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Tropical Storm Elsa poised to make landfall in Florida
After battering Cuba, the former hurricane threatens a stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Tampa Bay.
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Tropical Storm Elsa, which has weakened from the first hurricane of the season, is poised to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday.
A warning is in force for a 200-mile (300km) stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Tampa Bay.
The storm battered Cuba on Monday with mudslides and floods.
Earlier it tore across the Dominican Republic and St Lucia, killing at least three people and damaging hundreds of buildings.
After passing across Florida, Elsa is expected to hit the US states of Georgia and South Carolina.