let's go to nbc meteorologist jeff frenery.s ron described, it's a hearty bunch a lot of guys say we'll ride this out. what do you think is heading their way? >> it looks exactly the same. i was looking up and down the coastline. this storm will pick up more forward motion by the time it gets to massachusetts and connecticut, it's still a long duration wind event here for most of the mid-atlantic states. now, as we look right now at the radar, what we're finding is the eye of the storm really hard to define and somewhere in this vicinity. we know a lot of other reporters right out here near nags head, all kill devil hills. they're going to be continuously lashed with outer bands throughout the next six hours or so with this event already continued to have these winds here across the carolina coastline in excess of 70 miles per hour for about the last five hours. so it's a long duration and it's continual widespread effects here. >> it is, indeed. kill devil hills, and let's go to kristen dalgren standing by. it's just north of

on the heels that let's go to jeff frenery. the national hurricane center gave the official up date 30 minutes from so. any changes from that? >> it made landfall three hours ago with 85-mile-per-hour winds in the center of the storm. the remarkable thing is the hurricane-force winds constitutional with the latest full update stretch out 90 miles per hour from the center of the storm. at that makes it different tan any other category 1 storm here, at least in recent memory. you can see winds still gusting close to hurricane force strength here at cape hatteras, 71-mile-per-hour wind gusts there. then also in newburn with a 74-mile-per-hour wind gust. you also notice here you have a tornado watch just off to the north. we've had several reports of tornadoes. that's a big threat with this storm system throughout tonight. 85-mile-per-hour winds north-northeast at 15 miles per hour, and that pressure is very, very strong at the center of the storm. i believe we'll join mike seidel in nags head. >> reporter: jeffrey. >> can you hear