A new entry in this year’s hurricane season, Hurricane Oscar, made landfall in Cuba Sunday. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00A new entry in this year's hurricane season made landfall in Cuba Sunday.
00:04Hurricane Oscar generated 75 miles per hour winds, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
00:09CNN reports that the Cuban government has canceled school through Thursday.
00:13The National Weather Service Miami, South Florida reported Oscar's formation on Saturday
00:17and predicted that after hitting Cuba, it would turn northeast toward the Bahamas.
00:22As of now, it's not expected to pose a major threat to the U.S.
00:25But it has hit Cuba at an extremely unfortunate time.
00:28The island nation had already been dealing with major failures of its electrical power grid
00:33since Friday. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned against disorder in a video posted to X,
00:39saying,
00:39We are not going to allow acts of vandalism, much less alter the civil tranquility of our people.