Hurricane John Threatens Pacific Coast of Mexico

Hurricane John churned northwest along Mexico's Pacific coast with ``dangerous'' winds and heavy rain, and the government prepared to provide shelter, food and other help for as many as 800,000 people.

The hurricane, a Category 3 storm on the five-tier Saffir- Simpson intensity scale, was headed west-northwest at 14 miles per hour (23 kilometers per hour) with winds of about 125 mph as of 8 a.m. Pacific time, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an online advisory.

The storm is passing ``dangerously close'' to coastal states including Colima, Michoacan, Nayarit and Jalisco, the Mexican civil protection directorate said on its Web site at 7 a.m. Mexico City time. John is forecast to be near or over Baja California Sur, a peninsula west of the mainland, late tomorrow or early Sep. 2, then move out to sea.

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