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This Sepetmebr 7, 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane Ike seen at 1610 GMT. After ravaging the Turks and Caicos Islands, Hurricane Ike headed toward the Bahamas, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna continued to batter the US East Coast. Ike, an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, barreled across the low-lying Turks and Caicos islands near the southern Bahamas in the predawn hours of Sunday, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC). It was expected to careen past Florida into the Gulf of Mexico and toward Louisiana and its storm-battered city of New Orleans as early as Tuesday. The center said the storm was bearing down on the Bahamas at 24 kilometer (15 miles) an hour. At 0900 hours GMT, its eye was located just 105 kilometers (65 miles) east of Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas chain. An immediate concern was its effect on Haiti, where a humanitarian crisis was unfolding after flooding from Hanna left more than 500 people dead and thousands in desperate need of food, clean water and shelter. With winds near 215 kilometers (135 miles) per hour, Ike was to churn just north of Haiti on its way to Cuba, but further flooding in Haiti is expected as the storm's outer rain bands were forecast to unleash torrential downpours on the country's vulnerable northwest coast. AFP PHOTO/HO/NASA = GETTY OUT ==
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