More than 50,000 utility customers were without power in Puerto Rico as the hurricane battered the Caribbean, bringing heavy rain, powerful wind and sizable waves to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island...

Mandatory evacuation orders are in effect in parts of North Carolina as the US East Coast braces for life-threatening rip currents from Hurricane Erin.

Erin is expected to continue to fluctuate in intensity as it undergoes an eyewall replacement cycle.

A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week.