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More than 1.5 million people were ordered to evacuate their homes along the U.S. Atlantic coast as Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm and the most powerful to menace the Carolinas in nearly three decades, barreled in on Tuesday.

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Hurricane Florence nears Carolinas as 1 million-plus ordered to evacuate

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Category 4 hurricane Florence maintains strength east of North Carolina: NHC

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