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Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Brianna Keilar and youre in the situation room. We have breaking news. Hurricane arthur arriving. The storm is already lashing the North Carolina coast with heavy rain and winds up to 95 Miles Per Hour. Storm surge is expected, deadly rip currents offshore, deadly flooding inland. Isolated tornados are also possible along the outer bands of the storm and a tornado watch is up for eastern parts of North Carolina. Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate vulnerable Barrier Islands and many more are strongly urged to do so. Our correspondents are standing by in the hurricane zone from Wrightsville Beach, up the coast to Kill Devil Hills with the kind of coverage that only cnn can deliver. Were going to begin with the latest forecast, so lets go straight now to cnn meteorologist and Severe Weather expert, chad myers. What are you seeing, chad . Brianna, we hope the 5 00 increase would take it down to a category 1 hurricane this evening, but they still

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