(Miami, FL) -- Hurricane Florence is moving closer to the East Coast as a Category 4 storm.
The National Hurricane Center says Florence is located about 530 miles southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina.
It's moving west-northwest at 17 miles an hour with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles an hour.
Forecasters say Hurricane Florence will bring life-threatening storm surge and rainfall to portions of the Carolinas and the mid-Atlantic states.