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good evening. we re covering two major stories on two fronts tonight including the news today that somewhat unbelievably another oil platform in the gulf of mexico off louisiana has caught fire. all 13 men on board survived. it s about 200 miles away from the bp location. we ll have an update on that in a moment. first, instead of great urgency to folks up and down the east coast, hurricane earl. category three, it s headed north. it s a storm as big as the state of california. ocean waves at the center of this have been 29 feet high. the storm hasn t jogged as much or as soon as forecasters had hoped. it s bad news for the coast of north carolina first off where it will arrive in the next 12-hour window. our team is in place. we begin with the storm where it is, where it s headed. veteran hurricane specialist brian norcross at the weather channel with more. brian, what s the last update telling you? reporter: we ve got the radar, brian. good evening. there s your hurrica
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. we re covering two major stories on two fronts tonight including the news today that somewhat unbelievably another oil platform in the gulf of mexico off louisiana has caught fire. all 13 men on board survived. it s about 200 miles away from the bp location. we ll have an update on that in a moment. first, instead of great urgency to folks on the east coast, hurricane earl, a category three, a storm as big as the state of california. ocean waves at the center of this have been 29 feet high. the storm hasn t jogged as much or as soon as forecasters had hoped. it s bad news for the coast of north carolina first off where it will arrive in the next 12-hour window. our team is in place. we begin with the storm where it is, where it s headed. veteran hurricane specialist brian norcross at the weather channel with more. what s the last update? reporter: we ve got the radar, brian. good evening. there s your hurricane