Hurricane Bill making waves

MIAMI (AP) - Fishermen in Antigua are being
advised to dock their boats, as Hurricane Bill gets closer.

The dangerous Category 4 storm is expected to pass well to the
northeast of the Leeward Islands in the next 24 hours. But the
National Hurricane Center is urging people in the island chain to
keep an eye on it anyway.

Bill's most significant threat could be to Bermuda, which the
storm could pass in three or four days. It's not yet clear how
close it will come to land. Current projections have it passing
well off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia on Sunday.

Forecasters said Bill should begin pushing large swells toward
Bermuda and parts of the southeastern U.S. coast by the weekend.

As of 11 a.m. Eastern time, the center of the hurricane was 380
miles east of the Leeward Islands, or more than 1,500 miles
southeast of Miami. It was moving west-northwest near 18 mph, with
winds of 135 mph.