Hurricane Matthew takes aim at Bahamas, Florida gets ready

Weakened but still dangerous, Hurricane Matthew churned toward the Bahamas Wednesday en route to an already jittery Florida after killing at least nine people in the Caribbean in a maelstrom of wind, mud and water. As it girded for its share of the region's worst storm in nearly a decade -- perhaps a direct hit as early as Thursday -- the Bahamas closed its main international airport and Nassau's port. Haiti and the eastern tip of Cuba -- blasted by Matthew on Tuesday -- began the messy and prob