WASHINGTON michael kors miranda leather wallet , Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Tropical Storm Maria is expected to become a hurricane Sunday as it heads toward Caribbean islands battered by Hurricane Irma earlier this month, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sunday.
Maria was centered about 655 km east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles and was moving west-northwest at 24 km per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 100 km per hour, according to an advisory Sunday morning.
On the forecast track, the center of Maria will be near the Leeward Islands michael kors hamilton wallet black , northeast Caribbean Sea, Monday night and is expected to hit islands devastated by Irma as a Category-5 hurricane, including St. Martin, St. Barts and Antigua and Barbuda.
Forecasters said Maria will likely become a major Category-3 storm by midweek as it approaches Lesser Antilles and the Virgin Islands before moving to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti at a similar strength.
It's still early to predict Maria's influence over southern United States or its coastline but some models showed the storm will move toward the southeastern U.S. state of Florida and up the east coast.
Jose, a long-lived hurricane, was churning its way north through the Atlantic Ocean Sunday morning as a Category-1 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 130 km per hour.
It was not expected to make landfall but its proximity to land will likely bring large and destructive waves, dangerous rip currents michael kors bedford wallet black , beach erosion, heavy rainfall and wind Tuesday and Wednesday.
Lee, located nearly 1,300 km west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, is projected to weaken to a tropical depression by Tuesday as it poses no threat to land.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- In her first testimony to the Congress, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reiterated central bank's plan to taper its stimulus exit despite recent weakness in the economy.
The current economic situation and outlook, as well as the monetary policy, were the main focus of the hearing held twice a year.
Yellen told lawmakers she expected "a great deal of continuity" in the central bank's monetary policy michael kors miranda tote navy , saying that she served on the Fed policy-setting committee as the bank formulated its current policy strategy and she strongly supported that strategy.
Yellen, 67, took the oath of office to lead the Federal Reserve System on Feb. 3, succeeding Ben Bernanke, who stepped down after eight turbulent years. She was previously the Fed's vice Chair.
In the public debut in her new role michael kors jet set tote black large , Yellen said while the economy gained steam at the end of 2013, recovery in the U.S. labor market was "far from complete," underscoring the importance of considering more than just the unemployment rate when evaluating the conditions of the labor market.
Her point of keeping an eye on wider range of labor indicators is particularly important as the unemployment rate, now at 6.6 percent, is near the 6.5 percent threshold the Fed once identified as the level that would need to be reached before officials would consider a hike in the interest rates.
"If coming information broadly supports the Committee's expectation of ongoing improvement in labor market conditions and inflation moving back toward its long-run objective michael kors hamilton tote medium , the Committee will likely reduce the pace of asset purchases in further measured steps at future meetings," Yellen indicated steady pullback in Fed stimulus, referring to the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy.
While admitting she was "surprised" by the two recent jobs reports that showed the pace of job creation running under what she had expected, Yellen cautioned against jumping to conclusions of the longer trend. She told the Congress that the Fed needs to see a "notable change" in the economic outlook to consider pausing its withdrawal of stimulus.
The Fed trimmed its monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage- backed securities by a total of 10 billion dollars in both December and January michael kors cynthia medium tote black , citing strengthening economy and continued improvement in the labor market.
The Fed policymakers have suggested they would continue to reduce the bond buying, which now totals 65 billion dollars a month, at a similar pace at each Fed meeting and end it by the end of 2014, provided the economy develops generally in line with expectations.
Yellen also highlighted the Fed's financial regulatory role, saying that the work of making the financial system more robust " has not yet been completed."
BRASILIA, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who has been tapped by President Michel Temer as his nominee to the Supreme Court, said Tuesday that he had never been a lawyer for one of the country's largest criminal gangs.
Moraes made the statement in response to a question from the Senate's Constitution and Justice Commission, which is evaluating Moraes' candidacy to take over the Supreme Court spot vacated when Justice Teori Zavascki died in a plane crash in January.
If the commission approves on Tuesday, Moraes' nomination will go to the full Senate.
Moraes said the story that he once represented the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), a gang headquartered in Sao Paulo, started falsely online when he was the city's secretary of public security.