Hurricane bears down on quake-rattled Mexico
Hurricane Katia is strengthening as it bears down on Mexico's Gulf coast. And it's likely to strike land just about a day after the country was hit by a major, magnitude 8.1 earthquake.
The US National Hurricane Center says Katia had winds of 105 mph (165 kph) early Friday afternoon, with strengthening expected.
It says the storm was centered about 130 miles (210 kilometers) north of the port of Veracruz and it seems headed for strike early Saturday in an area known as the Emerald Coast that is popular with Mexican tourists.
Katia could bring life-threatening flash floods to areas in the mountains just to the west.
