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Hurricane Gustav to Hit Haiti

Expected to make landfall later today

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 26, 2008 7:48 AM CDT

(Newser) – Hurricane Gustav is expected to make landfall in Haiti later today, Bloomberg reports, buffeting a country already hard hit by Tropical Storm Fay earlier this month. Gustav was upgraded from a tropical storm earlier this morning, after strengthening over the Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center... Read full story »

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Expected to make landfall later today

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