Hurricane Erin, now a Category 2 hurricane, has prompted a state of emergency in North Carolina and is expected to bring dangerous waves and rip currents to beaches along the East Coast.

The footage of Erin was captured by the Sen SpaceTV-1 camera system mounted on the International Space Station in low Earth orbit. The space streaming company Sen says its SpaceTV-1 mission launched to the ISS in 2024, and its public livestream began in December that year.

Hurricane Erin has battered North Carolina 's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves, flooding part of its main highway and surging under beachfront homes.

“What we can say is that it will gradually turn less hot and be more generally changeable.”

An estimated 4,000 fatal unintentional drownings happen every year in the United States — an average of 11 drowning deaths per day — according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm inched closer to the mid-...

Many beaches along the East Coast shut down Wednesday — with plans to stay closed the rest of the week — to protect swimmers from the storm’s impact.