Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes before the huge storm slowly began to move fart...

The National Hurricane Center is tracking three systems in the Atlantic, according to the 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, advisory.

Although the storm will pass just over 200 miles offshore on Thursday, serious impacts are expected across North Carolina’s Outer Banks because of the storm’s expanding wind and wave field.