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MIAMI — Nearly a half-million people were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Frances swirled toward Florida yesterday just weeks after Charley's devastating visit, threatening to deliver the most powerful one-two punch to hit a state in at least a century.
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Forecasters said the still- strengthening Category 4 storm could hit on Labor Day weekend as early as Friday night, less than three weeks after Charley raked Florida's western coast with 145 mph wind, causing billions of dollars in damage and killing 27 people.
"I can't emphasize enough how powerful this is. If there's something out there that's going to weaken it, we haven't seen it," National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield said.
Gov. Jeb Bush and Georgia
Gov. Sonny Perdue declared
states of emergency, activating the National Guard. Bush also warned more evacuations may be ordered.
Many homes in southwest Florida still have blue tarps patching holes in their roofs after Charley, and some streets remain full of storm debris that could become wind-blown projectiles.
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Evacuation orders were posted for 300,000 residents in coastal areas of Palm Beach County, and nearly 200,000 were told to leave mobile homes and low-lying areas of Brevard, Martin and Indian River counties, which could be hit by tremendous ocean waves. The evacuation orders were set to take effect this afternoon.
Frances was about 650 miles southeast of Florida yesterday evening, heading northwest on a course that would take it to the central portion of Florida's eastern coast. Residents of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina watched the forecast closely in case Frances
took a sharper turn to the north.
Bush cautioned that "all the science in the world and all the technology in the world isn't going to be able to pinpoint exactly where the storm goes."
Frances would be the fourth storm to affect Charleston, S.C., this summer. Bonnie and Charley arrived within days of each other in August, and Gaston dumped more than 13 inches of rain in some areas when it came ashore Sunday.
With the ground saturated from previous storms, more rain and the slightest wind could cut utility service for thousands, even if they don't take a direct hit from the storm.
"With the ground this wet, trees could easily topple," said Tom Williams, a spokesman for Duke Power in Charlotte, N.C.
The storm and the mass evacuations are sure to spoil Labor Day outings and make a mess of holiday travel across the Southeast.
GOP speeches label Kerry 'wrong ... weak'
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NEW YORK — Vice President Dick Cheney unleashed a stinging attack on President Bush's challenger last night, ridiculing him as a man who has made a career out of changing his mind. "Yet time and again Sen. Kerry has made the wrong call on national security," he said to the Republican National Convention.
Nominated by cheering delegates for a second term, Cheney hailed the president as a "superb commander in chief" who will lead the nation to victory in the war on terror. Bush "does not deal in empty threats and half measures," Cheney said.
Cheney represented half of a double-barreled prime-time assault on the Democratic presidential candidate from the GOP convention podium.
Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) delivered a Republican keynote address: "For more than 20 years, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure."
With two months remaining in a close election, and the pool of undecided voters a small one. Republicans relished the oppor-
unity to place a Democrat out front at their convention.
Bush campaigned in Ohio — the quintessential battleground state — before boarding Air Force One for the flight to a convention city that simmered with dissent. He takes his own turn at the Madison Square Garden podium tonight for an acceptance speech that aides said will outline a second-term agenda.
Police watched warily as demonstrators waving pink slips formed a line three miles long in Manhattan to protest the Bush administration's economic policies. Fewer than a dozen arrests were reported, one day after police took into custody more than 1,000 demonstrators who threatened to march in the convention hall.
A small group of AIDS activists managed to get into the Garden itself during the morning, although the convention was not in session at the time. They blew whistles and chanted, "Bush kills," at a morning session of GOP youth before being hustled from the floor.
Kerry ended a brief stint on the campaign sidelines, defying tradition by making an appearance while his rival's national convention was in progress.
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