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Tropical Storm Ike intensified into a hurricane on Wednesday while Tropical Hanna threatened to do the same.Hanna's heavy rainfall has already put parts of Haiti underwater, stranding residents. President Rene Preval warned of an "extraordinary catastrophe" equaling or surpassing a storm that killed more than 3,000 people four years ago.Forecasters predict Hanna will move across the northern Bahamas, and strengthen into a hurricane on Thursday before hitting the U.S. near the North Carolina...

Text of report by Caribbean Media Corporation news agency website on 2 September Bridgetown, Barbados: A slow moving Hanna was dumping heaving rains over southeastern Bahamas and Hispaniola Tuesday morning, even as it weakened. Hanna, which was downgraded from a hurricane earlier in the day, has prompted a tropical storm warning for the northern coast of Haiti to the northern border with the Dominican Republic. A hurricane warning remained in effect for the southeastern and central Bahamas...

Hurricane Hanna resumed a west-southwest trek as it advanced on the Bahamas at midday Tuesday, U.S. forecasters in Miami said. A hurricane warning was in effect for central and southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, while a tropical storm warning was posted for the northern coast of Haiti, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.. Hanna's center was about 20 miles east-northeast of Great Inagua Island and about 370 miles southeast of Nassau with sustained winds of 70 mph,...

Hurricane Hanna stalled a second time early Tuesday on its westward advance on the Bahamas, U.S. forecasters in Miami reported. A hurricane warning was in effect for central and southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. At 5 a.m. EDT, Hanna's center was about 35 miles east-northeast of Great Inagua Island and about 395 miles southeast of Nassau with sustained winds of 80 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Hanna, the eighth named Atlantic storm of the season, was only...

Text of report by Caribbean Media Corporation news agency website BAHAMAS-WEATHER-Bahamas brace for Tropical Storm Hanna NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC - Bahamians were bracing for the passage of Tropical Storm Hanna that local meteorologists warn could become a hurricane by the time it reaches the chain of islands. It will certainly gain strength. It advanced in terms of an intensity in a very short time from a depression to a tropical storm. So, the likelihood of it becoming a hurricane is very...

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By John MarquisNASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) - Health officials in the Bahamas are screening illegal immigrants for malaria after an outbreak of the potentially fatal disease was confirmed on a sandy chain of islands southeast of Nassau.A dozen people on the Exuma islands, where wealthy Europeans, Canadians and Americans have built Bahamian vacation retreats, were discovered to have been stricken by malaria earlier this week.It was the first known occurrence of the disease in the Bahamas, which...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Rita, the 17th tropical storm of the busy Atlantic hurricane season, formed near the Bahamas on Sunday and prompted an evacuation order for tourists in the lower Florida Keys. Forecasters said Rita could be a hurricane by late on Monday, when it was expected to be in the Florida Straits between the Keys and Cuba. The Bahamas, southern Florida, the Keys, Cuba and the Turks and Caicos Islands were all under storm alerts. At 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT), Rita's...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Rita, the 17th tropical storm of the busy Atlantic hurricane season, formed near the Bahamas on Sunday and prompted an evacuation order for tourists in the lower Florida Keys. Forecasters said Rita could be a hurricane by late on Monday, when it was expected to be in the Florida Straits between the Keys and Cuba. The Bahamas, southeastern Florida, the Keys, Cuba and the Turks and Caicos Islands were all under storm alerts. At 8 p.m. EDT (2400 GMT),...

MIAMI (Reuters) - The Florida Keys and parts of the Bahamas were under a hurricane watch on Sunday as forecasters warned that an unnamed tropical storm system could become a hurricane in the next two days. The system, officially a tropical depression, could be Tropical Storm Rita by later on Sunday and a hurricane by Tuesday, when it was expected to be in the Florida Straits between the Keys and Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. A hurricane watch was issued for all of the...