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		</div><p>A re-energised Tropical Storm Cristobal advanced toward the US Gulf Coast on Saturday, bringing with it the heavy rains that already caused flooding and mudslides in Mexico and Central America.</p>
<p>After weakening to a tropical depression while moving over land in Mexico’s Gulf coast, Cristobal headed back into the southern Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatan Peninsula on Friday and powered back up into a tropical storm.</p>
<p>Forecasters said it would arrive on US soil late on Sunday but was not expected to grow into a hurricane.</p>
<p>The National Hurricane Centre in Miami said the storm was expected to slowly strengthen until it makes landfall.</p>
<p>Outer rain bands from the storm were already moving across parts of the Gulf Coast on Saturday evening.</p>
<p>Cristobal’s maximum sustained winds had strengthened to 50 mph by early on Saturday and it was moving north at 12 mph.</p>
<p>The Hurricane Centre said the storm could cause heavy rains from East Texas to Florida this weekend and into early next week.</p>
<p>A tropical storm watch was posted for the northern Gulf of Mexico coast from Intracoastal City, Louisiana, to the Alabama-Florida border.</p>
<p>In Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency to prepare for the storm’s possible arrival.</p>
<p>“<i>Now is the time to make your plans, which should include the traditional emergency items along with masks and hand sanitiser as we continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic</i>,” Mr Edwards said in a statement.</p>
<p>On Friday, he asked President Donald Trump to declare a pre-landfall emergency for the state due to the storm’s threat.</p>
<p>“<i>We are confident that there will be widespread, heavy rainfall and coastal flooding</i>,” Mr Edwards said in a letter to the White House.</p>
<p>“<i>I anticipate the need for emergency protective measures, evacuations, and sheltering for the high-risk areas. The length of possible inundation is unknown and will likely require post-flood activities.</i>”</p>
<p>Cristobal formed this week in the Bay of Campeche from the remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda, which had sprung up last weekend in the eastern Pacific and hit Central America.</p>
<p>The two storms combined to soak the region with as much as 35 inches of rain in some areas over the past week.</p>
<p>At least 30 deaths have been attributed to the two storms and the flooding and landslides they unleashed.</p>
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