ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.</s>CAMEROTA: All right, good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. We do begin with breaking news for you because Hurricane Florence is rapidly intensifying at this hour and it is taking aim at the East Coast. Florence is now a strong category two hurricane. It is forecast to make landfall in the U.S. as a category four storm days from now. This could be the most powerful hurricane to strike the Carolinas in almost three decades.</s>BERMAN: States of emergency have now been declared in North and South Carolina. Virginia as well. The hurricane poses a major threat of flooding inland. Forecasters believe the storm will stall after it makes landfall, dumping just tons of rain. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers has the latest forecast. Chad, this is coming. This almost looks like a certain, direct hit as a very powerful storm.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I would say so. Even if it's down to a cat three when it makes landfall, remember, it's been in the water, a 150-mile-per-hour storm for a few days, the surge under that 150-mile- per-hour storm is going to translate and move right onshore with it. So it's going to surge like a Katrina surge in some spots. Now, it's still too early to tell impact
Hurricane Heads Toward East Coast.