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Hurricane Irma Slams Caribbean

by Associated Press

   The center of Hurricane Irma is moving past the Dominican Republic as
   what forecasters are calling a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5
   storm.

   The U.S. National Hurricane Center says even with the eye of the storm
   well off the country's coast, Irma's winds, storm surge and rainfall
   remain life-threatening for the Dominican Republic. Those same
   conditions are expected late Thursday in the Turks and Caicos Islands,
   and The Bahamas.