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Mandatory evacuation under way, and it's supposed to be wrapped up by 4:00. there are a lot of people still in town on the boardwalk checking out the surf, checking out what's going on, checking out the media. i think the police are going to start getting them off the streets. just a moment ago, the water -- now the tide is coming back in. we have about three hours until the next high tide. the water came up to here and chased me from the surf. by this morning, the tide only got up to here. and we have three hours to go. that tells you that the storm is drawing closer. we'll have up to an eigh...

Communities from north carolina to new england are on high alert. the intensifying hurricane earl is streaming towards the eastern seaboard this morning. let's go live to the weather channel's mike seidel in long island. a big holiday weekend coming up. a lot of people have plans there. >> well, the thing is with this hurricane, chris, is the fact that it's going to be gone before saturday morning gets here. so if you've got any kind of waeked plans, saturday, sunday and monday, the weather is going to be gorgeous. we're going to have fallish weather with temperatures in the 70s. until we get ...

The dune line. we mentioned yesterday. a 15-foot elevation up to the motels and certainly keep the property safe. wind may be an issue in some respects. we are expecting gusts maybe as high as 50 miles per hour. quick-moving system and cuts down on all the impacts but nonetheless we will have impacts here on long island by saturday morning the sun will be out across the east coast. so if you got weekend plans, you will be fine. the only thing is cape cod may take enough of a hit that they will have power outages. >> all right. mike on long island for us this morning, thank you. well, now to ...

That will take a beating as we get into friday. here we'll see the beach under water. that is not saying much in the short term because at high tide we'll see the water coming up towards this fence. behind me, a significant dune line protecting this beach front property. that will save the property, the motels from any serious structural damage but these beaches hit hard and a lot of beach erosion and the rip currents which were a problem last weekend will continue even into saturday once the storm goes by and we will have some. so, chris, right nuwe're taking a glancing blow for the hamptons ...

Surge from this storm and matthew could very well end up being worse or as bad at least as what we saw right after super storm sandy. our bill karen is standing by for us. >> that's an incredible reporting from kerry. he's showing us firsthand of what this storm does. when the water is coming into high tides. the dunes is out there. ea once it get past the dune line.