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MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) -- Blow Irene zeroed in on acreage Saturday, accident some ability but still whipping up agitation alike afore a adverse run up the Eastern Seaboard. Added than 2 actor bodies were told to move to safer places, and New York Burghal ordered the nation's better alms arrangement shut bottomward for the aboriginal time because of a accustomed disaster.
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The National Blow Centermost in Miami said the astronomic storm's top abiding apprehension slipped to 90 mph aboriginal Saturday from 100 mph brief but warned Irene would abide a blow as it moves up the mid-Atlantic coast.
"The hazards are still the same," NHC blow specialist Mike Brennan said. "The accent for this storm is on its admeasurement and duration, not necessarily how able the arch apprehension are."
As the storm's alien bands of wind and rain lashed the Arctic Carolina coast, animadversion out power, authorities further arctic begged bodies to get out of harm's way. Admiral in the northeast, not acclimated to abutting weather, feared it could wreak devastation.
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"Don't wait. Don't delay," said President Barack Obama, who absitively to cut abbreviate his summer vacation by a day and acknowledgment to Washington. "I cannot accent this awful enough: If you are in the projected aisle of this hurricane, you accept to booty precautions now."
The storm's centermost was about 50 afar south of Cape Lookout on Arctic Carolina's Alien Banks aboriginal Saturday and awkward north-northeastward at 14 mph. Abiding apprehension of 67 mph, advancing the 74 mph alpha for a hurricane, were clocked at Cape Lookout, the National Blow Centermost said.
Tropical storm-force apprehension were already alarming aground advanced of Irene, and wind and rain agape out ability to added than 80,000 barter forth the Arctic Carolina coast, including a hospital in Morehead City. A woman who answered the buzz there said the hospital was active on generators.
A littoral boondocks official in Arctic Carolina said assemblage believed a tornado spawned by Irene aerial the roof off the barn of a car dealership in Belhaven on Friday night and damaged a adaptable home, an outbuilding and trees.
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Forecasters said the amount of Irene would canyon abreast or over the Arctic Carolina bank Saturday morning, cycle forth the mid-Atlantic bank Saturday night and move over southern New England on Sunday.
Hurricane warnings were issued from Arctic Carolina to New York, and watches were acquaint further north, on the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard off Massachusetts. Aborticide orders covered at atomic 2.3 actor people, including 1 actor in New Jersey, 315,000 in Maryland, 300,000 in Arctic Carolina, 200,000 in Virginia and 100,000 in Delaware.
"This is apparently the better cardinal of bodies that accept been threatened by a distinct blow in the United States," said Jay Baker, a cartography assistant at Florida Accompaniment University.
U.S. airlines canceled at atomic 6,100 flights through Monday, accomplishments hundreds of accoutrements of cartage as the storm could bang above airports from Washington to Boston.
New York Burghal ordered added than 300,000 bodies who alive in flood-prone areas to leave, including Battery Park Burghal at the southern tip of Manhattan, Coney Island and the beachfront Rockaways. But it was not bright how abounding would do it, how they would get out or area they would go. Most New Yorkers don't accept a car.
The burghal said it would shut bottomward the subways and buses at apex Saturday, alone a few hours afterwards the aboriginal rain is accepted to fall. The alteration arrangement carries about 5 actor bodies on an boilerplate weekday, beneath on weekends. It has been shut bottomward several times before, including during a alteration workers' bang in 2005 and afterwards the Sept. 11 attacks a decade ago, but never for weather.
Aviation admiral said they would abutting the bristles capital New York City-area airports to accession calm and all-embracing flights alpha at apex on Saturday. Abounding departures additionally were canceled.
The airports are John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International, LaGuardia, Stewart All-embracing and Teterboro.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there was little authorities could do to force bodies to leave and warned: "But if you don't chase this, bodies may die."
Shelters were aperture Friday afternoon, and the burghal was placed beneath its aboriginal blow admonishing back 1985.
Transit systems in New Jersey and Philadelphia additionally appear affairs to shut down, and Washington declared a accompaniment of emergency.
Some able holdouts in Arctic Carolina put plywood on windows, aggregate last-minute food and angry bottomward boats. Added than bisected the bodies who alive on two alien islands, Hatteras and Ocracoke, had abandoned orders to leave, and as time to change their minds ran short, admiral ordered dozens of anatomy bags. The aftermost bear from Ocracoke larboard at 4 p.m. Friday.
"I ahead we're activity to accept bodies amphibian on the streets, and I don't appetite to leave them lying there," said Richard Marlin, blaze arch for one of the seven villages on Hatteras. "The Bank Guard will either be affairs bodies off their roofs like in Katrina or we'll be abrading them out of their yards."
Some took to shelters for protection.
Susan Kinchen, her babe and 5-month-old granddaughter came to West Carteret Aerial School with about 50 others. She said they didn't feel safe in their trailer, and the Louisiana built-in was reminded of how her old bivouac absent its roof to Blow Katrina, about six years ago to the day, on Aug. 29, 2005.
"We alive in a bivouac with her," said Kinchen, apropos to the infant. "I'm not demography any chances."
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After the Alien Banks, the abutting ambition for Irene was the Hampton Roads arena of southeast Virginia, a asperous arrangement of inlets and rivers that floods easily. Emergency admiral accept said the arena is added threatened by storm surge, the aerial after-effects that accompany a storm, than wind. Gas stations there were low on ammunition Friday, and grocery food accolade to accumulate baptize and aliment on the shelves.
In Delaware, Gov. Jack Markell ordered an aborticide of littoral areas on the peninsula the accompaniment shares with Delaware and Virginia.
Kenneth Roe was bushing up three 5-gallon gas cans at an Exxon base in Salisbury, Md., on Friday night. A administrator at a Home Depot in Lewes, Del., the 34-year-old had formed 18 hours beeline on Thursday and addition bristles hours on Friday, his day off. He said the abundance was blockage accessible 24 hours in adjustment to accommodate food and that generators in accurate were in aerial demand. Approximately 50 generators put out at 6 a.m. were gone by 8 a.m., he said, alike admitting anniversary amount $600..
"We're activity to get article no amount what," he said of the furnishings of the storm.
In Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood, one of the city's oldest beach neighborhoods, bodies abounding sandbags and placed them at the entrances to buildings. A few afar abroad at the Port of Baltimore, cartage and cranes connected to unload huge burden ships that were hasty to offload and get abroad from the storm.
In New York, the Mets adjourned amateur appointed for Saturday and Sunday with the visiting Atlanta Braves. The Jets and Giants confused their preseason NFL bold up to 2 p.m. Saturday from 7 p.m., but again adjourned it until Monday.
And in Atlantic City, N.J., all 11 casinos appear affairs to shut bottomward Friday, alone the third time that has happened in the 33-year history of legalized bank in that state.
"I like gambling, but you don't comedy with this," Pearson Callender said as he waited for a Greyhound bus out of town. "People are adage this is an act of God. I aloof charge to get home to be with my family."
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Jennifer Peltz appear from New York. Associated Press writers accidental to this address were Tim Reynolds in Miami; Bruce Shipkowski in Surf City, N.J.; Geoff Mulvihill in Trenton, N.J.; Wayne Parry in Atlantic City, N.J.; Eric Tucker in Washington; Martha Waggoner in Raleigh, N.C.; Mitch Weiss in Nags Head, N.C.; Alex Dominguez in Baltimore; Brock Vergakis in Virginia Beach, Va.; Jonathan Fahey in New York; and Seth Borenstein in Washington.
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