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The storm was expected to move across parts of southeastern North Carolina and eastern SC on Friday and Saturday, then head north over the western Carolinas and central Appalachian Mountains early next week, the NHC said.

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Maryland have declared states of emergency.

A mother and baby were killed when a tree fell on their home in Wilmington.

“It certainly is a challenge forecasting precise impacts when its exact track won’t be known until a day in advance”, Landsea said.

The father was transported to a hospital.

Florence is now expected to begin delivering tropical storm-force winds in the region by early Thursday, escalating to hurricane-force winds by late Thursday or early Friday. “But looking back at the forecast tracks for Hurricane Florence from the National Hurricane Center...

“The models indicate it will travel up the west side of the United Kingdom, before crossing Scotland and going out the north of Scotland, but that could change as the storm degrades and changes its habits”.

In South Carolina, McMaster’s evacuation orders affect about 1 million residents and tourists across eight low-lying counties.

A mother and her baby died when a tree fell on their home in Wilmington, North Carolina.

That mix of impressions – a respect for this storm’s sheer size and the massive amount of rain and seawater it brings, along with a resignation to storms being part of life on the coast – is also part of the reaction in low-lying areas to the north. That same...

The child’s father was taken to a hospital.

North and SC residents all along the eastern Atlantic coast are evacuating ahead of an intensifying Hurricane Florence.

But while the storm is predicted to pass near Wilmington, North Carolina, the majority of surge-related flooding will actually be to north near Pamlico Sound. “Our greatest concern about this storm remains the same – storm surge and massive flooding”, he said.

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Florence was downgraded to a Category 1 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale on Thursday evening and was moving west at only 6 miles per hour (9 km/h).