Hurricane Erin was a Category 4 storm Monday morning and is expected to retain major hurricane status through the middle of the week.

Hurricane Erin continues to churn in the Atlantic waters hundreds of miles off the U.S., prompting officials to close beaches along the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast due to massive waves and potentially deadly rip currents just as families take their final vacations of the summer.

Hurricane Erin is expected to brush the coast of North Carolina on Wednesday, forcing officials to issue warnings and evacuation notices.

South Florida will see hot conditions today. A Heat Advisory is up at 11am-7pm for Palm Beach County. Highs will hit the middle 90s with heat indices well into the triple digits. There's a high risk of rip currents on the coastline. That's an indirect result of Hurricane Erin, a category two storm, hundreds of miles east of the U.S. coastline.

Giovanni Pelletier, 18, disappeared in Florida while traveling to visit with family. His body was found a week later near a retention pond.

The body of Giovanni Pelletier, 18, has been found in Florida after the North Carolina teen vanished during a family vacation on Aug. 1.

Several Amtrak trains have been canceled due to a freight train derailment in North Carolina, impacting routes that pass through Central Florida. These Amtrak routes include stops in Sanford, Deland, Winter Park, Orlando, and Kissimmee.