Hurricane Lee threatens New England, eastern Canada

Hurricane Lee barreled across the North Atlantic toward New England and Eastern Canada on Friday, threatening to bring drenching rains, powerful winds and a life-threatening storm surge to the region over the weekend.
Lee is expected to weaken into a strong tropical storm before making landfall in southwestern Nova Scotia as a strong tropical storm on Saturday afternoon, the Canadian Hurricane Center said.
Even so, the storm has the potential to dump as much as 4 inches (10 cm) of rain and produce winds of up to 60 mph (97 kph) in some spots, prompting U.S. and Canadian officials to urge people to prepare for possible flooding and power outages.
Tropical Storm conditions were expected in southeastern New England on Friday night, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center, which issued a tropical storm warning for hundreds of miles of coastline from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, affecting some 9 million people.