Hurricane Felix becomes rare top-ranked storm
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WILLEMSTAD, Curacao  - Hurricane Felix became an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm on Sunday as it swept through the southern Caribbean on a path toward Central America and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, U.S. forecasters said.
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The storm that seemed like it would never arrive finally did yesterday, as Hurricane Frances kicked up 100 mph wind gusts and heavy rains that left 1.4 million homes
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At least 65 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua and Honduras, officials say.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, trashing a port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, killing at least four people and threatening dangerous mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala.
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Hurricane Felix, a potentially devastating storm, barreled toward Honduras where tens of thousands of people prepared to evacuate on Monday in fear of a repeat of a deadly 1998 hurricane.
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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Planes shuttled tourists from island resorts in a desperate airlift yesterday as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize. But thousands of Miskito Indians were stranded along a swampy coastline where the Category 4 storm was expected to make landfall.
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Thousands of people fled Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the powerful winds and torrential rains of Hurricane Felix, but many others were left to ride out the approaching storm.
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Authorities are crediting heavily forested areas along the Caribbean coast with sapping the energy of Hurricane Felix when it made landfall earlier this week.
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WILLEMSTAD, Curacao  - Hurricane Felix intensified at an alarming rate on Sunday while passing north of Aruba and was expected to become an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm as it brushed Central America and neared Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, U.S. forecasters said.
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Tropical Storm Felix could become a  hurricane Saturday night or on Sunday and may be a Category 3  hurricane by the middle of next week, the U.S. National  Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Felix, with top winds near 155 mph, is an "extremely dangerous" hurricane as it nears the coast of northeastern Nicaragua Tuesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - Hurricane Felix weakened to a tropical storm as it dumped rain on Central America on Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Sunday as it entered the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - Hurricane Felix weakened to a Category 3 storm as it battered Nicaragua on Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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The death toll from Hurricane Felix rose to 98 today, with hundreds more people still missing.
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ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm yesterday and churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.
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Hurricane Felix is now packing maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (256 kph), making it a potentially catastrophic category 5 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported early on Tuesday.