Story Created:
Nov 7, 2009 at 2:49 PM EST
Story Updated:
Nov 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM EST
MIAMI (AP) - Ida is no longer a hurricane as it loses strength
over the water on its way to a landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast
sometime early Tuesday.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Ida to a
tropical storm Monday morning after its top sustained winds dropped
to near 70 mph.
Hurricane warnings were dropped along the Gulf Coast and
replaced with tropical storm warnings that stretch from Louisiana
to the Florida Panhandle.
The center of Ida was located about 185 miles south-southeast of
the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving north-northwest near
17 mph.
