The National Hurricane Center put the center of the storm 170 miles west-southwest of Key West, moving northeast at 15 m.p.h. as a Category 2 hurricane.
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AP - Rain pounded Key West late Sunday as Hurricane Wilma accelerated toward storm-weary Florida, threatening residents with 115-mph winds, tornadoes and a surge of seawater that could flood the Keys and the state's southwest coast.
AP - Mexicans and stranded tourists, hungry and frustrated after a two-day beating by Hurricane Wilma, stood in line to buy supplies Sunday or simply raided grocery or furniture stores, dragging goods from shops ripped open by the storm.
AP - The British government said Sunday that a strain of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly H5N1 strain that has plagued Asia and recently spread to Europe.
Hurricane Wilma was picking up strength and speed in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and taking aim at Florida with the Keys already feeling its winds. National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield predicted the "very strong Category 2" storm could grow into a Category 3 hurricane before making landfall around dawn Monday.