SANTO DOMINGO.- Omar became a hurricane Tuesday night with maximum sustained winds near 120 kilometers per hour and heads to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, missing the Dominican east coast.
A hurricane warning was issued for the U.S. Virgin Islands and the islands of Vieques and Culebra. The governments of St. Martin, the British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis and other islands, also issued hurricane warnings.
