Officials are encouraging residents to take steps to prepare for extreme weather ahead of hurricane season. New data shows flood and wind risk is changing in the state.

Inland homes at risk for high winds, flooding during hurricane season. Here's what you can do now.

Holly Springs shed damage

More than a dozen former employees say understaffing at Brynn Marr Hospital contributes to what they describe as a dangerous place for patients and employees. Hospital officials say allegations of violence, sexual assaults, overmedication and lack of mental health therapy are unfounded.

Former employees say short-staffed NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse

Brynn Marr Hospital

FILE -- Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, June 1, 2017. Dudamel will debut this coming season with The Metropolitan Opera, which will have a new music director in Yannick Nézet-Séguin after former director James Levin left following sexual misconduct accusations. (Emily Berl/The New York Times)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Lead the Met Opera, Two Years Early