Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic coast.
Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras in North Carolina's Outer Banks, and federal authorities have warned people all along the Eastern seaboard to be prepared to evacuate. Emergency officials as far north as Maine were checking their equipment and urging people to have disaster plans and supplies ready.
Earl was still more than 700 miles (1,125 kilometers) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, with top sustained winds of 125 mph …
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