TEXAS EVACUATES FOR IKE STORM

Evacuations were ordered along The Texas coast as weather forecasters warned that Category 4 Hurricane Ike would hit the coast by Saturday.
President George Bush has declared an emergency in the state.
The northern Gulf Coast is where the National Hurricane Center predicts Ike will hit the Brazoria County.
Evacuations saved lives in Cuba when Ike slammed into the island. Four deaths were reported from the storm, according to the Cuban government.
Ike is now in the Gulf of Mexico and making its approach towards Texas.
More than 1,300 inmates from the Texas Correctional Institutions Division's Stevenson Unit in Cuero were being evacuated to facilities in Beeville and Kennedy.
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