Severe weather over the Dominican Republic has strengthened into a tropical storm which is heading towards Cuba, US weather forecasters said.
At 2100GMT on Friday Tropical Storm Fay was about 55km (35 miles) east of the Dominican Republic's capital, with winds of 65km/h (40mph).
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Poll battle begins ... is expected to travel across Haiti on Saturday, before veering north and hitting eastern Cuba later in the day.
Fay is the sixth tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
Two of the tropical storms so far, Bertha and Dolly, have reached hurricane strength - with winds of at least 119km/h.
US weather forecasters said Fay was not expected to strengthen, but said that torrential rainfall of 12in (30.5cm) could be expected.
(BBC)
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