North Carolina is under a state of emergency as Hurricane Aaron gained size and strength.

All along the East Coast, dangerous rip currents have prompted warnings to stay out of the water.

From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. Good evening. I'm John Dickerson. Marie

Dubois is off tonight. Hurricane Aaron is picking up steam and could strengthen again into a major

Category 3 hurricane by tomorrow night. While the storm is not expected to make landfall,

forecasters expected to send large waves to the outer banks of North Carolina,

where thousands have been forced to evacuate. Aaron is a large storm, about 650 miles wide.

That's twice the size of an average hurricane, and its tropical storm forced winds extend

for about 250 miles from the center.

Aaron is also expected to produce life-threatening rip currents from Florida to New England.

From the Carolinas to the New York City area, some beaches have already been closed for swimming,

though not everyone is heating warnings to stay out of the water.

The North Carolina coast is expected to bear the brunt of the storm, and meteorologist Rob Marciano

is there again to lead us off this evening.

Hey, John, well, as you mentioned, this storm is getting bigger, it's getting stronger, and it's

getting closer now, just under 300 miles away, and it's generating generating some massive swells some of which are crashing into this shoreline

here this motel has been inundated with water some of these big waves have actually

already done some damage and this is getting across the highway as well and if this is

just a taste of what's to come tomorrow the folks here don't want any part of it.

After more than seven decades running the Outer Banks Motel in Buxton, Carol Dillon knows a thing or two about storms.

I won't say I'm used to it, and I'm not saying I'm not worried.

But, you know, at my age, you take what comes.

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