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President urges people to evacuate: "Property is replaceable, but lives are not"
A re-energized Irma made landfall in Cuba, while in Florida, the storm has prompted one of the largest evacuations in American history.
The storm hit Cuba overnight as a Category 5 hurricane.
Stephens, 24 and ranked 83rd, won her first Grand Slam championship with a 6-3, 6-0 victory against Keys, her American contemporary.
Some 5,000 Americans are estimated to remain on the island.
Rescue workers in Juchitán de Zaragoza searched desperately in the ruins of city hall for the policeman who guarded the building at night.
In the whirr of Hurricane Irma preparations, drug users in Miami's Overtown neighborhood stocked up on sterile water they'll use to mix their heroin and clean syringes they'll use to inject it
Hurricane hunters are often sent to fly into the storm to gather data.
The hurricane is bearing down on Florida as hundreds of thousands of people flee or take shelter, in one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history.
The storm's maximum sustained winds are 155 mph.
The storm's maximum sustained winds are 155 mph.
A re-energized Irma made landfall in Cuba, while in Florida, the storm has prompted one of the largest evacuations in American history.
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A briefly re-energized Irma made landfall in Cuba as a Category 5 hurricane. In Florida, the storm has prompted one of the largest evacuations in American history.
Hurricane Jose is following in Irma's footsteps.
