Hurricane Irma Slams Caribbean Islands As Category 5 Storm

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (WJZ/AP) — Hurricane Irma roared into the Caribbean with record force early Wednesday, its 185-mph winds shaking homes and flooding buildings on a chain of small islands along a path toward Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and likely Florida by the weekend.“There’s great consistency now in this outlook,” says WJZ’s Marty Bass. “Right now Irma’s approaching islands we’d all like to vacation at… on its