Evacuations were ordered beginning Monday on Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks, the thin stretch of low-lying barrier islands that juts far into the Atlantic.

Hurricane Erin is churning up life-threatening rip currents and dangerous surf along much of the US East Coast and will soon send destructive waves and storm surge to North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Erin is a category 2 hurricane but it has weakened just a bit. The storm is moving NNW at 10 mph with winds up to 105 mph.Erin went through an extreme rapid intensification over the weekend. It went ...