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...

Satellite imagery captured by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) shows Hurricane Erin churning off the East Coast on Thursday, August 21.

A tropical depression is expected to form later today or tonight, with further intensification to a tropical storm likely on Sunday while the low moves northward over the southwestern Atlantic.