Maria to weaken to tropical storm on Tuesday: NHC

[September 25, 2017]    (Reuters) - Hurricane Maria, now a category 1 storm, continues to weaken and will likely become a tropical storm by Tuesday night, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday.

The hurricane is located about 350 miles (560 km) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour (130 kph), the NHC said.

(Reporting by Karen Rodrigues and Arpan Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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