DEVELOPING: Irma spawns tornado as it nears landfall in Florida

The edge of Hurricane Irma kicked up surf, whipped up palm treeds and spun up at least one confirmed tornado as it approached landfall in Florida with 120 mph winds Saturday evening. Irma had been downgraded to a Category 3 storm as it raked the coast of Cuba Saturday morning, but it was expected to

get its strength back over the ultra-toasty Florida Straits and hit the peninsula Sunday morning as a dangerous Category 4 storm. “This is your last chance to make a good decision,” Gov. Rick Scott warned residents in Florida’s evacuation zones, which encompassed a staggering 6.4 million people, or more than 1 in 4 people in the state. READ MORE