Tropical Storm Nate threatens to hit U.S. Gulf Coast

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Tropical Storm Nate was blamed Thursday for at least 22 deaths across Central America as it dumped rain across the region on a path that would carry it toward a potential landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend.
Louisiana officials ordered some people there to evacuate.
The center of the storm moved over eastern Honduras, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. The storm could dump as much as 20 inches of rain by Saturday in south