe, N.C., at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Speed limits drop on sections of NC 12 in Outer Banks ahead of peak travel season Gerry Broome/AP FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2010, file photo, wild horses roam in Corolla, N.C. As North Carolina braces for Hurricane Florence, some tourists and residents are worried about the famous wild horses that roam the Outer Banks. But Sue Stuska, a wildlife biologist based at Cape Lookout National Seashore, said the horses instinctively know what to do in a storm. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) By: ...

Buckston, north carolina. i think we have pictures where it looks dark and the storm looks like it will be bearing down soon. joining me now is mare eella with radio hatteras, a community radio station which i imagine provides information to the community there. i think everyone there pretty much has evacuated except for you, mary helen. tell me why you stayed. >> because radio hatteras is part of the emergency communications network for dare county. if the tv goes out, unfortunately, were an in...

Areas. ocean view drive has water came over ocean view drive on nc-12, which is our only main highway here. and then its also crossing at the old frisco pier. >> already. you have had two overwashes already and this storm is just beginning to hit. what else are you seeing? >> that our wind is picking up. theres a gust in rodanthe up to 40, which is just a notch above tropical storm force. >> so glad we have you on with us so people can understand what this all means. yes, the wind speed of this ...

Days? >> it will be a very long two days. thats the reason i came early, is because early forecast was that the winds, the tropical storm force winds would come in some time wednesday, late wednesday night, and where i live in the north end of hatteras island, i cant get through buxton with the nc-12 might have been flooded so i came early yesterday afternoon. >> all right, mary ellen, reporting that two areas, two roadways already overwashed by the water from this storm. hurricane florence, whi...

Low lying areas that arent protected by the beach. a lot of people have no protection from the storm. as the wind rushed past the water picked up in the sound and inundated some of the homes there. that being said people cannot be out and about today. nc 12 which is a highway the main thoroughfare of the outer banks parts of it is closed. maybe perhaps the worst is over. people cannot be out and about today. iffer you sant key where you are driving dont go out on the roads today. coast guard wil...

The center is going or what time because again, sandy is very large and spans over 800 miles from one end to the other so well be feeling the impacts for quite some time. >> geraldo: ill be speaking with you as the evening progresses, maria molina our crack meteorologist in the fox news extreme weather center. and north carolina has been getting rain and some wind already. grier beaty, the director of north carolina department of transportation, so, grier, tell me what youve experienced so far a...