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Ernesto?s remains may bring rains, floods and tornadoes

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Officials are bracing for the region?s first big deluge of the 2006 hurricane season, as Tropical Storm Ernesto was predicted to charge up the East Coast today and strike Maryland.

By the time it reaches here around midnight, forecasters expect Ernesto to have weakened into a tropical depression, with sustained winds around 30 mph and gusts up to 40 mph, said Luis Rosa, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Sterling, Va.

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