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["Lucille Crandall" <gkizqr at mbox dot com dot au>]

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"Without any knowledge of your understanding of the law, because you will not share it with us, we are rolling the dice with you, judge," Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, told Roberts.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered for portions of six coastal counties -- Brunswick, Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow and Pender. Voluntary evacuations were also in place for parts of eight counties in the eastern part of the state.

NHC deputy director Ed Rappaport said Ophelia's winds were likely to push a storm surge up rivers, causing heavy inland flooding.