Weakened Hurricane Emily still wreaks havoc

A weakened Hurricane Emily triggered flooding outside Mexico’s third-largest city last night after demolishing homes, toppling trees and sparking thousands of evacuations on the northern Gulf Coast.

Emily had weakened to a tropical storm, but was still moving inland with torrential downpours and stiff winds that washed out roads and highways and caused flooding in and around Monterrey, whose metro area is home to three million.