MIAMI: Hurricane Dorian was gathering strength on Thursday as it churned towards Florida, where it could make landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm.
It was located 355 kilometres north-northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the Atlantic Ocean and moving at 20 kilometres per hour on a northwest track towards Florida, where it was forecast to make landfall overnight on Sunday. In Puerto Rico, the new governor, Wanda Vazquez, gave the all clear but there was no let-up in the war of words between Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, the island's capital, and President Donald Trump.
Trump declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico ahead of Hurricane Dorian, authorising federal assistance, but alleged that the island is"one of the most corrupt places on earth."
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