While you were sleeping: Hurricane Florence zeros in, Bill 101 strikes again

Here’s what happened as the world turned.
Hurricane Florence is zeroing in on the southeastern U.S. coast, with more than 10 million people in its sights. Florence’s top sustained wind speeds dropped from a high of 225 km/h to 175 km/h as its outer rain bands approached the North Carolina coast early Thursday, reducing the storm from Category 4 to Category 2, but forecasters warned that the enormous wind field has been growing larger, raising the risk of the ocean surging onto l