Powerful Hurricane Eta threatens flooding in Central America

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A dangerously powerful Hurricane Eta is churning toward Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds, while heavy rains thrown off by its storm bands are already causing rivers to overflow across Central America. The Category 4 hurricane had sustained winds of 150 mph late Monday, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center warns that Eta could strengthen further, perhaps reaching Category 5, before making landfall early Tuesday. Authorities in