over. cnn is your hurricane headquarters and we've got reporters up and down the east coast as earl tracks north. rob marciano is in kill devil hills, north carolina. br brianna keilar in ocean city, maryland. first, the latest advisory just out and reynolds wolf has it. that's right. this has been downgraded. earl was a category 2. it was a cat 4. now take a look at the magic number, cat 1, winds at 85 miles an hour, gusts 105. tony, we actually saw this unfolding just over the last, i'd say, two or three hours. we saw some dry air intruding into the western half of the storm causing it to weaken. there's still deep convection to the center but the center of circulation, although you have it, the eye is almost impossible to see at this point. what i can tell you, as the storm tips to make its way to the north, it will be moving into an area where you have much cooler water, very cooler water or colder in the southern half especially off the outer banks. it moves in that area with the upper level winds and strong sheer, both of those will