Tropical Storm Oscar was heading toward the Bahamas late Monday after dumping heavy rain across eastern Cuba. Its maximum sustained winds were blowing at 40 mph (65 kph) late Monday as Oscar moved north-northeast at 8 mph (13 kph).

Tropical Storm Oscar was heading toward the Bahamas late Monday after dumping heavy rain across eastern Cuba. A tropical storm warning was in effect for the central and southeastern Bahamas.

Cubans in the eastern provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo braced for a direct hit by Hurricane Oscar on Sunday afternoon. As the Category 1 hurricane made landfall near Baracoa, a coastal in city in Guantánamo province, around 5:50 p.m., most of the country still had no power.