Hurricane Matthew Turns Deadly

Blasting Haiti this morning and setting its sights on Florida.

Isaac Ripping its Way Through Caribbean

Tropical Storm Isaac pushed its way into Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti's southern peninsula, where it caused flooding and at least three deaths, adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the terrible 2010 earthquake.

Isaac's center made landfall just before midday near the far-eastern tip of Cuba, downing trees and power lines, and the storm's surge flooded the seaside Malecon in the picturesque city of Baracoa.

Forecasters said Isaac poses a threat to Florida Monday and Tuesday, just as the Republican Party gathers for its national convention in Tampa. It could eventually hit the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of nearly 100 mph.

Hurricane Tomas Hits Haiti

Hurricane Tomas was downgraded to a tropical storm early Saturday as it passed over the Turks and Caicos Islands, losing steam a day after battering seaside towns in Haiti.

Tropical storm warnings were in effect for Haiti, the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, although the warnings for Haiti and the Dominican Republic were likely to be downgraded later Saturday morning, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.

Coming ashore at Haiti's far southwestern edge, Tomas slammed the coastline with 85-mph winds that killed at least four people with storm surge and rains.

It then flooded camps harboring earthquake refugees, turning some into squalid islands in Leogane, a town west of the capital that lost 90 percent of its buildings and thousands of people in the Jan. 12 quake. Two people were missing in the city.

Tomas turned streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, into canals of flowing garbage. The storm largely spared the city's vast homeless encampments, however, allaying fears that an estimated 1.3 million displaced people would suffer from high winds and rain on hillsides and in parks and streets.

Tomas Heads for Haiti

Tropical storm Tomas is gaining strength as it approaches Haiti, where a hurricane warning is in effect.

The Haitian government has urged the people forced into camps and tent cities after January's devastating earthquake to seek shelter with friends and families.

"We are using radio stations to announce to people that if they don't have a place to go, but they have friends and families, they should move into a place that is secure," said civil protection official Nadia Lochard, who oversees the department that includes the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The news of Tomas's predicted pass slowly filtered through Port-au-Prince via wind-up radios and megaphone announcements, unease set in among people who already lost homes and loved ones in the quake and saw their tents ripped apart in lesser storms this year.

Tomas was upgraded back to tropical storm status Wednesday evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. By Thursday morning, the storm had maximum sustained winds of 85 km/h, with some strengthening expected.

"The forecast track this morning takes Tomas across the western edge of Haiti as a Category 1 hurricane tomorrow morning," CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe said.