Hurricane Erin is forcing evacuations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it churns in the Atlantic where high winds and heavy rain are pelting the Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the Bahamas.

Hurricane Erin is expected to stay at least 200 miles offshore this week as it curves past the East Coast. Yet the massive storm still is hurling giant waves and life-threatening storm surge toward North Carolina’s Outer Banks — forcing some communities to evacuate.

On Wednesday morning, Hurricane Erin was several hundred miles off the coast of Florida and beginning to push storm surge and deadly rip currents toward the shore. Two other systems may form right

Hurricane Erin brings tropical storm warnings along to Virginia and other spots along the East Coast, remains Category 2 storm.

As Hurricane Erin grows in size, impacts from the storm’s intensity will be felt “well outside” the storm’s center, including in Hampton Roads. The storm’s impacts

Bogus social media posts are circulating about the colonial Spanish mustangs of Corolla being evacuated off the beach in tractor-trailers.

NCDOT officials said "given the winds, wave heights and storm surge forecast, it likely won't be enough" to keep NC 12 from flooding at the Outer Banks.

Two more tropical systems trail Hurricane Erin, which is following a projected course that brushes past the East Coast without making landfall.