VIDEO: Hurricane Patricia weakens as it hits western Mexico

Hurricane Patricia has weakened from its record-breaking strength as it hit western Mexico but it still dumped torrential rains that authorities warned could cause deadly floods and mudslides.

Patricia, which peaked as the strongest hurricane on record in the western hemisphere, made landfall on Friday in a sparsely-populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast as a category five hurricane, avoiding direct hits on the resort city of Puerto Vallarta and major port city of Manzanillo.