Emily Weakens

Hurricane Emily weakened further Thursday after slamming Mexico for the second time and knocking down trees and power lines in the city of San Fernando on the gulf coast. Officials in Mexico´s Tamaulipas state evacuated as many as 17,000 people from coastal areas while heavy rain pelted the state of Nuevo Leon, home to the nation’s third-largest city of Monterrey. Pemex estimates the storm cost the company at least $400 million in lost oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.