Hur­ri­cane Irene heads to­ward the East Coast

Published 14y ago - Associated Press

(AP) Hur­ri­cane Irene strength­ened overnight to a cat­e­gory 3 storm, wreak­ing havoc across the Caribbean and spark­ing evac­u­a­tion or­ders in coastal North Car­olina. Thou­sands of peo­ple in Oc­ra­coke Is­land, N.C., have been or­dered to evac­u­ate as the storm con­tin­ues ... More »