Who is in Kill Devil Hills, and we know the big concern is rip currents. Yeah, definitely rip currents, but as we mentioned before i think last time you saw me the wind were definitely calmer and i talked about the big switch in the wind direction that was expected to happen. Thats exactly what were seeing right now. Arthur, the first category 2 or stronger hurricane. One of the gusts coming right now to make landfall. The first category two stronger or stronger hurricane to make landfall since 2008. Made landfall again. Look the at east side. First the easterly winds and now weve shift that had direction coming out of north and switching into the west. Can you see that the actual eye of the system is making its way offshore, but as it does so you get on the back side of the system where real some of the stronger winds come in. No, not right next to the eye, not talking about 100mileperhour wind. Were still talking very strong winds. Somewhere could be anywhere from 40 to 50mileperhour, but the gusts, can you see knocked me over, can be as strong as 80 Miles Per Hour. What you have to consider is you have the storm itself. That has those winds whipping around about 100 Miles Per Hour, but you have the motion of the storm thats real picked up now about 20 Miles Per Hour to the northeast. You have to add those two together to really get the combination of some of these winds. Can you actually see some of these really strong gusts. Trying to keep my hat on, almost knocking me over. Not sure how much you can see behind me but theres a huge dropoff at the ocean. Thats one of the concerns as well is all of the this beach erosion that occurred interest this system that made its way in. Only a good 10 or 20 feet here before you get to the actual hotel. You can see the damage the storm has down. Down to the south, we keep talking about the sound. The switch in the wind direction is key because that water is shallow. Once you see the westerly winds coming in it makes that storm surge very high and very quick and thats the concern. Highway 12 reporting flooding all across that highway again. Indra, its amazing to see. At least 20 counties here now in a state of emergency. Hurricane arthur making landfall at 11 15 thursday night. Cnns renee march camped out at Atlantic Beach when it hit reporter winds are extremely strong and if you take a look at the skies you can see them lighting up. Thats not lightning but transformers blowing out meaning people are without power at this point. Reporter despite the darkness along the outer banks North Carolinas governor told the thousands without power to stay inside . Wait for this storm to leave for a long period of time before you venture to the outside. The now category 2 hurricane living up to emergency manager fears. Tree broken and crashed into this house here. Sustained winds of at least 100 Miles Per Hour. Storm surges and dangerous rip currents are warding off fourth of july beachgoers. We want to warn our sustenance up the coast and our thousand of tourists who may be dealing with this for the first time that this is a serious storm. Reporter this is a photo from inside the eye of the storm, of the inner eye wall, now shrinking in size. The dajer, the smaller the eye gets the stronger the winds become. So were most concerned now about flooding inland and also storm surges in our sounds and in our rivers further inland. Reporter governor pat mccrory says rescue and emergency crews are at the ready to assess damage and begin the cleanup effort. So where we are in Kill Devil Hills, what well be dealing with are the strong winds coming in from the westerly direction. The biggest threat right now is the storm surge. Remember the sound is off of the west. All that water got pushed away on the front side of the system. Now that youre on the back side of the system all that water is going to come rushing right back with all the westerly winds so that storm surge coming up over highway 12 causing a lot of problems there, and one of the big concerns fresh in everyones minds is we know its the holiday. Everyone will be trying to celebrate as the system makes its way offshore. The rip currents, thats a huge factor. They will still be here. All the water that made its way in, it wants to find its way out. Thats the risk. Do not want to be in the water today. I really hope everyone listens. Huge danger out in the water once the system kicks out of here. Indra is on the ground getting whipped around and getting a face full of sand at the same time. A mean surf. Lets go over to our affiliate wral out of raleigh, North Carolina. They are tracking arthur as coastal parts of the state continue to get pounded. They have reporters on the ground on the coast. The feast moving part of this storm is the big story. Back to you. All right, colin, thank you very much for that live report. Lets now turn our attention to Atlantic Beach. Thats what happens as were dipping into live coverage. Right now 17,000 power customers are in the dark in counties along the coast. All of Ocracoke Island is without electricity at the moment. Lets move down the North Carolina coast to Wrightsville Beach where alyno machado is. It looks like things have started to get a little bit better where you are. Yeah, kate, things are definitely looking a lot better here. Just when you compare from a few hours ago, hurricane arthur brought a lot of rain and wind to this area. The surf though, still pretty rough, but thats nothing compared to what we saw here at the height of the storm. Were now starting to see some of the effects of hurricane arthur and what it did here. You can see apparently some beach erosion here but its relatively minor compared to what could have happened in this area. Now, in terms of widespread Power Outages or flooding or anything like that in this area, we have not seen that even though we got slammed here. For much of yesterday we saw period of very heavy rain and wind and then at about 7 00 or 8 00 last night eastern time for a period of about two hours there were very strong wind gusts and very heavy downpours, and the good news though is that for the most part people stayed home. People didnt come out at the peak of the storm which was a big concern here officials were having. A lot of tourists and people out trying to enjoy a Beach Vacation, and obviously hurricane arthur has affected some of those plans. Kate . All right. Youre absolutely right. Definitely affected a lot of peoples plans, especially coming in from out of town. Thank you. Joined now by bobbialston, county manager for dare county, joining us from the countys Emergency Management center in manteo, North Carolina. Tell me, weve got our reporters on the ground kind of seeing what the outer banks are looking like. Whats it like . What have you been seeing and hearing from all your points of contact . Well, were just getting out. Every night it was fairly quieter than expected. Didnt get many calls. Not much going on. People stayed indoors and that was a good thing. Reports were getting so far were having some flooding down on highway 12 in the rodanthe area but the Northern Areas fared very well in the areas where we normally have problems on the ocean front. We havent had any reported problems, kitty hawk looking good, sporadic Power Outages, trees down and that, but all in all everything so far is looking good, and were just now getting our teams out to start really checking things out here at first light. So the teams will start be heading out. I believe that there were curfews were in kind of of different areas throughout the outer banks and those curfews are just starting to lift. Thats correct. There were curfews in Kill Devil Hills and National Head and right now were getting our teams out. So far so good and thats good news. Yeah. Whats it like, are they reporting back damage and the sattus of the road . Whats today going to be like for you guys as everyone is trying to clean up from a sloppy mess . First thing well do is check the roads for the safety. Right now you can get into the county so you can make sure it is safe to drive in. That will happen relatively quickly. If everything is clear well help people back through the county. Hatteras island will remain closed until the bridge is down until we can assess highway 12. That may take a while because weve got to let the water recede and check the status of the pavement. Those are our priorities Going Forward this morning and then well start recovery effort where we need to depending on what we find. Thats an important point, the fact that folks might be waking up and seeing that maybe the winds are a little less. It doesnt look like they have as much rain as they need to be dealing with right now as first light comes up. Access to some of the outer most points are still restricted. When do you think that folks will be able to get back in, because as you well know and i know youve been hearing it for days, folks want to get back to their vacation, if at all possible. Yeah, we understand that, but safety is the most important thing and until we can get our teams out and make sure everything is safe its really hard to give an estimate. We hope that its sooner rather than later and were doing everything we can do to make sure everything is as safe as quickly as we can. How long have you lived in dare county, rita cosby. 32 years. And you probably have weathered many of these storms and you know folks out there, many of them say, they can handle these storms and would much rather stay at home than leave and have to come back. Do you think most folks did that . I think when its time to evacuate, its time to evac a. The risks are much greater than the reward of staying and people should heed those warnings. Do you think people heeded the warnings this time . I know it was kind of a mixed bag of mandatory evacuations and voluntary evacuations. Well, we dont do voluntary evacuations in dare county. All the visitors heed the warnings and hope our residents do as well. Whats the Important Message for everybody this morning, lights coming up and curfews expiring. What do you want to make sure people need to know . Stay inside and allow the damage teams to get out. We want to be sure theres not power lines down or not any danger to them yet. They need to wait a little while and let the storm get out of here before they get up and around to check out their areas and make sure that theres enough life they can see and make sure they do things safely. When the light comes up and the main part of the storm is passed doesnt mean that the danger has because you need to get your crews out to assess what you need to. Bobby, thank you so much. Good luck. Thanks for having me. As folks wake up this morning and start to try to figure out what the plan is for the day. You obviously want to know what the weather is like. Got a team of meteorologists with us today. Karen, how is it looking and when are we going to see the progress being made in terms of the way this this storm moves northeast . It is going to be fascinating to watch. Now, arthur slammed onshore cape lookout, north call. 11 hours ago, 11 15 eastern time. Its just off the past, just drop Pamlico Sound and albemarle sound. I have to tell you, this is a National Sea Shore and its very environmentally fragile. When these hurricanes come theres only a sliver of land and that water, all of it, rushing onshore and its making for an extremely dangerous conditions there. We heard about the rip current yesterday, so what can we expect over the next few hours . Well, as this pulls away from the coast, still some of the outer bands are pummeling portions of norfolk, virginia, and will accelerate towards the northeast. Thats the whole hurricane is going to move off towards the northeast over the next 12 to 24 hours. We can see by about midday or 2 00 it is going to be off the coast of of new york city. Washington, d. C. , youll pick up some heavy rain bands and so will atlantic city, and so will providence, rhode island. Boston, a little different story. Depending on how close this comes to shore, and can you see theres a lot of wiggle room here, just 10 or 15 miles to the east or to the west its going to make a huge difference but you can Better Believe youll expect between 1 and 4 inches of rainfall so theres going to be localized flooding. There could be some erosion issues and there will be some inland flooding, too. This storm system is going to race towards the Eastern Canadian maritimes. As it does, its going to weaken and become Tropical Storm strength, so Tropical Storm watches as well as warnings are issued all the way up into the Eastern Canadian mayor types. Youll expect a pretty heavy surf here as well. But because our hurricane still is category 2 hurricane, still supporting winds of 100 miles an hour, its still going to impact the midatlantic over the next 6 to 12 hours and into this afternoon into new england. Back to you. Kate, michaela. Important to know. Indra was even pointing out that it is holding on to its momentup. Its moving on and will pick up speed quickly which is a good thing to get it out of its way, holding on to the momentum with the strong winds to this point. And that flooding and the concern about the flooding and erosion, potentially lasting effects that well see through the weekend and through the next week. Absolutely right. Coming up next on new day, well continue this breaking News Coverage of hurricane arthur. Everything you need to know and what it looked like overnight while were you sleeping and what it will look like at light comes up. Gripping new details emerging about the father whose son, little boy, toddler, died in a hot car. Well let you hear the startling testimony. You certainly do not want to miss what happened in court. At university of phoenix, we know you cant afford wrong turns on the road to your future. Thats why we build tools like our Career Guidance system. 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What was Justin Ross Harris allegedly doing while his 22monthold son cooper suffered in the back of his scorching suv . He was having up to six different conversations with different women. The most common term would be sexting. Claims of raunchy Text Messages, suspicious internet searches and a plan to kill his son. Evidence is showing right now that hes got this whole second livi life hes living with alternate personalities. They detailed xrated messages allegedly exchanged the day cooper died including with a then 16yearold girl. Were photo being sent back and forth between the women during this day while the child is out in the car . Yes. Theres photos of his exposed erect penis being sent and photos of womens breasts being sent back to him. No visible reaction from the 33yearolds wife Leanna Harris who sat with her family and supporters in the packed courtroom. He was a loving father. He loved his son very much. We went on Family Vacations together, and he was a good dad. But just five days before coopers death detective stoddard said internet searches said harris watched videos online about the dangers of being trapped in a hot car and that harris visited a web forum devoted to the childfree lifestyle. You dont have any evidence that he actually typed in a Google Search or a search for childfree. Were getting so far afield of the events of june the 18th, this has got nothing to do with those event whatsoever. The status of his marriage and his fantasy life has got nothing to do with the events of june the 18th. Were just gettin