Hurricane Florence

The storm, now Category 2 strength, is still on track to strike the Carolinas Thursday night and Friday.

The Category 4 storm is expected to hit the Carolinas and Virginia late Thursday or early Friday. All along the coast, people are being urged — or ordered — to get out, and get out early.

The severity of Hurricane Florence is intensifying, triggering hurricane warnings along most of North Carolina's coast and a portion of South Carolina's.

Florence rapidly intensified into a "potentially catastrophic" Category 4 storm Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center said in a special...