Ivan spins a deadly tail

Hurricane Ivan has spun off deadly tornadoes, swamped streets in storm-weary Florida and battered the Alabama coast, drenching other south-eastern states with heavy rains and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.

Ivan was the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Floyd in 1999 and was blamed for 70 deaths in the Caribbean and at least 27 in the United States, more than half of them in Florida.