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Watch: Florida residents prepares as Hurricane Nicole approaches
Hurricane Nicole hit Florida on Thursday with 70mph (110kph) winds but has been downgraded to a tropical storm after it slowed on making landfall.
States of emergency remain and evacuation orders are in place, with heavy rain and storm surges forecast.
Nicole has already lashed Grand Bahama Island as a huge category one hurricane, with the scale of the devastation not immediately clear.