8am ET, October 09 | The latest headlines from NPR

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  This is NPR News Now, the latest headlines every hour.

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  Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.

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  Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall tonight

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  or early tomorrow on the northern Gulf Coast near Alabama or Florida.

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  NPR's Debbie Elliott reports it's currently a Category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour.

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  Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center say this will be a dangerous hurricane at landfall,

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  with winds topping 100 miles an hour, life-threatening storm surge between 5 and 7 feet,

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  and rainfall up to 15 inches in some areas.

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  Local officials have ordered evacuations along some Florida panhandle beaches and have opened shelters.

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  Alabama ordered tourists to leave its coast.

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  More than half of the offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf has been curtailed,

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  according to the Marine Minerals Administration.

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  Issa Issa has been rapidly gaining strength from the warm waters of the Gulf.

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  Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Crestview, Florida.

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  For the second time this week, Saudi Arabia says its airport in the capital, Riyadh, was targeted.

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  Three people were killed.

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  Two more people died earlier this week in similar attacks.

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  NPR's Air Batrawi reports the killings are from Houthi missile attacks.

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  Saudi Arabia says three Saudi citizens, including a commercial pilot, were killed

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  and a number of people wounded in attacks on Thursday that targeted Riyadh's international airport.

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