Hurricane Erin has battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes.

Life-threatening rip currents and other dangers brought to the US east coast by nearby Hurricane Erin will last for at least a couple more days, officials say, as the the storm heads north. The storm has already soaked parts of the Atlantic coastline ...

Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane during the early hours of Aug. 19 as it moves closer to the East Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. As of 5 a.m. Aug. 19, Erin was located 675 miles southwest of Bermuda and 750 miles from Cape Hatteras,