2 million ordered to leave as Irene takes aim

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — Whip­ping up trou­ble before ever reach­ing land, Hur­ri­cane Irene zeroed in Fri­day for a cat­a­strophic run up the East­ern Seaboard. More than 2 mil­lion peo­ple were told to move to safer places, and New York City ordered the nation’s biggest sub­way sys­tem shut down for the first time because of a nat­ural disaster.