Hurricane Erin now a Category 4 storm
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Hurricane Erin is closest to the Leeward islands and U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray reports from St. Thomas where heavy rain, tropical storm-force winds and flooding are expected.
Erin, the first hurricane of the season, is now forecast to become a Category 4 by Sunday. Here's where it could head in the week ahead.
The U.S. could see the landfall of its first hurricane this year in the coming weeks, as Tropical Storm Erin continues to build in the Atlantic. Current projections see the storm developing into a hurricane sometime in the next few days as it moves west across the ocean,