Hurricane Ike washes over Cuba
Cuban television is showing images of the storm surge from Hurricane Ike washing over coastal homes in eastern Cuba. The storm has crashed ashore with 120 mile-per-hour winds. It’s on a course that could take it straight into Havana before heading into the Gulf of Mexico. Guest: Emilio San Pedro is The BBC World’s Services America’s editor; he spoke with us from Miami, where he’d been up all night tracking the storm.
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