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WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Florence slammed ashore on North Carolina's coast early Friday, ripping apart roofs with extreme winds and threatening massive storm surges as officials reported dozens of water rescues from cars and homes. The eye of the storm made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, northeast of Wilmington, at 7:15 a.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center said. Here's the latest on Hurricane Florence: As of 10 a.m. ET Friday, Florence was 20 miles southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, and 55 miles east of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and moving west at around 6 mph. There were more than 485,000 power outages as of Friday morning in North Carolina, according to  the state department of public safety . New Bern, north of Wilmington, has more than 150 people  requiring rescue  Friday morning. Wind gusts at Wilmington International Airport reached 105 mph in the storm's eyewall, the highest wind gust during a hurricane since 1958. The Red C