Nate weakened to a tropical storm early Sunday after making landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 1 hurricane that could cause life-threatening storm surges and flooding, forecasters said.Nate had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph as of 7 a.m. ET. It made a second landfall in Mississippi at around 1:30 a.m. ET, hours after it made a first landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said.Hurricane warnings for the mouth of the Pearl River on the Louisiana-Mississippi border to the Alabama-Florida border were discontinued, although storm surge warnings were in place for the area, the hurricane center said. The storm was moving north-northeast at 23 mph, which some hoped could minimize the damage.

The storm had been expected to quickly weaken and become a tropical storm Sunday morning. After landfall in Mississippi, Nate is forecast to move into the Tennessee Valley and Appalachian Mountains through Monday.The storm has already been blamed for deaths in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras, officials said. Sixteen people were reported dead in Nicaragua, 10 deaths were reported in Costa Rica and one death was reported in Honduras, officials said

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