ATLANTIC OCEAN - NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters captured the dramatic moment their plane flew into the eye of Hurricane Erin , as the storm grew to a Category 5 on Saturday.

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Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 storm before restrengthening to Category 4 as it moved northwest on Monday.

The storm is expected to produce "life-threatening surf and rip currents along the beaches of the Bahamas, much of the east coast of the U.S., and Atlantic Canada next week," NHC said.

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FOX 13 meteorologists expect the storm’s center to pass several hundred miles east of Florida before curving northeast, keeping its core entirely offshore of the U.S. East Coast. Hurricanes Viral

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