More than 50,000 utility customers were without power in Puerto Rico as the hurricane battered the Caribbean, bringing heavy rain, powerful wind and sizable waves to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island...

Hurricane Erin has been downgraded to a Category 3 storm, yet its outer bands continue to batter the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico with torrential rain and tropical-storm force winds.

Hurricane Erin reduced its fury late Monday and returned to Category 3 potency, but was still expected to bring potentially deadly waves and rip currents to the East Coast midweek.

Hurricane Erin may be spinning hundreds of miles offshore, but its impact is being felt hard along the East Coast.

“When assessing how people in the US lost their lives from the last 10 years due to tropical storms and hurricanes about 12% of them were due to rip currents,” according to Cassandra Mora, meteorolog...