The Latest: Oil platforms shut as storm churns through Gulf

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
1:45 p.m.
More than 40 percent of manned oil- and gas-producing platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have been evacuated, according to an update from the Interior Department, as Hurricane Nate churns toward the U.S. mainland.
The Department said Saturday that workers were evacuated from 312 of the 737 manned platforms in the Gulf.
Crews also have been taken off 13 of 20 manned drilling rigs and other rigs have been moved out of