HURRICANE PREPARATIONS
Workers board up a building at the Mazatlan port Monday as a potentially catastrophic hurricane swept toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, with winds of 150 mph threatening a stretch of high-rise hotels and fishing villages. After briefly reaching Category 5 strength, Hurricane Willa weakened to Category 4 by evening. But it was expected to bring “life-threatening storm surge, wind and rainfall” to parts of west-central and southwestern Mexico before an expected Tuesday landfall, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.