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Breaking news, hurricane earl, category 4 storm, winds nearly 135 miles an hour, approaching the koist of north carolina, threatening much of the eastern shore this weekend, mainly friday, saturday. as we told you, mandatory evacuations already under way in some areas. chad myers has the latest. what have we learned? >> big storm, literally. could be bigger at the 11:00 update. there is earl, fiona and now gaston, who did a lot of damage around richmond, virginia, six years ago. remember, they do recycle the names. it's not a new name every year. if it's not a damaging storm that caused a lot ...

Settlement. >> how much rides on president obama for this? i mean, is it -- is there a lot riding on it for him? obviously if there's progress, that reflects well on him. if there's not, is there any blow-back for that? >> well, we have seen in the past when president clinton got deeply involved and president bush got deeply involved, they made progress and then things failed and there was renewed violence. so, you can go backwards if you try too hard. what's interesting here, anderson, is that king abdullah of jordan called directly on president obama to inject himself and be the leader in th...

Anyway, it's been flying back and forget. a few moments ago, it flew right through the eye. as it flew through the eye it dropped a weather balloon, but it doesn't go up, it goes down. it has to drop down. they're flying. it found a gust on the way down to 199 miles per hour. that's literally like nascar at its fastest racetrack going around in a circle right there in the center of the eye. the storm, and it's the word you used and so did the hurricane center, relentless. it hasn't stopped moving from east to the northwest. it has been doing the same thing for days. it's forecast to be turning...

The ocean. then that sand bar breaks because of all the erosion. right where that break is is where all the water rushes back out. if you're right there, you're rushing out with it. so, this is going to be one of those weekends to just -- >> is it going to be rain all along the east coast? >> no. it will be over, completely over by friday afternoon. it will be beautiful for the weekend. >> okay. >> right now it's a wednesday, thursday, friday event. >> chad, thank you very much. continue to follow it. we're following more news tonight. isha sesay is back with the "360 bulletin." >> michael dou...

Warnings because they don't think it will be a direct hit. let's bring in chad myers, who is closely tracking the storm. 199 miles an hour, unbelievable. >> hurricane hunter aircraft in there called miss piggy. they're kind of all named by the muppets. anyway, it's been flying back and forget. a few moments ago, it flew right through the eye. as it flew through the eye it dropped a weather balloon, but it doesn't go up, it goes down. it has to drop down. they're flying. it found a gust on the way down to 199 miles per hour. that's literally like nascar at its fastest racetrack going around in ...