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In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Ike is seen moving across the Atlantic Ocean as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the US on September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna barreled across the southeastern United States, battering the coast with waves, rain and wind and prompting thousands of people to seek refuge inland.(AFP/NOAA/File)

Ike blasts Turks and Caicos as Category 4 storm

AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos - Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.

  • A man walks through flood waters as he pulls a wheelbarrow loaded with a coffin containing the body of a man who died from hypertension triggered during flooding after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Hanna has killed 166 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island AP - Sun Sep 7, 4:25 AM ET

    GONAIVES, Haiti - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. At the local jail, emaciated inmates waited for food to stave off starvation.

  • A diner at the Antojitos Mexicanos restaurant watches the progress of Hurricane Ike on the Weather Channel Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/David Adame)
    Fierce Hurricane Ike approaches Turks and Caicos AP - Sat Sep 6, 8:21 PM ET

    MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike is roaring toward the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.

  • Residents unload roof materials provided by Cuba's government to repair damaged homes after Hurricane Gustav hit the area in La Palma, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. Cuba's former President Fidel Castro said in an essay that repair efforts could cost billions, and require more than $350 from each Cuban on an island where the average state salary is only about US$20 per month. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
    Cuba declines US disaster assessment after Gustav AP - Sat Sep 6, 7:25 PM ET

    HAVANA - Cuba politely declined a U.S. offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island after Hurricane Gustav, saying Saturday it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of food and other materials it needs to recover.

  • Honduras issues 1,051-year sentence in massacre AP - Sat Sep 6, 3:47 PM ET

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A Honduran court has sentenced a former prison official to 1,051 years in jail for the deaths of 69 people in a 2003 prison massacre.

  • U.S. trained attorney Cristal Gonzalez speaks to lawyers, police investigators and forensic experts during a class on the new rules of justice in Mexico City, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Under the constitutional amendment passed by the legislature, approved by country's 32 states and signed by President Felipe Calderon, Mexico has eight years to replace its closed proceedings with public oral trials in which suspects are presumed innocent, legal authorities can be held more accountable and equal justice is promised to all. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    Mexico undergoes legal revolution AP - Sat Sep 6, 9:41 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico is in the midst of a legal revolution, and Cristal Gonzalez is on the front lines.

  • A flood victim carries a box of high energy biscuits he received from the World Food Program in a shelter as he wades through muddy water after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Hanna has killed at least 137 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    UN sees storms add to hard-hit Haiti's food crisis AP - Fri Sep 5, 11:14 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and "washed away" progress toward dealing with ongoing food shortages, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday.

  • A woman shouts slogans supporting Bolivia's President Evo Morales as she attends a ceremony to honor Aymara leader Bartolina Sisa in La Paz, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Bartolina Sisa and her husband Tupac Katari led an indigenous uprising against the Spanish domination in Bolivia which laid siege to the city of La Paz in 1781. Their army maintained the siege for 184 days. Sisa was captured and executed by the Spanish on September 5, 1782. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)
    Protesters paralyze Bolivian highways, airport AP - Fri Sep 5, 10:05 PM ET

    LA PAZ, Bolivia - Protesters stormed a small airport Friday and blocked major highways across eastern Bolivia in a standoff over central government reforms designed to empower Bolivia's indigenous majority.

  • Hanna's death toll rises to 137 in Haiti AP - Thu Sep 4, 9:57 PM ET

    GONAIVES, Haiti - Haiti's government says the death toll from Tropical Storm Hanna has more than doubled to 137, with most of the deaths coming in the flooded port city of Gonaives.

  • People salvage items during flooding from Tropical Storm Hanna, in L'Artibonite, northern Haiti, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The storm has spawned flooding in Haiti that left 10 people dead in Gonaives, along Haiti's western coast, according to the country's civil protection department. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Hanna flooding strands hungry Haitians on rooftops AP - Thu Sep 4, 9:19 AM ET

    GONAIVES, Haiti - Entering a flooded city on inflatable boats, U.N. peacekeepers found hundreds of hungry people stranded for two days on rooftops and upper floors Wednesday as the fetid carcasses of drowned farm animals bobbed in soupy floodwaters.