text:  ABC News, I'm Chuck Sievertson. Millions of Americans along the East Coast, North Carolina to Maine under severe thunderstorm watches amid record-breaking holiday travel. Big story as far as the weather, ABC News forecaster Danny Beckstrom. Barrel is the big story. The earliest Category 4 hurricane on record in the Atlantic and the first ever in June after rapidly intensifying. Barrel barreling toward the Windward Islands before continuing through the Caribbean.