A four-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his grandfather, a sheriff in the US has said.

EATER DEFEATED

IT WAS a scene more fitting for a whodunit mystery than a vice-presidential roll-out.

Hurricane Isabel ploughed into the US east coast with 100 mph winds causing at least three deaths and knocking out power to more than 2.5 million people.

US President George W Bush today declared North Carolina a disaster area as Hurricane Isabel ploughed into coastal islands on the US eastern seaboard with 100 mph winds.