category 1, delivering just a glancing blow to north carolina but it is still bringing top winds up to 105 miles per hour and had heavy rain to the coast of virginia right now. nbc's mike taibbi is on the jersey shore where they have been bracing for this hurricane. the weather channel's julie martin is in ocean city, maryland. julie, let me start with you, i understand ocean beach residents have been urge to baton down the hatches. gonna delay some holiday plans there? >> yeah, well, maryland's governor has requested basically that travelers don't get on the roads today to come in or out of ocean city, maryland, just for obvious reasons. the winds are going to be quite high, already gusting up around 30 miles an hour. as the afternoon wanes on, just a bad day for travel all day long. look at the atlantic, chris, it is really churning out there and the water closed off today to the public for obvious reasons as well. look at all the spectators we have on the beach taking in some of earl's wave action. earl, by the way, still off to