Tropical Storm Cristobal rumbles off the Carolinas

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP): Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, continued to move along the North Carolina coast early Sunday, and was expected to dump several inches of rain in some areas of the drought-stricken state.

At 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT), the center of the storm was about 60 miles (98 kilometers) southwest of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and about 130 miles (209 kilometers) southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

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