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Bracing for Irma

Irma bears down on Florida, more than 5M told to flee coast

Ryan Kaye loads sandbags into his truck at a makeshift filling station provided by the county as protection ahead of Hurricane Irma, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Palm
Coast, Fla. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
By CURT ANDERSON deadly hurricane as it fol- be back up to Category 5 6 million people, meaning coast to coast, testing the
CLAIRE GALOFARO lowed a path that could when it comes ashore near “a less costly, a less deadly nation’s third-largest state,
Associated Press take it from one end of the Key West on Sunday morn- storm,” University of Miami which has undergone rap-
MIAMI (AP) — Irma trained state to the other. ing. researcher Brian McNoldy id development and more
its sights on Florida and of- By early evening, Irma was Forecasters adjusted the said. stringent hurricane-proof
ficials warned more than a slightly weakened Cat- storm’s potential track more Nevertheless, forecasters building codes in the last
5 million people that time egory 4 storm with winds toward the west coast of warned that its hurricane- decade or so.
was running out Friday to of 155 mph (250 kph) and Florida, away from the Mi- force winds were so wide
evacuate ahead of the forecasters said it could ami metropolitan area of they could reach from Continued on Page 2
Congress sends aid bill, debt hike to White House

By ANDREW TAYLOR tion officials dispatched to All 90 votes in opposition The aid measure is just the ing before the vote, more
Associated Press Capitol Hill to defend it. were cast by Republicans, first installment in govern- than a dozen Republicans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con- Hours later, Trump signed many of whom seethed ment spending that could stood up and complained
gress on Friday sent Presi- the measure into law. after Trump cut the disas- rival or exceed the $110 about Trump cutting a
dent Donald Trump a mas- The House voted 316-90 for ter-and-debt deal with billion federal response deal with Democratic
sive package of $15.3 bil- the measure that would Democratic leaders with after Hurricane Katrina in leaders Chuck Schumer
lion in disaster aid linked to refill depleted emergency no offsetting budget cuts. 2005, though future aid and Nancy Pelosi instead
an increase in the nation’s accounts as Florida braces “You can’t just keep bor- packages may be more of GOP leaders trying to
borrowing authority that for the impact of Hurricane rowing money. We’re difficult to pass. The legisla- deliver on the president’s
angered conservative Re- Irma and Texas picks up going to be $22 trillion in tion also funds the govern- agenda.
publicans who hissed and the pieces after the devas- debt,” said Rep. Jeff Dun- ment through Dec. 8.
booed senior administra- tation of the Harvey storm. can, R-S.C. In a closed-door meet- Continued on Page 3