LOS ANGELES - Tropical Storm Isaias hammered the Eastern seaboard with flooding, tornadoes and damaging winds Tuesday after making landfall in the Carolinas Monday and weakening overnight.Isaias pushed ashore near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 85 mph.By Tuesday afternoon, the storm was centered near Pennsylvania as it continued to move northward.
The system was bringing rainfall to a large section of the Northeast — stretching from Pennsylvania to Canada.The tropical storm formed from a large tropical wave, which developed off the West Coast of Africa in late July.