POTENTIAL HURRICANE HEADING TOWARDS U.S.

A tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is expected to strengthen this week into a tropical storm and dump heavy rains onto Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane. The National Weather Service said Sunday that the system had maximum 50 mph wind speeds on Sunday. Forecasters warned that the upper Texas and Louisiana coastlines could see damaging winds and storm surges beginning Tuesday evening. So far, there have been five named storms this hurricane season. The next named storm would be called Francine.