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Fri 09 Sep 2008Latest hurricane kills 136 in Haiti
Powerful Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the United States today while Tropical Storm Hanna's death toll from floods in Haiti grew to 136.
Campgrounds were closed and some evacuations began on North Carolina's Outer Banks as Hanna churned east of the far-flung Bahamian chain of 700 islands on a path toward the southeastern US states on tomorrow.
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