Weakened Dorian strands people on North Carolina island

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a ferocity that seemed to take storm-hardened residents by surprise, and hundreds were feared trapped by high water. Sheriff's officials sent medics and other rescuers to Ocracoke Island -- reachable only by boat or air -- amid reports of people being forced to retreat to their attics after defying mandatory evacuation orders along the 200-mile (320-kilometre) ribbon of low-lying islands.