Heavy rain fell horizontally in coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, where trees bent in the wind and traffic lights swayed. About a dozen roads were flooded, but it was nothing like last year's Hurricane Florence, which battered the city and closed bridges, isolating the city for days. 'We prepared for the worst and that didn't happen. That's OK,' said Ross Page, out walking his dogs early Friday after waking up without electricity. 'We got lucky.' Dorian apparently spawned at least one tornado in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, damaging several homes, and another twister touched down in the beach town of Emerald Isle, North Carolina, mangling and overturning several trailer homes in a jumble of sheet metal. No immediate injuries were reported. 💦😱
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Hundreds of people are trapped on the Outer Banks after Hurricane Dorian makes landfall in North Carolina sparking more than 20 tornadoes and unleashing 'catastrophic flooding' leaving 312,000 homes and businesses without power. The storm hit North Carolina's Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm on Friday, causing a life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds. North Carolina Gov Roy Cooper said during a press conference on Friday morning that hundreds of residents are believed to be stuck on Ocracoke Island, which received a direct hit and is only accessible by boat or plane. 'There is significant concern about hundreds of people trapped on Ocracoke Island,' he said. 'There are rescue teams ready as soon as they can get in.' Shocking videos spread across social medial of waters rising up to residents' back porches and people standing ankle-deep inside their own homes. 🌪💦😱
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(WARNING 21+) The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released video Friday of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a suspected kidnapper on the Northwest Side. The body camera video shows an officer confronting a man July 8 in an apartment in the Belmont Central neighborhood. After partially entering the room, the police officer yells, “Don’t move. Chicago police. Don’t move,” the video shows. The suspect, reclined on the sofa, leans forward, yells something inaudible and begins to turn over, the video shows. As the suspect places his hand near an apparent handgun on the edge of the sofa, the officer lets off several shots, and the suspect falls to the ground. He died later at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said. Ephraim Eaddy, a COPA spokesman, said the investigation into the officer’s actions is ongoing. The suspected kidnapper, 42-year-old Luis E. Vasquez, had allegedly carjacked two people the night before in the west suburbs, police have said. 🔫👮🏻♂️#shooting
A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a fury that took even storm-hardened residents by surprise, forcing people to climb into their attics. Hundreds were feared trapped by high water, and neighbors used boats to rescue one another. Medics and other rescuers rushed to Ocracoke Island - accessible only by boat or air - to reach those who made the mistake of defying mandatory evacuation orders along the 200-mile ribbon of low-lying islands. 'We are flooding like crazy,' Ocracoke Island bookshop owner Leslie Lanier texted. 'I have been here 32 years and not seen this.' Its winds down to 90mph, Dorian howled over the Outer Banks as a far weaker storm than the brute that wreaked havoc on the Bahamas at the start of the week. Just when it looked as if its run up the Southeast coast was coming to a relatively quiet end, the Category 1 hurricane sent seawater surging over neighborhoods, flooding the first floors of many homes, even ones on stilts.🌪💦😱