Live Updates: Henri lashes Northeast as millions brace for impact

Henri weakened slightly to a tropical storm early Sunday but was still expected to crash into a long stretch of northeastern coastline, as millions on New York's Long Island and in southern New England braced for flooding, toppled trees and extended power outages.

The storm had top winds of 70 mph in an 8 a.m. ET update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center, just shy of hurricane status. The storm was about 50 miles southeast of Montauk, New York. With the center of the storm projected to pass just off the eastern tip of Long Island by midday, hurricane warnings extended from coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island to near the old whaling port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and across the luxurious oceanfront estates of New York's Hamptons to the summer getaway of Fire Island.