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To quickly assess any damage or injuries reported. people were being told to avoid flood water because officials were worried itself might be milked with overflew sewage, and people were told to stay off roads, theyve should go on social media and click on a pain that emergency officials tweeted out that districted them to a link of live traffic cams so basically, welcome to 2014 hurricane season go on, see if the road you need to take are washed out or not. the only real thing affecting people ...

>> so you yourself have been stuck in them? >> sure. >> reporter: how to escape? rip currents are often no wider than 30 feet. >> most people we still them swim left to right parallel because then youre out of the force of the water bringing you out. >> that advice saved randys life. there were no lifeguards on duty when he was swept away. >> it took me about a half hour to get out of the rip current and i was about a half a mile away from my blanket, but i made it out. and i was a little winded...

>> all right, ingra peterson, thank you. lets go to chad myers in the cnn weather center. thats the thing, people need to stay out of the waert. it looks like north carolina at this point lucky to folks there, theyre going to have this july 4th weekend. but this thing still heading towards new england. >> it is still going to make a lot of rip current activity all the way from long island down the jersey shore, even down towards the delmarva. so not over for the points to the north. now that the...

We take you to what looks like a flooded parking lot in waves here. north carolina, its on hatteras island and part of the flood-prone outer banks. no cars there and hopefully everybody is at home where they should be. you dont have to be at home to feel the effects of hurricane arthur. rip currents are catching people off guard. ded ded h dylan dreyer has more. as hurricane arthur whips up the waters on the east coast, the powerful waves can be enticing for adventurous beachgoers, but high an...

Make it and everything is going to be okay. >> even after hurricane arthur passes, rip currents could still be a threat for several days. joining me now is dr. ellen prager, a marine scientist. shes on skype which is a good thing. we can see her. good morning. >> good morning. >> heres the big problem. a lot of people dont know how to spot a rip current in order to get out of the way. how can you see one in order not to get sucked in? >> the problem is they are very difficult to see, especially ...

Short periods of time making things very wet and the ground more difficult to absorb more rain in this area. so thats a concern. you mentioned rip currents. weve got them out here. you cant see that. were talking to the life guards earlier. they say this part of the beach, especially, theres a lot of rip currents because of the unevenness of the sand bar underneath. that causes these canal-like funnels where the water comes in and then rushes back out to sea and thats what creates this riptide, ...

Surviving. >> you want to remain calm. do not panic when youre in a situation. the rip current will not pull you underwater. itll only pull you out further. you need to remain calm. >> green you swim between them. red means no swimming. theres an an area of 80 yards of green yards you swim tree. >> swim parallel to the shore. maria is over her head. shes in a rip current right now. she should be moving parallel to the rip current. swimming b inming parallel to t and getting out of the rip curren...

>> todays fourth of july. lets celebrate. >> reporter: even though it turned out to be a gorgeous fourth of july, theres still one threat that exists, and that is the rip current. so theyre warning people that that will be an issue for several days to come. in the meantime, as far as the cleanup goes, we do know parts of bonner bridge as well as highway 12 still shut down at this point because of sand. water washed over it. they had sand blocking the way as well as downed power lines. as soon as...

Will have the latest on the hurricane and where its heading. first a warning for beach goers. get this. the hurricane expected to bring dangerous rip currents that could sweep even the strongest swimmers out the sea. thats the concern. >> we always hear about it. would you know what to do if you were actually caught in one? >> reporter: across americas beaches last year 30 drownings occurred due to swimmers getting caught up in rip currents. but it shouldnt stoup from having fun in the sun. >> a...

Hills, north carolina, for a couple of days. its a cat 2 storm. its moved on but effects are still being felt. >> michaela, the strongest hurricane we found on the u.s. mainland that made ranful since 2008. you can see here the beach erosion thats already happened and you can see thats what happened as the waves came onshore this morning with more of that easterly direction, but take a look behind me. this is our concern. you can actually see way back in the distance here someone is now swimming...