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Shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, just as the sun sliced over the mountains east of San Diego, Guadalupe Dukes and her 6-year-old grandson, Gael, sat in their car, waiting for the school bus to arrive on California…

Hurricane Ernesto weakened to a Category 1 storm overnight as it bore down on Bermuda. The eye of the storm made landfall before 5 a.m. with sustained winds of 85 mph. Winds have been raging over the past 12 hours…